| Show EXPOSES ITS OWN PERFIDY ON february 3rd ard the morning anti mornion Mor naon monJI liberal I organ bolls bo I 1 I 1 a over with wild eyed abuse of this journal because of our exposure of iff it and veno venomous methods unfortunately for itself it touched upon a point where it la Is particularly putrid it furnishes the best beat possible opportune opp vivid exhibition of its sped ally decomposed spot the effluvium from which ili ie offensive to the sense of every individual in instincts above the brute creation we are almost inclined to ask pardon for quoting from the columns of such a journalistic putrescence putre sence Bence but the situation seems to require that we present this from I 1 its te latest issue it the refers to the bishop went letter the tribune was deceived by that letter but promptly admitted the truth and in justification published half a dozen other real mormon sermons more venomous than that was and with them closed the mouth of the NEWS on that subject for months we propose to reply to this and with that end in view will quote from the notorious bishop west bogus red bed hot elot address 12 which very properly aroused the indignation of an entire people who were defamed by its publication li A HOT from the salt lake tribune I 1 stenographical report of bishop west bests 0 haran harangue in the juab school bouse sunday aarah march ath 1884 reported for the salt lake tribune JUAB utah march ath it is in time my brothers and sisters that we ceased this cowardly silence ana and humble submission to the rulings and machinations of the devil and hr his fiery tier imps at the capital of this god godforsaken forsaken gentile government and it is time for us to fling their defiance and scurrilous domination back in their faces we are the elect of christ and the day of judgment is at hand and its our turn then if it now which I 1 say it is when gabriel sounds his trumpet trum pet on that awful day the gentile hellhounds hell hounds will find the saints of god have got all the front seats reserved and that they cant find and standing room for themselves to in the gallery the cause is flourishing in the juab stake of zion and many souls are being daily rescued from the flames of heathenism if I 1 had my way not a house would be left standing which sheltered a knavish gentile they are eyesores in the sight of the lord and his ven vengeance n is sure to come they persecute his a saints ints and he has commanded them to destroy their persecutors he has commanded the saints to rid the earth of the sin mn smudged be heretic he has baa revealed unto us the foundation of the gentile church that it is the devil 11 II 11 nephi ch 4 verse hell is ia filled with the scurrilous gentiles and the floors of hell are paved with the skulls of apostates he who kills a gentile rids the earth of a serpent and adds a star to his own crown the saints are gathering together from sea to sea and they will rise in their awful might and fall upon the enemies of zion let the tabernacles resound with joyful voices for the fulfilment fulfillment of the prophecies ol of moroni are at hand the minions of I 1 he devil are set loose idour in our midst by the crime soaked politicians who rule our land the shades of the sainted martyr smith call aloud for vengeance at the hands of his followers the blood of the gentile persecutors persecute perseo utera rs shall be spilled on their own thresholds to appease the anger of our prophet tune the lyre and beat the cymbals for our revenge is now at hand we will wipe out the scum of the washington blood suckers and the high priest of the devil who assumes to rule in our very midst shall be cut off with A sharp instrument the thieving murray issues orders to the saints of god an and defies ever everyone but the devil who is his sponsor everyone Kone his is head will be placed upon the walls of our city and his entrails scattered throughout the streets of zion that j every gentile adventurer may behold and take a care that we are left to pursue our road to paradise unmolested our oar strength is greater than the world believes and our will is powerful ano and undaunted 1 b by v heretic me menaces naces the lord is our shepherd and we cannot fail 0 0 I 1 our secret places are stored with crafty explosives with which we wt will 11 surely destroy the strongholds strong holds of the government of 89 satan tan our young men are drilling forthe conflict and our wives and daughters are making themselves ready to minister to our wants and the day is f close at hand let the gentile leeches and E poltroons beware and win our forbear ance if yet they may the lord is sorely angered at our persecutors and he has j said to our counselors in a vision that he i will deliver our enemy into wr hands bands as j he delivered laban into the hands of nepal he will visit the earth through r us with a worse destruction than he did in the days of the flood and the ungodly will bite the dust with rage and their j blood will flow in the streets even as much as aa the waters in the day of noah behold I 1 declare unto you yon all ye saints who revere the memory of 0 ane the prophets that you yon must begin to gird ird up your loins and whet your knives ct let the religious fervor of the saints who are dead and gone recur to your weaker spirits and fire you with the zeal of the destroying angels eli murray is the cain or of our generation he hates our people and he works for our destruction that he may win for himself a reputation of valor among the ungodly it was the will of the most high that this man should be removed and it if other emissaries were chosen to fill his bis place even as many as were so chosen should be similarly dealt with if allowed to remain in our midst the sin would be on our heads for it was the command of the most high god of abraham and isaac it lay in our power to be our own rulers and nd our cowardice was the cause of sore distress to the departed saints who had left us a kingdom om 14 eli ii H murray was possessed kingdom kinrd 0 of a devil and had only the outward semblance of a man he should and must be trod upon until his bowels gushed out in the streets the length of the address is such as aa to preclude the practical ab I 1 ity of reproducing it in full enough is ili pre rented however to exhibit its ito character and intent this pernicious defamation of an entire people was of course completely exposed the general if not universal understanding being that the bogus address was manufactured in the office of the salt lake I 1 tribune there ww was at the tinie time no bishop named west I 1 in n the I 1 I 1 mormont mormon church there was no meeting hold held at the little hamlet of juab on the date given and no such address nor of its nature was delivered with thew these trifling exceptions it was genuine the infamous paper which committed this outrage upon an entire people states this morning that it was deceived and ad admitted the truth here is how it qualified the ad mission admission that the address was bogus at the time we quote from what it said amid there was not a thing in that bogus sermon ermon that has not been taught in the tabernacle harangues the alleged apology was more villainous la inous cowardly and unscrupulous than the forging publication of the fabricated address as any reasonable person will admit this heinous crime la repeated by the same journal this morning when it says that it closed the mouth of the by the pub li cation of half a dozen real mormon sermons it is now a matter of notoriety that for many years the tribune has been engaged in wholesale manufacture of alleged mormon sermons and the publication of them for outside political effect this was the object of the bogus west sermon it appeared APP eRred in the columns of the sheet et referred to the same morning that ex governor murray left this city for washington to lobby for antl anti I 1 mormon legislation to enable him to appoint all officers instead of their being elected governor thomas being in that respect a 8 worthy official successor of the two gentlemen who preceded him mr murray is said to have carried away with him on the morning of his departure at that time a whole carpetbag mil full of copies of the tribune bogus address fabrication that he might use them where they would do the most political good for the extinguishment of popular rule in utah the exposure of the forgery however crippled the utility of the fabrication for the purpose it was intended to in support of our statement to the effect that the paper whose infamy is now under criticism has been in the constant habit of manufacturing turin gand and misrepresenting mormon sermons 25 it is appropriate here to introduce a pungent piece of non mor imor raon mon and liberal testimony we quote the following from the salt lake t we are heartily ashamed of a species of journalism not to be found outside of salt lake city that revels in the most moat infamous outrageous and blasphemous travesty in its reports of certain religious worship bip we are ashamed of a species of journalism that ignores the difference between a devotional service to god and a political mass meeting we are ashamed 0 of f it because it is calculated to advert advertise ize us broadcast as a horde of barbarians without sense of honor decency or reverence when occasion requires it the times does not hesitate to strike the most powerful blows at the mormon hierarchy and they are an all the more effective because they fall direct but it would no more think of invading the sanctum of the people with foul language and cheap sport than it would of desecrating dese crating the graves of its dearest friends it takes a human jackal to do that we would not even quote in order to show the total depravity oi of lannann Lan IAn nans own any part of the report printed therein upon the tabernacle services held last sunday it is by all odds the most contemptible piece of journalism ever perpetrated in I 1 of course pat lannan knows known no better graduating from a beer bar and a butcher block to the position of an editor does not necessarily elevate ones morals or sense of decency besides that he is is in distress he has built up his organ on venom and when that falls fails of effect as it lately does the circumstances having changed he ascribes this failure to a lack of malignity and whoops up the boys to such vile base practices the wonder is that hannans Lan nans amanuensis does not rebel against tills this degradation of a newspaper this teis prostitution of a power this defamation of a city for sha melt the course of the salt bait lake liable tribune in sustaining the pernicious oua defamation of an entire people PY given to the country through the columns of the illustrated american is consistent with its course for ten years or more the effect of such vile slanders as the bogus bishop west address on the business interests of the territory goes without saying were iti statements believed who would imagine utah to be a desirable place in which to live and who would consider it a safe field in which to invest capital it to is a matter of congratulation that there begins to be an awakening among the non mormon part of the people regarding the real status of the situation the comprehension of the injury ury done to the vital material interests of utah by a bevy of political intriguers intrigue rs is becoming daily wider and more vivid A and nd strange as it may seem there even begins to be a faint glimmer of recognition from the same quarter of the fact that the mormon monn people have been most cruelly and abominably slandered and misrepresented tiet let the malig ners be snowed under a Ife healthier althier public sentiment beyond the possibility of exhumation hu |
