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Show THE GENTILE CAUSE, How it is Keiiig Injured by tl;e "TrilmiHv' The I'niyer of fnf 'indent (;ii-liles (;ii-liles '.Si e In From Our , Frit-iul-i.' Salt Lake City, Utah, June 19, 1877. KUilvrs Herald: Dear &ir,l am a Gentile eo-called. eo-called. I want to seo polygamy done away with, but there are several ways ! to eo a''Out a;cornplialnng this object. ob-ject. Tho ungentlemanly way now being tried I confess is a failure. I confess we are doing more to hurt ourselves than wo are to hurt polygamy. We are not wise like the Mormons. We are radical, overbearing and insulting and 1 propose from this time forward to change my modus operandi of killing kill-ing poiynamy. 1 think we can do it in a gentlemanly manner better than we can do it in a rude and barbarous manner. To illustrate whet I mean by ungentlemanly, I refer to our' newspaper, the Tribune. Tlie oilier day I took np the Tribune to read . about President Young's visit to Ogden. I was utterly ashamed to see such uugentlemauly expressions as this: "Apostate Johnny was turned looe hv thft nld man unci did credit to his pa." Speaking ot Mr. Taylor theTribur.o went on to say: "John Taylor, the old ruffian, told tho damn fool Bainls, that in traveling travel-ing with Iub master," etc. Now, Mr. Editor, I wish to expos-tulflte expos-tulflte against such coarse, vulgar, in-Bulting in-Bulting talk os tho above. Such talk is bursting bur Gentile cause. Why? Because it drives off every truo gentleman and lady who would other-! wise sympathize with the Gentile cause. Again, we are very impolitic in our attacks on strangers who come among us, uuoiascu at nrst, anu wno, n let alone, would be opposed to Mormon-, ism; but who, if they do not own; their anti-Mormon sympathy at once, are immediately traduced in the Tribune, Tri-bune, A while ago ft very distinguished writer and tho author of four successful success-ful books, visited Utah. He is also ' distinguished journalist. Any ono with good sense could have seen at : once that this journalist was capable1 1 of doing the Gentile cause more good than any ten journalists who have ever been in Salt Lake. I refer to Eli PerkinB, who came here with a; journalistic connection with two of the strongest newspapers in tho United Siates-the N.Y. Sun and N. Y. Times., Well, what did our Tribune do ? Instead of treating him like a, gentleman, trying to win him over to the gentile cause, why, they commenced com-menced to inBuli him. Like rough, ungentlemanly fellows as they are, they rudely called this distinguished author and journalist a fool, and indulged in-dulged in other barbarous epithets, j calculated to make Mr. .Perkins ah j enemy of theGentilca, aud make every Salt Lake Gentile ashamed of the j Tribune. j Since then Mr. Perkins has gone onand writtQQ his articles for the Bun, I Times and sent telegrams to the San .Francisco Chronicle and Chicago In ter-Oceau and Tribune, completely undoing all tho work which tbo Salt Lake Tribune has been trying to ac-1 compliah for the last four months. In fact, Eli Perkins had it in his power, to do the Gentile cause more gcod or more evil than the Tribune can itself do in six months, and they went to work and maele him an eno-my eno-my in fifteen minutes. Now, what we want is gentlemanly editors our Gentile press. If it is going on this way if an ungentlemanly editor can kick over in a few moments all the hard work that we conservative Gentiles Gen-tiles can do in six months, why I am going to quit working for tho Gentile cause; I'll stop my Tribune and take the Hekald. "Deliver us from our , friends" said Henry Clay Ameul say 3,000 indignant Gouliles when they read the impolitic utterances of . the Tribune, Now in a few weeks, I understand, George Alfred Towusend. is coming here. He is a logically-minded gentleman. gen-tleman. He cannot he bulldozed. He has already said he believes Brig-ham Brig-ham Young innocent of murder. No.y Ido hope tho Tribune' will not drive him away from- the Gentile cause tho first clay he arrives byre. I presume an editor Btupid enough to drive off' Eli Perkins will blunder again on George Alfred Townsand. It it does than I am done with a cause headed with such indiscreet, such uugentlemanly men. Yours, B- . |