| Show A POT VALIANT ORATOR GEN A LOEB has baa come and gone gonrand and while here received suitable entertainment the only thing we have heard bearrd of which marred the pleasure of the oce occasion anion was a scurrilous and li bellous harangue distasteful to the general and every decent person in the party made by an alleged lawyer named frank T hoffman an AH a representative of the 0 A R in this city he was permitted to deliver an address at the rooms of the utah commission to the general and made it an opportunity to vent the liberal spleen with which he and perhaps a few others of his bis ilk were surcharged here are a few of his expressions pres prea gions to which we now call attention for years we were here in the wilderness alone preaching the doctrine of americanism and loyalty to the flag of our country in the country it is a fact the james B mckean post of G AR organized in 1878 first uni uncurled the flag of our country to the breeze and maintained it as aa the emblem of american principles in this territory we have been met by a community whose only object was the exact opposite and whose efforts and teachings have been first disloyalty to our flag disobedience to the mandates of our government and an utter disregard of all the obligations of the duties of an american citizen z en A G A R badge was at one time in this territory a symbol of disrepute but thank god it is in now becoming a badge of honor for oh ob I 1 these many years ears these people have been taught taugh tto to de d epise ise the american government disobey ra its flag that we commander revere 1 I have been a witness in years gone by when brigham young was nearly a god on earth to this people but what did he teach them hatred to I 1 everything that was americanism with all that name implies there are no doubt many gallant gallan and tand brave men associated with the G A R in this vicinity but they have not shown willom in choosing as their spokesman a person of the calibre slid and of this flannel mouthed de famer of the people how much has baa he done towards preaching the doe doc trin triDe enof americanism alone in the wilderness s and in the eremya country too the doctrine ot of whisky is more like its it so no far as be aud some others are concerned and I 1 the country of th enemies 11 to law and order whose haunts are occasionally raided by the police and if the G A R badge has ever been in this thia territory a symbol of disrepute it has hag been because some gome who wore it conducted themselves in such a disreputable manner that they disgraced that token of honor and of valor A drunken brawler who defiles theair the air with his breath and profanity to la no better because he wears tb the eGAR 0 A R badge but it to utterly false to my bay that any insignia of the 0 A B R bas baa of itself been at any time in this territory a symbol of disrepute 3 9 what can be thought of a person claiming to be an old resident of this territory who states that the flag of our coun country was farst first unfurled to the breeze here by the 0 A R and in 1878 tool too the pioneers unfurled that flag to the breeze f in n 1847 the mormon battalion carried it into mexico it was conspicuous in public gatherings of young and old in utah many years before the 0 A R was organized it was wae maintained as the emblem of american principles in this territory before hoff eloff man was able to spell flag PP no insults insult has been offered to the stars stare and stripes by the people orthis all the attempts that have been made to manufacture insults out oat of anything that has been done or imagined to have been done are the most childish of inventions or the offspring of that bogus loyalty that comes from brains becotte i 1 with liquor the community has not taught disregard of the obligations and duties of american citizens but the contrary and in their general deportment in this or any other particular would suffer buffer nothing by comparison with persons of the hoffman hoff man stripe the insult to that venerable pioneer and leader of men brigham young by such lips aal those that defamed him yesterday ought to be resented by every decent man in utah brigham y young judg never dever taught hatred of the government or of anything that to is noble an I 1 patriotic we denounce the charge made against him as false and vile and aind a libel on his name and memory it be tokens not only a malignant heart but a mind boetto lost to every sense of mein manhood hood and common decency so with all the rant about mormonism with its gory locks ulcerated form 11 cankered bosom and the rest of it the lips that uttered those words are entitled to the epithets so DO vulgarly applied and the speaker p honored the order for which he spoke and disgusted those who heard him we do not charge the G A R with the vulgarity and falsehood of hoff mn mina s harangue haran Kue but attribute it all to the source from which it emanated it is in time that sort of thing was banished with other rel relics lesof of past ant ani and every society organized in utah to promote law order and good feeling ought to put its quietus on such displays of bombast ani malevolence |
