| Show OF LITTLE MOMENT IX IN another part of this paper will be found a letter from trona the pen of elder jas jag H hnit hait which appeared in the tha columns of the new york world A preacher by the name of moment has hag been lecturing in gotham on the tho subject of mormonism its 16 8 doctrines and life 1 at his first lecture he gave a number of statistical and other items of information much of which was useful because reliable at his second lecture noticed by brother hart he repeated mormon sources and indulged in vituperation and calumny that stamped him as a plagiarist and deceiver some of his assertions are as new and foolish as others are old and baseless among his hla own fabrications are these as report reported edin in the new york papers in 1856 brigham young declared that a man would be ba loving hla his neighbor who would put nn an apostate to death BrIgha Brig hamm hama young mYoung had said that joseph smith was anything but a saint that his virtues were few and his vicea vices many among the tho least of which was gambling drinking horse racing and seduction husbands hava have been exhorted to starve and beat their wives if necessary to bring them into submission Ic Therel there is not a happy polygamist home out of tha the in utah mormonism gives no allegiance to athe government at washington rhe the mormon church lias ilas a r complete monopoly of the telegraph and the railroads of utah of the entire governing got gov eming power we need quote no more neither need we coffier anything by way of refuting these falsehoods they hear the impress of bellson libel on their face their theu untruth is too glaring to require any reply and though utter edby moment they are so eo senseless as to be of no moment whatever if the question is asked what could bo be moments motive for stringing together such a set bet of transparent inaccuracies the an awer Is given to in the letter of brother harttle Hart the usual mercenary motive of the sectarian antl anti mormon defamer the desire for cash the love of money is indeed the loot root of all evil and it has prompted a great many preachers besides moment to tell the most outrageous untruths un truths about the latter day saints and their doctrines that people are fo EO foolish as to give credence to such stories and hand out money to the narra toris evidence of much popular softness as well as credulity |
