| Show AN CASE edcor dowd news my attention was yesterday called to an editorial which appeared in the salt bait lake tribune of december and which was devoted to a supposed case from copenhagen I 1 was earnestly risked asked in behalf of many scandinavians in this city to enter a protest against the a slanderous insinuations insi nuat ions contained th therein ervin it Is ie with some hesitation that I 1 endeavor to do so because it is well known knowd among the respectable part of the community that tire tim paper named has long ago placed itself both with regard to morality and literary qualifications tar far below the criticism of any gentleman its products belong to what tn in scandinavia to te known as gutter litera ture jand and it to is always more or less lesa unpleasant to stir the contents of receptacles fsr for filth still the exposure of the product referred to may easy assist in opening the eyes of some thomay who may require to see what kind of friends they have in the quarter from which such an article emanated the article reads thus imagine a case A man is at work in the slums of copenhagen behasa he baa a wife and five children they breakfast I 1 very morning on black bread brea danda and a little piece of bologna sausage they know nothing of any other country e except pt their own through the dull b brain n of the man lere there has more than once stolen a thought that if he were to die it would be a hard time for the wife and children A mormon missionary comes along he tells that man if he will only have a change of heart if he will only accept the conditions of the mormon faith he will be helped to another land that the mormon church there will secure for him it a farm where he can raise his pigs his chickens his vegetables his fruit and where le the everlasting fear of starvation will be taken from his soul all that will be required from alj him in return will be obedience to the power which gives him all this and it will take his note morer moreover er for what ib advanced andam icy basy terms he can pay it up andin and his bis children after him will be landholders land holders that man that assisted emigrant with his wife and children are brought over and put down in salt lake city they know nothing of this country it is not possible for them to learn of it it they are given nothing to read but mormon publications publication they are taught from the start that their full fall obedience must be to their creed after some more language in the same style the concluding words are we would make it impossible for such men td 16 lay their hands on the american ballot and we would do it on the same principle that our ou government la is now forging guns gun and building battle ships on the principle that eve every y nation has a right to be jealous of its sovereign power and suspicious suspicions ol oi every man who will not give to ft 4 true and faithful allegiance the intent of the article la id to convey the idea that the church is made up of ignoramuses ignoramus es who are willing to sell their souls and heir bodies for a small consideration and that such idiots are transported from denmark and this is a ground why such should be denied the privilege of citizenship in order to support this groundless assumption an case is supposed it never has had any existence in reality nor can it have any NOW let me remark here that no warfare is eusler etsler than that which to is waged against imaginary enemies enem iee it requires no heroism to conjure up a foe and to attack that spectre lt it is in sometimes done by those deflor able beings who have ro lo heroism whatever but whose brains have been soaked in whisky and permeated by the fumes of opium until delirium tremens cremens has taken hold of them bettu this kind of warfare the writer of that imaginary copenhagen ease case engages he modestly only mentions one case but he be no doubt sees in his wildly excited visions scores of them how they hunt him I 1 can see them in my mind minds a eye those idiots from the slums of copenhagen where they crawl round him grinning at him haunting him endeavoring to steal the ballot from him and sink him into the grave of korab dathan dahan and abiram and he is fighting for bis life and liberty and the salvation of the country dun dou otte on his famous Ropi nante was not more in earnest when he be fought against the wind mills taking them to be giants than is this scribe in fighting the case he his has conjured up before him those who are familiar with co pen hagen and with the work of the missionaries of the church when abroad know that there is not the least semblance of truth I 1 in a that imaginary case copenhagen the beautiful capital of i denmark has no DO slums at all compared to the so ao called alums alum sj of now new york and some larger cities of the united states those who want to go to the 41 slums somewhere miss the mark it if they go to copenhagen the laborers of copenhagen are a respectable class clan of people everything considered true they have not such euch liberal wages as the laborers have in this country but they are as a rule able to find fi ud something I 1 ing besides black bread and sausage to eat and more than that for a few t ants they are able to enjoy various kinds of ennobling amusements in their public gardens their tivoli their rich art collection they have means of enjoying and educating themselves to a degree that might be envied by many MADY fa laborers borers in america and they do enjoy themselves how did you enjoy yourself is a common question in copenhagen instead of how do you do a sufficient indication of the prevalent spirit and one thing is certain you never find the gallant scandinavians aviana banding themselves together by the scores in the dark of night and with sticks r guns no 1 and pistols attacking harmless t travelers celers whipping unarmed defenseless fen seless men and women like people le are doing in some parts of america ica the scandinavians used to stand one to ten some times in open battle as at narva for instance or later at dobbel but they did not use to fight like howling wolves tribune fashion in copenhagen a man can walk the streets without fear of having a pistol thrust into his face while a confederate robs him of his loose cash as is the case in salt lake city under tribune YV liberal rule which has taken away the worldwide world wide fair fame of this municipality for good order I 1 peace anti and sobriety they are the id idiots iotis and unworthy to wield the sacred ballot copenhagen is not an isolated place it is on the contrary a kind of rendezvous for the nations of the earth who are numerously represented there the raull is that the population of that city are well posted on the affairs of the world it il is not uncommon to meet laborers there who speak fluently danish german and french and w who ho therefore have the means of a many sided education at their command mormon missionaries rever induce anybody to embrace the gospel by holding out temporal advantages the imaginary case in supposing it is altogether imaginary there is not a man riman in this territory who can truthfully say that he was induced to come here for the sake of temporary advantages held out by missionaries trials difficulties and persecution are what the missionaries promise their converts and those who have come here have come notwithstanding this because they were willing and able to live not for food alone like pip pigs but for a grand idea a principle but this of course to is too hl high h to be comprehended by a tribune scribe it to is not as a rule the poorest and most ignorant that embrace embrace the gospel and emigrate to utah many of these emigrants from via whom the mudslinger mud slinger assaults have brought with them thousands of dollars which they have invested herein order to cultivate the sou soil and be able to sustain the amert american government and perpetuate its ite liberal institutions and they will continue to do so and to teach their children after them to do so notwithstanding the abuse of the vilest paper on earth but it is no use to tell the plainest truths to au antagonist whose strength to is falsification and who has evidently reduced lying to a science Y as the fellow raid paid who had been studying theology at the university of kiel but one word should be said to the scandinavians of this territory no matter abat their religion may be we have seen some of the results of the policy of the I 1 tribune roune for years and years that paper has baa labored bored to bring about a state of at fairs suitable to its ito own spirit it has mentioned the means of reform which it thought desirable and it appears to have succeeded to some extent and now we have arrived a al 1 a situation where right in salt lake city peaceable citi zens have reason to fear for their lives if they go one block from main street after dark and may even fear to go to rest in their own houses during the night we have come to this that it is safer to travel among the bedouins Bedou ins in the deseran of arabia than to walk in the oft off streets of this city and A ind yet that piper paper does not seem to be satis patie fled it clamors fur more lawlessness it proposes to strike the ballot from the hands of honest men in order apparently that the whole community may be left without protection in view of this is it not time for honest men and women to protest in earnest eardest being myself a scandinavian I 1 ask people no matter what religious views they have if the time has not come for them to trample these lies under their feet as they would do poisonous 0 us snakes to me it is in incomprehensible hen he sible risible how anyone who has any regard for honesty can support that paper arpe r in any way either by buying it or advertising advert izing in it or even patronize patronize onize those that do support it 0 no o one would support a robber nor would a consistent thief expect to be patronized by his victims buty after all what is the difference I 1 ae e tween a holdup hold up who takes a few dollars from me and a man who in an editorial office spends his energy to deprive me ine of ml mu constitutional rights my liberty the balance falls in favor of the fot footpad pad A scandinavian |
