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Show HABT'S WHANGDOODLE. Wo suppose that Elder Charles H. Hart does not wish to utter a lot of miserable falsehoods in his public addresses. ad-dresses. And yot in his address in the Tabernacle here on Sunday his utter-amos utter-amos were scandalously false. And as we do not attributo willful falsity to him, wo conclude t'lint ho is too densely ignqrant to speak of ourly Mormon history; ho has .iust accepted as true tho fanatical misrepresentations misrepresenta-tions of the older men in the church, whose intarest and perverse inclinations have always led them to twist truth to their own exculpation on account of ihoir owu personal offenses. No wonder won-der Apostle Smoot, who followed El-dor El-dor Hart, promptly said thai thore aro riwo sides to the B,tory. Hart dwelt on tho "persecutions" of the Saiuts; hut there has never been a religious persecution in this country coun-try since the early colonial days. What caused the '.Mormons to hnvo hard neighbors is that thoy were bad neighbors neigh-bors themselves; they claimed tho Missouri Mis-souri rcgiou in which thoy settled as their- own, and dedicatod all land, personal property and all in sight to their own uses. And they proceoded accordingly, until older settlers rose in revolt and rid themselves of au unbearable nuisance. It was the samo in Illinois, but in the latter State, it was dissensions among themselves that brought on the culmination, and so-called so-called friends and intimate associates associ-ates of Joseph Smith that slew him. 111 is wo nave abundantly proven, xrom the records aud sayings of tho Mormons Mor-mons themselves, including tho gloomy forecast- of his doom by Smith himsolf. In his quotations from tho alleged Bancroft history, Elder Hart imposes on the credulity of his hearers. It is a well-known fact that the Mormon part of that history was furnished to Bancroft by unscrupulous writers of the Mormon church, and that he accepted ac-cepted their stuff as furnished. Ho came here and arranged the deal himself, him-self, staying at the Towiscnd House at the cost of the church. Tt." was a nasty scandal at the time, the wholo deal being openly exposed. It is a shame for a man to get up before tiny assembly at this late day and utter thoso stale and exploded falsehoods, as Hart did on Sunday. And tho right sort of feeling can never conic here until no one can be found to do it; nay, until no one will want to do it. Hart was guilty of stirring up halo by the emissions of untruths, that he ought to have known were untruths. un-truths. And he was guilty of a treasonable trea-sonable arraignment of the Government and people of the Unitod States in his bearing of false witness against? his neighbors. Tn this connection, and in close relation rela-tion to the same sort of vicious stirring up of hate against tho pcoplo of this country, wo direct attention t'o tho following from the Deseret. Nows's editorial ed-itorial on "Pionocr Day" on Saturday evening last: Thoy felt that lliey had escaped the hand of the oppressor and the tyrant, and that from henceforth they were freo to worship God in truth and righteousness righteous-ness without the interference of bloodthirsty blood-thirsty mobs, and so Pioneer day was a duy of Joy and. thanksgiving, a day of ecstasy, That was descriptive of the feelings of tho pioneer partj' on their coming in sight of this beautiful valley. But tho retrospect' put into words is shamefully, shame-fully, malignant and false. 'Who wan "tho oppressor?" Who "the tyrant.'?" Who or whatever prevented them from "worshiping God in truth and righteousness?" right-eousness?" Tijc whole tirado is condensed con-densed malevolencu against the Governmont and peoplo of tho United States in most malignant form, and as untrue as it is venomous. As long as this sort of vile falsehood false-hood rests in the Mormon heart; as long as the Mormon speakers and writers continue to thus vilify and slander the people of the United States, magnifying themselves as piartyrs when iu fact they were constant and criminal aggressors, it will bo idle for thorn t'o cry out for a peace which thov constantly disturb and which can only be. had, so far as they arc concerned, by yielding to their bigoted and fauatical usurpations and falsifications of the record. But this will never be done. |