Show VILLAINOUS ANTAGONISM A SCRAP OF HISTORY I WE HAVE examined the state state- statements statements statements ments of a large number of the news news- newspapers newspapers newspapers papers of the country regarding the present situation of Utah affairs One cannot help noting the similar similar- similarity similarity similarity ity of their utterances It is need need- needless needless needless less to state that fey roey are against the Mormon There people are reasons for this attitude of the American press The position the pavers papers assume is the popular one It if is 8 much easier to float eat with the current than to buffet it by trying to swim up stream Many of them do not manifest the slightest inclination inclination inclination nation to investigate the subject by considering the evidence pro and con oon All AU they want w nt to know is that thata a matter is against the When this is the case they shut their eyes swallow the dose holes bolus bolua and deal it out again to the public A positive ve evidence of this care care- careless careless careless less and it might be said from a amoral amoral amoral moral standpoint criminal method of dealing with important import lOt int subjects has lately presented itself to us and to some extent accounts for the re- re remarkable remarkable re remarkable journalistic unanimity on the matter referred to In scan scan- scanning scanning scanning ning numerous articles upon the present political aSpe aspect t of Utah affaIrs we have discovered a large amount of plagiarism One paper will publish an original Mor anti mon Mor mon article and in the course of a afew afew afew few days the same production will ap appear ar in half a dozen other jour jour- journ journals journals n nals ls without tb the the change of a single word yet the reproducers present it as original editorial matter This shows that there is some truth in inthe inthe the rejoinder of a journalist to an- an another another another other writer who quoted the worn worn- out The phrase phrase The pen is mightier than the sword The retort was that the 8 scissors and paste brush were not to be sneezed at in the th same connection This little statement of the me too methods of some newspaper writers gives the public a peep e- e behind be behind hind the j journalistic scenes scenE'S Echo Echo- Ism is however an inconsistent basis of unanimity A little reason and fairness are essential ingredients Ingredients ingredients But thus the world wags and the apparently weaker party in ina ina ira a controversy gets all the cuffs and kicks fro from from n the onlookers without regard to the merits of the matter in dispute So 80 far as re relates ates to re recent ent develop develop- developments developments developments ments the facilities for presentation to the public of statements connect connect- connected connected connected ed with them have been almost exu ex u r F r J I in the bands hands of the local Mormon anti Mormon party They have kept the wires hot in conveying to the country the most sensational damaging an ani I sided one-sided exhibits Testimony given in court of 1 an anti Mormon color no matter how how distorted and un- un untrue untrue un untrue true was heralded abroad with s a blast w while hUe evidence that completely annihilated it given by wit wit- witnesses witnesses I nesses on both sides was completely shut shut off from the scrutiny of t the e public throughout the country A flagrant instance of this dia dia- diabolic diabolic diabolic bolic process was the scattering of the bloody story told by Martin Wardell Wardell about the murder by Mor mons of William Green near Green Oreen River Biver in 1862 The parties who sent this defaming story over ever the nation have carefully suppressed so far as they have bave had the power fact that the tale was an atrocious anti Mormon falsehood coined for political purposes and to pro pro- produce produce produce duce an outside effect It never has been announced to the press prees at large as a matter of justice to an innocent people that William Greenis Green is aU alive e and well weB as witness his sworn statement TERRITORY OF UTAH COUNTY OF UTAH I J JWilliam as William Green being duly sworn on Englishman his oath says Iam I am an English English- Englishman p man by birth bir resident h five fifty years of age and now a resident of Spanish Fork anty Utah County Territory of Utah the plains in 1862 in Captain bythe Dames Dame's company I knew a man by the name of Wardell he crossed the thea a plains and came to Utah in the same company a- a aI I did We traveled to- to together together to together gether until the company art ar ived at a point near n ear William rash rach in Parleys Parley's Park where I left the train ahead of the company com pany being anxious to meet my wife WhO who who was then In Salt Lake LakeI I City she having hading traveled over the plains the same ame season wi- wi wih win h Captain Hoyt's company I have lived in Salt Lake City and Sp nish Fork City I since I came to Utah I was the only man by the name of Green that I know of who came over in Captain Dames Dame's company No man was killed r in that company by the name of didI Green or of any other name nor did I ever hear of any rumor t of f anyone any one oneA A being killed in said company compare y until I saw the statement of Wardell recently in the papers I I am not a Mormon nor have I been for several years I Iam Iam am not a believer in Mormon theo then theocracy theocracy cracy but do believe it wrong to have any religious ous sect or body of people assaIled by falsehood WILLIAM GREEN Subscribed aud and sworn to before me thIS methis day of November 1889 z WILLIAM CREER SEAL Notary Public On the ground of the alleged j murder of Mr Green the newspapers newspapers pers pera of the the nation are busy denouncing denouncing denouncing ing as cut tb throats cut a peaceable com com- community corn who view jew murder with i abhorrence yet who Is ri I it r I there outside outride of the I Mormon C peo peo- people people pIe that has hue the manhood rn and cour cour- courage courage courage age to denounce nce the outrage Echo repeats the interrogatory The Wardell Warden story tory brings to mind minda a bit of history in which the local Mormon anti Mormon politicians politician were the I It t chief actors aeton The infamous infamous pi piece ce of t j business now referred to was wa perpetrated perpetrated perpetrated for the same ame purpose as a that R which incited the recent proceed proceed- proceedings proceed I ings before the District Court and I the same warne lying process was wan resorted to The object was wax to show how that the f Mormons are disloyal to the gov gov- government government government and that they are a mur- mur murI murderous mur I 1 derous people On March 1884 I the following appeared in the chief anti anti- Mormon anti Mormon Liberal organ of this city under the caption of A RED BED HOT ADDRESS report of Bishop rf West's t harangue in tn the Juab Ju b school school- schoolhouse schoolhouse chool house Sunda Sunday March 1884 Re Repotted potted for the Salt Lake Tribune I JUAB Utah March f- f fIt It is ii time my brothers brother and sisters ri ter that we w ceased this cowardly silence I ham and humble submission to the rulings and machinations machination of the devil and his fiery imps at the capital of this thi God God- Godforsaken Godforsaken God forsaken Gentile government and and- it itis itis itla is met for us u to fling their thair defiance fY and scurrilous domination back in 0 their faces facea Weare We are the elect of Christ Chri tand and the diy d lY y of judgment is i at hand and tn ts our turn then if it it isn't now which I say ay it is When Gabriel sounds Ill Bound his trumpet on that awful day the Gentile hellhounds hellhound will find the Saints of God have got all the front seats ata reserved and that they cant can't find standing room for themselves in the gallery The cause causse is r flourishing in inthe inthe inthe the Juab Stake of many souls are being daily rescued from the flames of heathenism If I had my mya a way not a house would be left stand stand- standing standing land landing ing which sheltered hollered a knavish Gen Gen- Gentile Gentile Gentile tile They are eyesores eye orea in the tb sight right of oft t the Lord and His Hr vengeance is i sure ure to come They His Hi Saints Saint and He Be has haa commanded them to destroy their prosecutors pro He has hai com com- commanded commanded 1 the Saints Saint to rid the earth arthof ot of the sin rin heretic He H has haa revealed unto us ui the foundation foundation tion n of the Gentile Church that it is the devil II Nephi chap chap- chapter chapter ter four verse verae Hell is i filled with the scurrilous Gentiles and the floors floor of hell are paved pared with the skulls of apostates He who kills a Gentile rids rid the earth of ofa 01 a serpent and adds a star tar to his biu own crown The Saints are gathering together from sea sea eato to sea lea and they will rise in their oil might and fall upon the enemies of Zion Let the tabernacles tabernacle resound with joyful voices for the fulfil fulfil- fulfilment fulfilment ment of the prophecies of Zion is in at hand The minions minion of the devil are set loose in our midst by the crime- crime soaked politicians politician who rule our land The shades bade of the sainted minted martyr Smith call aloud for vengeance at the hands of his hilt followers The The blood of the Gentile persecutors per shall ball be spIlled on their own thresholds thre boldi to appease the anger of our prophet Tune the lyre and beat the cymbals for our revenge is i now at ai baud band We W will wipe out the tb scum cum of the tb Washington blood suckers Buckers and the high priest of 01 F the devil who assumes as um to rule h in iii our ourt t very verv midst shall haU be b cat off with a sharp f s r fit rf instrument The thieving Murray issues sues orders to the Saints Saint of God and defies everyone every one but the devil who is ishi his sponsor His Hi head will be placed upon the walls wall of our city and his hi entrails scattered throughout the streets of Zion that every Gentile ad- ad adventurer adventurer ad adventurer may behold and take a care that we are left to pursue our road to Paradise unmolested Our strength is r great great- greater greater greater er than the word world believes and our will is i and undaunted by heretic menaces The Lord is i our Shepherd and we cannot fail The red man is our firm ally and he thirsts for the blood of the enemy of Zion We are powerful and unassailable in our mountain home and we will roll the massive boulders boulder of destruction down from the mountain tops upon the heads head of the unregenerate Our secret ecret places places are are stored with crafty ex- ex explosives explosives ex plosives with which we will surely de- de deli de deal al Sf roy the strongholds of the govern govern- government Rovern-ment Rovern ment of Satan Our y young ung men are drilling for the conflict and our wives and daughters daughter are making themselves ready read to minister to our wants want and the Tay day is i close clo e at hand Let the Gen Gen- Gentile Gentile Gentile tile leeches and beware and aLd aLdwin win our forbearance if yet they may The Lord i- i sorely orely angered at our persecutors per- per and He has said laid to our s counselor in a vision that He will deliver our enemy into our hands hand as asHe asHe a aHe He delivered Laban into the hands hand h of He will visit the earth i through throw h us u with a worse wor e destruction than He did in the days day of the flood I and the un ungodly odly will bite the dust dustI I with rage and their blood will flow in the streets street of Zion Zinn even evena as much as a the waters in the day of Noah Behold I declare unto you all ll ye Saints who revere the memory of the Prophets that you must t begin to gird up your loins loin and andI I het hot het your knives 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 destroy destroy- destroying destroying destroying ing angels Eli Murray is the Cain Oain of our generation He hates hales our people and he works for our destruction that he may win for himself a reputation of valor among the ungodly He i if a damned scoundrel anda and a pestiferous leper He IS r the polluted scum oum of cor cor- corruption corruption corruption He reeks reek with ungodliness and he is rotten with heresy Icom I com com- command command command mand every true disciple di ciple of Christ to for this thin damned Yankee in- in interloper interloper in interloper and ye know that there is protection enough for you in Zion if ye kill the whole Gentile race Last night as a I lay in my bed thinking over the affaIrs affair of the Church and possessed essed of a strange restlessness and praying the while for inspiration inspiration in pir aion from the Most HIgh that I might see ee the way more mor clearly to a sure ure release of my breth breth- brethren brethren brethren ren from bondage behold a great and glorious light suddenly filled mr my apartment with a glow bright brighter r than the sun un I was wa at first nr t afraid and in- in inclined inclined in inclined strongly to leap from my bed and flee flea But of a sudden I heard a voice which caused my heart to beat with tumultuous joy for it was wa that of Joseph Smith I gazed at him ear ear- earnestly ear nestly expecting and hanging on the words which should hould perchance fall from his hi lips lip and I beheld that chat his garme ts were ol of dazzling whiteness and that his bia skin was of a dazzling and heavenly whiteness save cave the blood blood- blood r red d spots spot pota and livid wounds where the bullets of the cursed Gentiles had en- en entered en entered his hi sainted minted body and which were now visible to their eternal dam dam- damnation damnation damnation nation as a were the marks mark of the nails nail which pierced the hands hand and feet of Christ Joseph spoke poke to me m in a voice of wondrous sweetness w tn w blended with strains of the direst direct severity when he be spoke poke of the fate in store tore for those Saints who what he sh should uld now command them Joseph bade me meto meto meto to cat cast my eyes about and behold the presence in the midst midat of the Saints of an emissary of tile the devil It was vas the will of the t lie Most High that this man should be lie removed and if other emis- emis emissaries emissaries emi saries aries were chosen to fill his place even as many as were so chosen should should be similarly dealt with If allowed to remain in our midst the sin rin would be beon beon beon on our heads for it was the command of the Most Mo t H High God of Abraham and Isaac It lay in our power to be our own rulers ruler and our cowardice was the cause of sore wore distress to the departed Saints who had left us u a king king- kingdom kingdom kingdom dom Eli H Murray was wax possessed po of a devil and had only the outward semblance of a man He should and must be trod upon until his hr bowels gushed out into int the streets The in- in incarnate incarnate in incarnate carnate fiend lurked invisibly behind his hellish disciple and was wax intent upon the destruction of Zion The time was short abort s and vigorous and hn fin immediate mediate action n peremptory The e cusses cur of eternal ion awaited those who failed in this holy mission mi ion The z work must not stop atop at the destruction of one of these hounds hell these like like Erebus pestilences in the folds of the anointed but must extend even to the farthermost corners cornera of the earth until every heretic out of hell was wa sent ent home and the Latter-day Latter Saints were rulers of the land Much more the beloved Joseph said to me which I |