Show I 1 editorials EDITORIAL editorials YOUR MONEY OR oft YOUR tOUR PLACE bite olce of the contemptible methods to which republican party has re for the tho purpose of keeping peeping 0 its sigrip on the key of the treasury and of er athi las its of nation a 1 l affairs airs is Is a period periodical cal cai levy upon all the the officeholders office holders of the country jevery man holding an official position ji S expected to hand over to the C committee appointed to hold the tho money lihuey bags a certain percentage ion his salay salary to be used in any way halmay ha be deemed necessary to mose tose se curo alia cure party ja success in the electa elections tons lons i when the present administration came into power civil service reform was one of the chief republican 11 cries bries and it was ivas distinctly promised that ono of tho the great groat abr abu es which should be removed was this same tax or blackmail or whatever L avci if it may be called upon the army of officeholders TI how pow ollar far this pledge has been een carried out maybe mayhe seen from the annexed cire cite circular vilai for foi a copy of which wb we are indebted ted fed to the herald erald ff its V i 0 OP THES republican congressional committee 1680 1880 1 1317 F treet perear 2 i I 1 D 0 washington D C s april 1880 r this comm committee itNe is organized mi foche ahe the protection of og thee ther inte interests rests Tests of uhe the republican party pare in eaph each of the wp congressional gressional districts of the tho union n or order der that it may prepare print and circulate suitable documents illustrating the issues which alstin distinguish tha tha the republican party from eye eve e very ry other and may meet all proper expenses incident to the campaign the committee committees feel authorized to apply to all citizens whose interests or principles pies ples are involved in the struggle under the circumstances in which the country finds itself placed the committee believes beu beh eves that thai you win esteem es teem toem it both a privilege and a pleasure ao to make tolt to its fund a contribution aleh which it is hoped iny luy may no note V he jess than the committee is au authorize ith prize to wiz wim stame state that such voluntary contributions from persons employed employs A in the service of the unita united states will riot objected be to in any official quarter r ahe abe labors jabors of this committee wil wll affect tt edt the result af pf the presidential entla iii as we a as thie the congressional struggle 1 and afia it may therefore reasonably hope lippe to have havo the sympathy and assistance si of all who look with dread upon the poss 1 ability of bf the restoration con mon bof of the denlo donlo democratic cratic party to the control of tha government overn ment please make matio prompt and favorable response to this letter by bank check or draft or postal money order payable to the order of geo goo ers dawson treasurer PO P 0 lockbox lock loek box washington da doi by illy order of the committee EDWD CW secy seey ithe the blank blan kafter after the dollar mark document is filled up according cording to the amount of the salary ocl oci the person to whom it is ad dressed dress dres sod pd the sum gum demanded being about two per pen cent of the yearly wages for instance a governor receiving receiving 2600 per annum would have to haild hand over 52 for campaign purposes a district judge with abear baa postmaster f with 2000 salary 10 and and ia so on through ali all la the h 6 various grades prades course se the circular is so worded ai as to convey convoy the idea that the money required is to be a voluntary donation but it takes takesi no gift of interpretation pro pre tation to make it plain that it is a broad hint which no office holder who wha values s his position would feel neel safe in disrel disregarding warding garding the assurance that the administration will not interpose any objection is 14 p proof ropa positive that the premise promise of reform in thiis till particular was iras only made to be broken and to throw dust in the tile eyes eyed of a people dis disgusted gutted by sueh such shameful ua fleeming fleecing flee cing with government shears it is by guch such auch means as these that the thil party in r p proposes to ti tighten ht it its 1 hold nold old oid upon the he chier chief pla fia places t of the tho th nation and bonti continue nue to fatten latten p gun guu official spoils the response 1 se 19 i sure to be a I 1 mighty lighty one ghie chie the money is bound to come code come The amount will wl be eng eno enormous the defeat of the the tho parti party may mayi mean nean a argeneral general change of officials and a failure to furnish famish the eoin coin coin I 1 assure is sure tome to mean ali ati a black marr mark at headquarter against the unresponsive siy sly feeder foeder from the public crib the tho 11 reps may gloss glos the thing over with afek aleth 0 sophistry in which mis the they are adepts but to td tho the public publio mind the shameful airo alro ular says bays ay 1 plainly hand band over so 40 much cash or get ready for the inevitable sack the de mand is your money or your our place jalace rR OGRESS PROGRESS OF THE wor WORK wore LK IN r EUROPE FROM the millennial star we co compile in the following items respecting the continued dro progress 0 ress of the work in in eur europe opa elder N writing fram copenhagen june mb states that during the p previous deviou 1 1 S six months g over six hundred persons pelson shad had been added to the church by 6 baptism apt IS in in scandinavia turing during the previous winter the E elders eiders ideis in stockholm had held hold meetings in strangers houses sold books and pamphlets and baptized persons the priests priests were annoyed some of the brethren had llad been fined and ini imprisoned for preaching but prospects were very good glod i at the london conference held may blay very encouraging accounts were given of the condition of the I 1 branches elder G P F grant had bad baptized four person in ta the kent and essex district and e expected acted to baptize others elder J E bentley dentley had baptized seven with mth prospects of others in the sussex district elder eider W W willey had baptized fourteen in the berks and wilts district open air service were Wn conducted ducted during the ht t tho the east end of london camp meetings are being held in in different parts of the them mission tracts being distributed andl andt andt strangers rangers are are opening their houses in many places place s for the preaching of the gospel i in the swiss and ae german mission though the wow of the elders elden are somei somewhat at restricted honest souls are being found and the progress made is gratifying it is s pleasing to note the zeal of our lour loun dur miss missionaries lenaries lon ion aries arles and it is evident that the lord biord is working with them in their labors of love forthe for the saik salk salvation a of mankind 4 am 0 A STRANGE MIXTURE tim THE congregationalist is is responsible for the annexed little anecdote hm irin a tempera temperance nod ned meeting held heid at madison wis during the recent sessions e of the presbyterian assembly as a boston minister closed his audess address on the subject the president of liberia college africa a full blooded neg negro ra arose and said q t am glad boston is waking up on the tem temperance eranee quest question loii for we have a haritome hard time pime with temperance in africa and most of the rum we wd get comes cornes from boston I 1 that was bomb bombshell in the thi e camp and a blast for boston it is a notorious fact that wherever reyer the nals missionaries sio sion narJes aries of the christian sects penetrate the christian vices spring up almost simultaneously boston sends bibles and liquor to the blacks religion ibn and rum flow together from the hub to the heathen intemperance Js ls a concomitant of commercial christianity and trade is the chief feature in the introduction of modern sectarianism to the uncivilized tho the colored tribes have havo to thank the superior irace brace race for the white mans mars bible bibie and also for aha ithe white mans vices and excesses and crimes crimea I 1 I 1 1 i 1 1 P 1 THE GREAT SIN OF THE AGE i I 1 tim THE washington siar giar star gives particulars tic ulars of the tho appearance in the police court city of two white girls fifteen y years sears of age whose parents had taken them there thero that they might be sent to institution of reform to save them from lives of or shame 1 I th they whey ey ba had d been bogn led aa astray astras tray tras by some gome of the associates of pf the great men who eon con congregate rega te at the capital capitali and there was no place in in the city af of magnificent distance and of 04 monstrous cr erime crime i me where tb they ey could be safely put out of the way of harm they thoy were sent to the house of odthe the tho goad good good shepherd at baltimore and thor thop chopo lice raffled off a gold watch in order t to raise some funds to aid that institution the star says this is a matter of almost daily occurrence at police headquarters the very puritans who raise the periodical furore over utah affairs and desire legislation to mom morals morais Is ot the mormons cormons Mor mons assist in bringing about the con condition of things which the position of those two young girls proclaimed proclaimed in the police court a and which the star bays says is of almost daily occurrence A mormon who would marry and care f for or two or more sand support educate and aud delight in the offspring of those unions would consider himself a scoundrel fit for perdition if lie he led astray a trusting girl and placed her in the path of or sin yet while iniquity like that alluded to by the tar aar star is as common as cant and as widespread as hypocrisy in the great cities of christendom the preachers and editors who witness those evils every day dass tass pass them by as of little moment w while ile lle they howl aloud and point with quivering fin gers at the alleged evils of far off utah and christian conferences and pious assemblies pass resolutions for the suppression of plural marriage while they wink at the deep damnation of their own local crime sand regard wit with h smug ty ry the sexual sins which browand grow and flourish and flaunt themselves like big rank weeds in foul profusion in the negle neglected eted gardens of the society in which they live verily this is not only an evil and adulterous generation but an age of such deep hypocrisy that the archfiend fiust chuckle daily owr onn over oven the harvest he will r reap VAN while the heavens weep at the wickedness of the tho sons of men who ape the role rolp of the servant of the lorland Lor dand claim to be followers of the son of the most nigh high 0 SIGNS OF THE TIMES i THE strange ep epidemic idomie which on june the lath suddenly attacked the people of north adams massachusetts has given rise to many speculations out of a population of six thousand about one thousand persons I 1 were they were seized with dizziness and nausea followed by y violent vomiting and purging and in some cases delirium supervened the malady seems to have been confined to td a strip 11 of 0 f country about three nl miles lios ilos wide vide but several I 1 I 1 miles alies an in length and the number affected outside and inside of the town amounted to about fifteen hun dred it was wa s not fatai fatal but extremely y exhausting reaching teaching its climax in in about twenty four hours the cause was at dofice once onee attributed to the water supply and prominent journals have made the occurrence the subject for long leaders on the necessity of pure water and the noxious effects of drinking from springs into which deew matter has percolated through the soil soll but investigation shows shown that hile alle while quite a number of persons who used t the e water said sald to be tainted escaped the malady others who did not use it were vore attacked from this it would seem that the disturbance might be attributable to atmos atmospheric 11 ae either hither than aqueous causes but ut that is only an 0 opinion and the affair is surrounded with mystery we ought not to be surprised jre ire d at new and previously unheard of diseases sweeping through the landor land landon or affecting certain local localities after the predictions con eon concertin concerning cernin these thebe things which have been atte uttered by the pro prophets ouk P ets eta of old a and nd revealed anew in in own times the prophet joseph smith and our late president brigham young have frequently referred to them and within the past year president john taylor has also in forcible language warned the people of just such events to come the north adams epidemic Is but a very small affair in comparison vi th calamities that are impending the tile tribulations and judgments of the latter days about which our elders have testified throughout the civilized world are close at hand they will no doubt be accounted f cpr ar by scientists and others who do not acknowledge r th the 0 hand of the lord in a manner satisfactory to themselves and may be traceable to what are called natural causes but the tho they will be sorrowful facts all the thi same and a literal fulfillment fulfilment of pro piley and divine warning all that has been written and spoken under the influence of the spirit of revelation concerning the tribulations of the latter times is abou about t to receive its ita fulfillment fulfilment and among them thern are I diseases which w will wili jil ill baffle the tho skill of the wisest physicians jt t is declared that judgment will commence jat at the house of god so that the righteous will II 11 scarcely marcely Wa reely escape therefore the saints need not think that the danger w will 11 not come nigh unto them but put by a faithful course living in by every word that edeth from the mouth of god keeping peeping kelp kelv plug ping their covenants sacred and regarding in 0 the laws davs ai and 44 words of wisdom lo 10 to them they will stand in a holy places and be not moved and the ther destroyer will pass by them 09 as 09 the angel that slew slow the first born of egypt and touched not the households where the blood was sprinkled on the lintel posts and while the power that labeth waste stalk through the land and the convulsions of nature daturo and society and human spread cism dismay ay and terror terro ithe the wise understand and discerning oud and acknowledging the hand of the lord fiord in all things they av will wili ill lil behold hebold the ful fui fulfillment fulfilment filin ait elt af pf his word and be prepared for the coming of earths rightful king the tile redemption of israel and the great consummation nybo aho is so blind that he canno cannot t discern the signs of the times J s WHAT THEY SAY SAX ofus OF VS I 1 tim THE following rae 1 is clipped from the covington indiana journal and serves to show the feeling feelings entertained by thou thousands aa of to touristy u ris L ta after spending p e ding dang a short time in 14 tho the midst of the tho maligned and misrepresented people of this th is territory biery every visitor favorably impressed helps to correct the publia mind and the we result cannot but be helpful to our cauger causer 1 00 thinking my friends would aou ld like to th know what I 1 think of salt sait lake city and the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 offen offer the the following my trip across the great west and visit to was in in every way Inte interesting my 13 days stay anion anlon among g that wonderful people with good advantage far becoming acquainted with them and their ways has given mpa men mea high and sincere respect for them ang aug ani am convinced tha chath A wy ayar 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