Show ANNA amna DICKIN dickinsons SONS ANTI TIRADE miss ANNA Di DICKINSON dickinson crINsoN the popular who passed through 0 salt lake city some few weeks since sinco en route to california delivered a lecture or I 1 lay sermon on ori the mormons cormons in the opera house sali sari francisco last sunday night week and said as many disagreeable things as she could in a speech two hours long about the people of utah her lecture has furnished ca capital tai tal to me our amiable temporary co the san francisco chronicle and other papers in I 1 that city which have been rendered conspicuous by their strong anti mor mon proclivities had the address sermon or tirade of the fair been a personal attack nae mae merely rely gallantry would have forbidden I 1 our replying to it but as it was an at tac kupon upon the entire people of utah we aa as a public journalist represent representing in 9 that people feel bound to make so some me le reference deference ie ferenee ference to it miss anna dickinson tells the old stories about salt lake with its licentious bious looking men women of sorrowful countenance and sickly children bearing upon their juvenile faces the unmistakable impress of mens most brutal passions bhe she also tells of her visit to the theatre and to one mordou dwelling about the former form er she makes wilful misrepresentations they would have been lies in a gentleman and in regard to the latter does what no woman possessing really refined and an ladylike lady 10 like ilke instincts ever would have done n namely a I 1 e ly reveals to the world a confidential conversation which she says she had with the mistress of the house anna tells what a beautiful city salt liske lake city is ls and says gays that within its borders quiet and order reign both day and night and neither drinking gambling noise nor riot can ean be found there and while with one breath she delivers this panegyric upon the metropolis of the next she denounces it as a modem modern sodom bodom a plague spot and as a foul blot on natures face and anti declares that after seeing the fearful evils existing here she has found something some iome thing to live for fori if the last statement be bb true anna is under finder great obligations to the people of utah for we certainly have never been veen able to see what any woman has to live for who like anna repudiates I 1 marriage and deprives hersel herself forthe of ahe fhe pys joys and responsibilities of wife and mother and thus thug shirk some odthe of the most important of cfall all ail the duties devolving upon her sex anna is virtuously indignant at di ds as ministers senators and congressmen who having visited this city during the summer and having baving seen so much to commend and praise have had bad honesty bhough enough to says say so 0 she thinks they ought to be as loud I 1 in n their denunciations of the mormons Mormon Mor mons sli sll asslie assile as she bhe is and abd because they have not beeh been so she says they were hum bugged elegant word for a lady by mormon civilities and for fod allowing themselves to be so they come in for a good share of this ladys powers of invective vec tive when ghen miss dickinson was hero here in salt bait ladd City she visit edour sanctum and without any apparent earott made herself agreeable an and pleasant in fact her manner mannen leauner seemed so hearty and cor dial and she expressed such admira tion she saw here that we were half balf inclined to think sho oho wasi was free freb from animus to towards wards the mormons cormons Mor mons but if she felt as indignant at what saw as she has expressed herself in san ban francisco she must be a fearful dissimulator but there is some secret reason for annais annas tirade against the of utah the thee grief and indignation which B sho she e says her righteous soul experienced perien perlen ced eed at the sights she beheld here are all a sham these may be the ostensible but we think we can give the true reason A short time ago we were shown a letter from a gentleman in the east to a sojourner here in which it was stated that an anti mormon clique back there had organized a crusade against utah and ats its its people part of which was public lectures through tha thel countr country yi and that anna had been chosen as one of the spotters spout ers 11 we presume that this santi sanit Francisco franeisco h harangue ar is the opening part of her role in the pro gramme we think we can assign another reason the clue of which is rather unwittingly tin ay furnished by our usually astute the chronicle miss D has been in san ban francisco for several weeks and some of her lectures leb leu tures have not been very remunerative the night previous nermon to the delivery of the lay sermon on the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 she gave a lecture in platts hall at which judging from the account published the audience was not very large anna had not struck the right chord but a bright rig t and antt happy inspiration presented itself itse f and ap and d she resolved to try the mormon question this proved lucrative for the house says the chronicle was worth addressing when compared to that in platts hall the ital acs are ours our sand and areu are used in a strictly commer commercial dial sense but we have no doubt the lectures will endorse them we know of only one cause for real chagrin to miss D while here herel and that we admit was very annoying to one of her turn of mind and it is not to be expected that she will forget it she talks about visitors to salt lake city being bein 9 humbugged humbugger hum bugged by mormon civilities we dont believe it they may have been we we shall not discuss the point but we do know that during annas annals stay here she desired to deliver a lecture electure or two but they to whom she broaca broached hed the subject did not seem at all favorable to the project in fact they did not see the necessity or propriety of the people of salt lake city paying several hundred dollars to be humbugged humbugger hum bugged by anna that was annoying under the circumstances seeing that she at considerable cost had come fifteen or eighteen hundred miles traveling expenses were a desideratum at such a time but enough on this subject we have already devoted moie mole more time and attention talt to it than it deserves the attacks springing from the petty malevolence of anna and the clique by which she has been hired cannot harm the people of utah or the cause they are laboring to promote and though the hope of gain and popularity may induce male and female demagogues and adventurers to utter byln lying inflammatory harangues against the mormons cormons Mor mons and mormonism they will never gain honor by the operation and long after the last of all such tools for the performance of dirty work have sunk into well merited contempt and oblivion mormonism ly will be honored and revered and accepted as a system of eternal truth by the righteous in all 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