| Show TEE ABSURDITY OF IT every now and then an anti mormon blowhard is heard denouncing noun cing the latter day saints as illiterate ignorant simpleminded and the like it is drobai bly true that all latter day saints are not college graduates but there are very few of thema that have not more wisdom judgment and manhood than their foolish bickering unscrupulous and heartless enemies during a residence of something over a year in this community we leave enjoyed the best possible facilities for ascertaining the relative degree of intelligence which the numerous gentiles and cormons mormons of this community respectively possess while there are a few individual gentiles in this city who merit the highest respect as a rule the anti mormon clement represents nothing but inferiority and we are aware that some of this in fenior class pride themselves upon being very nice people and we do not wish to offend their harmless pride but when we the fact that we have found many leading anti cormons mormons who were so nice that no considerations of reason courtesy or decent gentility could make them civil or honest the absurdity of their eions to niceness becomes apparent we have engaged in newspaper controversies in many parts of the united states and abroad in foreign lands to some in our experience peri ence we have often been drawn into heated political discussions which incurred a considerable amount of partisan vituperation animadversion and abuse but we all our experience met with any opposition so easily stung into suicidal frenzy and blood thirsty fury as the anti mor mon gang in ogdan really nice people havo characters so well known so lofty and invulnerable that no mere newspaper attack can injure them or even ruffle their dig aty but the unseemly hasto wih which half the rabid anti cormons mormons will rush at us with threats and cudgels every time we allu de even impersonally to a moral leper or the like make certain ostensible nice people appear a sorry lot indeed but whenever we have criticized criticised sharply well known anti mormon the whole local antii Mormon coterie has repeatedly gone into catnip fit gand we have been mea acad with murder and all sorts of indefinite lawlessness aa well as legal persecution and once or twice we have been actually assaulted and all this too at the hands of very nice people 1 on one occasion a notorious anti mormon who runs a shop and store on main street and who wo believe married a mormon girl undertook to demonstrate to the writer that tho cormons mormons never use hardly any oi the staple goods which he has for eale he boasted that he had the trade of certain of the city council and a few wealthy mormon with whom he got on nicely but he care ad fop the trade of the bulk ortho lunatics cs but the absurdity of liis loudmouthed loud mouthed bray is conspicuous from the fact that ever since the writer has been engaged upon this paper the merchant has been kicking like a mule managerial department and many influential cormons mormons Mor mons because as he once inadvertently declared we had up feeling which do his trade any good but out of curiosity we once solicited his advertisement and in reply we were told that we must force him to give it tous by bring ing adverse influence to bear upon hia customers just to accommodate and educate him a few of hie former patrons came to our assistance by withdrawing trade to the extent of quite a little sum but the wisdom of the gentleman will probably lead him to indulge hia continually bitter anti mormon brawl until he deservedly becomes a commercial outcast lately he haa come to the conclusion eliat the editors of alie salt lake biwald of the deseret neica and his humble servant are responsible for the present united attitude of the mormon people and therefore ought to be consigned to the penitentiary until doomsday he ia a typically absurd nice specimen of gentile superiority perio rity BRO an illinois man manasit man anit chewing tobacco but recently lie began again tho first day he enjoyed it so much that ho used ap thirty five cent worth of navy plug and then was tikon sick and for two or days acted very like a anan with |
