| Show THE MOST REVEREND CHRISTIAN AND PHILOSOPHER JOSEPH COOK a The Rev Josnrn COOK has once more visited us In the few years that have passed since ho last honored inflicted us as you choose to look at it with one of his efforts he seems neither to have been instructed by experience nor mellowed by ageHo Ho still repeats the jams about Mormon treason and kindred offenses which he sprung years ago he still views the bayonet as a possible solution to the Mormon question ques-tion tionThe The Rev Mr COOK possesses the requirements require-ments for an antiMormon lecturer to an eminent degree Living thousands of miles distant from the territory with no further acquaintance with the Latterday Saints than comes of an occasicnal brief visit he thinks himself qualified to judge their lives and condemn their motives A minister of the gospel of mercy of love of charity of Him who commanded not judge he finds it possible possi-ble in a heart schooled in the love of CHRIST to applaud the confiscation of property and the deprivation ot the elective franchise fran-chise as punishment for belief Posing as an educator of the public he presumes to denounce what he does not understand professing to be a minister of CHRIST he forgets the charity of even common decency in his sectarian zeal Knowing nothing of the nature of the endowment oaths he pronounced them treasonable he praised the teachers who had come out here to instruct Mormon Mor-mon youth particularly those young lady teachers who had taken their lives in their hands in doing ita hob goblin tale either dreamed by the reverend gentleman or imposed im-posed upon his too credulous and too wilting wilt-ing mind by artful deceivers The manifesto mani-festo he said was a trick an opinion in which even that most radical and erratic sheet the Tribune does not agree with this pious representative of Christian culture He hoped it would not be necesssary to cutout cut-out the cancer with the bayonet we are inclined in-clined to believe he did not express the real hope in this case Ho believed that the keen edge of legal decisions would do the work in time He prefers Andersons boiling oil to the quick relief of a cavalry charge and shows himself to be an adept in refined cruelty little characteristic of his Christian professions he declares polygamy to be an actuality today in which we presume the reverend gentleman means to say that polygamous marriages are still being solemnized a statement as false as it was unbecoming in this reverend Man of God of course he cast his vote in favor of the Struble bill a measure designed to reduce the Mormon majority of the territory their property and liberty into the hands of the minority for the unrepublican and one would suppose the unchristian reason that the Mormons believe be-lieve in certain things regarded as I objectionable ho declares that Utah is subject to priestly dictation a statement suggested by ignorance and approved by prejudice he thought Congress should prohibit pro-hibit the immigration of Mormons he had understood that sixty Mormons were arrested within a week after the issuance is-suance of the manifesto a gratuitously false charge and one dishonestly circulated circu-lated to lead the ignorant to believe that this was for offenses committed by Mormons Mor-mons after and in disregard of the manifesto mani-festo an example of unfairness quite unworthy un-worthy a gentleman of his cloth a self called teacher of the American public It is quite evident that the Rev JOSEPH lacks the capacity of industrious research re-search the power of discriminating judgment judg-ment that impartiality of temperament the mercy of a true Christian the patriotism patriot-ism of a true American nearly every quality in fact that Is essential to qualify him for his mission of enligthening the mind of the public upon important questions ques-tions He should confine himself to matters mat-ters a little nearer the Back Bay His attempt I tempt to tell a Salt Lake audience some about the Mormons would be thing amusing amus-ing if they were not so flavored with the I spirit of Inquisition |
