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Show H ' A MOBAL LESSDV FUOH -V OCES- HH TIOVIBLE .SOUKCE. HH Tins morning'it issue of the lsad- HH 'DS anti-'-Mormon" newspaper, of HH which C.C. Go-xlnin, the "Lib- HH era!" candidate for delegate to HH Congress, is the editorial heaJ, has HK an article devoted to an attack upon HH! Mr. C. P. Huntington, of San Fran- H clsco. Embodied in it is a corre- HH tpondence, the writer of which HHJ quotes from an interview between HHj the California millionaire and a BBB A representative of the Standard. Fol- HflB '' lowing Is the quotation in question: HHJ "When nsked rrhit werj bis views HH about tbo manifesto issued by Presi- BH dent U'oo'Jruff soma tima ao, IVI- BH dent Iluntiagtonfiaij: BM '"I have read tea manifeno, and of HHJ course have heard the matter dis- HHj cused very freely In UutEait, and my HHJ own and tlio general opinion i that BBj " the move mi a good ons. Tne Lit- BBJ . ter-dar Saints, or Mormons as tbey HE ' aro called, always did have ray heart- BBJ iest and nion sincere repeet and sym- HJ pithy. Ialirays did think that tbey HH were the uioi industrious and one of HHJ the best people on the eartit. When I HHJ think of too good they have done in HHJ building up the Western country BHB and brinin over the poorer classes HHJ of people from Europe and other HHJ oonntrie, not bad people, mind you. HHJ but simply poor, where they could HR - materially improve their positions in HH We, the idea occurs to mi that this H government has made a serious mis- HHJ , take in the way it u delt with this HH I people. Sat don't think that I ane- HHE j Hon polygamy, on the contrary, I HHj think it a relic of barbarism, but then HH 'I believe that is ths business of the HHl Hormons and no ono else. Tirtklng HHf &'- of the matter brines to my mind a BBB A S lttle incident which always make mo BBfj JB smile when I think of it.' BB jmi " 'While the Central Pacific was be- BBbV-- " ln5 hnilt. and before tho connection BB"-' " was made at Ogden, t was oat here in BB this country an J khd occasion to vis't 'f Salt Lako City, and of course must BB too the great Itrijham. Dnrln our BB star ono of mv om:unions askd BBfi n,m bow m- ny w v , he l.i T ie BBH bH HBBflBHKk '""-iibjWilmil- --' hbhhHhHHI answer Brighnm gave him made os all lacgh and I have always had a great deal of rospeo: for him since.' " 'I have enough,' said he. 'to keep me from Interfering with other men's wives and daughters.' 'This answer, while not tho first time he had made it, was new to us." The correspondent, who scribbles over the nom tie plume ot "Observer," "Obser-ver," asserts that Mr. Huntington Is an 'ass." This epithet Ij not original, and can hardly be presumed pre-sumed to issue from a high-toned or intellectual tource; neither is it a very forcible argument against .the consistent and truthful opinion entertained en-tertained of the "Mormons" by the gentleman to whom it is applied. As a consequence, and seeing that it comes from a sneak who makes personal attacks over a fictitious name, it causes its user to assume an aspect of unadulterated imbecility. imbe-cility. Passing from the unargumcutaUvc attack of "Obervcr," who is careful, care-ful, like tile usual run of character assassins, to screen b imself from observation, ob-servation, it Is in order to say something some-thing about the editorial comments on the same tuljcct. The editor of the paper referred to introduces a mixtuio which is a curiosity, being a combination of alleged moral ethics and brutal abuse. Tho article is lengthy, but a portion of the closing clos-ing paragraph will give a fair idea of its quality, and it is, therefore here Inserted: 'Wo are glad of it, because it the interview shows that deep down C P. Huntington must have been lose-born and basely bred, and that he has no idea of morals except that class of morals which keeps a business cngaemont. The pitiful thing about it U that he pats himself on record as a man who has no woro respect for women than Brigham Youmr himself had. t There is ono lovely feature about the character otC. P. Iluntingun. When ho comes to die there will be a vast fortune to be distributed, and in tho distribution thero will not bo one tear of regret that the man who amassed the fortune was called upon in ths regular course of nature to die." This attack oa Mr. Huntington's morality !s ostensibly made on the basis or the gentleman having appreciated ap-preciated a remark said to have beeu made by President Young, which only, in a pleasant way, intimated in-timated to his questioners that his domestic concerns were his own business. The real cause of the futy of tho Tribune, however, Is that the distinguished gentleman said a good word for tho "Mormons." The close of the quotation is .indicative ofvindictiveness that ia appalling, reaching close to the point of desiring de-siring Mr. Huntington's death. Gall and spite could scarcely go further. The richest phae of the article, however, licsiu the absurdity of the editor of the paper in quoatioa attacking at-tacking the gentleman on whom be opened his batteries or anybody el?e, on tho ground of morality, seeing that his own plane in that respect could not well be lower than lie himself has acnounced it as being. As evidence of this we have but to quote from an editorial under the caption of "What Utah Wants," which appeared in that paper some time ago. We quote from it: "apropos ef the new axl i.tttjwirre-caUj i.tttjwirre-caUj ataned by the maniapal Forcroroent oa the women cf tbe town, the li?ior2eal' ers aad the Fai&bliog fraternity, oae of the 'enemy' caM to us the other day -It may be a hard ttticjctv say, and perhaps harder UN to maintain, bat I belieTe that billiard balls, saloons and booses of ill fame aro Eaarepotrcrfnlrf forming agencies herein Utah Uian canrehes and schools, or CTen than the Trtttmt. What the young Mormons Mor-mons want is to be free. So loeir as ihey are tlavef. it miUers nut math to what or to whom, they are and they can bo notUir. Tour enureses are as ensuring as toe Monr.onCbcrcli.Toar party is as bigoted and intolerant aa theMormoa partr-at all erenu I refosce Khen X seclheyonng Mormon boodlnms pUyin? billiards, celtlng drunk, raaBtne; with bad women anything to break the shackles they were bom in. and that every totalled religions orvirtnons toflaenee only raskes the stronger. Soae ot themwdl g) qaUe to the bad, of coarse, bat it Is better so, for they are made of poor ett HUnd stneo there is no good reason wy they were be;ran for let them, soon be done tor, ana tbe sooner the better. Most of tbetn, bowerer, will soan weary of vice aad dissipation, and be all the stronger for the knowledge of it and of its vanity, at the rery !eet they will be free, and it Is of ochTltal consequence that a man should be fre, that in my opinion his freedom is cheaply won at th coit of some familiarity Kith low lif e. And while ltisnotdesiraUe in itef, it Is to tne tolerable, became it appears to off er the only inducement strong eswagti to entice mea out of slavery into freedom.'" The foresolns, which was embodied em-bodied Iu an editorial article pur-fwrted pur-fwrted to lie the remarks of a "Liberal" to the editor of the Tribune, and tho comments of the latter upon this horrible, theory of graduation, approved of it, as will be seen by the following quotation: -JfrwiOM if rVsTrsf rnrYisif'osMMJiowf, ad if it ran be Kvn srtfAorif ex ttut so mnr tkebrtlrr. lfittm't9trtrmuitliextni. Kin tke fretA&su It te net yon who are rescKKmbte. whea it camel to -that; it is those that bstc cntUTCd yon. ' The situation assailed by th!s rpc-cies rpc-cies of journalism is elm ply this: The teachings and requirements of the Church aro necessarily strict in relation to the moral conduct of Its members. Tho who are guilty of breathes of morality cannot retain their connection with the organization. organiza-tion. Hence the unparalleled and depraved curriculum for the graduation, gradua-tion, through a process of vice, of the young men of the "Mormon" Church endorsed and approved by the paper of which Mr. Goodwin is the bead. Anl thl3 emerging from the purity cf virtue into the slough of immorality is called freedom! free-dom! Heaven save the youth of the community from such lilerty as that. It is the most degraded and utterly disgusting bondage enslavement enslave-ment to the worst human passions and vices. Only think of a lecture on morality moral-ity proceeding from such a source as an advocate of Rich a damnable theory. After this it may be appropriate appro-priate to expect to find Satan assuming assum-ing the role of a dispenser of Christian Christ-ian truth. |