The Press., 1884-09-18
.sl felslL aa aA2I9alaLA aaE
Issued Every Thursday Evening.

.E'5' ,.', Issled Every Thursday Evening. .sl. 2 ZZZ--Z ' zzIHe --T-Z T | - and. all of whom sympathize with the. speaker's opinions tsS9s .- [. .G-5 f3i.
 When Speaker Blaine asked for his bill at the Continental Hotel, Salt Lake City, then kept by Mormons, he was told that it had already been settled by the saints This is an old and favorite game with "Gods high priests" and has often been highly successful, but on this occasion signally failed s'I allow no one to pay my bills" said the irate speaker, and thus collapsed the Mormon attempt to buy one congressman. '@+'''' -'7" @-9~
 Of course Elder Hart is with the demo- cratic party, which is the cruelest thing that can be said of it. But when this man of God speaks flor all Utah, and declares that ssthe only people there who feel op- posed to him (Cleveland) are the federal ofice-holders, who ssoppose him because his election would mean the loss of the po- sitions they now hold, he tells barefaced lie. There is hardly a gentle in Utah who has not sunk his political party in his ardent desire to see the territory Ameri- canized. Whatever party seems most in earnest in bringing about this change, is the party for winch every man and woman outside of the Mormon church would vote if the privilege were given. Some of my best friends in Utah are Gentle demo- crats, and I know that express their sentiments. There are 5000 gentiles in Salt Lake City alone. Unless this vera cious Hart can prove that they are all ''fed- eral office holders" his falsehood becomes apparent to the least discerning. :.
 Referring to the recent murder of Mor- mon missionaries in Tennessee, Elder Hart told his amiable interviewer that travelling elders were rotten-egged and often killed. As matter of fact they are seldom rotten egged and very rarely killed. In what states has a Mormon ever been killed? In those where states rights are upheld, where the democratic party rules public opinion-1n Georgia, Missouri, Tennessee How beautifully is the Mormon hoist with his own petard No law-abiding citizen will uphold murder under any circum- stances, and every intelligent opponent of Mormonism knows that the shedding of blood is its best possible advertisement. Though the persons murdered be the most insignificant of the race, they immediately become martyrs. So has it been with the liseveral elders who were shot down in Ten nessee. Memorial services have been held throughout Utah, and the lliterate saints have one more proof of the wickedness of this republic. The speakers in Salt Luke Tabernacle attributed the murders to the result "of bigoted prejudice on the part of ignorant and misinformed individuals, such acts being the outgrowth of the flood of misrepresentation and falsehood chiefly emanating from this city (Salt Lake) and continually kept before the country at large by their enemies" ~... .-.s.
 l These high priests of the tabernacle are as regardless of truth as Elder Hart. The Tennessee murders were the result of local causes. Polygamy is said to have been preached, and efforts had been made se cretly to convert married women. "Ig norant" Tennesseeans are the last people in this country to read eastern newspapers and to know about Mormonism or any thing else unless the matter comes home to them. Those Americans who have | been most jstfioosleGn P with what the higl priests are pleased to call "falsehoods, but which an impartial world may regard as facts, are the last to advocate persecu tion. They ask for the enforcement o law, not for cowardly attack upon insignif icant tools. This high priest arraignmen is 8 back-handed attack on Governor Mur
 
 ray was first to telegraph to the governor of Tennessee urging him to bring the mur derers to judgment. And he made very keen criticism in stating that as Tennes sees representatives in congress are, tt say the least, indifferent to the punish ment of offenders against the national law in Utah, it is cowardly outrage for thei constituents to kill travelling Mormon agents. s.J ." ...
 Elder Hart guarantees that there i: ''more virtue and chastity" among his peo pie "than can be found elsewhere or earth" Without entering too deeply int this claim of superior morals, which Ii false, let me give you the last recorded in stance of Mormon chastity. Brigham Young academy, an institution founded by the prophet largely for the purpose O teaching Mormon doctrine, has gained fol itself startling notoriety. Sixteen young saints left their alma mater recently, and without waiting for elaborate trousseaus were married for reasons which were grow | ing more obvious daily. Some were ill be fore leaving. Holy elders were called II and tried prayers and the laying on O hands, but without success. If there be { gentle school in all this wicked world against which such 8 fact can be brought where IS It The MOrnOnS nave IneH
 selves to thank that such photographs should be exhibited to public gaze. Their hypocritical assumption of superior mor ality causes observant critics to investi gate for themselves. It is not at all strange that the perennial Mormon command 't :. increase and multiply" should be obeyed even by boys and girls while being taugh the divinity of Joseph Smiths revelation on polygamy. ..i.4 saja.4el / ''7t' ss Elder Hart ! informed his interviewel that christians had no God. Let chris tians thank God, then, for no God, if thu 'tman" worshipped by Latter Day Saints be the ideal of mercy, justice and love.
 l ' THE RECORD OF THE FA1Rs.-The superior l ity of Wells, Richardson < Co.'S. Improved Butter Coor over all others made, is agaii demonstrated by it's record at the Autumna Fairs. The test of practical use is what tell