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Show MORE CRANKS COMING. And now comes tho glad tidings that another band of religious cranks is c ming to Utah to "convert" us. Sur-fc'ted Sur-fc'ted as wo have been with the an-tl an-tl s of tho "Holy Jumpers," the rant-iir;s rant-iir;s of tho Itinerant spouters who h -vo held alleged gospel meetings a' ng tho pavements and warned us tl at the Lord of Heaven and Earth w is going to appear In Ills wrath rl -slit away, wo thought perhaps "The Toly Ghost and Us" follows and the bilanco would lot us alone. But it Is n t to bo. Walter and Henry, Mary and Benjamin, who claim to be the "rngels" of Revelations who are to open the seventh seal, aro bound for. Salt Lake In a prairie schooner, and when they get here they aro going to open fire. Their motto Is "Live For-over" For-over" and their mission on cartli Is to gather tho ton lost tribes of Israel and cause them to congregate at Benton Harbor, Michigan, tho slto of the Now Jerusalem on earth. Tho nilllen'.um Is to bo established, called up or what not, and wo are to havo a high old time hero on earth. What havo we done that wo should bo treated so? Why should those peo-plo peo-plo cross four thickly populated states, whore more of tho ten lost tribes may bo presumed lo reside than hero. In order to get a whnck at us fow? Can't they lot us alone? It seems as If every new freak religion that starts up wants to establish Itself hero In Utah. It is a wonder that this bald old grafter, Dowio, and his mob of earthly angels, hasn't come long ero this. Ho threatened us once, but hasn't, carried out his pioniise. But every long-hniretl crank of a man and overy short-hnlrcd crank of a woman with a "Divine Mission," who could g8t here, has come nnd some of them art wilh us yet. Dancing dervishes, shouting, screeching women, innno old men, blatant young men, noisy cranks of all sorts havo wheoped It up for years and havo been coming and going day by day. How long, oh how long must wo stand it? 13 llioio no balm In Gilead; is there no physician with n club to stand at tho portals and nice there new language destroyers? |
