| Show f I THE 0 A R REPLY I Keasonv Why the Herald i i Seine Jenfons I I Veteran and tfo Sworn ITIor i inon s Need Apply I i j The hybrid Salt Lake Herald affects I great surprise at the fact that the G A R organization has no place in its ranks for traitors to the nation For even man who takes the Mormon Endowment oath has formally renounced his allegiance to the nation and has become the bond naton I slave to a priestly traitorous clique whose members trample upon the laws and insult the flag of the Republic I would seem hardly possible that aj the entered man who had voluntarily military service of the Union and r I j ceived an honorable discharge therefrom j could be found within the secret haunts of Mormondom But it must be remembered remem-bered that mercenary or other considerations considera-tions than patriotism or hatred of slavery may tons have moved many a man to enlist in the armies of the United States The veteran Johnson who rushes to the disloyal Herald to vent his spleen against Captain T C Bailey and the G A R ought to know that even the secret f H f n < rt 1 ftsiin4 tnCYll niiril lira llon finfl1inT irtiteillul ouiicuia 1 U u tin u uV t-in common with the sworn Mormon who has deliberately outlawed himself by pledging himself to a disloyal hierarchy How much more should a military organization founded upon Loyalty Fraternity and Charity spurn from its communion the apology for a man who sells his national birthright for a mess of priestly and polygamous pottage and whines through the columns of a Mormon paper at tlie necessary result of his own deliberate but disgraceful act Over the entrance of every faithful G A R Post may rightfully be inscribed No sworn Mormon can enter here G A 11 |
