Show RECEIVED WITH THANKS editor deseret news the salt lake tribune of monday last contained the following complimentary notice of vay my lecture in the theatre last sunday evening charles ellis the mormon mountebank and pensioner delivered a lecture at the salt lake theatre last evening and in his usual nauseating style blackguarded black guarded the tribune and the protestant and catholic religions he declared that if the protestants and catholics accepted the bible that they also accepted polygamy and priesthood the only being that the latter practiced practiced them openly while the pro te stants and catholics did it on the sly A patriarch stood at the entrance with a basket soliciting alms for the mouthing mendicant and although fully people were present there were not as many cents in the pot 11 in the first place I 1 would say I 1 am glad to know I 1 did not entirely destroy the writing corps e of the trib 11 last las winter it has been so silent with reference to myself for eight months that I 1 feared it had bad gone down home it gives me pleasure to learn the contrary t secondly mormon mountebank Monte bank and pensioner is good I 1 like that kitisin it is in the trib tribes s best vein and has thereal the real guttersnipe flavor of that exceedingly liberal organ I 1 am not so good a mormon as I 1 might be but I 1 have mounted the trib 11 mule and banked it or broken it to sad ead di die and bridle in spite of its vicious bucking and kicking it speaks from its own experience thirdly As to 14 nauseating style this from the itria trib 11 can mean only that as usual I 1 made it sick isick to its sturn Mick 11 this is a confession that I 1 did not expect it to make fourthly the ilabe mouthing mendicant la Is touching the trib 11 evidently dently is offering me a bribe by making an appeal to the people to chip in generously for my benefit bouef ft that I 1 am something of a mend amend docant is in shown in the fact that I 1 mouthed the trib and its liberal party that have lived on cant all these years into a partial paralysis fifthly although fully people were present there were not as many cents in the pot 21 there the selfishness ness of the trib 11 comes to the surface and gives it a black eye did it want that money and was cha chagrined griped because it could not play a holdup hold up game on the doorkeeper and jet get away with the cents singular what a love of money the trib has basl the sight eight of a few dollars blinded its eyes to the fact that people were present comp composing as bright intelligent and appreciative an audience as can be gathered in salt lake and one third of the persons present were rion non mormons cormons Mor mons most of whom learned many things in reference to the mormons cormons and their mal malig ignera ners that the trib did not want them to know the pot was waa good it paid all expenses and left me an increase of three hundred and thirty five percent over the pot of the sunday before that ison the former occasion I 1 cleared one centa cent a beautiful little littie copper cent it was perhaps a widows mite and I 1 intend to have a scarf pin made of it the pot of last sunday gave me clear of course the trib J 1 cannot understand how or why a man should work for truth siad and defend the right without getting big money for it that is because it exists for crush 1119 ug truth and trampling on the right it gets its money that way does it not no doubt the irria 11 wonders how howa I 1 can work for nothing in defense of the cormons mormons when I 1 might get even a month 11 for lying about them that to is because the trib P never having been worthy of bearing a whisper from the higher voices does not know that the man who stands for the true and the right though he stand alone as J t havil had to d do 0 yet lays a tariff apon cupon all the honest men and women of the world and to is austad sustained ned by I 1 tap powers above 12 poor as I 1 sin am I 1 can call more dollars to hand if need be than the pauper who arute that squib in the trib 11 and in all this town none holds a debt against me can the trib say as rauch bauch in conclusion let we me say that I 1 begin next sunday evening a course of lectures on national topics they will ill be instructive to many and I 1 trust interesting to all who may hear bear them I 1 can without boasting say that in these theme lectures I 1 will give more education for the people than the trib 11 1 1 has given in all the twenty yeara year 4 of its existence in fact it would be well for the trib 11 to bring in its staff and make up a primary class for the study of american principles CHARLES ELLIS |