Show THE PIERCE bankruptcy WE have been slow to condemn the bev rev 0 M pierce and have counseled his friends to extend a charit ble bie sentiment moward toward him our oui position has occasioned some surprise in view of the flood of dabag ing facts thathy been gradually overwhelming him buu bau we considered it nothing bat fair that the gentleman should have a chance to explain the methods by chieh which he ha reached his unenviable position we hoped the explanation would come and that it would be shown that the financial he ninda finds himself was the result of circumstance over which he had no con tro arol we have waited la in vain the on ly shadow of an explanation that we know of Is that he paid enormous interest on the sums borrowed from his scores of dupes dupea this excuse lawone than none it is grimly ab surd especially to those who claim he be haa has defrauded them it is im possible that this could have beem been the cause of his failure fallar e and comparatively enormous deficit and if it ite was it was in hi the nature of some thing he could have controlled by refraining from it we have no epithets nor benun elation to hurl at the head of the rev kev rev mr pierce his actions stamp upon hla hib soul all the condemnation that la Is needful when a man makes scores scones of financial fiu fin andai andal victims who doubtless doubt lesa became his dupes because of their i belief in his piety it is bad enough but when the sufferers include wuen women and d ch chi chugren dr e u som some e of them eyen eiren said bald to bo be widows and orphans to what greater depths of villainy can a human being descend here is ia a pretentious shepherd of a religious fleek against whom the cry of the helpless ascends to heaven epithetic Epithet le denunciation directed at such a miserable object is effort ex to no purpose the point of the aim to is too detestable to be worth the endeavor the actions ot of such i insignificant souls stand as an eternal anathema upon them in deep set letters that can only be dimmed by the most contrite repentance to which we now call this pretended representative of the savior of the world we would dispose ourselves were we to descend to the level cf the class of which mr pierce is a leading representative when they speak of mormonism and the mor mons 11 his contemptible and debasing conduct has nothing to do with Method methodism ism iam the religion of alaa wele welena ax ike lie laeve was wah esteemed as a leading light in this thib thia locality attenuated as we esteem that system to be we would feel of ourselves to pretend to lay his conduct at its doot dooz NO ko matter malter bow how deficient in mux the power of godliness that religion Is mr pierces Pier cers course is repugnant to its precepts his business churbe courbe was a living libel upon a religion that does with all its f faults inculcate the theory of honesty and we presume that methodism has no BO further use for a man placing him self in the pogi position tion that mr pierce has hats the subject t of this article has been guilty of palming oft off the most infamous slanders and falsehoods upon the cormons mormons Mor mons mona 33 he has made a business of it his object was similar to that which inspired him to scoop in money from everybody that would lend land him from 25 cents up to thousands of dollars he WAS after the god he adored mam mon behave we have taken occasion to point this out occasion aly we nave have named others who are of the same piece of cloth they are hungry for pelf and exhibit it in all their outcries against the mor mon mons 21 they make it the objective point pointon of every antl anti dis dia course on one occasion dr fisher whom we have always believed to be one of the oiliest hypocrites hypo hy nitea that ever wore the garb of bigoted sectarianism once protested to us because we pointed out his double faced course he also aiso alluded to our having mentioned mr pierce after the same fashion he extolled the latter as a model christian while we have always held that he was simply a model priestly specimen of an antl anti mon mor imor mon time has proved how panch nanch dr fishers I estimate accorded with the true status of offia hig his sample seo beo sectary se tarl otari an it Itis is currently reported by those who claim to know that the rev bev mr pierce fierce is merely the head centre of this financial scandal while others are badly tainted with the offensive odor it emits it is a notable fact too that each individual against whom the dam ageing charges are prefer preferred lare con oon for their rabid and senseless sense bense less leab opposition to everything and everybody bearing the impress of mon imon mormonism 11 but aut this is nothing new nog |