| Show LOOK HERE UPON THIS PICTURE AND ON THIS tim THE contrast implied by these words of the immortal bard never found a fitter application than in the treatment the latter day saints receive from their traducers traduce rs and those who think it their mission to oppress them and the opposite course pursued towards the latter by the victims of their dia hatred this is especially manifest right here in what is known as the stronghold of mormonism where many of the most virulent zd and unscrupulous enemies of this people live move and have their being unmolested by a single act either OR of a aggression gres sion or retaliation we read ia in the daily prints ies Du trages outrages upon mormon miss ionar 0 ind and their converts of dobbings mob bings whippings and dr ivings and even the assassination of humble virtuous and god sod fearing fearin men who leave their homes their wives and children and every social comfort to go forth as wan wanderers faudere dere rs for christs sake to prove their fath faith and integrity to lils ills his cause and scatter the jewels e els eis of his word word among those who a are ignorant of its blessed import before our very eyes t a licentious and ribald press heaps daily abuse and calumny upon men who are everywhere known to be ae hi high minded and hon honorable orabie drable by none letter better than the wretches who hate them worst and abuse them most we see helpless women and children lied about most viciously and branded brand edwith wilh infamy undeserved the sacred memory of the dead profaned and all that the th e living cherish and ana revel e held up by these human ghouls as targets for the blasphemy and ridicule of the ungodly and all this because the ones so persecuted are aremon mons and hold to a different belief regarding the life here and hereafter to those entertained ty their g glod d kind christian save the mar mark tio zio would be reformers moreover efforts are continually being made in many instances success to lead the children away under pretense of giving them a gratuitous education from the holy faith which their fathers and mothers rather than relinquish would die for or our youth are seduced from wisdoms ways and virtues paths by the wily arts of the libertine the gambler and those who earn a livelihood by inheriting the curse pronounced upon him who put teth the cup to his neighbors lips ty by the smooth faced oily toni tong tongued ted hypocrite who clasps hands bands with ith these so called agents of reform and having stolen the tile livery of heaven to serve the devil iu in prostitutes the sacred calling h thus usurps to his selfish ends and desires our brethren are arc hunted down by official sleuth hounds the sanctity of the fireside and the sick chamber is in invaded v a d by ru ruffians afi an s who violate the law u under it der p pretense et e n se 0 of f servin serving it fathers and nd hur husbands b rids a are r e drai dragged zad irom from the bosom of their families dependent tipon them for fot support harassed by ba vexatious suits trumped up charges and the unwarranted assumptions of small minions of the law held in custody or forced to give bail insulted browbeaten brow beaten and abused in court and then thrust into luto prison and punished before fairly or finally convicted of the of fences ciar clar charged ed mothers sisters and wives summoned ned before secret tribunals commissioners and grand lurie Jurie sas witnesses against their natural and legal protect protectors rs d 0 catechised catechi sed indecently oy by impertinent individuals clothed with an evanescent authority calling themselves good men and true and wearing indeed the shape of men but provins by their conduct in many instances that from their unregenerate breasts the last spark of manhood if it ever existed there has departed such things this people have endured and a nd are enduring still and yet are patient and forbearing and the authors and perpetrators of these and kindred acts of injustice and oppression are as free as the air they breathe so far as hindrance or 0 retaliation is cofi concerned and entirely so except as they are the slaves of their own bad passions and the spirit of wrongdoing wrong doing which has fastened its shackles irretrievably trieva bly upon them who is it having eyes to see ears cars to hear bear and a heart to understand but knows that if a mormon formon or any number of his bis co religionists were to intrude into any other community on earth and attempt the highhanded high handed unwarrantable procedure roce dure that is witnessed here in mh utah from day to day and of which they tho are the patient victims it would raise such a clamor and indignant uproar as the thunders of heaven could scarcely silence simply change tife the lo location edtion and the contrast belvi between een the pictures is sublime let a mormon lormon A school teacher go into a christian city and endeavor by gilded glided baits of free education or other inducements to woo the children of the gentiles from the religion of their parents adding to such buch efforts the practice so common among the in sti tutors and promoters of sectarian schools in utah of making makin periodical visits to his fellow believers at a distance and after lying to them most villainously about the people in enose midst he is laboring return laden with a rich harvest of dollars reaped from the field of falsehood of his own sowing to continue the good work of reci laming the gentile youth and inveigling vei vel gling ithem into what their fathers and mothers consider baand by and forbidden paths let him do this and then witness the mild and peaceable results that would follow again what if a mormon press should establish itself in the very heart of st louis chicago or any other city of our land and persistently itly and wilfully falsify blackguard and abuse the most reputable and respected citizens without the slightest shadow of excuse for it except except the one we ho so often hear in these parts that its object was to americanize and turn them theta from the ways their consciences tell them to walk in to the path of a so called social and political salvation suppose that through these continued heaped up pressed down and running over assaults on private character the name of a resident of st louis or chica chicago o should become so feared and hated that right here in our own city of salt lake peaceable gentile fuerch merchants or missionaries should be shot down by 11 mormon mobs fired to the commission of the bloody deeds by the outrageous calum nies set afloat and ind carried to utah by said mormon newspaper whose existence we are for the bake of argument supposing suppose again that the machinery of the courts and the of the law were exclusively in 11 mormon lor hands and they throng bigo olgo ry and hatred of everything h gentile should stretch and strain the authority they helito the same extent that is now belll being done in the vexatious prosecutions p of which they are made the victims for the purpose of convicting convict i n g fining ti a 1 it and imprisoning gentiles breaking up their families and bringing them into a bondage more to be dreaded than death which to freemen would be seem em sweet by comparison would any people less patient and long suffering than the latter day say sai saints ants be contented with anything short of a revolution and would they not have cause aurely purely as just and sufficient as that which kindled the immortal fires of bunker hill and yorktown and caused earth to reverberate with the echoes of the sublime declaration that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit sult suit of happiness but the latter day saints are more patient even evert than their patriotic sires of a century century ago they know like ike the immortal henry that there s a just god in heaven who watches the destinies of men and nations and md they have confided their cause to him w who 0 has sworn to fight their bat ties acles lor tor them this is why they can bear and forbear to the uttermost patiently suffering the slights and insults of those who ride rampant over law order and every legal restriction to oppress them who would rule that they might ruin and resolve order back into cubos that tiley might revel in the tho anarchy confusion and degradation that would follow look at the wretches who walk our onn streets filthy enough in mind and body budy to almost soil we ground they walk on and defnie defile the purest pure atmosphere mo sphere of heaven with their foul breath slaves slave sot of vice and paid tools of tyranny boasting of what they have already done and intend further urther f to do against the peace and good order of an innocent god fearing and indus arious people who permit them unmolested and unquestioned I 1 to faulmi feirt aten atea vile threats and execute their viler acts within their very borders look at them pity and aud despise them and let them severely alone and ask yourselves if the pictures we have endeavored to paint do clo ilot riot f furnish as complete and striking a contrast as any that past or present times can beast |
