The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-28
COUGH.
Some Structures on Him and
Other Temperance Advo.
Gates.

ICES the doiDgs of his Jackale, the
dirty and contemptible forerunners
in the temperance business In this
city.
II has been the misfortune of our
town, that we have had for the
| apostles of temperance some of the
most unprincipled, and depraved
animals that were ever created, by
accident or otherwise. Under cover
of the temperance cause several of
these unconscionsble frauds, have
been allowed by the good people
who sympathized with the object,
to ecome of some import nee
among Us, and the dOings of some OF
these fellows have been outrageous,
and scandalOus in the extreme
Without doubt, they have injured
the cause. in q manner, and to a de.
gee, en- rely beyond calculation.
Nearly all the crimes in the category
are charged to several Of the. e
So called reformers; from petty
dabbiings in fraudulent securities,
and imposing on the too
confiding tradesmsn, down to
the lowest drunkenness and
ad ulterous lechery. Almost without
exception though, these whited Sc
pulchres have received the endorses
ment of the well meaning, but stu
pidly blind people who of course
hoped that good would result from
the lab0rs OF these monomaniacal
ranters. They managed to seeure
the aid And comfort Of the mission
churches, by making it rule to
abuse and injure The Mormon
church, whenever an oppcr-
tuniiy presented it.elf, and
finiing that it paid to do 50,
they have almost uniformly fol-
lowed that practice. Everything
that could be said or done to bring
odium upon the Mormons has been
done by a large number OF the e
men, who, ss everybody is well
aware, as general thing, cannot
afford to be called upon for past
life record. A large proportion of
them are Old drunkai DIS, who, for
reasons lest known to themselves,
have changed their habits, or pre-.
tend to have done so, as the case
may be. Strange to say, they
imagine there is great credit due
them because, having st one time
been at the very bottom Of thu
slough of degradation, they bave
d ansged to crawl up a few steps
and look up among respectable and
better-balanced people. Instead Of
realizing that the very highest favor
they can confer upon themselves
would be the keeping out of sight,
and thereby allowing their neigh
bors to forget their degradation,
they rush TO the front and declare
themselves go much the superior OF
all who have led decent lives that,
If they teach any lesson at all, it is
that there is no chance of attaining
to any particularly important posi-.
ton IN life except throug h The filthy
sloughs in which they 80 long wal
lowed and enjoyed themselves. All
decent people, of course, are
pleased to see these unfortunate
men in better condition, and all
who are charitably inclined Will en-
deayor to overlook the unmistakab bic
signs of the abuse to which they
have submitted Themselves; but
they must not expect that
men whose brains have not been
softened by the continued use Of al
cohol, will acknowledge themselves
inferior to them. They must not
imagine that because they have for
season refrained from their beastly
orgies, we owe them anything
on that &C count; they are simply do
ing their duty now, but they have
the impudence to ask us to give
them great praise for that, because
they have heretofore so disgrace
fully neglected it. Instead of sit
ting on public platform. or parad
ing the streets, for the purpose OF
making an exhibition of themselves
as retired dronkards, and announc-
ing to the world thereby that they
are lost 10 all sense of shame, COM
mon sense ought to suggest to them
the propriety of crawling into hole
and pulling the hoe in after them.
Often when l have seen these
foolish, but of course well meaning
unfortunates, pushing themselves
into too conspicuous places, I have
wished from the tottom of my
heart that God would open their
ewes to the fact that they were
parading their own degradation,
and glorying in their own disgrace.
But to come back to Cough. He
has caught the infection from the
rabid anli-Mormon temperance
men, and as they nave found it TO
be a good paying investment to be-
lie the Mormons, he joins in the hue
and cry. a very observsnt friend
Of mise said to me regarding Cough
the other day: He u. d 20 have the
Interest of temperance at heart,
but now it lies in his pocket" The
action of the great temperance
speaker while in this city would
seem to corroborate that remark, as
it is said that the Redpath lecture
bureau taxed the temperance men of
this city, the modest little sum of
$500 for the disinterested efforts Of
Mr.. Cough ON the stage of the Salt
Lake Theatre, the other evening,
and although, without doubt, Cough
receives at the least $500 OF that