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Show Tct every VOL. III. NO. and have lys oivq $lan o--u Jr every Ionian have I(cr own Qu&band. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY, 1882. r 1 (or, 7 : 2. PRICE 10 CENTS. He cate sensibilities of those whose vision already smouldering in this nation, buy them from the Gentiles. and everybody will be scorched to a thereby sought to leave the impression would fain rest only on what is bright So far as numbers and oneness are crisp. that if they bought their goods in the and beautiful in life, and who would adwhich Conference concerned, the But the Mormons will be all cool and East they would be buying from Mor- close both eyes and heart to the wrongs of be on set the 9th Othercomfortable in the midst of these fires, mons and not from Gentiles! April may inflicted by this loathsome object called journed down as an ecclesiastical success. Had say the priestly orators. They are the wise there was no point in his illustracelestial marriage. it not been for the three days storm, most innocent and patri- tion. One who had lived in the pure and which began with the very first day of otic people on earth. They have the Another mind strike to 3. thing lappy relations of celestial marriis the that the Conference, more virtue to the square mile, fewer of any intelligent Americans was the age said upon her death bed, after probability attendance would have been larger than faults and imperfections to the square poorly disguised hostility of the priest- the existence I have had, the torments As it was, rod than any other people. To be sure, hood to the American government. was ever before known. of the infernal regions will be a welthe 12,000 seats in the Tabernacle they have become somewhat tainted Under all the declamation about come rest. were filled at some of the meetings. Another has said, if a ship load of by associating with Christians, say the their pretended love for the Govern If one were disposed to adopt Mor- Conference orators, but that is. only ment (which a true American considers Dens were worn out in writing of the mon logic in similar cases, he might temporary. On the whole, for are their and crimes admiration of polygamy, it wouldnt make unnecessary) they in the argue that the Lord has no sympathy with the and a their Constitution, way up comparison pretended preface to the book. whatever with Mormonism, otherwise publicans whose humble and earnest purpose to be was the But if our photograph repels, will it he would not have allowed so disagree- prayer is: d God be merciful to us clenching of the fist, not also excite your pity for these able and persistent a storm to harass sinners. So much for their and shutting of the teeth, and the imand persecuted victims of mans the Saints for three days, and threat still that would Dasest pracplied they passions? Will it not awaken comof from others thousands But their is equally great. tice polygamy, and yield obedience to a chord of sympathy for the poor down prevent to Stake this center to While gather ing up :rodden wretches, who, being pressed by their own admission they no laws which they considered in their annual supply of wisdom from have no that was true American received into a dishonorable slavery patiently intelligence Every But no from the Melchisedec priesthood. of would institution of for or more have learning, any respect open endure all its horrors for the sake of one sees the absurdity of such reason- science, either religious, political, so- and avowed enemies of the Governhe little, helpless beings whom they Mormon or a than editor or ing quicker cial, scientific, (See opening of ment than for such friends as these lave brought forth in anguish and apostle when it is brought home to his Taylors address,) yet they are supe- priestly leaders .left the impression despair and cradled in unutterable woe. own denomination. rior in education to all the rest of the that they are. The subject of the .picture was the But the main object of this article is country. They say they are preFinally, an intelligent American second wife of a man, brutal nature, to consider the impressions which a pared to compare notes with them (the would have been struck by the cunning and made ten fold more soby by polypatriotic American, in hearty sympathy American people) on education and dishonest way in which the enforce- gamy. It was- his custom to while with the historic social, educational, also on virtue, honesty and morals, any ment of the laws was represented to the away his leisure hours in taking each civil and religious institutions of his way they can fix it. The enormous Mormon people as persecution. wife, by turn and teaching her the duties receive would of by naturally While every one of the speakers of a good Mormon wife, generally acthese priestly leaders country, attending the meetings of this Confer- seems to blind their eyes to the ludic- knew full well that nothing is required companying his lessons by gentle disence. Such an one could not fail to be rous absurdity of their assuming to of the Mormons which is not required a stick of stove ciple with the struck with the following conspicuous instruct American statesmen in regard of every religious denomination, and wood or an oxpoker, which ever hapgad, to civil liberty, Christian theologians that nothing is granted to other relig- pened to be most convenient. It was peculiarities: and in regard to the Christian religion, and ious denominations which is not gran- this The enormous i. poor creatures turn to be the object of the speakers. the Supreme Court of the United States ted to the Mormons, nearly every of his ministrations, and as she was not If the notorious Pharisee who, once in regard to Constitutional law. These speaker tried to make the people be- as submissive as the honored wife of a upon a time, went up to the Temple at absurd things were done by nearly every lieve that the Government is trying to holy Latter-da- y Saint should be, he Jerusalem to impress upon the Lord Conference speaker. rob them of some right or privilege proceeded to take another method of the vastness of his superiority in good2. Another thing calculated to ar- granted to other religious organizations. subduing her wicked and rebellious ness over allother men by thanking the It was very difficult for an American to spirit. Her baby had been ailing for Lord that he was not as other men are, rest the attention of any intelligent listen to these speeches from the Morf months, its little life hanging almost if this Pharisee were American, was the low opinion enter- mon (Luke 18:11-12priesthood and persuade himseP by a thread, and as it grew more and now on earth his occupation would be tained by the leaders of the intelligence that he was actually in America. The more feeble, she clung to it all the the Mormon people . of combe He so would gone. entirely corner stone of the American Republic closer, afraid to let it away from her It is safe to say that these priestly is separation between Church pletely laid in the shade by the towerand sight, or out of her motherly arms, ol the Mormon orators would not have the audacity to State. And ing of here men set was a fearful lest some harm might befall it. yet priesthood that he would naturally present to any audience in America, talking in a most bitter and threaten- Sorrow and neglect, and brutal treatresign his position as the worlds lead- outside of Utah, such crude, illogical, ing way because they are not left free ment had made her so suspicious, that of self righteous- stale and tedious harangues as were in- to set ing trumpet-blowe- r an she refused to allow him government up opposition persistently ness, and be ready to accept the hum- flicted day after day upon the suffering here in the heart of the country in to give it some medicine he had pre- ble position of wood-hewand water people who attended Conference. The which all be exeris to political power pared. To punish her for her contucarrier under President Taylor and his speaking was kept up during four days, cised by a priesthood hostile to free macy, he dragged her out of the house fellow trumpet blowers. and it would be difficult in all that time in the early morning, half clad, and The priestly orators of the recent to point to a single fresh suggestion or government. R. G. M. chained her to the tree, as shown in Conference were not only ready to interesting remark. Nothing but the the photograph, and laying the child thank the Lord that they and their dis- same weary, thread-bar- e generalities, where she could see its little helpless, Photographs of Polygamy Tnku from ciples are not as other men, but so about the ungodly Gentiles and the writhing form, and hear its plaintive ature. greatly superior in virtue to all other virtuous Saints; the same stale repetimoan, without being able to touch it, people that it appears a mystery to tions about the troubles in Missouri he stood guard over her with his axe, BY UTAH ARTISTS. them how the Lord can permit any and Illinois that have been warmed swearing to annihilate any one who Saints to dwell on the over, after the manner of boardingbut Latter-day- . dared interfere with the prerogatives No. 2. But President Taylor house hash, for some sixty different earth at all. of a holy Latter-daSaint. Some comwoman d A poor miserable comforted his hearers with the assur- Conferences; and the same great swellneighbors went to the bisance that the Saints would not be ing words about the cause rolling chained fast to a tree on the road side, passionate the of settlement and entreated hop troubled by the existence of other forth in these valleys of the moun- bound with a heavy ox chain, her fea- him his use to authority, but that pious nations on the earth much longer; tains. There isnt an audience in tures distorted, and swollen almost bea representative on earth that the Lord, to use the Presidents own America, outside of Utah, that could yond recognition from violent weeping, functionary, of the tender and loving Jesus, simply language is already on his way as the be held together fifteen minutes by a little, puny, wailing baby, lying on said, Let the woman obey her husPresident such a heavy, blundering, disjointed,, the ground just out of the reach of he:1 destroyer of the Gentiles. band, when she is sufficiently subdued, Taylor seems to know just where the prosy and pointless way of speaking, imploring arms, a rough, low browee he will release her. machinery is that is to destroy the as was inflicted upon the Conference brute in the shape of a man standing Do not turn the photograph to the Germans, the Spanish the Italians and audiences. The speakers seemed to near the tree brandishing an axe is wall or banish it to some dark lumber the English, and leaves the im- have no respect for the intelligence of not this scene a fit subject, think you, room where it will never see day light that he and the rest the people. Take the following as an for the tragic painters art? pression full it in view as a up Are you repelled, dear reader, by the again, hang of the priesthood will be sadly illustration: One of the apostles was companion to the picture of a wife disappointed if these nations are trying to persuade the Mormons to gloomy and forbidding aspects of these out of the way. not all wiped out before the next Con- quit trading with Gentiles. He said it pictures from Nature, and would have ference. These priestly orators also was not necessary though they might us reproduce some that are of brighter You can just as well, said hues? Alas, that would not be possiintimate that if the American nation think so. City subscribers will oblige us by have your own, ble, and you must remember that in does not listen to their teachings, and he in substance, leaving their subscription at the Tridoes not stop trying to enforce its laws agents and buy your agricultural im- whatever else the artist may fail, he is bune Office, or sending it to P. 0. box in Utah, the Lord will set free the in- plements and your wagons directly not worthy the name who is not true ternal fires of revolution which are from manufacturers in the East as to! to Nature, even if he offend the deli 385- Kecent Mormon Conference. Th law-abidin- g law-abidin- g, poorly-disguise- de-ud- self-righteousne-ss. self-conce- it - self-conce- it self-conce-it self-righteousn- ess ), self-righteousne- ss er y half-cla- ed |