Show A PAIR OF THE rev J wesley hill sends senas word to the newspapers that he has arrived safely at Phil philadelphia adelphi where ansbert he be has gone to make answer to a suit auit for libel planted by the rev sam small for utterances said to have been made by hill concerning smalls manipulation of utah university funds we are glad to learn that the rev bev hill has all right we hope i too that he may succeed in establishing his right to say all that he charged and more besides concerning small for we don dont donit it believe that anything like half the story has been told and we hope with equal earnestness that the rev sam small will prove his right to pursue his highly interesting and graphic observations on the works and personal virtues of the rey rev I 1 W hill for there are indications that the half of his story has not yet gone abroad this delectable affair viewed from both sides and the front has follo followed wed the line of poetic justice with such admirable precision that we should regret now to have its former perfection marred by an untimely interruption 4 before the principals in the cue case are en satisfied we have had somewhat to say already of the public side of the career of mr small it is proper for those I 1 interested ri te rested in these people to know that in the person of rev J wesley hill he has a foeman worthy of his steel rev hill like rev small is a man of incalculable genius and boundless fertility of resource and invention whether in the capacity of a pulpit calumniator a sensational revivalist a financial solicitor a political ward worker a hippodrome advertiser or a curbstone real estate broker he be labors with a zeal for self interest rarely exercised by specialist in these branches of humbug industry he came to ogden several years ago to convert that region to methodism he celebrated his advent with a series of cooked up pulpit assaults on chemor rona ons which for vulgar bravado and so se rational Fat ional slander were comparable only t to the sand lot harangues of dennis kearney the ardor of his scandal suffered a serious relapse rela pae however when the ogden standard displayed in parallel columns the tha sermons of the greater genius but lesser blatherskite dewitt talmage from which this local brawler had been stealing literally his anti mormon thunderbolts to a less vigorous agitator this would have been pretty much of a deathblow but to the rev hill it was like rebuke to an apache horse thief it put blood in his bis eye and brutality in his nerve from that day to the present so far as we know hla bilious stomach has been loaded with the vilest decoctions decoct ions which the anti mormon DIP could yield and no matter where he was it required but the mention of mormon to raise his gorge the achles of his disgusting breath have come back from nearly every station of importance on en route whenever he be took his eastern trips which he has done pretty regularly to keep his missionary services properly advertised raise funds and make opportunities for inflating his personality so far as we know he be has sue ceded very well he has some way procured the means for the erection of a very line fine church in ogden on the corner tablet of which chic h in bold characters is inscribed Inser ibid rev J wesley hill pastor IJ thus is erected to posterity at least one sub memorial of his bis triumphant eg ottEm we reassert that in speaking of these interesting landmarks of his history there is not the slightest wish to reflect a single disparagement upon his suit with small we bellev believe sincerely that the causes of both th these reverend gentlemen ai are just and we hope they will each be pursued until the wrongs of both are thoroughly satisfied and that the interests of the public in the premises may at the same time be promoted |