Show THE SHAMEFUL WORK GOES ON of C T THE second contribution of the cowardly cw ardly and li libel bellous loua scribe aarl be who has adopted the scheme of writing aa if he be were a mormon in order to attack the church in a plausible manner appears in the eastern fl illustrated lust rated magazine which contained bis his first eft efthion sion this time it is without illustrations excel excepting a villainous caricature corica ture of the pleasant plea fant 7 countenance of president woodruff under undercover cover of a pretended tribute to the honesty quietness and general good qualities of the mormon M people this scoundrel darts his jets of malice and falsehood for the purpose of maligning mali gning those whom he pretends to eulogize As in tho the first article old scraps scrape of history and well worn comments of other writers are here copied verbatim as though they were were original and a few facts are interwoven with buob fiction in such a way as to deceive the reader at a distance who ignorant of affairs in utah cannot readily pick out the truth from the falsehood no mormon could fall into the errors with which the pretended history abounds and it to is evident that the mean and scurvy scribe who performs this dirty work does not understand the order and organization of the church but misrepresents it eleft when intending to describe it correctly por for In instance otance he be says among mormons cormons there are no adte ous on religion or politics no opinions no variety of views but only r ironclad iron clad obedience the result to la that every member of the territorial WW legislature is a high dignitary of the church all local and municipal government is under the same control and thus it comes to pass that t in america 0 a hurch church absolutely governs a territory antory ap pp adin in every eve block of buildings to is the teacher it is ia his duty to keep himself thoroughly informed i as to the religions reh gions faithfulness domestic life business affairs afi aft airs politick icil cd attitude and ana personal plans lans of every one 0 residing reter in that block 91 ok he may enter e n ter evry house question and crow cross ques tum every inmate thereof demand the most explicit statements and insist upon truthful answers an aers to all his inquiries k qu iries in every ward in the ward bish bishop 0 he has the same supervision of the he ward as the teachers have of the blocks of buildings and to him the teachers report over the whole town is the presiding bishop to him the ward bishops report he speaks of the united order of orderville 11 as though it were a present and active organization instead of a thing of the past and quotes a notice issued by the late bishop hunter in this city about forty years ago as being now posted in all the settlements arid and after giving the mormons cormons Mor mons credit for being conspicuously honest industrious and sober he says and nevertheless they are dw di graced in the eyes of the world b by a doctrine for the defence of which t they e y would tomorrow to morrow leave th their air ploughs and take up arms 11 but polygamy will not the die out in every endowment house in utah plural marriages are being secretly celebrated today the courts are powerless to prevent them the bills enacted against them are dead letters I 1 I 1 these are samples of the mingled ignorance and malice of the sneaking slanderer who has not dot the manhood to attack openly the people whom be desires to destroy every mormon and every person who has been a mormon can detect in these paragraphs we have quoted the hand of one who does not understand der stand the church the present situation or the corn commonest affairs re of the mormon people or even evea of the territory as a political organization iza tion every one of those sentences to is either willfully false or stupidly erroneous the purpose of these articles articles is plain it is to aid in the new at tempt temp t that is to be matte made to effect complete mormon disfranchisement in utah it is part of the plot in which the most despicable and unprincipled of the anti and mormon adventurers iu in utah are engaged it is worthy of their diabolical detestable cause it is the lower depth of their degradation too to low for any creatures but their kind an honest anti 1 may be respected even in his strongest hostility ity the miserable wretch who has hae sought this subterfuge is too vile and contemptible for controversy if the editor of the magazine which prints this stuff in order to increase its circulation is not dot in 13 league with the impostor that writes it his bia utterances in reference to the libel li bellous loua matter belie his attitude he speaks of a policy of deception by president woodruff and his hia Apo etlee and without qualification q ualifi cation or expression of opinion declares flatly so 80 far from being persecuted they defy the courts they celebrate plural marriages covertly where ones once they celebrated them openly that is the only concession they make to the legislative isla tive acts of congress of cou course roe all this is mere assertion and contrary to well known facts but it shows the animus of the editor and so does the final sentence of his remarks which is as follows if the leaders of the mormon church could be driven out of the country or imprisoned for life polygamy would die in a week the folly as am well as vindictiveness vindictive nesa of these words is manifest in the article of which this editor writes approvingly according to that the mormon lP people as a whole are a unit in sustaining polygamy it declares 1 I vve ve would rather die say they than give up this arti aralle ae of our creed and in defense of which they would tomorrow leave their ploughs and take up arms there is no reason why the leaders of the Mort mormon noW church should be driven out of utah they have done nothing to excuse their imprisonment for life and if they were not present today the people are so united and determined and ready tak to fight if the pretended mormon scribe is to be believed that the whole community is but waiting for a chance to shoulder arms and do battle for their faith leaders leader or no leaders we are promised more personal in this line shortly when that is forthcoming we think it will be proper to take some legal steps to expose the sno scoundrel undrel who has prepared the falsehoods which are being published to deceive the public and defame the cormons mormons Mor mons rind and prosecute the paper which utters and endorses the libels |