Show OPEN LETTER TO MR TAIMAGE SALT balt ijane lare CITY november editor deseret wems xema the open opan letter to dr talmage taimage e herewith enclosed was written for the new now york press and was wag duly perused and refused with the liberality that is customary when anything Is ia presented in favor of our faith the new york temes times said bald the letter would cause endless can controversy tro versy it must therefore decline its publication the writer suggest ed that it was probably too salty for its readers knowing your independent character and fe arleia arlea advocacy of the cause of truth I 1 submit said ietter letter to your judgment and if you think proper to publish it will pledge myself to meet mr talmage taimage on the issue either in broo brooklyn aklyn tabernacle in some first class half hails or through the press and suggest to mr talmage in the language ot of brother wm day lay on mcdail and d d be he who first cries hold enough yours etc k JAMES SAMES H HAET HART beu leev T ade de wet ditc talmage sinthe bin sin the bold and vigorous attacks made by you from time to time against the mormons cormons Mor mons have fairly untitled in titled you yon to the cham champions belt tor that special warfare and has made you par excellence the incomparable heroin hero in your wordy battles the unction with which you have urged the nation to slaughter that almost friendless people who af after ter being absing driven from their homes names in missouri and illinois have again made themselves comfortable homes Is certainly remarkable as showing the depravity of the human heart and ua its ot of those fine and noble feelings of human nature f that are so much admired by mankind some might suppose from the ancret sacred nature of your profession feb fea sion blon that you sustained the character of a peacemaker and was governed by the spirit of charity loving kindness and mercy and that you yon were in sympathy with the sentiments enunciated in the beatitudes by the great teacher of chris ti anity but not so if any persons have entertained such ideas ideas they need only read one of your merciless attacks upon the mormons cormons Mor mons to have such illusion dispelled for nothing is more certain than the evil and corrupt source of evil and corrupt fruit the spirit of hatred malice and murder is not the fruit of the tree of life but is the of wild branches and it is thought by the writer that a brief review of some of your bold and blood thirsty utterances may show shew what spirit you are of ana peradventure lewd lead you to moderation and charity the new york herald reports you as baying assaying among other unkind and cruel things that godana civilization demand of ane political parties of ane the day a plank anti mor monistic and that nothing but tho the surgery of the sword will care ital it it will bo be self evident that your statement concerning god demanding athis anti mormon plank Is ia I 1 either true or false if it be true you youe should hould be able to prove it by chapter and verse and show us when where and to whom he gave this revelation but as you contend that no revelations from him have been received for eighteen huldred year years the revelation with such a theory is simply I 1 therefore deny most emphatically your reckless and groundless statement and say that god has demanded nothing oj of the kind the idea Is a ridiculous freak of your imagination and has J no foundation to rest upon but your bald assertion it is a grave offense anbe anse to bear false witness against your neighbor and how much more culpable to bear false witness against god to prove that god hag has made any aby such demand is absolutely beyond the power of any living soul and it if he be has not you stand convicted of falsehood and blasphemy in the first degree if peradventure you have received a revelation demanding said bald plank it certainly did not come from the god of abraham and the prophets for during all the ares area when he freely communicated his will to them on no occasion did that august being express ohne ne word of disapprobation against plural marriage it must therefore be some strange god that makes this demand these considerations force us to the that in charging god with the phantom of your imagination agi nation you yon are grossly mistaken and have displayed both ignorance and folly but does not civilization liza tion demand this anti mormon plank plant ah yes the civilization liza tion of the age Is ia a paragon of inconsistency and ond makes strange demands and strange bedfellows bed fellows it nearly chokes itself straining at the poly gamio gnat while it follows the cyprian and sodomite came camei eamel almost without an emort effort it irl the opinion of many thinking men that the condition of christendom is fast approximating the civilization of sodom bodom justice brady of this city said not long since that if it were not tor for the police new york would soon be as bad as sodom and gomorrah in fact it was wab nearly as aa bad now A civilization that has grown up around your churches that can boast of one saloon for each igo persons gambling dens out of number and houses of III ili fame on nearly every street is a sorry jade to domand demand a thing of this kind you are not ignorant of these evils and a thousand more of like character that flourish under your corporations invade your churches permeate your christian homes kind and spread their poisonous miasma throughout the land jand and a aud rud d fold m more ore in brooklyn than in utah ah the then n why not stop atop howling about the sins of atthe the latter and commence to clean up your own piat plat platter ter tex in your friday evening lecture it is said you waxed eloquent and wrestled mightily with a gigantic error from which you drew draw conclusions and passed judgment that do credit neither to your head nor heart in ina lna a fit of assumed anger and alarm you announce mormon converts in six months for which statement there Is no foundation in f act cut cat off one elp herand the figures will give the number ot of births for the six months namely 2340 Q in round numbers the sg uxa uly had no reference to the increase by miss missionary 10 n ry efforts but simply the statistics of births birtha and the figures jou you gave were just sos soi too many you therefore misrepresented figures as well as facts and what becomes of the thunder and lightning ligh ng and a id moral dynamite that you yon yo discharged a rge d on the strength of this erroneous statement and these exaggerated figures following up this ridiculous error you ask ash I 1 how show long can we all ali allow ow this organized crime in utah to progress at the rate nate of increase every six months just keep yourself cool mr talmage cut off one cipher get some one to fan you and get down to the real facts in this mormon problem and you will find there la Is no immediate danger for these juvenile mormons cormons your figures represent are all under eight years old and not supposed to be very dangerous gr in conclusion it will be proper to notice the culmination of your pulpit eloquence the object of your fervent prayers the consummation you so devoutly the surgery of the sword and the extirpation and destruction of the mormons cormons Mor mons by brute forcel would it not be a grand spectacle to the enemies of free speech and liberal government to see general phil sheridan in the role your depraved instincts would place him booted and spurred mounted and armed trailing the of our oun union through gh your filthy pool of bigotry and leading the army of this great preat nation against a few thousand non combatants in the rocky Bocky mountains who being commanded by the almighty to build temples are forbidden to shed mens blood have you not read that those who take the sword shall perish with the sword and wh what at nave have these people done that they should be sacrificed to the foluch of your intemperance and bigotry the omaha herald of march says the mormons cormons as a religious body exceed every other religions loua body in chete states in morals peaceful industry and honesty iu hi their religious belief they have no haupers paupers pau pers no poor houses no houses of III ill fame no drinking an oonsa loonsk and no law suits for collecting colls cUng oung debts among themselves now tell me mr talmage for which of these characteristics would you kill hill them but bat you yon will say it la Is not for any of these things but because of polygamy well there are mists in utah according to the last report of the united united states commis dot jot of that territory and you want them all killed hilled off on to bave save their souls bouls if you are authorized to kill polygamists isto you need not incur the trouble troubie and of going to utah to find them brooklyn and new york could furnish all you will be able to murder comfortably in fact these christian chriatian cities could out number utah ten times over and still have many to spare they may not call them wives but tha pious rascals cohabit with them all the sime bime the offspring are too often slaughtered ered in the style prena prenatal tal tai and otherwise but that is of no p particular ar nicular consequence as aamir mr toots boota would say this is all agreeable to your christian civilization all this can be tolerated and what fb is is 19 worse a but these amor cormons mormons Mor IMor mons must go for they are pestilent fel rel fellows lowas and imless unless we kill them off they thuy will take away our c congregations 0 and our means of living 1 As a a 8 evidence that other persons regard your utterances as sanguinary a menace to popular government ern ment dangerous to society and under certain contin geneles Igen cles cies dangerous to yours yourE yourself elf elt I 1 quote the new york evening post as follows the reverend howard crosby a year yean ear ean or two ago if wo we remember rightly was disposed to try the sword on the Mor mormon mons and now tle the cruel and blatant doctor talmage of brooklyn wants to have general sheridan sent out to slaughter them all as the only way of put ting down polygamy and strongly urged this policy from his pulpit last sunday it if he is wisey wises wise ho however he will drop this thia view because if the 1 practice of suppressing disagreeable people by the sword should ever creep cree pInto into american life he himself would certainly perish by violence thousands in this thib city already favor the use of the army against him and are only restrained by that general peaceable neba nesa and humanity of the american character which he la Is trying to break down s it will be seen by the above and by many other journals that your clamor for the blood of the latter day saints is disapproved and condemned by thoughtful and right minded men which should teach you to abandon your gospel of gunpowder and the sword and learn leam from col robert bobert ingersoll ox or bome some other humanitarian the gospel of humanity yours very truly JAMES H HART HAET |