| Show A BOOK OF hol Hoi HORRORS arOns wn WE have recel received ved a pamphlet published in A san francisco entitled A book of horrors I 1 the crimes odthe of the latter day saints butah in Utah by a mormon of A demand for a legislative commission it contains eighty two pages of rubbish it abounds in frightful stories of murder seduction robbery conspiracy perjury raft Da canites wife beating tyran tyranny nyo coati clde cide and other oiher abomination abominations si all laid to the mormons moimoi Mor mons is and supposed to be written by a former danite who has repented of his deeds of blood and rapine and now longs for the utter destruction of all tre the mormons cormons Mor mons young and old priest priests and people for an introduction it presents the report of the committee on mormon polygamy P at the cincinnati methodist methods Me inference held in october last which ar ich is a very fitting preface as it is similar in atrocity and vile suggestions to the body of the book and iks lis is about equally truthful this work is in the style of mrs paddocks anti Alor mormon moul I 1 notions fictions and similar filthy gossip somewhat exa exaggerated exaggerated and will be read with avidity avi j ity by lovers of the sensational who are ready to credit anything monstrous about the II 11 mormons cormons Mor mons 11 it if it should fall into the hands of a thoughtful person it will be at once rejected as altogether too monstrous for belief we notice however that some respectable california papers have say sav allowed swallowed it whole or pretended to do so and recommend it as a graphic description of mormon life for their enlightenment we will copy from the work the following paragraph with the pretended translation translation verbatim and invite them to read it with the aid of the simple key which we will append I 1 A punic punie proverb pro verb here seems apropos EBY TON TYSE W EB DYNA NI SYI YA TU llo lio EB LYLA N NAC AC eilt elit FO U AF EB LY L IW elit eilt NI DYNA NI TI yn yel TY SOM sou elul EILY elly NAY KOOBY which bein being liberally interpreted is when a c community om has incurred the displeasure of the gods so that its members feel constrained to conf confess ess their crimes to free their minds from the curse 0 of their abominations then shall the hand of their superiors prevail against them disgrace and death await the unjust the horrors of tae tie lower world are arc hungry to devour them now take the paragraph in capitals and commence from the end reading backwards and eliminating the the letter Y which is inserted here and there to contuse the reader it will then read thus this book is an unadulterated lie ile just like most others against the mor mons if it shall produce caution in the public mind and induce investigation the author will be satisfied the faults of the mormons cormons Mor mons can all be remedied without a revolution wise men will pause wisdom is on demand and should be forthcoming the west must not be annihilated statesmen awake I 1 I 1 I 1 the whole thing is a sell it is a burlesque on the sensational anti mormon literature which has been put upon the market and has helped helped to inflame the public mind AU al such books are as false as the book of horrors but do not make any ac knowledg ement to that effect open or conceal conce concealed if the object of the writer who is evidently acquainted with mormon affairs his familiarity being exhibited in many expressions common to the people bereis to arouse investigation we think he has taken avery a very poor method to effect it if the book obtains any circulation at all where one person will discover the meaning of the capitalized paragraph a hundred will fall fail to do so and and the general beneral public now deeply prejudiced ey y previous publications will take the horrors detailed for facts and thus instead of awakening inquiry the book will help to pre prevent tnt ent it except in the minds of a very few thoughtful indi visuals we think alia tha aut out iuar luar whoever ever he is and we surmise that he lives in this city has made a very great mistake P r |
