Show Preachers in California Advertise and Help the Mormon Missionaries It is an old saying that if you give a calf too much rope he will hang If you desire to beat a fanatic just give him plenty of rope and then watch him wind himself That is just what some Mormon did to the preachers in Eureka According to the California two Mormon missionaries appeared in that town and began to pass out the of and other Mormon they also sold a few copies of the of and Key of and the of Great Business wasn't real the people did not enthuse and become The farmer Mormon missionaries were their they wanted to advertised so that more people would listen to They called upon a rant cankerous preacher and told him what they were That preacher ravel and boiled said no Mormons could come into Eureka and induce or steal all the good looking girls and take them to Utah to become plural so there The preacher put on his hat and ran down the street as excited and as rapidly as a dog with a dish pan tied to his lie tried to imitate Paul without the horse He shouted to that the followers of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young are we must lock up all our women and drive those two horrid Mormons outside of the confines of Humboldt He enlisted the services of the other-preachers in employed a socialist renegade sent to the Salt Lake Ministerial Association for some Devil Fish literature and a bundle of the Salt Lake called an indignation It was the best advertising that the Mormons could The young Mormon farmers gave the preachers plenty of rope and then had the pleasure of watching those long-haired servants of God wind themselves Two more Mormon missionaries came on to see the fun and help tie rope when the preachers were i well The preachers put a of red hot rot in the Humboldt The Mormons answered it and showed up the preachers falsehoods in the Eureka Herald and the Humboldt The preachers became so abusive and while the Mormons remained quiet and that many of the people sided in with the dog in the The Eureka people and the Eureka papers were After listening to the preachers' side of the story they gave the Mormons an Here was an opportunity and just what the Mormons The preachers had advertised them so well that the people came out to hear The preachers were excited and ugly and they told ridiculous falsehoods about Utah and the The Mormons were cool and good natured and showed the preachers to be deceiving fanatics by using for their-authority California's reliable and much beloved H. If the preachers keep up the fight much longer the Mormons will make converts enough in Eureka to build and fill a President Joseph R Smith if he desires to and efficient help for the Mormon cause should send those Eureka preachers his autograph and box of Startup's bon |