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Show Phil Robinson Resurrected. H The Deserot News copies lovingly from a paper H that copies from Phil Robinson's book on Mor- H monism. That awakens some memories. When H cynical Hurlbert was losing coin and prestige and H many other valuable assets on ho Now York H World, tho thought struck him one day that Utah H ought to be a good field for subscribers. There H was much agitation here at tho time. It was in H the' days when prosecutions were rapid and the 4H oyos of tho country wore turned this way. Hurl- H bert picked up that jolly English adventurer Phil H Robinson and sent him to Utah with Instructions 'H to take tho side of the under dog and give Mor- ;H monism a character. Robinson came; ho had let- H tors to tho faithful; he was received with open lH arms, fod, housed, given every attention, and ijH properly posted by Brother Penrose and others, !H commenced writing to the World. When tho let- H tors began to come back, they and the writer of ,1 them began to receive attention. The Tribune at H that time did what It could to extend the acquaint- ifl ance if not the reputation of Mr. Robinson, and : H often quoted from his letters and commented up- on them. Wo remember that after spending a week in a certain hamlet of the Territory, Rob- jfl inaon wrote to the World that it was a spot that Iliad never been in the least contaminated by Gentile Gen-tile influences, and it was a joy to see a place where a gentle; sincere raligion had culminated in such purity as the ttiudh traveled Phil Robinson Rob-inson had never been a wltnoss of before, the Tribune, always perverse, copied the statement and then asserted that in that particular hamlet there had not boon a marriage in the previous two years that a birth had not followed to the happy hap-py pair, in from six months down to two months afer the marriage. This statement awakened the wrath of the Doseret News. It stormed with all the vehemence of an outragod organ of the Lord, and the people of that hamlet threatened to go to Salt Lake in a body and make short Work of the Tribune and all connected with it. Then the Tribune assured all concerned that If it had done an Injustice it was anxious to make good, and added that if the county clerk of that county in which the hamlet was situated would send a copy of the official record of the marriages and blrtlm in that hamlet, copied from his records, with tho. dates, for the previous two years, the Tribune would gladly publish the same. Strange as it may seem the News suddenly lost its indignation, indig-nation, the peoplo of that hamlet made no more throats, the county clerk never sent the record and the incident passed into the silence. Things grew hotter and hotter for Phil Robinson and he began to wish that he had never engaged in the work. One night to cheer himself he partook too largely of the cup which both cheers and inebriates, inebri-ates, and then he said such things about how he had been entertained by the Saints, that he found it necessary not to stand upon the order of his leaving. TItah, but to go at once; and ho wont That was a good while ago, so long that now the News again calls him up as a witness Of the Ohristly spirit of Mormonlsm. And it is like the News. |
