Show DOES IT PAY that ivas a it singular confession abi which ch waa was heard coining from the lipi lips of a gentleman in the rear of a main street store a few days since the speaker is generally known as a rancorous anti mormon and yet withal he be is a mild mannered and usually conservative man mail he confessed that bo he had often thoughtlessly and sometimes deliberately libera tely indulged his feelings clinga fc in abusing or expressing his views of the mormons in most acrimonious terms generally he had given vent to bis his pent pint up b bile ie with no immediate object in view except to make I 1 some mormon or gentile know how be he felt but he be declared that it did net not pay to indulge in each och aimless expression expressions for years he had bad been bitterly opposed to the mormons cormons Mor mons he had contributed to corruption funds to be used at washington placed use lesis advert cements in iq local anti mormon prints merely as a matter of gratuity in aid of the anti ant I 1 mormon gospel and he ha had d sacrificed life friendship and patronage of good mormon neigh bori merely through the ineffectual indulgence of hie his ho hostility tilita in word against iatter latter day saints and their leaders and practices but be he wag was now sensible ee that he had bad been kicking bic liing against the pricks so to IT speak eak those mormons whom he bad had denounced bad quietly and Bum Puril mil manly rily let him have a wi nido do berth in a thousand tearcey cc arcely y observable waye wale his hi interests bad brid been i 1 fy aade to juse i uffer 1 f A wall of opposition pp haal been erected against him in eucha way that t h at he 11 found round himself simply shutout shu to out of ahr many avenues of prosperity and happi ness without hardly knowing kno wing how or why A thousand and one times ahad ae had been led to aresu presume m e that tho abat mormons were on the ev eve e of df destruction true truc tion ionas us a church and as 09 a apart part of G f the e body politic ic but an equal number of timea times he had beai entirely disappointed no it docs does not pay to wag ones tongue and empty ones purse in aimless efforts to wound the feelings fee linge of the mormon or to build up the ever doubtful and waning fortunes ot ot t abo be loyal leaders reiterated the gentleman gent leinan experience had evidently learned him some valuable lessons noise abuse and eleemosynary co contributions indulged in ad ad nauseam only redound to the disadvantage di of the party lirty w wholes bouses them thern A pian a who has any interests at stake or who even has a true regard for his own caples will guard his lips against the useless excitement of or antagonisms there is rarely arely a being that has not some influence A dead lion cannot be safely kicked jest a a companion co from froni the jungle avenge the cowardly insult to 0 the dead orators or law aw yera may indulge in invective and professional writers may wield tho the bludgeon of criticism it is their business buei nesa but when the average citizen absorbed in lois public pursuits angrily grasps the stinging weapons of the orator or the 0 scribe he be usually only succeeds in wounding himself severely in the sebal some philosophers ere have held and plausibly too that buly narrow minds cherish rankling and pestiferous personal hatreds hat reds surely only minds a of decide cf mediocrity indulge in ever last ilig perA personal onal feuds and yet it is truo that hostility to the mor mons in a multitude of individual L pa caama leibas has degenerated into chronic petty petty personal i antipathies antipa thies but ain an contending honestly for principle great minds rarely or n never ver allodi allow abe their 1 r bosoms to writhe and rankle with email smail personal grudges towards opponents who thus sh show ow how deeply they have wounded their assailants of email small calibre and doubtful judgment trul truly y it does rint PRY to perpetuate personal ani ma which grow out of tion over political or other public questions and a person who has interests at stake can least of al as afford to incur tb the q unnecessary hostility h 0 tilita of tha th humblest humble al of gods creatures |