Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER The r Iifiicrs or Utah I An Applicable Appli-cable Chapter of Ancient lllstorr CHICAGO November ISth lS9 Special Correspondence of the DEF = EwsJI was pleased to read iu last weeks America a letter signed A II Cannon Salt Iikc City I referred to this journal already one the Fjicclnl mission of which was autijopcry but In several of its later ISPUCS I found Iu It many jaragmplw l touching on Utah written In a most distorted and misunderstood manner S I was glad when I read Mr Cannons letter to the cdiior courteously telling tell-ing the gentleman that his aper was in error regarding Utah This Is the stand all the young men of Utah ought fto Lc Wherever an distorting article or statement appears lug and maligning Utah the oung men should take I up as In the case of Mr Cannon and politely and gentlemanly drop a note to the proper quarter contradicting the vile calumny Whether published or not the note will have its effect and young Utah will have done its 1 duty dutH appears that all the floodgates flood-gates of villainy obliquity out i > er lurv are scale thrown open in order to overwhelm Utah by fair means or foul Throat cutting bowel opening and such operations are now being used ns capital Are we traveling iu a cireJe or does history his-tory repeat itself When I read the foul fubrcatonabuut Utah r cnniiot help reverting to tho sad St story otoleifo early Christians t I have In mind two characters esjcci ally the emperors Diocletian and Maximian two men now remem bonsai entirely for their ruthless and savace treatment of ChriMian Tie Christians were actually charged with murdering eating infants and the pagan priests of the time f r tll lh eS gravely swore to Its truth I cannot do better than quote In full a chapter of ancient history dealing with ni subject The characters are Mast titan Tertullus Corvinus Fulvius Calpurnlus priests philosophers and ollice seekers Only substitute the names of jiersous now prominent promi-nent iu Utah for the names mentioned men-tioned In the ancient hUtory and the chapter will apply to truthful rtah today accurate and will and be considered impartial It is from a distinguished writer Her it is I WAS in tho month of Xovenilxr I that Maxlmlan llerciilcus convoked Ito meeting III which his plans had finilly to b adjusted lo it were summoned tIns loading officers of the court all of the Sate The principal princi-pal one the prefect of Ito city had brought i Irftil son Corvinn whom ho hail proposed to II > o captain of a body 1 of armed pursuivants pickeI out for their I savageness and I n hatred of Christiiuc who 7 hunt I them out or down with unrelenting assiduity The chic prefe U or governors gov-ernors of Sicily Italy Spain and lint were present to receive order I u addition to these several learned men philosophers and orators amour whom was our old acquaintance Cal pumlus hail leers inviied and many I nests who 13d come from different I puns to petition for heavier prosecution prosecu-tion wore ijmmamlcd to attend Jlailuiiin was a native of tirniiiim clavoniaIa reputed barlariintbcro for of inc lowest extraction a mere soldier of fortune without any education educa-tion endowed with blithe moro than a brntcn strength which made his lirle Itrugb surname sur-name of Hercules mOt appropriatche had been rio the purple by hH lirother barbarian Diodes known as the Emperor Diocletian Like him i covetous to meanness and spendthrift I Ot kl thrift to rocklcsinei addicted to thy i Mine carao vices and foul crimes wblch a Christian pen refuses crme r eel without restraint of any boston 1 without sense of Justice or feeling of humanity this monster had never ceased to opln persecute and flay whoever stood in his way To him the coming persecution looked like an approaching feast doe to a plultou tvbo requires Ibo excitement a our fet to rollers the monotony of dally excels Gigantic In fmnic with tho well known features of hH niece with Ito hair on his bead and face moro yellow than red shajrgy and wild like tufts of straw with eyes restlessly rolling in a compound cxpre < sion of suspicion protlicacy and fcrocitylbls almost lat of Homos tyrants struck terror into the bean of any beholder except a Christian Is it wonderful l ha 1ul that lie hated the race and its name Precedence woo granted bV religious courtesy to the priest each of whom had his tale g tell Here a river had i overflowed its hank and done much mischief to the neighboring plain there nn earthquake had thrown dO npr part of a town on Ito northern frontiers fron-tiers the barbarian threatened invasion I inva-sion at tIe south the placue was ravaging the pious population In every I insanco the oracles bad declared that I It was l owing to the Chrhtian whose toleration irritated tbo god < and whoso evil charms g h05 e calamity cal-amity on tho empire Nay some gods had nmided their votaries bv openly proclaiming thud they would utter no more till the odious Xnzercnes bad been exterminated and tho hn exterllnltcl great I > clpliis oracle bad not hesitated to declare I that the just did I not allow the IJ to steak I Next carno tho philosophers and orators ouch of whom made his own long winded oration dun lag which JIaxiiuLtn pave nn equivocal signs of weariness Itt as the emnerors In tile Last bad Ih a similar meeting be considered it his duty t sit out tho annoyance TJio usual calumnies were repeated for tbo tenthou < andth time to an ap plauding assembly the stories of rime dering and eating Infant of commit Ingfoul crimes of worshipping martyrs mar-tyrs bodies of nJorinpan aw head and inconsistently enough of being unbelievers and rervliig no nOt These tales were all mot firmly ic hovel l though probnblv their reciters knee perfectly well they were but good iukeentneunalraomfrhaur aounil heathen lies I useful F no J Ilutnt length up roo the man who son considered to have mot deeply studied the doctrines of the enemy and boot to know their ald knO dangerous tc le He was supposed to have read hnr ktr suppl bo drawing up a confutation of their errors which I would fairly crush them Indeed so s great W alrl1 weight with his own side that when he asserted that Christians held any monstrous principle hat their supremo pontiff in permn con tradicted it every ono would have langhedat thu ory Idcaof Uklnghls the pontiffs word for his own belief apiliist the assertion of Calpurnius Ho struck up a different strain and his learning quite astonished his fcl I lowsophlOs Ho had read the original books be said not only of the Chris tians themselves bat of their fore I i Il3 fathers tho Jews who I bavins come Into Esypt in the reign of liolemy IbiUulclphus to escape from a famine in their own country tbrongh the arts of their leader Jo eph fought up all the com there and sent it home Upon whicbltotemy Imprisoned them tell ing them tbat as they had catcit up all tbo cornlbo should live on the to straw by making bricks with It for buildings great city Then Dtmctrius Ibalerius hearing from them of a great many curious histories of their ancestors shut up Moses and Aaron their most learned in lerne JDII a tower having shaved half their beards till I they should writo i in Greek lr their records ThC rre books Cal pnnil us had won and bo would only mention I few facts from them Thi rare mads war upon every king and people that came in their wavand destroyed them ll all r I was their principle I they took a Otis t put everyone to tbe Ile sword and this was all because they were under tbo government of their I ambitious priests r tbat When a ear cr laIn king Saul also called Paul spared a poor captive monarch whoso name was Apt tbe priests ordered him to bo brought out and hewed to pieces Now continued ho these Christ Ions are still under the domination of the sumo priesthood amiare1 quite a ready today under their directon to overthrow the great Roman empire bum us 1 in the forum and oven sacrilegiously assail I the jiacred and venerable heads of our divine mar ma-r A thrill of horror ran through thou tho-u at this recital It mly ritl I was soon hushed a the Emperor opened his hi opne mouth to speak For my part he rtih another and a stronger reason for say abhorrence or tbcso Christians They havoTlarod to estab lists in the heart of the empire and In this very city a supreme religious rlsom authoritynnknown there before Dutorltunknown befor tale lenIent of tho government of the lrmmlt Stale and equally powerful over their minds na thus Formerly all acknowledged acknowl-edged tho Emperor 01 supreme In religious reli-gious as in civil rule Hence be bears till the title of Pcntlfex Maxlmus di tie But these men have raised 1 un a divided power and consequently bear hut I divided loyalty 1 bate I erc rort > as a usurpation In my dominions this sactrdotal sway over my subject For I declare that r would rather bear of a new rival slantIng up to my tbrono than of tho elton of one of trno o these priests In Itomc thC prietlD 1tme This speech delivered In a harsh crating voice and with A vutar for bipn accent was received with im nicn > applause and plans were formed for tbo simultaneous publication publica-tion of the edict tbrousu tho wet and ton for its complete and exterminating exclloll Then turin harp upon Tertulus the linpcror nail rrefoct you said you lust some one to propose for Eupcrintcmlin these arrangements and for increilc dealings with these mcrJC traltom Ho I here my son Corvinus And Tertullus handed tho youthful candidate to the grim tyrants footstool foot-stool I Maxhnlan eyed IflL keenly burst Into a hideous laugh and sid Llwn DIY word I think boll do Wbv Prefect I had no idea you had such au ugly son I should think ho Is I Just tbo thing every quality of thing eer a thoroughpaced unconscientlous rcamp stamped upon his features Tbe Emperor rose to depart when rlpr his eyes caught Fulvlai who had been summoned but sUluloneJ as a paid courtspy who kept n much in the background as possible Ho there my eastern worthy hn called I out to him these Christians will afford you plenty of game so make yourself ready and let I us see what von ran do Tho property of the convicted will bo divided b toYota the accusers and the treasury unless I see particular reasons for taking tho whole to myself Now you may i I There are many redheaded Max Irnlaus in Utah and many scamjis of the Corvinus and Fulvius type and of course Cixlpuruhis runs 1 newspaper there and her stories aro but reproductions Mose aud Aaron halfshnvuj writing Greek But did the early Christians givo way Sot a bit of I They were the only people who did not f rUle r-Ule savage Maxiralan They were but a hanJful but they held together to-gether and they triumphed Will these latterday ChrMians be overawed by a vulgar speaking Maximlan whether he be an Orlando Orlan-do lower or a Genera Murray Will they come under the yoke of a preferred Calpurnius no matter whether he be a helot from Ireland or a oarpclbaggerfrom Illinois Will they go over to the sido of Corvinus and Fulvius and Tertellus to shako hands with the murdering colonel of Kentucky and link arms with the vile jiagan prloLi misnamed Christians Chris-tians Forbid It5 shame Tho Lat terday Christian who would entertain enter-tain a thought of tills kind Is not fit to light the nt blloCho future Ho is unworthy the name of man and by his action hu brands Ills whole lift a litJ religion professions profes-sions become hypocrisy and he makes of his hat a mockery Let him go He is fit coniiianiou for Corvinus liicscampaud Fulvius thu spy JfMUS |