| Show ON A FORAGING rora rOEA GINO expedition A person by tho the name of hilton he a signs I 1 agn shim self selo B hilton isla is in the esst east for tha the now common purpose of raising money from the pious and benevolent to aid in n the cause of christianizing utah he belongs to the methodist feather of the sectarian wing of the utah he is not gene rally known in the territory but what reputation he has comes from his hypocrisy visiting several of the settlements in the south by his plausible professions of liberal sentiment toward the 9 mormon people and denunciation of the courbe courtie taken against them by preachers preach ers era and politicians he ingratiated lim him self into the favorable notice of leading men and congregations of the cormons mormons Mor mons immediately aft erat a gathering of ills his kind in ogden he assisted ia the preparation of a sennes series of resolutions concocted for far shameful effect in which his former pretensions were shown to be false and hypocritical and uttered for the purpose of deceia deceiving V the people whose hospitality he shared and whose meeting house houses s he was permitted to occupy for to religious us addresses ild iid he B next appealed appeared in connection with a magazine published in this city in its inception the bime same method of ingratiating himself with the people whom be he intended to attack was adopted this magazine wab was tobe to be devoted to certain defined topics leaving it to be understood that it was not to be a sectarian or anti ant ai mormon aclair the tile first num ber or two followed the line of these hypocritical pretensions but the mask was soon thrown off and anti the venom and malice of the reverend were exhibited editorially as they hwd been previously in the resolutions referred to As a specimen of the piety of this person who now as a philanthropist anxious to reform the he benighted of utah and gather as many dollars ag as possible foe poe bible sible from the unsophisticated in the east we will make a few extracts from an article in his maga zine which appears mrs over his own signature etis bia name is published in front and in the rear as tho the editor and in numerous places in the magazine cheap puffs of his eminent 2 abilities but he is not content with these exhibitions of his vanity grev arev rev 33 hilton MA M A seeming to have delightful attractions for him when et tt anding in print he bays says at a prayer meeting hi in one of our churches some asked the lord luord to restrain their emotions lest they become too joyful over the passage of the edmunds bill now we re gard this as blessed bosh we more than suspect that there is much halo and humbug about this bill we demand that polygamy be stamped out by the iron heel beel of a rigid law jaw the leaders the great apost apostles les ies of the flesh should bo be tried condemned fined and incarcerated in the penitentiary and there put at hard labor now nature and common sense protest against polygamy and proe pronounce CO it a crime does dees some religious fanatic teach and practice it that fanatic must be punished does the book of mormon command it 14 the command must be ignored does joea the bible sanction it so much ohp th wone for the bible 1 religious fanatics who practice the greatest crimes for jesus bake sake cannot be reformed by telling the thea them I 1 M it Is naughty 1 they must bce coerced s it is but a few years ago t that methodists were considered ire religious fanatics and coercion wu w advocated in their case rubus sentiment has become more liberal libera and their vagaries are treated with toleration but they in turn become the tho persecutors and so it Is with I 1 nearly all the religious sects nov now novi i established which were once looked upon as bands of religious natIce fanatics fa to bo be repressed rep resEed by law instead of convinced by reason i has great grf at ideas of hb own learning as well as import ance he writes with a we we igns igna t his full name and a great deal of the tho ignorance of the mormons cormons Mor mons applying the glame bamo term to senator edmunds whose bill notorious for its severity and harshness is not murderous enough to suit the aple apie appetite for cMor mormon mony blood of this thi bombastic and pretentious aepli cant for the dollars of the public and here Is a of hl and here Is a of hl specimen hb hii he arning laming the bill although framed by lawyers still legal gentlemen do not abrea ea in the interpretations of V it I 1 if f any juvenile in a composition class among the ignorant amor mor monal mons should untie such a benten sentence ct as that evolved from the mighty brain of the revised theopila Theo pika piha B ab hilton H ilton liton A M editor preacher freacher prea frea chei chel an and d peripatetic collector coll coil ector octor of dollan douan an and d dimes he would deserve censure sunn sufficient lelent to cover him with i c chagrin and confusion we ve commend the very erudite and christian applicant for pecuniary assistance to the attention rf of the benevolent throughout the th country as a third rate scholar and a first class hypocrite and assure the well meaning people of various denominations who will be calledo called i on for contributions that although alt all hugh hugi the people of this territory believe in the rightfulness rightful nes is of plural marriage there is far less jess necessity for the expenditure of money in ald aid f christian education among them than in the cities in which the gentleman expects to make makke his biggest haul ban Is it not about time that these religious dec deceivers elvers eivers ceased to receive encouragement encouragements and to profit profil by the mistakes of the public la in regard to the situation in utah |
