The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-10
THE WISDOM OF FOLLY.
A Member OF the Folly Family
Speaks.

FoLLYvILLE, January 8, 1884.
Editors Herald:
Sirs:-I see by your issue Of the
9th ult., you published the Presi
dents message, in which he referred
to the Mormons as he called them,
and recommended the passage by
Congress of "bill No. 223S, on the
calendar, and the establishing COM
sien" for the government of Utah.
/ see also by the same issue you
published so much of the text of
Henry Ward Beecher in his Thanks
giving sermon az related to the
MOrmOns, in which he called them
the stink pot. Your next issue con
tanned the bill No 223S, and a plo-
ceeding in the Senate presented by
Senator Cullom relating to Utah.
Seeing these, anu thinking them
worth preserving, L cut them
out and put them in my
scrap book. l then searched for
few other worthy matters of past
times to make the connection, but
not finding them readily concluded
to write them down according to
my memory and request you to
publish them so that / can preserve
them.
In 1855, when many of the good
citizens of the United States were
assembled in Chicago to nom nate
candidates for the Executive de-
partment of the government, they.
referring to slavery and the Nor
mons, called them twin relics Of
barbarism. and In substance declared
that the twin relics must die. In
1850, Mr.. Stephen A. Douglas, who
until that time was recognized as a
very able statesman, referring to
the Mormons in aIcampaign speech,
called them a loathsome ulcer
and said they must be wiped out
In the winter Of 1872, when the
Edmunds bill, which ultimately
passed, was under consideration
some Of the eastern papers, refer
ring to the Mormons, called them a
stencil. Now, Mr.. Editor, you know
the Folly family, a very numerous
branch of the human species. You
must have read much and observed
much concerning this family. In
it they have always kept pace in
mum bers.. with the Wiseman family
and the Rights family, and when
their stock have dwindled in num-
bers their SONS have married tine
daughters of this family, but they
have refused to permit their daugh
tiers to marry into the Folly family
Not they. They, it is true, have
tried to convert them to thei,
| modes and manner of life, but
up to this time there has
been a complete success, which il
deeply regretted. The Folly family
have always had among them per
sons so unlearned that they could
not learn the difference between
barbarism and civilization, so it is
not surprising that relics of bar
barism should be found in that
family when their manner of life
shall be scrutinized thoroughly by
the wise man of the Wiseman
family, and they be judged by the
Rights family. it may turn out that
barbarism and loathsome evils are
found to eXisS. You know the
Folly family are dependant on the
Wlseman family for their family
physicians. Those physicians use
every imaginable kind of medicine.
They sometimes prescribe drawing
near to God with their lips and with
their mouths honoring him, even
though their hearts are far from
Him. This medicine is some
times taken by these patients,
they not knowing any better. This
always causes in them loathsOme
ulcers. These loathSome ulcers
may cause a stink. They make
them stink. To get rid of this stink
they must have, I repeat they must
have, stink pots and put the stink
into the stink pots. A great family
must have great house, and in a
great house there must be many
vessels, some to honor and
some to dishonOr. Many
members of the Folly family
have struggled and struggled and
struggled again to become vessels
of honor until they are almost diss
couraged. 1t now requires very
great effort to keep instilled in their
minds the lesson long since thought
them by the Wiseman family, that
if at first you DO not succeed try,
try again.
Yours truly,
EnTTv