The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-23
Wants to Crush Them .

Editors Herald:
HOLSTER has been at it again. /
should not mention his name, but
he puts it forward in bold relief
himself. He has been writing again
to the st. Paul Press, until he has
perfectly sickened that more mod
crate journal with his rabid and ar.
rant anti-American utterances, and
caused it to respectfully decline to
be re-surfeited with any further
nauseouS doses Of his. He charac-
terizes the Edmunds law as an i'm
becility. How bad Edmunds must
feel at that unkindest cut, alter
having exhausted his senatorial
wisdom and experience over that
very law! Why, it is worse than to
be stabbed in the back with a pin
Now, the way HJllister talks
about TIE Mormons aud Mormon
ism is perfectly astounding He
evidently thinks he knows it all,
and more than that. But l would
warrant that his wonderful knoWl.
edge is ignorance as gross as the
densest Egyptian darkness, in the
opinion of The MOTmons themselves,
who certainly know a thing or two
about MormOnism and themselves
that he doesn't, and is not likely to
know. Experience teaches that the
most ignorant persons are often
those who f1Atter themselves that
they know il all.
Well, this redoubtable Hollister
goes in for the EXTREMIST measures.
No halfway measures for him. He
does not want pottering policy
that only irritates. He does not
want to lrritate the Mormons. Not
he. That is not his plan He wants
to crush them. Goodness gracious
What a monster! He wants to
mash them up into mince meat, and
see if that won't cure them of pre-
Stunning to think and act for them
selves in religious matters. Why,
what a tiger-like Mormon-eater he
must be. TO be sure! The ancient
school readers said of the tiger, that
it was fierce without proYocation
and cruel without necessity"
That's Hoilister all over. He has
not the hesitancy nor the magma
nimity of the lion. Again, we are
told of a certain debased Roman EN-.
peTor who wished that his people
had but one neck, so that he might
destroy them all at one blow. Evil
IDENTIFY that is how Hollister would
like to squelch Mormonism. If l
believed in the transmigration of
souls, should be inclined to believe
that the soul of that old Roman
monster had descended into the
body of this modern HollisteT, He
wants to make a dead sure thing of
this Mormon matter by crushing its
life out, by merciless eXtermina-
ton. That was something like Mac
beth's plan, and he crushed, he MUIR
dered some who stood in his way.
But he did more. He also murdered
s'eep for his own guilty self, and the
crushed Banquo would not doWp,
murder could not down him to
Macbeth's morbidly excited fears
So it would be with HOLSTER, were
he to have his bloody way with the
J MOrmOns, In sheer mercy to him
an overruling Providence may pre-
vent him from having his own way
entirely. Why, L have no doubt
in the pride of his own in
| fdel heart, he would like tC
dethrone the Almighty him
self. But, bless your soul, hi
couldn't do it. He is but poor
weak mortal, whose breath is in his
nostrils, and one day it will leave
them and he will helplessly crumblt
back, dust to dust, earth to earth
ashes to ashes, as mightler men thar
he have done.
| He talks as if he was a terribl,
injured man, and the MOrmons haC
done it. wonder wherein they hay,
injured him. He goes about doin|
what he likes. He'can believe in any
religion he pleases, or no religion al
all, which perhaps would please hin
better still. He can vote. He cal
| hold Office, if he gets elected or ap
pointed. He can pursue any bust
ness he pleases, or loaf at the stree
corners. He can stay in the Terri
tory or leave it. He has liberties o
which many far better men and citi
zens are deprived through the sense
less rawlings of just such men as he
What more does he want? TIL
Mormons did not make hin
an ext. o. H. President ar
thur did that. Yet he, HOLSTER
wants to crush the Mormons
What a horribly unreasonabl
fellow he is What's Mormonisn
to him, or he to Mormonism
There is no compulsion on him t
be, or not be, a Mormon. He want
a legislative commission. He wan t
martial law. He wants to crust
out the life and soul of Mormonisn
by hydraulic or some other irresist
IDLE pressure, that shall leave no
: an iota of hope or republication
He is dreadfully sore on polygamy
But does he or does he not worl
that Iagoan smile of his in tn
direction of seduction, adultery an
prostitution That's a question
Those things are usually "not in tn
marriage relation" as his frienC
mathematical Murray, is fond 0
Oberving.
HOLSTER says to the Press: 81