| Show NEPHI JENSEN PUTS THE TRIBUNE TO ROUT Kearns Sheet Handled Without Gloves The Utah Independent takes no part in any religious except in We believe that any whether it is Mormon or that makes the world better and has a right to live without When one religion attacks it usually shows that the attacking party does not have religion enough of its own to keep it The Salt Lake Tribune is devoid of religion or and when it attacks any religious denomination it is like a spearing a Christian because it delights in and to drink human blood is its supreme The Salt Lake Tribune has been continually stabbing the people of The following communication from the Nephi Jensen shows the Tribune's religious ribaldry in its true Dear Observing that your paper is independent by nature as well as by I take the liberty of asking permission to make a few remarks in your columns about the editor of the He a peculiar and his writings are more I don't understand him and never expect to be able to understand He denounces Mor-monism one day and on the following day affirms in the most solemn way that the Tribune makes no fight on anybody's And when he does make a fight on which is almost he misquotes twists juggles with uses the truth sneers instead of arguing and slanders instead of In a lengthy editorial appearing in the Tribune in the fall of the in a labored effort to demolish the force of the testimony of the for the Book of- reaches a climax in this Tribune Twisted We do not wish to reflect upon the memories of Oliver David Whitmer and Martin but we do wish to say that no other dupes on earth could have better defended themselves than these men have done in sticking to the original lie that they ever so much nonsense and so many contradictory assertions crowded into one The editor opens the sentence by saying do not wish to reflect upon the memories of Oliver David Whitmer and Martin and before he reaches the next period he calls them and Tribune and I am beginning to think that the editor's are as fallible as his But to be How can the be at the same time both and If they were they were and if they were deceived they not tell a in bearing testimony concerning the gold because if they were deceived they believed that this testimony was Does a man when he makes a statement that he believes to be most that can be said of such a man is that he is Before a statement can be considered a it must be shown that the one who made the statement knew it was not But there is another thing in the sentence just quoted that is deserving of It is the compliment for witnesses on their tenacity in to the nal if the ever told an or any other kind of and stuck to it must be said of them that they were better than the because the only thing it to is Tribune's Following the sentence last quoted we have this very refined Only a soft headed dupe would ever believe that Joseph Smith or Oliver or David Whitmer or Martin Harris or anybody else ever saw any That is broad enough to include all the whether red or But it is too It puts into the class tens of thousands of people whom the Tribune regards as refined and cultured Is it not Let us paraphrase the and write into it a fact accepted as true by orthodox and we will have something like the one but a soft headed dupe would ever believe that the mother of John the or the of or Christ or anybody else ever saw any Will the editor of the Tribune print the sentence as thus written in his editorial I challenge him to do Of I understand that the mind of the editor of the Tribune it is only the people who believe that angels appeared on the earth about 1823 who are headed those who believe that angels appeared A. D. 1 are According to this wouldn't a person be just a little for he believed that angels appeared on the earth about A. Tribune After throwing off several paragraphs about and the editor philosophizes upon the of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon in the manner claimed by the This is what he The physical impossibility of the thing has robbed the story of all the romantic that it was once held to How did the editor of the Tribune find out that it was physically impossible for the Book of Mormon to be translated in the manner claimed by the Mormons Has he had a If how does he assume to be able to inform his readers about what God can and cannot this editor is not as modest as he to After arrogating to himself the prerogative of fixing the bounds within which the Maker of Heaven and Earth can he on December of the assumption of the Mormon claiming to it seems just a little out of place for one who assumes to circumscribe the power of the Infinite to talk about the assumption of the Mormon Lime Kiln Club Commenting on the apostasy of Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer and Martin the paper that does not make a fight on anybody's religion There are two conclusions to be drawn from the apostasy of Harris and Whitmer either the Mormon church was wrong in the first place or it has gone wrong otherwise these men would have remained with the Great Let us apply the rule here laid down to an Hundreds of people have so to from every sect in and joined the Mormon are but two conclusions to be drawn the apostasy these hundreds of people from the different Christian churches either all these churches wrong in the first place or they have gone wrong these hundreds of people have remained with the different So it will be seen that the rule laid down by the editor of the Tribune proves altogether too According to this rule all churches are But the Tribune will not have it Its contention is that the Mormon church is the only one that is' Tribune Needs a I don't know whether the editor of the Tribune is a doctor of divinity or but one thing is the divinity embodied in the rule above quoted is sorely in need of a On January the editor made a few editorial remarks about Flaw After throwing off a paragraph about the of the Book of he proceeds to mix the contents of Noah's ark with the freight of the ship in which Lehi and family came to the western He talks about of the of and of each kind of and puts them all in Lehi's in they belong in Noah's ark after explaining how small Lehi's ship exclaims Tribune Read the book and make your own It win to be an interesting But we would not advise the Mormon people to do this with mind and clear provided they wish to retain their belief in tU the the book your own not take the for it sometimes J This is what of Mormon says about 1 matter it came to the after we haj pared all much meat from the wilderness honey in abundance and visions according to t the Lord had commanded i did go down into the ship all our loading and our seeds A whatsoever thing we had lit with us every one wherefore we did j down into the ship with onn and I I find no oft-and of each kind ol in this Then must have made a raid on i hive night before he t this Tribune On January the t quoted from the North American relative ti story of the coming forth i Book of and then to The fact is that there are conflicting stories connected this matter that it is difficult t instance to settle upon any M elusion oher than that the whole was a rank fact is if are many conflicting stories with this editor of the Tribune opponents of Mormonism ar for The Mor have just one story coneff and that u an angel delivered the g to Joseph who trans the record on the plate English language by the po But the opponent record have had many At first tW Joseph Smith wrote the A little later that Sydney Kig Next it was the Book of Mormon ing's manuscript in Riley came out w the Founder of Men attempts to account for the of Mormon on Joseph Smith was an dually the opponents of the Sok of Mormon have advanced so many conflicting stories conned with this matter that it is ff difficult but absolutely at this instance to set-h upon any final conclusion than that the story stead-Sly held to by the eighty years is The Tribune a Rank editor's seeming is that js a This is deserving of no more and consideration than the of a drunken Any says Mormonism is' a is either woefully or wickedly tears of the persecuted de- of Mormonism and the f-Sd of its martyrs deny the Sor's infamous the Book Mormon is a Joseph Smith knew t was a Joseph Smith died for the thinkable that a man would die for a I the editor to produce of one man in all the of the world who willingly a m Tribune and On the of under the caption of Sort of the editor attempts to disprove Mormonism by showing that some of the prominent men in the early history of the church To quote from the Out of the three first Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer apostatized a majority of Out of the total of eleven Oliver David Hiram Jacob John Whitmer and Peter six in apostatized a majority of the eleven If not as a repudiation and denunciation of he man and his it is difficult to determine how this wholesale apostasy may be The closing sentence in the above excerpts suggests more than it It is clear that the editor wants' the reader to infer that because some of Joseph Smith's followers went back on him he was a Let us apply this test to Judas Iscariot planted the kiss' of betrayal upon the cheek of the divine Master and apostatized from the gospel taught by the Son of If this was not repudiation and denunciation of the man and his it is difficult to determine how this apostasy is to be If apostasy from proves apostasy from Christ proves the same Does the editor of the Tribune want its readers to believe that Washington was unpatriotic because Benedict Arnold betrayed that Lincoln was disreputable because Booth shot that McKinley was a bad man because an assassin's bullet pierced and that Christ was fraud because Judas betrayed But none of these six witnesses whose names are given above ever denounced Joseph Smith as a All of them went to their graves' reaffirming the one great fact of which they were made special that they had seen the gold And the editor of the Tribune knows this is a If the apostasy of the devotee of a religion tends to disprove the the steadfastness of a devotee of the same religion certainly tends to prove the religion And if the apostasy of six devotees to the testimony of six witnesses against a the of a thousand devotees of the same religion would amount to the testimony of one thousand witnesses in favor of the For every person that has' repudiated one thousand persons have cherished it as the darling theme of their Shall we accept the testimony of one in preference to that of one is a heading under which the versatile editor of the Tribune on January gives a splendid exhibition of his extraordinary adroitness in word Referring to Martin Harris's desire of viewing the gold the editor quotes this from the Doctrine and Covenants if they will not believe my they would not believe you my servant Joseph if it were possible that you could show them all these The editor's exegesis of this passage And so it came about that while the pretended communication from on High confessed the inability of Joseph to show the Martin Harris was frightened into submission and to putting up more t so it not about that the pretended communication from on high confessed the inability of Joseph Smith to show the What the communication from on confessed is that Joseph Smith had been forbidden to show the plates to A little illustration may aid the astute theologian who edits the Tribune out of this An attorney who had been instructed by his client to settle a case on certain terms' approached by the opposing party with an offer of less than the amount the attorney was authorized to and the attorney can't take Did the attorney mean that it was physically impossible for him to take the amount By no he meant was that he was not authorized to receive that amount in Tablets of If Christians really believe that Moses wrote the ten commandments on tablets of why don't they show those tablets of That is was physically impossible for Joseph to show the plates cannot be Twelve men I gave their solemn testimony to the world that they had seen The editor of the Tribune imagines that the failure of the to have the gold plates constantly on exhibition is fatal to the claims of And yet the editor of the Tribune is an orthodox and believes in the risen although he has not seen The demand v that the world be convinced of the truth of Mormonism by seeing the gold plates is worse than Only about one in a million persons would be able to pass an intelligent opinion on the characters on the And even those who would be able to decipher the hieroglyphics would have to rely upon human testimony in determining the origin of the All that the average person could learn about the plates by ocular demonstration would be that they were But before the editor closes the editorial shows how elegant and delicate he can be in discussing a sacred To a refined mind there cannot be anything more and sublime than to be so purified as to be able to hear the voice of the To talk with a king is considered an What shall we say of talking with This is what the scholarly and refined editor of the Tribune says about it Which goes to demonstrate that revelation is a mighty handy especially when kept conveniently on tap to be drawn upon- in any Suppose we paraphrase this bit of chaste who declared that he taught nothing but that which his Father revealed to delivered the sermon on the goes to demonstrate that revelation is a mighty handy thing to have on tap in case of an It seems that in the editor of the orthodox Tribune that revelation from God if it came several hundred years ago is very but if it came during the nineteenth century it is just something which goes to demonstrate that the editor of the Tribune is more familiar with things than with revelations from And the editor of the Tribune is an honorable But I have a conundrum for the editor of the It is Revelation was revelation in A. D. On the day of it was something On what day and hour between A. D. and January did revelation change into something Yours NEPHI Forest March |
