| Show MALICE RUN HAD The vilest tissue of falsehood ever put in circulation against the Mormon people is to be found in the last weeks issue of the Illustrated American It is the first of an illustrated serial under tho caption Will the Mormons Fight The Mormons have suffered more from misrepresentation and downright lying than any other people of modern times Anyone at all acquainted with the amount of falsehood put in circulation circu-lation against them simply stands aghast at its volume and variety And still the filthy stream like another Styx flows on with unabated force and volume until one is led to wonder if there is no end to that ingenuity ingenu-ity which deals in falsehood ana trades in mendacity Satanis said to be the father of lies Granting that in times past he I may have had same claims to that bad title i he must yield the palm to some of his children chil-dren for they certainly have outstripped him in downright monumental lying Judging from the first article of the series se-ries to be published in the American wo would conclude that it is the purpose of the writer to collect all the abominable untruths un-truths and slanders ever uttered against the Saints and by a cunning contrivanceir 1 the weaving of his narrative represent them as Mormon doctrines practices and future intentions To say that such a purpose pur-pose is diabolical is putting it mildly That such is the intent both of writer and publisher pub-lisher is scarcely disguised The article is preceded by the paragraph from President HAKIUSOXS late message to Congress then comes a paragraph from the pen of poor defunct at least politically politi-cally defunctC C GOODWIX one of those rhetorical pellets which he sugarcoats for consumption abroad but which are never swallowed in the territory where they are manufactured It is to the effect that if the Mormons are let alone the time will come when there will be another call for volunteers and money and as before in the times of the rebellion we suppose tens of thousands of brave young men will go away never to return as befcre there will be an enormous debt incurred as before be-fore tho country will be hillocked with graves and the whole land will be moistened with the rain of womans tears The rain of womans tears mirabilc diets We snail not then need to irrigate in Utah LI 1 Next comes the dispatch to tho New York World in which it is alleged that General MILES expressed a belief that the Mormons Mor-mons were at the bottom of the present religious re-ligious craze among the Indians We now come to the article The writer represents himself as the oldest old-est Mormon in the Rocky mountains and as still a Mormon Herein is where the mischief of the foul plot of writer and publisher most appears The editor of the American calls it the Mormon reply to President HAKIUSOXS message The writer disclaims having anything sensational sensa-tional to tell Ho proposes to leave perfervid per-fervid rhetoric to the antiMormon lecturers lec-turers and bookmakers He is writing a plain tale for plain people not regarding whether his story is in his favor or against him You ask me he writes whether the Mormon church is stronger than the United States 1 I will prove to you that it is He then gives an incorrect account of the ANN ELIZA YoUNG divorce case before Judge McKnxx in which BRIGHAM YOUXG was declared guilty of contempt of court fined and imprisoned in the penitentiary one day Then follows a cockandbull story of preparations to forcibly rescue him from prison which was only prevented by the news being flashed across the wires that Judge MCKEAN was removed Here follows this precious morsel Give yourselves no uneasiness said Dine HAM to some of us who were anxious lest a certain bill should pass Congress for I have drawn a goodly draft upon the the tithing fund When I put my hand into one pocket I put Congress into the other In this way that is by bribery he claims the Poland law was emasculated Referring Re-ferring to the passsage of the Edmunds Tucker law and the appointment of a receiver re-ceiver to take charge of the church property prop-erty he says Wo only laughed Vast amounts and many varieties of property were transferred from the church to private parties during the threo days before the law went into effect The receiver and the courts received less than one million dollarsa mere nothing in our enormous wealth I He thinks this illustrates that the Mormon Mor-mon church is stronger than the government govern-ment Coming to still later events he writes When we were striving to secure statehood in 1S87S3 we adopted this programme That there should a cessation of speeches disloyal the United States That it should be published that all young Mormons were opposed to polygamy That a territorial convention should adopt a constitution prohibiting polygamy That an amendment to the constitution of the United States should be proposed in Congress prohibiting polygamy This programme failed to deceive either Congress Con-gress or the country So we threw off the mask we defied the law courts gave up hopes of getting Utah admitted as a state into the union and we continued to practice our religion as in the days of BnicnAji YOUNG And what do we mean to do now If we cannot can-not purchase legislation in Congress or buy up the judges in Utah I tell you frankly we mean to fight Really for a man who disclaims buying t anything sensational to tell that is very good The writer then pretends to give a rapid sketch of the history of the church through Missouri He claims to have been in Carthage jail when JOSEPH and HTHUM SMITH were assassinated and thus describes that event JOSEPH SSIITH attempted to leap the window Two balls pierced him from the door and one entered his right breast from without He fell outward exclaiming 0 LORD my GOD I He alighted on his left side a dead man At this instant a cry was raised He has leaped the window and the mob on the stairs and in the entry ran out I put my head out of the window and watched some seconds to see if there were any signs of life in the man I loved expected to be shot the next moment and went to the door awaiting the onset But the mob terrified at the result of its action had retired Now as it is well known that the only men in the prison at the time of the assassination assas-sination above described were JOSEPH and HYRUM SMITH WILLAUD RICHAUDS and the late President Joux TAYLOR and as both Mr RICHARDS and President TAYLOR havo been dead for somo years it would bo in teres tins to know who this other Old Mormon is who was present on that occa sion and took so heroic a part The facts in the case are that this writer for the American be he who he may is a shameless liar and thieving fraud who lacks even the ingenuity to write his own pretended account of these events The above description of the assassination of JOSEPH SMITH was taken from the well known description of that event by IVILLARD RICHARDS headed Two Minutes In Jail and this liar of the American steals that account puts himself in Mr RICHARDS place and repro I santa himself as doing what Mr RICHARDS did trusting to the general ignorance of the people in relation to Mormon history fornot being found out In like manner he takes the late Colonel KANES descrip tion of the doeerted city of Nauvoo to be found in the gentlemans address before the historical society of New York likewise like-wise his description of the encampment about Council Bluffs the call of the Mormon Mor-mon battallion and the subsequent start I across the plains All this ho appropriates as his own experience himself the hero Having brought the Saints to Salt Lake valley he pretends to give an ascount of Utahs troubles with the general government govern-ment and is either so profoundly ignorant of the subject or utterly reckless in his statements that he makes the occasion of Colonel STEPTOES advent into Salt Lake the breaking out of what is known as the Utah War when it is notorious the relations lations between the colonels command and the Mormon people was most amicable Turning from history we have this precious writer dealing with doctrineof course I wIth that favorite though threadbare one blood atonement The doctrine did not spring from native cru city it became as much a part of our duty as L plural marriages It is part of our dnty still and if the United States troops attacked us or if there were a Gentile uprising in Salt Lake city we should take such reprisals as would make the whole world thrill with horror You I know that I am not talking lightly We have done these deeds before and we shall do them again In proof that we have done these deeds before and we shall do them again he approvingly quotes the Mountain Meadow Massacre which ho relates with the relish of a fiend gloating over the disgusting details de-tails of a soulsickening crime It is needless need-less to say that he attributes the horrible murder to the Mormon church Before dying LEE furnished an exat list oC those Mormons who had partnership in the massacre Some of them are alive today They nod to me familiarly on the streets oC Salt Lake city and I nod back to them The United States government knows who they an and what they have done and yet it has never dared to arrest them or interfere with them Frankly have I not reason to say that tho Mormon Mor-mon churoh is stronger than the United States Leaving reluctantly this dreadful and indiscriminate in-discriminate masicre of men women and children this sweet morsel that has been to writers of his class the climax in their descriptions of alleged Mormon horrors this precious writer of lies now and old comes again to the matter of fighting the United States If we wera forced to light the United States we could rely on a strength of 25000 male3 and admirable strategic position and tho hep of 20COO picked warriors rom tic surrounding Indian tribes I do not say that we entertain the idea of fighting but I have rflatel something some-thing of our history to show that we should not be arjld to defend our relgion < The sword of LABAN i3 lying quietly in its L sheath Woe say I woo to the man or to the government whch draws it Here the mendacious scoundrel pauses for tho time for breath Had he been con tent to lie simply about the Mormon reople as thousands of his class have done before him the trash which he revamps would not be worthy of notice But to the crime of slander aud calumny of an innocent inno-cent people he adds the damning villainy of making it appear that what ho utters represents the Mormon position It was reserved for the publishers of the American to lend themselves to this vilest of all schemes for the misrepresentation of an unoffending community and lead astray tens of thousands in relation to the affairs of Utah Nay more than that they must have plotted the entire scheme with the deliberate intention of working mischief to the Mormons Hell yawns for such writers and such publishers and earth pains to be delivered of them Meantime would that gracious heaven put a whip of scorpions in every honest hand to lash the rascals naked through the world If in the lowest depths there is a lower deep still opening wide to receive earths vilest sons if among the bubbling cauldrons of sectarian smoking hell there is one hotter than another an-other these publishers and writers thrice damned in falsehood calumny and slander will find their way to it |
