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Show THE CONCEALERS OF SIN. r Employing one of the wiles of Mormon Mor-mon priestcraft, the Deserel News has been professing to think that the proposed pro-posed bond issue would be illegal. On the 8th of the present month the church orgin piously announced its belief "that if the party should succeed, by the tricks and manipulations familiar to ns dictators,'' the matter would finally reach the courts. Let us remind re-mind the News of this following testimonial testi-monial to i 1 k craft: Go to all the quorums in this city and you will find some of their presidents anil officers as corrupt as the devil. We have men that can beat the 'entiles In any mean tricks they are a mind to start up. Apostle Jededlah M i irar.i , Journal of J discourses, volume -I, page 188. So that, even though the libelous and thoroughly untruthful aspersions of the Deseret News against the American party and its representatives were true, it must admit, that it is able to out-trick out-trick the most able trickster in all the Gentile community or it must repudiate repud-iate its former exponent of faith, revelation, revel-ation, belief, doctrine and moral (or immoral) attainment. We will agree that the tricks of Mormon priestcraft are not always demonstrable to public conviction We will say that, the "peculiar"' "pe-culiar"' methods adopted bv the clesiasts have nearly always sufficed to alter the complexion of crime and to prevent fixture of responsibility for that crime. And we do not ask the public to accept our unsupported word in this respect, because we can supply the "word of God" in the matter, as the reader will see in the following: To hPRin with, they do not know any evil of this people; the ins of this people are with themselves and their God. r defy all hell and all the devils in and about thc inhabitants of the earth to SUBSTANTIATE permanent acts of wickedness against the Mrlers of this people. -Sermon of Bricham Young in Salt Lake tabernacle, November o. 1856; Journal of Discourses volume 4. page 76. The "outside world'' was, as Brig-ham Brig-ham sas, unable to "substantiate" the charges of crime and treason which Rrigham, within the fold, knew to be true. Under the protection of this system of secretiveness, perjury, suppression, and misrepresentation, the Gentiles of Utah have been kept in the dark while the law breakers-in-the name of-God carried car-ried out their iniquities. To the higher order of the Mormon priesthood, nameh the Melchisedek, are charged the crimes and offenses of murder, arson, adultery, f ornieation, false pretense, robbery, grand larceny, forgery, embezzlement., abduction, rape, assault, battery, in timidation, blackmail, pcr.piry, subornation suborn-ation of perjury, lying, deceit, repudiation repudia-tion of wife, denial of mother, unrecog-nitlon unrecog-nitlon of offspring and abandonment of family, pledge-breaking, confidence trickery, and treason. The Tribune docs not refer to this record in any lightness of spirit ; but to show the class of high priesthood that, through its journalistic concealer Of all the crimes enumerated, has the audacity to charge good citizens with resorting to ''tricks and manipulations" manipula-tions" in the affairs of this city, tho publication of tho truth is invited. The Deseret. News will not dare to deny that these charges against tho Mormon priesthood, as they are herein recited, arc true. It knows that we are aide to go to the records of the courts of the Territory and the state of L'tah and establish the truth of the charge iu each instance, and name the elder who was convicted of the crime. Will tho News demand tho record? |
