| Show A of the pittsburg dispatch who signs himself murray writes two columns of stuff headed the mormon menace in which ue he tries to explain the reason why mormonism still lives and flourishes and today to day beards the american congress in in the american capital in spite of the fulminations of political parties laws of the most stringent character concocted by the shrewdest lawyers and congressional experts armies sent against it driving it from state to state daily newspapers working against it etc he says this explanation is hard cash in other words he tries to discount dement by not only charging that congressmen have been bought with mormon money which he informs a startled world buys as much mch as christian coin but ut by stating without reserve that he the mighty scribe for a paper of pittsburg Pit isburg ever heard of has been plainly offered various sums from 1000 to to shut h his mouth and stop his mouth against this unlawful hierarchy prodigious what a valuable correspondent he must be what a mighty power he must wield I 1 all he has to do is just to shut his mouth and stop his pen on one forbidden subject and coin will roll into his pockets by the thousand mad but he cant be mum for his name is murray ominous cognomen who will believe belie ve a yarn like that with such a signature one would think that ahat after refusing so tem tempting epting an offer he would h have ave something wonderful or novel to reveal that is worth more thau to suppress but alas this murray like the other murray has nothing original about him he can only re peat t the old gossip about joe smith nauvoo cu 0 0 legion the army sent to utah john D lee who he says is I 1 today to day one of the most popular of all their dead leaders I 1 poly polygamy gain and women in favor of it hatred to christian civilization and the necessity of force of arms to cut up up the mormon church root and branch I 1 not a new idea not a practical suggestion but only old things badly told and poorly strung to t 0 gether any paper that would pay 5 a year for such stuff must be badly off for copy and to think that by simply not writing atthe immaculate murray could have scooped in various various sums from 1000 to barnum should secure that pitts burger with all dispatch h and if he could get the other murray he would have a whole show in itself it if they did not draw alone he could advertise after the fashion of the G A B R local announcement of its recent festival in an ogden paper which Is even more obscure than the pittsburg PUts burg Dispatch to wit let all attend Sin gine ginz music recitations and tableaux tahl eaux governor murray general kimball all at the G A E R festival we knew the defunct official would find his true occupation at last and of the declined was only made another attraction he would completed complete the he exhibition in ia the barnum style as the greatest of the kind on earth but a still greater curiosity than the newspaper scribe or the congressman who has been offered cash to shut his mouth on the mormon question would be the mormon who offered the money and carried the has bag we venture to say that with all the stories that have been told of mormon bribery and the influence of I 1 mormon I 1 gold in washington ton no one on earth can produce an authenticated case of the kind nor name the mormon who has nade made such an attempt yarns of that kind should hereafter be denominated |
