Show expressions brom FROM TI THE I 1 E f PEOPLE M R XA arlus OF OV HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF W t SALT LAKE CITY april sd 1885 ed edcor deseret I 1 A few days ago I 1 noticed in your paper an article headed HISTORY REPEATS PEATS ITSE ITSELF LI in viewing our present situation I 1 find this to be true truc in more ways wayA than on one ons looking back into the dark ages we find on the italian side of the higher alps the protestant valleys of piedmont ur or the valrie VALLIE VALUES S VAUDOIS with a people sho aho vho claim tc have f from rom dhe the da days dais sor sot ot the apostles kept the doctrines of chr christ i I 1 st pure me and unadulterated so his bis history informs informs us few in I 1 number thirdly hard ever counting more than twenty thousand these people lived jived a simple life and demanded and exhibited to the world a high degree of purity of manners an and d thou thought ht crime was almost unknown among them while it was rife in all parts of europe among them were heard no sliders sneers at female virtue such as might be 40 heard in some as assembly assemblages wes of our government officials for vaudois inai inal maidens dens or matrons matrona claimed to be cli cil chaste ste and virtuous the vaudois men set the purity of their women above all value they scorned to use wrong neang to attain legitimate objects they required that every action should be shaped according accord mg to the pure principles of the gospel as it had bad been committed unto then them they wex were e guilty of but ONE OFFENCE t that of maintaining those principles as they har had received anem they claimed that they had eve ever r been loyal to the government that tIley they were an honest cand tand and virtuous people and that all they desired was to be allowed to ive in peace I 1 and to worship god according corlin cordin to the dictates of their own consel consciences ances lu in or about the year twelve hundred after the church of rome home was firmly established throughout ru europe europe rope the church especially especial lythe the jesuits Franciscans and ana could not endure to see a people having such a record existing in the midst catholic europe the increase of whom would endanger their craft hence they began the work rk of f I 1 exterminating A 0 THE VAUDOIS ot of course to obtain the ban ean sanction ebion of 0 the pope and to get an order from luiu him that the vaudois roust turn from their faith and become identified with vit sit lithe the roman catholic church or be dealt with aa as heretics was an easy matter and amendments to the civil laws were made to suit their purposes several of the surrounding surround iu nations nation were also called upon to contribute armies for THEIR destruction to all this the brave vaudois of course objected but they would sooner lose their lives than I 1 give up their religion and so the conflict commenced these men of god these pure and holy men as they styled st vied aled th themselves these roman catholic priests began their work aided and abetted by the civil power no one dared to oppose the pope ile he silenced all opposition with the axe the sword the torch and the rack all manner of means were employed to get hold of their victims numerous cutthroats cut throats and va vagabonds abolds were emp employed loved by the priests to go amon amone among 9 the tile vaudois to gather testimony aad aud brinIt alse aise accusations against them LADY missionaries were sent into their midst to pry into private family affairs to this end they had spies everywhere to inform them of all protestant families in which hichi there were any domestic disagreements where they would operate to blow the fire of disa disagreement agreement gre ement until it burst forth into a bla hla blaze they labored to separate the husband from the wife the wife from the husband and the children from their parents promising them and in fact bestowing upon them great pecuniary advantages if they would eric criz agre to attend mass frequently they would compel them to INSTITUTE I LAWSUITS against one another and if once they had a hoid hod of them by this handle they never would let go go until they had either recanted or or were ruined they wortle make themselves acquainted quain ted with merchants who abre were not prosperous in business with men imen who prosperous h had d squandered ail all they had and in fact with all families who had fallen into necessitous circumstances and with these the missionary ladies would ouid v labor and work when they wele almost desperate and invariably propose apostasy to them they spent GREAT SUMS OP OF mosey MONEY sey NEY to keep all this machinery going and they paid those who would sell their souls to them for bread in order to keep these cash demands good they would go to people of their own faith and beg in fact the they y would beg of everybody every body and everywhere in shops taverns gambling houses and brothels deman demanding ilal lial alms for tile the extirpation OF HERESY if at times they should run short of funds government was always willing to heip help out the judges of course were catholics cathell Cs and they would pack the juries they the would tell the jury what kind of verdict they wanted and it was forthcoming children were dragged algred into court to testify against their thein r parents an and d wives against their husbands these lady missionaries found soo soon n that their progress was slow the vaudois could well anford afford to lose a few insignificant persons by apostasy and their enemies falb fair failed d to show any converts worthy of their efforts barned earned and enraged at this the priests resolved to have reco recourse urbe to the old arguments used in rome home the sword 1 the torch and the rack they called t to 0 their aid THE tue inquisition these two infernal powers made read ready to destroy the th they could not convert them frequent appeals were made by the friends of these p poor people to their sovereign the duke of savoy to be merciful mercia ul to them to which he invariably answered that he would willingly be more lenient but their adversaries the priests would not leave him in peace thus things went on until the cause of TIIE THE REFORMERS had triumphed throughout europe causing ail an immense amount or suffering aud and bloodshed throughout those va cys an and in mountains I 1 but triumphed um he in the end although alt ait houg houe only afew were left lef t to see sec the tile day I 1 think about three hundred in all if we follow up the history of the reformation we find lind history again repeating itself everywhere TN the children ot TIIE THE HUGUENOTS in igel 1661 were invited by the tile roman clerzy clergy cler v to declare themselves a against the religion of heir their fathers an and boys ot feil fell fourteen and lirla iris of twelve years of a age gewere were declare declared entirely free from the control of their parents and the tile consequences of heresy which meant robbery plunder and death on condition of embracing catholicism the huguenots Huguen were forbidden kohold to hold hoid conferences and were denied the right of holding any aily public office r every ry annoyance aan ann oance possible was heaped upon them and aud Louls louis XIV associated with the priests hoped to drive drive them to A resistance which 11 would would ave them a A pretext for their extermination during the tte reign of henry VIII vili of england the same measures were adopted against tho the reformers the i crests vere viere verc the secret and public workers to keep the flame of those fearful wars and confusions burning children were also compelled to accuse their parents parents their children wives their husband husbands and husbands their wives threaten threatening tm them all with the tile same fate unless they uley thus violated natural affection the priests hunted up the reformers and dragged them forth to answer for their convictions secret spies also and INFORMERS OMME 11 9 of the lowest type were employed and instructions were given to the justices of the peace that they should call secretly before them one or two honest persons within their limits and command them by oath or otherwise that they should learn and search out oat such persons as were imbued with the spirit of thi the reformation the thirst for blood was universal it took in all classes both the rich and the poor the learned and the unlearned and aud did not relent until TIIE THE REFORMERS TRIUMPHED but under all these persecutions the reformers in most instances kept faithful seldom changing their opi opinion nion and gelle generally rally raily willing to die for them now in lookin looking at our own history from iiii the beginning from the very time that the boy joseph smith told his friends that he had seen been HEAVENLY personages who were our first priests and the clergy of the different denominations nave kept it up until this day like their mother the great whore whom they tho style the mother of harlots did in former days so are her children doing today to day and it is not their fault that they cannot bring into re requisition ail all the implements of the holy inquisition they are prompted and led by the same spirit and we frequently hear from tho pulpits from the most 14 prominent divines of the age that the latter day saints should be exterminated mina ted that powder and lead is the only means to accomplish this object gladly would the P priest i est and clergy clarg ly of the tile day seethe see the ra rak rack k the thumbscrew the torch the sword the fa faggot ot an and the are put in ppe operation ration upon all ail those that do not be believe belleve 1 leve as the they y do STOllY ni REPEATING ITSELF like as in the days of the vaudois and other reformers the children of the latter day saints are drag dragged cd into court to testify against their parents parents a against ainest their child children ren wives are compelled to appear against their husbands the ne neighbor gabor against neighbor men aun oi of the lowest class ami with a record as murderers and thieve sare employed as spies and spotters against the people ministers of the gospel self styled and female missionaries are sneaking around the houses ang ing opportunities lo 10 lead them astray and alid always always try to get them to apostatize in order to keep the machine golm they do as in days gone gono by beg bec beg ok everybody and everywhere to cel eel means mcana under the pretext of converting thedoor the poor deluded mormons cormons Mor mons but ii fact to put means thus obtained into their own pockets judges judes are here on miss missions lous lobs juries ARE PACKED when the jury box is exhausted gutter snipes are picked up on the issuing of an open orten venire no mormon ormon is allowed ail an impartial trial men uen arc held and convicted on their opportunities S A great portion of the people are deprived r ved ot the privilege to hold ollice an and d government combined with th priest priest and im d clergy ot of the different acts s are tri trl trying to drive the people into resistance s si that tha t they may have an excuse for tor exterminating them through all the persecutions the saints have h ave endured from the begaii beginning the ministers of the diff different denominations have been in the van ever trying to stir stin ui the hearts of the masses against them by their most infamous lies libs and wilful wilf ul misrepresentations 6 enta euta they have been and are arc now tile the head of SECRET SOCIETIES they led the mob that killed the tile prophet joseph these righteous olis men mec directed all the tile dobbings mob blis bilS bings tile tiie saints have endured and are arc ordering and ar ranging I 1 all the persecutions our elders are arc subjected to today to day like the jesuits of old all petitions sent nt to the chief executive olt olf bourna bourna tion or government imploring fol for foi stron strong gand and harsh measures io foward oui people are brought about by thes pious hypocrites and signed by thim thym tuey they are anc instigator of all the tin special legislation having the members in congress ot 0 the different states under their lash I 1 and would gladly consent to the breaking downor down of tiie tile constitution ution of our glorious government I 1 if they thes the could only gain their point aho who is there that cannot see how HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF I 1 satan has hold bold of the hearts of th children of men and the same that beguiled our first parent righteous I 1 abel that nailed the to 10 the cross and martyred marty red our prophet and patriarch la Is still working and wil will work until the final battle Is fought fough it is darkness against light against truth ab ut the saints will endure and th the e noble nobie vaudois vau Yau dois dols n rather SUFFER DEATH deatie THAN detray BETRAY ty GOD christ the great captain of their sal ml atton is at the helm heim and the time will soon come coine when ahe I 1 every ever knee shall bow and every e ery cry tomme ton tow tue cne me cue confess that jesus is is the christ to the lory bory glory of god the father we can afford to ait alt and suffer from flora the hands of the 1111 ungodly godly for we have bae hae the assurance that ae we shall triumph and live when n hen heu all our encin enemies les ies are dead and rone pone to destruction C cn H |