| Show tells some interesting facts character acter of her people por tra glovins Gl owins colors utah liberalism the announcement in tho that the noted free thinker charles ellis was to lecture at the opera house on saturday night on the subject utah to 1870 drw forth a large number of citizens cit izena after the gentleman had been introduced by mr william M king he arose amid considerable applause and commenced his lecture by way of introduction mr ellis explained he a member of no church in the world should interest himself in defending what many considered the most obnoxious church in the world he considered that as citizens ef this great republic all were entitled to equal rights under the constitution he had corn to utah with an eastern view of the question he had lectured in provo comparing the two great characters bob ingersoll Irger soll and brigham young anile he had not beliey edall of the stories that had been reiterated concerning brigham Young still he had not given him sufficient credit ju conversation with 0 J hollister of salt lake a few days later he bad stated that the cormons mormons were entitled to fi under the constitution the same aa other people an article then appeared in the rt bune stating that he mr ellis was a jack mormon and deserved to be clubbed damned and killed ho challenged mr hollister Hol lisler to a debate but thai gentleman had declined and had torn down his bills this caused him to reflect it was possible that the ring organ of the liberal party had been fighting him just as they had been fighting the cormons mormons Mor mons for six months he had studied tha mormon question and the result of his investigations was in the two lectures which he would give the speaker then received the strict attention of the audience for an hour and a half while he pictured before their minds the earl y struggles of the pioneers of utah their love of liberty of country home and their God they had always keen loyalty Loy alto the constitution of the united stares and to the nag of their country one of cheif first acts in this far western country had been to erect aliberta pole and hoist and stripes there had never been any rebellion in utah there was not the slightest necessity for johnsons Joha sons army coming to utah that was one ot the most bloodless wars known indis tory not a man had been killed the cormons mormons had simply held the army in the mountains during the winter to cool off their ardor a trifle when the army had no salt brigham young had kind kindi I ly sent them some they had refused but they afterward di paid foty cents per pound for bait the character of acme of the federal officials sent to atau as shown by the report serit Sto washington ly 0 ne of lefia that polygamy monopolizes women in utah makes it a very inconvenient placebo reside at anding the fact that alie cormons mormons had just passed through a terrible famine and their country had be em by united slates troops they furnished two ot men to guard ibe united stales mails during the war of the rebellion tue cormons mormons had put down the freemont rebellion and had given tu the united states california the richest stale in the union the mor mons had expended over in the indians burily ahn years of 65 66 and 67 our generous government had never reimbursed them with a single dollar the mob bers of missouri and illinois who had driven these same cormons mormons from their homes had been paid for their services by the respective states can we blame the mormon people if they think the government has been just I 1 think not here in utah is the only successful operation cooperation co in the united S ates in conclusion the speaker oid a glowing tribute to brigham young brigham was a great man and when the world can see him as he was the world too will say he was a areat man he was the leader of a people who had committed no crime except to believe in a principle condemned by the ministers of a rotten theology he lived as be died a lover of his country and the behind him a great and a united people who when the catholic thiearchy hie archy shall attempt to the nation will uphold it brigham young never was tho mormon people never were they are not now and they never will be disloyal to the constitution cf the united states SUNDAY EVENING tie opera house was filled to over flowing when mr ellis and booth maeser king houtz milner gates and holbrook took places on the stage mayor booth introduced the speaker his subject to be liberalism of utah mr ellia said it was a hard subject too the hardest be bad ever had to do with the speaker that he ought to so tough a hub act on sunday night he then referred first acquaintance and how wreaha eacho years ago he thought as many eastern men do that cormons mormons look dif ferenti from other people upon that thay had been lied about he conclude di to stop for sometime 10 study this barange sect because the gentlemen would not side in with the liberals he asks railed against by the leading liberals 1 to night said the speaker I 1 shall tell you the result of my researches john morris was the first herald of liberal iani he founded tha liberal party he also established the morrisine Morri site rhe next prominent character was E f Harn sou i a paper called thy peep of auy it finally became alie utah magazine gt antle uaen with others among tthum md godbe cua nl from the t lurch and foin led one ol 01 gieir awa called the churus of ziona u ai the exic nea of the san 0 devolved on LH lyince ince and godbe it soon died out aud from its ashes waa erected the liberal institute 4 with a tree platform but it lad also but H short life at lat the utah became the mormon tribune and its banner was the skull and cross bocea of hate ltd mission was to down mormonism and with it was born the liberal party of today to day thia party waa a holy from the beginning it was born with three rows of teeth in the lower jaw and was a man eater from the start it was born to rage against the mormon people and has ever misrepresented them in the nation at lare and at I 1 the early ccok in with it the mia fonaries ion aries who had comp here d they have worked together evers since though many of the liberal parly are and freethinkers tle year 1872 was yead inettah arnen a convention waa caged v 4 i e 3 for to work lor statehood i eleanne deoch ins behalf of statehood able were pre liy should be granted bus utah was deai and clr or st atcho alj ail d in abe filc tr y fanned the gentile lea aue 61 auh 0 vell known to you they beld a meeting in the streets of ait lake at winch a number of cormons mormons judge mas and ic was agreed that if any peak cr was hissed ehst evening by cormons mormons Mor mons pe besent sent the latter should at once he shot down what was the object of this proposed murder it wa that in washington it be shown that the cormons mormons were in open rebellion whereby it vas hoped to have troops senac to utah and her delegates seat vacated this little in stance shows me that cormons mormons were not then a lawless bloodthirsty blood thirsty kind or they coald at that meeting have caused the streets of salt lake to flow with bloch the chairman save the whole affair away he said that if any man hissed he would be shot down A hereupon the cormons mormons quietly got up and left then only a few G TL were left and they vere too cowardly to shoot themselves the year 1874 was also a memorable year there were then four political tickets placed in the field one tickets was made up wholly of mormon candidates by the liberal party with the object of dividing the so that it might be represented to congress that the mormon people v with alie rulers but it work very well another election in that year was for candidate to congress the liberals finding that their former scheme was a failure sought to take possession of the election machinery in salt lake the united states marshal placed deputies at the polls and at night the liberals sought a row they gathered at the city hall and commenced a riot mayor wells stood it until his coat was torn from him when he read the riot act and ordered the mormon police to dispel the crowd the liberals knowing they were in the wrong wore afraid to shoot and thus another calamity was averted in another case we find mormon character in early days prot rayed it the case of anna alza as she was familiarly known throughout shout the country she was a plural wife of brie ham young and sued for alimony me kean was on the bench he had often claimed polygamy was an alleged mar ariage but in this ase he swallowed his his former record and declared it was legal furthermore he ruled that alimony should be paid and upon pres young refusing he was sent to prison in 1882 the liberals framed a very pretty platform praising equal and exact justice to all in utah merely however to give effect abroad the speaker then up a little of their equal justice at home among anich lie portrayed how cormons mormons ere refused to sit on juries polygamy was also dealt showing the justice of punishing a man because lie biad the manhood to support a woman who biad entered the plural marriage macri age system with all honesty and purity of heart now J am not preaching polygamy said mr ellis but I 1 do stick up for justice and any government that will not permit a man to support his wife I 1 and children commits an outrage the speaker then took up the election I 1 system in utah andalio wed biow regis cormons mormons in all cases override the law he detailed the history of the special train that was run over the R G W just prior to ln e salt lake city idec tion and beautifully and clearly pointed out abo fraud attending the same other electia elec tio frauds ere up in their true color and he brought these instances to bear on theLi beril platform of equal and exact justice this party poisoned with hate declare themselves americans Ane ricans but tasy have not only people of their offices but they them in many cages aa high as seven hundred percent here in utah human liberty is on trial as it has sever before been in this country I 1 bayto sayto atie mormon people they must not leave this territory they must re machere mam here and in tune alie people of this great nation will understand the true and come to the rescue when utah liberalism will be buried like a dead and rotten cat the people of utah have not a friend in tho whole world and it depends upon them to tick together in short liberalism in utah is a lie leave stolen a word and applied it to themselves and thereby hope to show to the world that they are free and broad minded but they are tied up let me tell you worse than any oue in the peoples party or any other party in this country the peoples party should be true to their motto and se ek to biye liberty to the whole world the speaker was warmly applauded throughout and all voted him a forcible and logical speaker he understands his t thoroughly |
