| Show A sensational SENSATION AI PREACHER in the person of rev sherman hill butte has a preacher who seems to be somewhat given to sensationalism on sunday evening last he preached a sermon on manhood or mammon and undertook to show that in america mammon was getting away with manhood he cited many illustrations of this idea by showing that greed for gold was becoming the chief characteristic of americans and that they would engage in many vocations and lines of business that were sinful for the sake of the money to be made out of them he cited particularly the saloon the sensational newspaper and the lobbyist in the course of his sermon as printed in the butte miner appears this paragraph s when important legislation against mormonism a standing anding At shame to american decency was pending certain mere merchants hants in new york americas example of telegraphed I 1 certain members of congress new york sold worth of goods to utah last year hands off 1 I 1 so anti mormon legislation pending in congress was opposed by new york merchants who claimed to have sold thirteen million dollars worth of goods in utah in one year this is news to the i parties that were chiefly interested at the time it is doubtful if that much merchandise was ever imported into utah in any single year prior to the end of the raid from all outside points put together to say nothing of the single city of new york there were merchants in new york who favored the anti mormon legislation that was passed by congress and there were other merchants in that city who opposed it but the opposition to it swing in utah a thirteen million dollar annual trade nor more than a small fraction of that amount nor was it strong enough in any place or direction to prevent congress from passing harsh and cruel laws notably the act confiscating and es cheating private property which the sober judgment of that body afterwards condemned and repealed and for the enforcement of which it made partial restitution tf the service of mammon to the extent of shielding the mormon people from adverse legislation is the most devoted service the merchants merchant of new york have ever rendered to the deft deceit ful god their lot in a future state wh be much more agreeable than a graw jimi if many people expect that it will be 1 |
