Show PREJUDICIE I lay OKOHOK A HICKS Prejudgement an openion or decision decis-ion of mind formed without due examination exam-ination of the facts arguments which are necessary to a just and impartial determination I have been thinking of late of the subject of Prejudice and of the vast amount of crime and suffering it alone has been tho cause of untold cruelties inflicted by humanity against humanity Prejudice is the enemy of progress it mocks equity it degrades Charity traduces tra-duces truth dethrones right polutes justice it devilish beyond compursion It has been the cause of the shedding of rivers of blood it has taken the lives of many of the noblest most virtuous vir-tuous most patriotic men and women that have ever graced these mundane regions with their presence Socrates the wisest man in Athens was put to death B C 469 for teaching a belief in the immortality of the human soul and for refusing to worship popular Gods of that city His teaching would compare favorably with the best moral teachers of the present time He taught that temperence chastity morality mor-ality snd honesty were very essential to human happiness and that the proper study of mankind is man Later on Prejudice sent Jesus to the cross by it the early Christians were murdered by thousands The original Apostles were put to death in the most cruel manner that the genius of man could invent They were given to wild beasts in the Amphi theatres of Rome while the very elite of that great city both male and female applauded to the echo from the galleries above as their victi ms of their Prejudice were being torn to peices My space will permit me to give n discription of the Holy Inqusition of Madrid by which Spain destroyed most of the best minds in the nation and is today reduced from a first class nation to a contemptible weakling and a disgrace to the map of I nnn ana an this Kjirtnitan olit nt to Europe put death those who did not believe in the mummary of the Catholic Church On October 27th 1553 Michael Servets was burned at the stake in the city of Gwteviin Switzerland byorders of John Calvin a so called reformer Ser vetes was an Unitarian the same faith of President Taft What a blessing it is today we have not enough Calvins to destroy our good President we have evoloved out of that superstitious condition The Pilgram Fathers after establishing establish-ing themselves in New England persec Quakers and burned witches and found authority for so doing I Coming down to our own time Joseph and Hyrum Smith were sacraficed on the alter of Prejudice and the Mormon people were driven from their homes the writer being one of those who were expelled outof Nnuvoo not for any crime but because his parents were followers of an unpopular faith against which the people there were prejudice I am sorry to say that prejudice is still found with some of the people of this state The hnmble writer of this article has been to some extent a sufferer suff-erer by the shafts of prejudice I r In 1875 and 1876 I with my family was living at a place iu Kane County Utah called Ml Carmcl I wne the chief watermaster one day while working work-ing on the water ditch in a conversation conversa-tion with Howard Spencer the founder 1 + I of that miserable fiasco called The United Order of Enoch Spencer asked me if I believed Brigham Yonng was a prophet seer and revelator I answered him frankly I did not I told him I had heard President Young say he was not a prophet nor the son of a prophet That was enough te fix my fate A prejudice immediately r sprang up against me which did not 1 f abate while I remained in Unit part of t1 tho country 1 was selected by the people of Mt Carmcl to lead the choir and in the winter season I took up a t Via school by request of the school trustees t Spencer was Bishop of both Orderville + a and Mt Carmel ho broke up my school and ruled mo out of the choir t i I hav given the matter a great deal of thought and am unable to determine just what u belief in Brigham Young has to do with teaching a country school or leading a village chotr li3 I t |