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Show 'TAX AIICS." "Fanatie" h a vey u.'ly and unwholesome un-wholesome word, whh'h has Ivcn applied ap-plied with tolerable frequency to the people called Latter-day Saints. We have heard rcpeciable heathens. nious deists, praying Presbyterians and mast devout Methodists use the term coup-lei coup-lei with ".ro.'mo:is." within a very recent time. Hence our surpiisc tu J"md, in a sound, ortho lux. Protestant paper the VA7i(.,' '. : Trf .i,.', of September -Oth the same opprobrious oppro-brious epithet applied to " M-'.'i'-!i:'. Itrother Peiree may b? disgusted with tho fact but it is a fact a lamentable one, of course. And it carries; us back to the time when John Wesley and his followers were all called "fanatics'' by the "high-toned" religionists of that early period. Bat those "fanatics" then were not the powerful body they art now. As people grow in wealth and influence, no matter what they believe be-lieve "blow their belief! '' their fanaticism diminishes. Wonderful, isn't it ! lint it's human nature. nevertheless. And, now, everylnxly will continue to call the Mormons "fanatics" until those Mormons have something that everybody wants or thinks he can get a share of! And under all these circumstance-! we are edled upon to honor average, venal. yeophantie, ignorant, perseruting . humanity ! Hah ! I |