| Show A LOYAL ANTI AHTI at THORN TODAY TO DAY we present evidence that appears to place the guilt of george thorn beyond doubt this vile wretch is the seducer of his sister accessory in an attempt to produce an abortion and to the commission of a murder in addition to to these criminal roles he ai agures gures as one of the truly loyal being ole oie one of those genuine patriots who were autra outraged ed on the fourth by the half masting of the ila lla nags hags S his tender feelings were so outraged that he wanted to revel in 1131 mormon ormon blood this depraved specimen of humanity declared that every good american citizen should feel as I 1 do his patriotic soul was harrow harrowed eri etl and stirred up with righteous rl ht indignation the expression of which was followed in the same letter in which he vented it by a prescription and directions to enable the sister whom he had defiled by beastly incestuous conduct to niu murder ader his unborn child this sample of patriotic devotion is as a matter of course an ah anti poleg adist of the most decided liue hue and aud while violating the laws of god and man he gloats 0 er the prospect of the bior mormons cormons Mor Alor mons being pushed to the wall by the government for the purpose of breaking up their family relations by fair means or foul he does not want te to belong to any such church as the hormon mormon church certainly not why should such low and base criminals as he wish to belong to an or organization aniza tion which enjoins ins per sonai on at purity the strictest morality enforcing it it on pain of ot excommunication the the church has no use for such characters who are detested and whose conduct is abhorred by those who compose it according to the ideas of the latter day saints such inch such corrupt characters as he steeped to their necks in filth art are area a standing g menace to the pure and good and are arc not tit fit to live we can apprehend that inen men of honor and consistency may differ with the views andri alfices of thu the latter day saints on the marriage question it I 1 will be found however holeve r that in at least ninety nine cases out of eleny elery hundred those who display y and aud dillmos it I 1 toward the th oon Won viallat aaa nan oa 02 tt icat ground are corrupt at hear heart and in conduct in fact it has been proved provid times without number that the most violent unreason unreasoning lug and denunciatory opponents of plural marriage have not a moral foot orn on which 1 to stand the prophet joseph smith gave it as a key to the true inwardness characters ile he stated that the most corrupt would be the tile most bitterly opposed to that principle and circumstances have frequently proved the correctness ness of the statement while it would woud probably be going too far to cite thorn as an average sample he will at least serve e as a striking ang illustration of the super loyal lire tire cating eating 1131 mormon ormon liate hater and rand hyperbolic anti antl polygamist the salt halt lake tribune the tile advocate of the introduction of crime to lead away the young 11 mormons cormons Mor mons from the moral restraints of their religion intimates that it is rare that a crimi nal is the non mormon 0 population to falsify is the everyday business of that sheet every intelligent person in utah who has given the subject any consideration knows that the criminality of ot utah is overwhelmingly supplied from non mormon sluices sou ices before us now are some authentic statistics which will tell th the tale and we therefore quote them in the year the total number of arrests made in salt lake city by the municipal police for crimes of every class was 1640 of these lawbreakers law breakers were mormons cormons Mor mons and ili iii 1191 liol non nou Mor mons muns 11 yet the latter constitute but one forth ot of the population they furnished hoW however hever lever three fourths of the criminality in 1883 the arrests amounted to 1609 in all only 1 au u were verc cormons mormons Mor mons and the 1459 non II mormons cormons 11 oad ogden e n made a still more striking exhibit in the same direction in lu issi 1881 the relative population was 85 per cent mormons cormons Mor mons to 15 35 per cent non lalor mor mons 11 the arrests numbered yil 1 of the persons arrested 21 were mor nor mons the remaining luo being non I 1 mormons cormons Mor Alor mons 11 in 1882 the arrests numbered aw the relative proportion being I 1 izy 22 mor alor mons to non nou mormons cormons Mor mons in 1883 the arrests footed up with a score of 74 for the lawless mon mou sand for the non 11 mormons cormons 19 in the last named year the proportion of mormons cormons Mor mons inthe in the population was closely estimated at 71 per cent mor mons leavina leaving lea iea vinz 29 per cent non 6 mormons cormons Mor gons mons mons evenso relentless an enel enemy my to the A lormon mormon people as district attorney dickson has shown himself to be asserted in open court that it was wae well understood that they are as a community free from sexual crimes ile tie asserted that it was weli well well weil known that with them the intercourse ter course of the sexes was kept within the bounds of the tile marriage relation 11 he ha paid them a high comparative compliment when he said sald that so 80 far as sins of that class are concerned they are 61 condemned by the mor mons and deplored by the gentiles but we will compel the infamous tribune to furnish evidence to the same effect on the oth ath of march voluminous editorial article appeared IL ii that sheet under the caption of whal what utah wants it emoo embodied died what purported to be the remark re maraz of a friend of the chief editor of that paper made to him personally Letus let us quote 66 apropos of ot the new and petty war recently started by the municipal government on the women of the town the liquor dealers and aud the gambling fraternity tern ity one of we the enemy said to us the other day it may be a hard thing thim to say and perhaps harder still t to 0 maintain but I 1 believe that billiard halls saloons and houses of ill fame are more powerful reforming agencies here in utah than thail churches aad and schools or even than the thu trianne Trib what the tho young mormons cormons want is to be fre freyd so long iong as they are slaves it matters not much to what or whom they are and they can be nothing your churches aro arc as enslaving as the mormon church your party is as bigoted and intolerant as the mormon pa party T at all events I 1 rejoice when I 1 see t the tie young youny mormon hoodlums playing billiards getting drunk running uita with bad women anything to break the shackles they were born in and that every so called re religious lilious or virtuous influence only makes the stronger some of them killgo quite to the tha bad of course but it is better so foi they are made of poor stuff and since there is no good reason why they were ere begun lor for let them soon be be done for and anti the sooner the better most alost of them however will soon weary of vice vica and disI dissipation pation and be all the stronger stron stroh geror jor for the knot knowledge cledge of it and of its eanid vanity at 1 t the very least ohey they will be free and ana it is of such vital consequence that a man inan should be tree free that mat in in my opinion his freedom is cheaply conat the cost of familiarity eith with low 1010 iffe life 11 now let us observe what the tribune e editors sentiments are regarding the use of the dram shop gambling el house and house of ot ill lii fame as proper agen cles by which the youth of proper utah should be drawn away from the wholesome moral restraints of which enjoins perfect purity of conduct upon its adherents here is how he patted the moral woral monster on the back and signified a oneness of ot sentiment with nis as to the way to redeem tiie th e youth freedom is the first requisite of manhood and if it can van be won wun without ex besses 0 bo o much the better if it it cant war lar dla ozo ezo cheeses ened enee WN tho the it is not you vou who are responsible when it comes to that it Is those who nave enslaved you who is the national hero of the yeomanry of england but robin jobin jford waging war awal agal against hist fist the men of law against bishops and arch bis bi hopt whose sway was so heavy let the people of utah rise out of the dust stand stand upright inquire within lean on themselves lok iok about them and try in a large way to be men aa as they were bern born to be let them know nobody more puissant than themselves amt phat pnat tsa is a game gaine of billiards a glass of beer a cup of coffee cigar or othe other ape petty tt y vice in i the spon upon of a strong human life tilled filled with endeavor in the right direct direction foh loh the logic of the attitude assumed by the ehe organ of the prostitute rum seller and blackleg is that ude vie th e damning and corrupting agencies whose introduction it advocates as proper weapons weapons with which to fight tight mormonism yio ylo do not exist to any extent among the community which it makes a business of injuring A short time ago this slanderous sheet published a long iong lying scandal about a boutan an alleged case of abortion in a 63 mormon formon family it was without the slightest foundation and the stigma cast upon a number of innocent people was most bosc diabolical bedrew we drew 1 the attention oan oft of district attorney dickson and the grand jury to the subject that the matter inetter might be investigated and the innocent vindicated but nothing was done about it here is now the case of tile the depraved thorn an au american gentleman of the tribune type and anid the feelings of its scribes are deeply exercised because we publish some of the facts connected with it they should take him to their con cou congenial anial souls and fall upon upon his neck and aej weep deve everal ral rai souls soul th but a tho thought 11 and 6 herts hearts that beat as one |
