| Show IE HTMl VULTURES i How They Are Viewed by a Former For-mer Reddest r f I t J PUNCTURING THE GAS BLADDER The Material Progress of i Nevada L as Com 1 pared to Utah A Grain of Sand to a Mountain I TROT IT Y Nov 301SS9 Special correspondence I cor-respondence of THE HERALD Now that the SALT LAKE HERALD is at hand containing con-taining the testimony of Dr Richards Parley Williams E L T Harrison T G Webber Ell B Kelsey and others showing by unimpeachable testimony under oath the utter absurdity of the attempt to prove that the Mormon people are HOSTILE TO TUB UNITED STATES as claimed by the McBrides and the Bas kins it is interesting as well as instructive instruc-tive to note that not one word of this testimony has been permitted to appear in the dispatches of the Associated Press agent of Salt Lake city Of course this was to be expected by those who under stapct how completely this agency is and has cccn for nearly twenty years manipulated mani-pulated by the plunder party of Utah There was one exception to this condition condi-tion of affairs for six weeks in 1873 when tho writer hereof acted as press agent during the absence east of the notorious Could But in return for six weeks unbiased and unprejudiced reports re-ports of the news and nothing more Yours truly was compelled to accept onehalf the stipulated salary for the duty and then was invited to step out inta a dark alley and receive the balance in true Damite style by this leading light of the Liberal party in those days As my progress in CIVILIZATION AND JIORALITT was not so far in advance as to adopt this Liberal thug system of paying debts the plan did not succeed And this is the only time in my knowledge from 1871 to the present date that the Ass Press agency in Utah has not been made a mere machine for vilifying the Mormons To expect from this source a word of fairness or common decency toward a Mormon would be almost expecting tho impossible Fortunately for Utah the character of the general press dispatches from that territory ter-ritory has long been notorious east as well as west and the special interview with Wilford Woodruff president of the church appearing side by side with the sensational reports of tho Associated Press agent detailing de-tailing the testimony of Gilmore et hoc ucnus etHiC completely wrUXCTURED T11E GAS BLADDER whicn this agent was so assiduously blow ice full of outrageous charges against the Mtafcnon people By those who under stana the motive and incentive of the assaults as-saults of the plunder party no word of fairness toward the Mormons is over looked for in the general telegraphic news from Zion The public generally is also getting to understand this pretty well and to realize rea-lize that there aro two classes in Utah composed of vultures and fanatics whose constant aim is to induce Congress to pass special bills by means of which the Mormons may be legally and judicially plucked The fanatics are honest and zealous in their intent and therefore I the more readily and naturally become the catspaws of the vultures They seem unable una-ble to comprehend that even if the Mormons j Mor-mons of fortyfive years ago may by some Possibility altogether human have been full of feelings of revenge IX RETURN FOR THE OUTRAGES which they endured at the hands of the Missouri and Illinois mobs new generations genera-tions have since grown up and that in ISbO time may have seared over the wounds of 1844 and 1845 as it has placed in the grave nearly all of the survivors of the hardships and indignities then endured as heroically as the New England Puritans I faced the grievous toils and sufferings of I their Jot And it is not recorded I of the Mormons that they ever adopted a tithe of the tyranny and persecution of outsiders that was practised by the saintly Puritans until I more than one man could exclaim with theRe the-Re Mr Blackstono I fled from Eng land to escape the tyranny of my lord bishop but I was glad enough to get back to e gljip the tyranny of my lord brethren PutTTsas II Pup ttas Y THE VULTURES do hot desire the fanatics to exercise what little common sense and judgment they may posses and they do not intend they shall if noise and falsehood can befog them and continue them as tools The vultures are few and without the support of the fanatics would soon subside from their unholy work Unfortunately a bigot i rarely sees beyond the point of his noise and there always have been n ico and bigots as far back as the history of man runs and there have always been vultures ready to use them But rarely has it occurred oc-curred that such an insignificant handful of the latter have been able for so long a I time to use for their own ends the honest fools as has been the case in Utah These secft always ready to swallow all the cock andbull stories that may be incubated and to believe That no man living would refuse Green slippers but from treasonous views Nor wash Ms toes but with Intent To overturn tho government Twenty years ago so astute an observer as SAMUEL BOWLES founder of the Springfield Massachusetts Republican wrote as follows All our experience and observation in Utah tended to increase our appreciation I of the value of its material regress and development to tho nation to justify congratulations con-gratulations to the Mormons and the coup I try for the wealth they have created and the order frugality morality and industry that have been organized in this remote spot iour continent and to enlarge our respecWor the personal sincerity and character cha-racter of many of the leaders But it remained for the Baskins and the McBrides to discover that Bowles Schuy ler Colfax and William Bross ot the Chicago Chi-cago Tribune who composed the party of observation referred to in the above extract ex-tract were fools and that THE MORMONS IUD DONE NOTHING in comparison with themselvesthe Basins Bas-ins and the McBridestoward the material mate-rial progress and development that Utah has made of so great value to the nation ButPygmies are pygmies still though perched on Alps Do I hear a cry from the tripod of my friend Lannan The Gentiles L e the Liberals have built up Utah by their development j de-velopment her mining resources Ah yes Samuel Bowles and Deacon Dea-con Bross had no conception in 1809 of those mighty giants the Liberals who were to raise sheol in Uttrfh and thus develop the territory I How I abo Nevada Brother Lannan Did the I opening up and working of the Comstock I make Nevada a rival of Utah in its material I ma-terial progress The total population of I that rotten borough now numbers somo j forty or fortyfive thousand after having been j A STATE FOR SOME TWENTTFIVE TEAKS I and eastern papers are now being flooded with appeals for immigration in such I words ft these I In no part of California from Siskiyou I to San Diego from the w r i ° to the sea I can a climate be found taut a ill compare I I with that of Nevada generally But the I chief drawback to the state since its earliest earli-est settlement has resulted from themigra tory disposition of our people We have I lacked in permanent homes We must become I be-come more and more an agricultural I people not carpetbagging Liberals I We have the soil and climate what we I neednow is irrigation If we had irrigation I irriga-tion tens of thousands of people would become be-come benefactors by making two blades of I grass grow where now grows but one Instead I In-stead of having a population of 60000 we I might have the population of California or a million people roon OLD NEVADA With how plaintive a cry she laments the error of her ways and the folly of the Liberal carpetbagging style of development develop-ment she has been practicing for a quarter of a century No wonder men like Samuel Bowles can understand and appreciate the order frugality morality sind industry of the Mormon people And where the wealth is there do the Liberal birds of prey gather Utah has become rich and prosperous by the industry and frugality of her people the Mormons not the Baskins and McBrides and the vultures collect in her borders to pluck her At the same time that Mr Bowles thus wrote his praise of the Mormons Mor-mons he did not fail to express his opinion of polygamy and his belief that the Mormon Mor-mon church must and would modify tho rule in this direction And this has been the tendency of this people and must have been the result by their own action without with-out the intervention of either THE VULTURES OU THE FANATICS I venture the assertion without fear of contradictory demonstration that the Mormon Mor-mon church is more enlightened in comparison com-parison with its years and despite its doctrines whatever they maybe than any other Christian sect at the same age of its progress Mormonism is not yet seventy years old yet we may compare favorably favor-ably its gravest sins and errors with those of any other sect in Christendom Christen-dom and grant it the meed of morality humaity enlightenment civilization and toleration in advance of any other religious relig-ious organization knoWn in history And naturally too because it is an American outgrowth born bred and nurtured among Yankees by Yankees It is aNEW a-NEW TORE AND NEW ENGLAND ENTERPRISE and certainly is entitled to the credit of patriotism despite the way of thorns its earlier disciples were forced to tread by the Suckers of Illinois and the Mudsills of Missouri We may believe the Mormons misguided We may agree with Mr Bowles in his opinion of polygamy but if we are just we must also agree with him in his congratulations to the Mormons and to the country for the order frugality morality and industry that have been organized in this remote spot in our continent The very location of the people of Utah guarantees their advance in all righteous and worthy ends and aims The invi orating or-ating air of the mountains is ever favorable favor-able to the growth of the broadest civilization civiliza-tion and the highest morality Wherever the snow falls there will be civil freedom says a noted writer And there can be no high civilization without deep morality though it may sometimes be THE ENTHUSIASM OF A RELIGIOUS SECT which imputes this virtue to its dogma under the name of its creed The Mormon people firm in the faith of their own high development may laugh to scorn the race of fanatics and vultures while they exclaim For the strength of the hills we bless Thee Our God and our fathers God Thou hast made Thy children mighty Brthe touch of the mountain sod Indeed there may be reason to belive that in the course of a few generations the blood of the vultures and fanatics in Utah may undergo so great a purification that the descendants of the present brood may beceme worthy and exemplary citizens citi-zens lamenting the follies of their ancestors as the descendants of the witch burners of New England do those of their forefathers In that event the Mormons of the future may look back upon the present race of vultures with interesas the personification personifica-tion of the mising link in the chain of evolution evolu-tion between the outrangoutang and prehistoric pre-historic man W H H |
