| Show EDITORIAL THE presentation OF THE ADDRESS 3 THE delegation selected to present the statement of grievances and petition for redress to president cleveland in behalf of the latter day saints have duty placed upon them the reply of the president was characteristic act ile he very correctly stated that be he had nothing to do with the edmunds law and that it was his duty to see aee that it as well as all others was enforced but the enforcement should be impartial it lt does not appear I 1 from rom the brief account of the interview whether or not he said anything that would lead to the expectation that he would appoint a commission of inquiry into the condition of utah affairs in order to batisa satisfy y himself more fully in relation to the statements in the address bearing upon the partisan and impartial enforcement of the laws to the detriment of mor alor mons 11 judging from flom his remarks relating to the appointment of off omm meers officers it is not likely that he expressed himself at all upon that point lie he appeared to hold out the idea that the remedy would consist of official Lem iem removals ovals and the lilling of vacancies with appointees who would provide a fair and impartial administration of the laws while almost any kind kino of a change would be benell betell cial clai as a more bitterly antl anti I 1 mormon I 1 and partisan class of officials could scarcely be found with few exceptions thau than those now filling federal offices here there Is no definite or absolute assurance that the relief from oppression would come from removing them still it would doubtless be highly beneficial that removals will occur occur and that before long appears plain from the indications furnished shed by the assurances given by the president to the delegation the advisability of formulating and presenting the address at atall all nil may be questioned by some if it should happen not to effect the object sought A position of that kind Is however untenable nanie from the standpoint of a latter day saint even if it were a matter of certainty that the relief sought could coald not be brought about in that way the makin making of the effort was none the less an in obligation wo will go f further than that and state that even if the effect should bo be an intensification of the f eeling feeling of general animosity against the people of utah the situation would not be altered the duty of explanation and protest from those who are arc made the victims of a cruel cr ueland and unjustifiable crusade would be nevertheless imperative those who would submit tamely to have their liberties swept away without a protest are unworthy the name of freemen and when a people possessing a faith in omnipotence such as is entertained by have exhausted all their efforts to obtain reparation of wrongs f from roin human sources they can with consistency appeal for succor to that divine power in which their chief trust is is reposed so long as there is a hope of the powers that be of the gover government ament and the nation itself doing justice to themselves as well as to an oppressed community by uproot uprooting lug fux tyranny and injustice ustace the they should be petitioned and plead plea with and the this villainies villa inies of tyrants exposed should a deaf ear earbe be turned by them to the on treaties entreaties of an innocent and maltreated mal treated people the lord of hosts will listen to the cry of the oppressed sand jand make an adjustment that will make the ears of millions to tingle in the meantime the saints must do the best they can under the circum s firm in I 1 lie lle heir r integrity intes rits rity patiently awaiting develop developments ments menti that are at the doors and finally after a season of more or less gloom see the sal sai atlon of the god of israel A BEAUTIFUL BUNN OUR oun readers are somewhat familiar with the name of W 31 bunn governor of idaho ile he is the individual who signed the tyrannical and subversive test oath bill by whose operation all members of the 11 mormon church in idaho are disfranchised franchised dis when lie he sent the bill back to the degi degl legislature slature with his name attached he accompanied itaya it by a special messa message e set get setting tin forth the reasons for his action in t hat that document the unsavory bunn said among other express expressions lons ions of the same purport there is no disfranchisement of any mail roan in this act who prefers the law of tile the land before indulgence in ime me and aud salacity 51 the mormons cormons must either cither purify thir ahir organization or cease taking at part art n the affairs of the government it is by them tha that the provisions of ais ais als act invade their rights it toes oes jt it only demands that they shall lot be law lant makers and law breakers the opponents hopponen ts of poli polygamy amy in the I 1 M mormon ormon church shou should d no longer submit to the polluting of their religion by the lustful minority by br their bruus I 1 rul rui ts shall ye know them the mormons cormons Mor mons are credited by their worst c enemies emles to be essentially moral they in the words of district actor j ney llcy dickson condemn sexual sins while the gentiles simply deplore t hem them this Bunn who prates of 11 mormon mort mouly salacity and lustfulness must of if 1 course be himself pure lie he Is the proprietor of a Prill adelphia paper named the transcript before us is a copy of the agents derald herald published in the same city the latter devotes itself to adl adi a diagnosis odthe of the transcript under the head of governor bunns bunas licentious 1 newspaper in its work of destruction truc tion A ak blot on journalism A bulletin lor for brothels and police courts I 1 wallowing in the neld held of crime and pollution we annex the article in question it will appear very strange to our readers that the proprietor of this sunday er is none other than mr air win R at baun bunn by ex prest dent arthur recently appointed and at the present time governor of the territory of idaho yet such is the fact it will make all good citizens especially philadelphians ians nank nans their heads in shame when they reflect to what depth of infamy journalism and politics have brought our government that a man publishing a sunday newspaper which is destroying society by the lowest and vilest of methods can yet be governor of a great territory why should honors be he heaped upon such men as deserve great censure there are too many mary good true honest and brave men in this country to justify suen an appointment as that of win wm AL bunn governor of maho jaho by the president of the united states q we hope the ti time mt is at nand hand when wm win M bunn will be called upon to cease publishing such beast beastly ly matter in ills his paper or resign his office etisa it is a disgrace to our city that such a newspaper call can be published in it and an insult to the citizens of idaho hat the publisher of itis it is sent from philadelphia to govern them idaho undoubtedly has hundreds of her own citizens who are as well qualified lor or the office william bl bunn fills nils as he is and aho nho would under no circumstances father the vile sheet ue publishes we would like to know what president cleveland and the good citizens of idaho think about this matter ladelphia philadelphia is cursed with some of the most vile publications of andelt any muck city in the country in fact we very much doubt if such publications as the surn sunn nun sura day transcript idem item and taggarts Tag tug garts garfs garos times would be allowed to appear anywhere else new york chicago st louis or cincinnati though noted forville for vile newspaper public publications irions aro not cursed with such sheets and veu vet the citizens of this city pharisee like look at those cities and naturally say we are holier holler than thou 1 I 1 philadelphia enjoys the undeserved reputation of the city of brotherly love this reputation cannot always serve as a cloak to hide our wicked and pernicious press just imagine the shock that would occur to one who looks upon nour noun our oun cuy elly in the light which common report places it if he be should pick up a copy of the sunday transcript ile he would undoubtedly come to the conclusion that sodom was a paradise in comparison that our men were all libertines and our women all harlots our children the offspring of vice and our homes places of beasil beastly intrigue our ministers merely beasts af af prey aud find our churchgoing church going f people cople only stich suich that the they may use the church as a cloak to hile hide their thein crimes and our temples of worship merely places where honor virtue and all that makes life ilfe worth living are exchanged r for dollars and cents the stranger tranger si reader could not think otherwise A careful reading of several numbers of the vile sheet sunday aub sub bransc transcript fript would warrant such a conclusion citizens of philadelphia how do you like the picture that the sunday transcript paints of you your and churches of course it is often false as the depraved minds of the beings who write the filth that a appears ears in the columns of ott that sheet alu anu and in many instances the accounts are searched for tor in id brothels and cde slums of society t but if you yon submit to these slanders s strangers rangers everywhere think eiert refer to 0 philadelphian Phila delphias best people we know there are many honorable mentho are silent on this subject because they never give it a thought the tile slimy and putrid offspring of the devils printing press has so stealth ity crept into t their heir bosoms that they do not know whether to rebel or not it seems they are willing for peace at any cost coat wo we hope such persons may become aroused to the dan danger ger threatened ed ed especially to our young youn g men and women we must not let them grow up with the thought that one half of the world was made to devour the other and that there is no honor or virtue lu in the land this is the idea the sunday transcript is implanting in their minds it is tt teaching aching them t to ob believe elleve that their struggle b to reach honorable manhood and womanhood is time worse than wasted f for or when they arrive at that state they will find they have bave reached a barren goal Is not this thil sheet the handmaid hand malcot maid mald ot the devil incarnate who knows how many innocent lives are started on the road to destruction b by su such e h publications it would be hari hard hard to t tell teil itu afu but when we think of the weakness of human cabure lature of how many persons there are who soothe their consciences when committing 11 their first sin with the thought that aney are no worse than others that every other person would be just as bad it they had tile the opportunity the transcript teaches this we see that once the ice is broken the destruction st is plain even inviting but the shoals are soon reached nd a precious soul is destroyed oil on the treacherous breakers are not the dunday sunday tran scrip script tand and its kind the pilots that lured it to deA destruction ruction Is it nol noi responsible what honorable man would be willing to admit such a vile sheet to his home hoine circle circie what would betheen be the effect upon the pure and innocent wife and daughters Arous epure men and women brand this serpent with your scorn and let all such sheets understand that they can only straighten their poisonous length in the fetid rays of the smiles of their kind the sunday transcript is ig tile tiie record of the doings of those as low and vile as human beings ever reached confine its circulation at least to the society of the low and depraved where is our law and order society W M bunn bann is a sample of a considerable sid emble erable class who propose to reform the morals of the mormon pe people pie who shock the nation by ac acknowledging bowled ing and hon honoring bring 11 more than one woman as wives THE prevailing SENTIMENT IT is understood that the press of the country presents a reflex of the prevailing sentiment upon the questions of the day and ond 9 nd if this rule holds good in regard to the mormon question and the policy now being pursued for the suppression of the obnoxious creed and sect we may infer that the public opinion is not only universally opposed to this people and their religion but positively hostile towards them and ready to sanction any outrage that may be perpetrated against them ve we have looked in vain through our exchanges received from various parts ot of the union for a single comment favorable to this community on the recent mass meetings held in the territory and the declaration of grievances and protest adopted thereat reat although there was nothing asserted n the document adopted for presenta lonto ion lon to the president and people of the nation but what bore the evident stamp of truth and could easily be proven and although there was nothing in tiie the lawful and orderly proceedings of those mass meetings to x ite animus a large number of newspapers throughout the country have bay e grown perfectly rabid in allaud alluding g to them papers that are noted notes for the fair and temperate manner in which they treats other questions exhibit a degree of rancor and become so vituperative when they touch this subject as to force the conviction that their writers are arc the victims of a mania which exhibits itself with new and increasing violence at every mention of the mormon people their doctrines or their rights we could tind find sufficient in the ravings davins of these i monomaniacs mono maniacs which have appeared lately to fill nil our columns for a long time to come but we do not care to to reproduce them tacy may be summed hummed up iu in a few feny words the lat ter day saints and all that they do or say are unqualifiedly condemned they are not considered to possess any rights in common with other people and though all the newspapers do not express the feelings fe elins elina of the ii writers so pointedly upon the subject as the butte intermountain inter biter mountain it is evident it from what they do say that their sentiments are quite in harmony with that expressed by the editor of that paper when he said it is a pity they can not be hanged handed instead of merely belu bein being sent to the penitentiary verily w we e answer well to one characteristic which the savior said should belong belon t to llis his people we are are hated of all men THE REASON WHY ox ON the of august 1883 a thrilling tragedy was enacted on the streets of this city c ity In response toa to a summons by telephone the late marshal andrew burt accompanied by charles s H i wilcken proceeded from the cit city y hall to what is known as the old elephant corner cornel to make an arrest anc man wanted a tali tal powerful ne nero negro ro was pointed out to the officers 1 As soon as he tic comprehended that he was about to be taken into custody he raised a needle gun and leveled the deadly weapon atthe at the marshal mr wilcken sprang forgard to prevent the perpetration odthe of the murder but out too late the tile deadly bullet sped from the gun and crasner through both arms and the tile body of the intended victim who walked into an adjacent store lell fell to the floor and while a crowd of bystanders sought safety by fleeing to cover the brave wilcken sprang upon the negro and entered upon what to life and death struggle the needle qua sun eun was wrested f from roin the grasp of the murderer but he drew a pistol and during the fight for mastery more than once placed the muzzle of the weapon against the person of his anta antagonist 11 who was only saved from de ath as by a miracle As it was the intrepid officer was shot through the fleshy part of the arm but jt ile he managed to throw the red |
