Show who taught pernicious principles TIMES having read an article in the herald accusing john henry smith of mixing politics with religion I 1 thought being of the mor charch and having been oue for forty five years would write a reply I 1 may not have paid out BO much as my democratic friend aa my pocket may not be so deep but I 1 have always been on hand when wanted I 1 have been on the frontier since 49 I 1 have stood guard in the storms of winter and have never been caught asleep I 1 was a soldier in the utah war when president bucganan Buc banan under democratic rule bent the flower of the american army with guns and mani tiona of war against a handful of people without wealth and without strength but not without courage when governor Ge vernor young waa informed that there waa an army ordered to utah for war purposes wrapped the stars and stripes around the territory and declared martial law and called upon every man to fall into the ranks and defend their homes against an invading foe from that day until now the democratic party has been trying to block the wheels of pro grcia but to return to the subject why john henry smith is advocating res publican principles at a meeting of alia central Terri to select two speakers t te lican jo wm was ona he declined i account of the Do he bald in e church but the motion wat sustained unanimously and he could not object and in harmony with his barly I 1 will ask a few questions ot my democrat friend haa john henry smith ever neglected any ecclesiastical duties what are the pernicious 01 the republican party I 1 have known J hu henry smith for many yeara and h ive thought him incapable of bri neine from his large heart anything but what would raise his fellow man in the scale of ae for his seducing the people by republican arguments how did he do it dd he tell them that there was ajaime when four mil lioBE of human were governed by the laeh that we have eleu them bound hand and fiot that we have heird he ird the strokes of the cruel whip did lie tell bliem that bloodhounds were raised tc men ard women alir ugh aud that we have peen babes bold from mothers this is pernicious it is true if he told you that four milion bodies were in chains four million boffl in otters all all the sacred relation of wife mother father and child trampled beneath the brutal feet of all this was done under oar own beautiful banner of freedom and that the democratic party wag responsible fur all this and when the republicans wanted it stopped in the territory the demi crais said that we could not atop it the next talked about soledine soc edine and said jou cant force ua to stav iu the chion but the He publican party said they could be kepi in and they were kept in and when the war was over and slavery abolished we louk where heroes fell aad look and instead of slaves we see men women and children the wand of progress touches the auction block the slave pen and the whipping post and we see homes and fires dea and school house and books and where all waa want and crime and cruelty aal fear we see the facson the free that smile upon ftp livan paty as saviors while the D pany has to carry the blood I 1 of fallen heroes and the teara of widows and orphans abil now my democratic Deme cratic friend whose side is those pt arnicious principles on have you belonged to the important or the slave trust or did you lose allot owr wages if you have I 1 can with you for I 1 have lost in nw business every time that there has been a pr for a democratic prebi dent ia beems to me that we ae a e brothers in affliction you seem to be a hide bound democrat Cemo crat and I 1 am a red hit K publican lican A E SHIELDS lake view jan 2 1892 |