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Show A RELIUIOUs "CHEAf JOHN.'1 Wi. JIA i. had occasion to notice, once or twice, a religious mountebank mounte-bank who is making a begging tour in the interest, partly of the Ogdeii Methodist University and largely of Rev. (?) Sam Small its nominal president himself. While In Xcnr York he was interviewed by a .Vaif and Jirpret reporter, ani according to that paper dtlivered himself of a stream of falsehood aud vituperation which, on the Savior's rule, denote a heart in a mot depraved condition. condi-tion. lie appears to be desperately savage sav-age over the Declaration of President Presi-dent Woodruff, and its acceptance by the Church, which he calls tricks of word jugglery" and "a political dodge," and says "The Desehet I.eMo Xrws.the olllclal organ of tbe Cnurch.commeut-ing Cnurch.commeut-ing on tbe proclamation, says it is simply issaod to tst tbe good faith of tbe mencans who have al 1 thai a recognition of the laws of Congress ras all that woull bo required of the Mormon authorities ' Tor this free ad ertUeiitnt, even from so di-repu table a Booree,It mjy lie thought we should be tliauhful. But wo do not appreciate anything any-thing of the kinJ tint is based un falsehood. This paper has not saldanjthing of the sort. Small is up to his old tricks which arc in keeping with his name. Following are a few choice extracts ex-tracts from Small's utt-ranccs through tho JfaiJ aud Erpre, a fitting channel for thelrexpreeslon: "Only the devil and the pilosis trnl v know the wiilo sprmd extent of the nolycamous inongreusm extant in tho Territory.,' "Any one who will read that scan dalous and rebellious sheet the Dns-Encr Dns-Encr News will soon discover mat the Mormons are more rebellions in spirit than iho Anarchists of Chicago, rhey only lack the cou race and niun-iwra niun-iwra to rise in opsn warfare an I mike new rebellion. Itut they hate the Governmen: with all their strength." Th'iy look upon the lfethndis s, Presbyterians, UafiUstl and all other lenimmatioas as interlopers and political po-litical enemies. They accuse us of ting tho Instigators of tho persecutions persecu-tions wbch they lore to mouth over, indlosonaoppirtnrity to denounce is as spies and godless bigots. Whilo boy thus heap upon us all tbe vilo epithets at their command, and threat-.n threat-.n with boycott and bludzeon our missionaries, they are for ever harp-inff harp-inff upon their own saictliness and snlfcntigs. Their inconsistencies are only paralleled by their infamies." "Itecanse their system involve) tho crimes of polygamy, bastard v, indi riminate hano'ry, destruction of narital relations, mongrclization of !oineIc life and their nameless foins f pollution, wo submit that these Jilngs cannot ba recognized as wor-hip wor-hip of God and entitled to legal sane-ion sane-ion and constitutional p-otocdon " After this and more of the same sort or slander, Small goes on to tell what progress Methodism is making in Ogden, and hera ho gets iu his fine work to draw in the dollars. dol-lars. "The prospective endowment" of the University is the great desideratum de-sideratum and that is to give the decUive stroke agiimt 'Mormon-ism 'Mormon-ism " Then nothing will be need, ej, he says, but thi. ' We need the enlarsemsnt of the luthontyofthoUtah Commission to sift tho loyal sutTratins from the polygamous and perjured Mo-mon masTuers, tho deo!ving upon the governor of tho Territory of the power n appoint tho subordinate Territorial m iais, the imposition of tho Idaho r a similar test oath, the perpetual disfranchisement of every Mormon who does not under oaUi recognii9 the lairs of Couirrossand repudia-o M ai-I'llmee ai-I'llmee to the revelation of pobj gamy and tho popish sun.uinacy of the priesthood in secular affairs. Tno-e acts are needed, are warrant! Iirm. system of go eminent, and are demanded de-manded in justice to tbelyal people f Utah. Wo have b-en trv-iog trv-iog to get these measures cii- s-ed for some time, but tbe Mormon lobby and their lunch houv. ia Washington City, with its stores of casbfChampagne and corruption have thusfarthnaned us. We do hope, at the next session, to gst such a representation repre-sentation of tho truth as It is in Utah Oefore Congress and the country, as will force these necessary safeguards of decent republican govcrnmennt into the statutes." Small pretenls to be terrlb'y angry an-gry over "Mormon" infljcnce iu political matters. But Methodist influence in politics is all right, of course. "ITe need" this, that and the other. "He have been trying to get these msasurcs enacted." ITe hope at tho next session," etc This Is ery modest from a religious iventurer, who is unable to establish estab-lish a legitimate standing cither in the Methodist or any other denomination, denomi-nation, and whose residence ia Utah is so recent that he is not yet a legal voter. Small kmrars nothing, noth-ing, personally, either of the Territory Terri-tory or IU people. Of "Mormonlsm" he is ss profoundly Ignorant as the ground on which tho university that is to find him a living is to be crecttd. lie could not, to save bis soul from the perdition that awaits them who love and make a Ile, giro au Intelligent answer to tbe question, ques-tion, "What is Mormonlsm?"- Small exhibits neither tbe characteristics char-acteristics of a Christian nor the instincts of a gentleman. He talks like a coarse blackguard, totally regardless re-gardless of truth, in an Inordinate craiug after money ani notoriety. We would have treated his mi utli-iugs utli-iugs with the silence of utter contempt, con-tempt, but for the fact that they have been copied into other papers fiotn the Xcw York sheet which is a iiltiug receptacle forsuch Tlleness. Hia ravings aro not modified by a sellable ot truth and are what might be expected of such an itinerant itin-erant religious 'Cheap John" as the Itev. (?) foaui Small. |