| Show SCATHING REBUKE editors fors and owners of the sam salt lake 4 tribune I 1 alleged and actual I 1 find iu in your paper the said mid tribune of february fth the following 11 if in the early days a man like euis ellis should have bobbed up in salt lake brigham would have sat on him and and flattened him all out of shape remarked anold an old timer but how have the mighty fallen this fello felloe comes here and not hankering for work that will cause any any expenditure of muscular force goes to lecturing 11 the mormons cormons take him to their bosoms and despite his atheistic belief fall down and worship as it were and all because he villi fies everybody and everything in the city that mormon shade of the prophets taz how brigham must roar from his position behind the veil 11 As an explanation of your ways that are dark I 1 want to advise the public that the fact that you have put the above in quotation marks is ia no evidence that you did not manufacture the paragraph it is 18 grist from the same mill that ground out the celebrated bishop west ceaf forgery to is it not you are evidently trying to manufacture evidence against ellis in the ibe sarae same way that you seem to have been man it against the mormons cormons for years but dont you know that brigham Brig bam was a remarkably good judge of men and would have ben be n the first to take tahe by the hand a man who had the courage to attack such a pole cats nest as your you are disturbed by the fact that ellis goes to lecturing why should he not obtain money by the use of his brains as well as you or do you get your money in that way perhaps you have written your anti mormon articles so often that it has ceased to be brain work why should not the mormon people welcome a man who has the courage to tell the truth in regard to them why should not the man who tells the truth be paid for his work you have been publish ing a paper pa per for years that has been bee a continued lie against the mormon people you have done that work for money at anytime any time since you started on that work the mormon people could have purchased any one of you could they not one of your employed emp loyes said to me a few days ago that your paper was run as a sensational and sheet because that was the course that brought the money another of your workmen heard beard my lecture on utah from 47 to 70 11 in your paper next morning the lecture was soiled in the usual style of that cat of the tribune nest 1 I asked your reporter if he be could not as easily have given a decent men tion of my lecture and this is what he said well mr ellis you know what kind of men I 1 work for you know that I 1 have to give them not such reports as I 1 might liked make but such as they want to have made I 1 listened to your lecture with great interest I 1 enjoyed it you gave me a great deal of information that I 1 did not have if I 1 could have reported your lecture as I 1 wanted to my report conid have been very diffie different rent but you know ive got to live and to do so I 1 must work as my employers direct your managing editor is a cur at heart he hates the mor mons he has no use for a man who does not write against the mormons cormons Mor mons he has refused to publish articles written by me because they contained statements that were friendly to the mormons cormons Mor mons yet he and all of you are maling making money out of your persecution of the mormons cormons Mor mons and you keep many men employed to fill your tribune 7 from exo m day to day with whatever will add to the popular prejudice against the mormons cormons Mor mons only a few days since you published a statement to the effect that the old man ale lie baron f who was found dead in his bed was a mormon and he left two families your statement was intended inu to convey the impression that he died a mormon and that he was up to the time of death violating the law yet you know that le baron had been a maniac in his hatred of mormonism for many years and your paper had published many of his bis anti mormon articles why cant you be honest you are all old men in a few years you will all be in hades why not go in such wise that you could tell the truth and shame the devil advil all the money you make for lying against the mormons cormons will do you no good you will die paupers haupers pau pers and when you paw pass to the lire life in which you all believe beyond the veil you will not have even the riches of self respect you profess to be followers of christ but if christ ever discovers that you are following him he will apply the same remarks to you as to the hypocrites of his hia age I 1 advise you to keep dark when you think you are on his trail I 1 say the mormons cormons take him elua to their bosoms and fall down and worship 21 the mormons cormons do not fall down they worship erect like meb and they worship a live god lier er is idellis ellis an atheist as you say dont you know that thai you are all atheists dodou do you not know that the whole alleged christian world is full of n you think you yon are worshiping god but you are only worshiping a personified hole bole in the ground or rather an infinite vacuum your god has neither body parts nor passions ff and is therefore a nonentity you should always spell it with a little g the mormons cormons be and worship a real god to me the universe is god but that makes no difference differ eMe I 1 will defend your right to worship your infinite vacuum just as strongly as I 1 defend the mormon to worship a perS personal and real god you and your methodist presbyterian catholic unitarian and other sects that worship the infinite nothing have the same rights to worship that the mormons cormons have to worship a real god but you have no more if you were honest men you would admit this at once because you will not I 1 am obliged to resist you you ought to see that I 1 am only undoing the wrong you have done you ought to thank me just as heartily as the mormons cormons do and you would if you were as honest as they but I 1 advise you not to worry your pim h back souls at thought of what brigham may feel underground at what bills is doing if I 1 may trust the evidences that come to lo dwellers in the flesh brigham is not only pleased with what ellis is doing but he Js is with him in hit bib work and aids him as far as he can I 1 am not a prophet 0 phet or I 1 the he son of a prophet bu but t this wa I 1 believe that what the world cal calls 18 god is the power that works for good through all and therefore a power works for justice truth for right is working to in unison and bar mony MODY with god thus believing I 1 am sure I 1 have the co operation cooperation nut not only of 11 1 1 of god therefore it may not be untruthful or sacrilegious for me to suppose chatin the resurrection when I 1 briehan Brie ham meets his bis people he be will say to the angel who has called them forth from the sleep of death where is mr ellis the angel will ot of course reply ellis is a heretic and cannot rise in the 11 first rat resurrection but knowing as 88 1 I do that brigham was a large minded man I 1 believe he will say to the angel will you not go and call charles ellis the resurrection of the latter day saints is incomplete until he stands among uel I 1 know anti and you know that the mormon faith is based upon works and not upon profession you believe that the vilest sinner may in the last gasp of breath he draws in this life profess profess faith in christ and be lifted f from rom the gallows or the editorial rooms of the salt lake tribune to the presence of god and the angels but the mormons cormons do not believe in any such premium on crime I 1 advise you as a friend riot not to bank on the construction of the atonement what you have done in this life what you have been worth in i the evolution of humanity will be your bauk bank account in the beyond As burns said to the devil I 1 advise you to take a thought ana an mend do not fret your souls as to what brigham may think of ellis but do something in the time you have to make a welcome for yourselves in the life eternal if you make any reasonable effort to correct the evil of your ways I 1 have nu no doubt brigham will intercede for you when he was here he be was almost a in his bolth as to the ultimate redemption of the wicked do not be presumptuous you neither own the earth nor utah although you have run the steps of your tribune building half way across a public sidewalk in violation of the rights of all the people of salt lake when justice to is done you will have to td take that nuisance down doWD or did a city council six of whose members were according to judge zane not elected to the office they hold give you permission to thus show your contempt for the rights of the people yours fours until death and perhaps ps later CHARLES ELMS |
