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Show WOOLLEY'S WOOLY BANTINGS. If Bi?hop Mnreellus 3. Woolley. of tho Twcnty-flrst ward in this city, is to bo believed, it is no wonder that tho Mormon ecclesiasts so misinterpret 1 ho Tribune's position, and lie nbout it. ami about what it stands for. Bishop Wool-ley Wool-ley says that no Mormon reads Tbo Tribune. Of course, if this is true, then the Mormon elders who he about it do so ignorantly, aud thoy slander their neighbor through puro guile and prejudice. It was a humiliating atti-tud'o atti-tud'o in which Bishop Woolley placed tho priesthood, which has been so re-markably re-markably froo and volublo in its criticism criti-cism of Tho Tribune, when ho tsnys that this crioiciam is all worthless, being moro ignorant gabble, without any knowlcdgo nnd without any accurate idea of what The Tribune really is say or represents. It was not surprising, surpris-ing, therefore, that Biihop Woolley himself got off entirely wrong on the question, sinco he, a Mormon, does not read Tho Tribune. It was not surprising, either, to find him so densely ignorant and basely prejudiced as to say the things hero following, ho speaking about the American party: Thev captured the city two years ago and what has It mant for the city? Ivook about you and tho question Is n towered. Look nt the dens of vice which are allowed al-lowed to flourish without tho slightest attempt to put a stop to them; look at the wide open city, where everything which makes for th.o degrading of the poo-pi poo-pi is allowed to Rrow and prosper, and the youths and maidens are Invited with open arms to their ruin. That la what will happen on a larcrer pcale If the Amer lean party gains control of the county. And yet the American party nnd The Tribune Tri-bune pay that they will pain control of the county thin year, and In a few years will have caught in their net tho other counties of L'tnh and finally tho State. Then, with them In control, what will happen? You will be banished to Mexico, and we, your leaders, will be lodged behind be-hind iron bars to languish and die. Think of the awful Infamy of It all. Ah. my people, this condition of affairs cannot exist. There Is a. mission beforo mh, and we must right the wrong that Is impending impend-ing before ft Is too late. It was thrco years ago, and not two, that ths Americans captured the city. It is not in tho least truo that "dons of vico nre allowed to flourish without the slightest al tempt to ?top them." The American party has kopt those "dons of vice" pretty well suppressed until Sheriff Emery, under tho patroniz ing guidance or wovornor I'utler. dug them up and scaitcred the intnntcs nil over this city to be a pest and nuisance to all pedestrians. It is not in tbo loast true, as Bishop Woolley Js talk indicated, indi-cated, that prior to the control of tho Amorican party in this city those "dens of vice" were olitninated, or oven kept within bounds. They wore more open, more flagrant, and probably moro mi morons under the old church control than they aro now. Certainly nothing for many years has ever equaled tho brazen insolenco with which thofc "dens of vice" paraded themselves them-selves iu this city when nothing but ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical control was known. It is further to bo remembered that during the latest ecclesiastical control of the city, just prior lo the capture of the city by tbo American party, those "dens of vice," open, llagrant. and numerous, nu-merous, were supplemented by open gambling dous. whero laboring men were run in and robbed overy Saturday night. Wo all remember the "Red Onion," tho "Greeu Dragon," (or something liko that,) nud other open gambling diven that were run under the patronage of that ecclesiastical administration, ad-ministration, and nothing that could be dono sorvod to oliminato thono dons or to decrease thoir activity. On the con- trarv. thiV xrem notnnU- ' j iiv.uu.ij ui.uutavu, and tho votes of their managers, attaches, at-taches, and "runners," were eagerly solicited and obtained for tho re-election of that ecclesiastical administration. administra-tion. But Bishop Woolley succeeded in making himself humorously ridiculous wbeu ho gave in his belief of the pipe-dream pipe-dream of Sol Kimball about being banished ban-ished to Mexico, aud that ho. with ' other chufch leaders, would be "lodged behind irou bars to languish and dio. " 1 in case of Americau victory. Wo havo ' not beard any intimation prior to this , that Bishop Woolley was in polygamy. If his language here ia to bo interpreted as a confession of guilt in this matter, then of courso ho might reasonably have somo fear of being sent to jail. If, howovcr, ho is not a polygamist. it is absolutely impossible to imagine nny reason why he should fear beinj: "lodged behind iron barrf to languish and dio." The Kimball circular, which was circulated cir-culated by tho hundreds in this city yostcrday nt all principal street corners, lends a son of plausibility to tho idea that the silly users of this nonsensical atory I thtuk thoy uro making something by its use. It is pretty hard, bowovor, to iui- i agmo any intelligent poraon paying any attention to it. Therefore, those who ' use this story are paying a very poor ' compliment to tho intelligence of the persons whom they hope to influence by 1 it. No one of brain capacUvT blinded by bigotrv. eTc that it ia absolutely imr?. ?t.9 anything of the kind. 'J law-abiding person bv th f of tbo criminal law. 'if nf0fy innl, then, of course, he W J but no innocent person fo danger from the criminal It followH, necessarily i those who consider thcawfi. ger from the criminal iaiT fJ guilty of some offense, puni.r8i which that law proviir KB ouly alternative other than S -tho densest ignorance ami f has uo possiblo foundation v' fears the criminal law l,ui a 7. and no ouo fears any tw criminal law, or is g0 ignorant know tnat his inuocence mauill Didbop Woolley made , stock and pitiful spectacle of 5 by his sensational and dishoj 011 Sunday night. N0 one hun can possibly have the lam. ' for him after this as ,hcy J Ho lowered himself into tht i kind of n holo of sillv ami m,! nonsense by that talk. Wool! good, straightforward citijq' more. Woolley as a wounfebarff bug, and silly raver, is the we must hereafter know utS I name. S |
