Show JENSEN Another Tribune Libeler Brought to Task For His Falsehoods J i A certain hirling of Thomas owner of the who dubs himself Will B. Mohr and other has been writing typical Tribune anti-Mormon A. P. A. Nephi a citizen of Salt answers it in the following timely Will B. great with which you pronounce maledictions upon the heads of the Mormon in your Tribune article of the of August and the convincing evidence you give of your to fagots and thumbscrews be a matter of to a soul so as enquiring minds may ask just at what time did the mortal who has annexed the name B. who slanders the defends barbarism and justifies murder in the name of a loyal patriotic citizen 1 What event marks from the infamy of advocating defense of law righteous living obedience to the laws of the Just when did and dragged Garrison through the streets of Boston and murdered Lovejoy come under the there is more than one event upon base claim to loyalty and judging from your your chief claim to and consists in the fact that you contend that the the noose and the assassins bullet are legitimate arguments in a theological say is plainly shown that the saints were so patriotic that it was impossible for them to live peaceably in the state of Missouri and It is also t that Wit Mam Lloyd J that he could not live ably m It is j plainly shown E p Lovejoy was so that a mob murdered him on the streets hr of I apprehend d' that if you had been io Boston on 4 the of you would have led the mob that drag- ged Garrison through the t And as you and your infuriated j comrades rushed madly down tie 1 I imagine that you would have been Hang him He teaches doctrines that are eon- to our And if vou had been in the day the great spirit of Lovejoy left the I doubt not that you would have been in the mob which fired the bullets that ed this brave-hearted abolitionist He who defends the bloody deeds iff cl of is as bad as the wretch who ties the noose by authority of lynch you as yon that the Mormons deserved to be driven from Missouri and lib- nois and that the drove them were and pat you class yourself rith those who burned at tie And yet you arrogate your- self the right to teach the Mor- mons and patriotism and motes and Has it come to this tha we have to be taught d by one who men in crushing the breath on those who breathe a prayer J ferent from that of their si The heartless tyrant and compels on a throne crawl and lick the dust fro ol K feet is no more deserving d cration than the man who t that it is right and proper burn ho j murder men and om the they do not prefer psalms and sing the same that their neighbors W elders can H bad people athen states' from which I imagine that and iT they could what bad people in Boston and in AI-Ju about Does peculiar patriotism take i B-es the Boston mob of 3 Alton mob of as well is Carthage mob of lichen you talk about you make it perfectly clear fabrications are intended Bat your for those who know nothing the Mormons except what have heard from hide IlifE and You say that The Deseret News seems to wail days of the If actually existed of the rabid imaginations bigots like B. and as you saw went forth a to the darkness and and as the News cause of alleged misdeeds lithe then the Deseret certainly better than you i r-ause cL- not because f the and Illinois rat insinuate that those J law and order were and patriotic American we to understand that interference with those who differ from you in matters religious is an evidence of and in Illinois and in Utah as evidence of rebellion and Or is it he manner in which a man worships determines whether one should ba burned at the stake 1 give sufficient evidence of he malice which fills the space in four anatomy where your heart fight to be by wickedly imputing tte blame for the gruesome deeds J John D. to all the mem- of the church of which he hap fWd to be a AVas it lor and that tempted you to utter the libel that Bishop Lee led band of blood thirsty elders la the church Or were imitating The w went to D. a uttered the deliberate Senator Reed Smoot was a about what arG fhe I You have not seen a man F 0 tas heard of a man who can produce any evidence connecting the Mormon church in the most distant way with awful tragedy of Mountain I challenge you to name a decent Mormon of intelligence and standing who has in your presence or in the presence of any living man condoned the crimes of John D. don't you quote what H. H. the says of the Mountain Meadow massacre on page in his history of I will quote it for it may as well be understood at the that this horrible so often and so persistently charged upon the Mormon church and its was a crime of an the crime of a fanatic of the worst one who was a member of the Mormon but of whose intentions the church knew and whose bloody acts the members of the high and regard with as much abhor-ance as any out of the This has been abundantly and may be accepted as a historical elders say the unfortunate victims of the Mountain Meadow massacre their Produce the name of one who that the Arkansas emigrants their fate or you stand convicted of being a libeler so that only words that hiss like smoke man's detestation can express a decent for how Brigham you war against the United Why didn't you also say how the federal government appointed officials who Lelich-like went to Washington and committed the deliberate perjury that the Mormons had destroyed the public records and thus brought on what statesmen have called provoking Brigham Young measures in self to adopt drastic Brigham Young did not the United against war States' but against those who trampled in the mire the most cherished principles for which the Constitution flag over our The men who were responsible for bringing on of were like the certain states who broke the Constitution of the United States once and the Constitution of his own state seventeen times and then wept because there were no more Constitutions to Of according to your the mere breaking of the constitution a dozen if it is done in the attempt to compel others to believe and worship as you is a you say about the reminds me that it is written of the of heart the mouth And thou are whosoever thou art that for wherein thou thou for thou doest the same Your pastor can tell you where both these passages of Scripture can be close your diatribe by complaining about Brigham Young's statue standing at the head of Main street and make its bronze lips to am the of blood To me the statue seems to am the of thrift and and the builder of a great common wealth composed of a a people whose creed every man mind Iris own Lake |