The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-27
STILL AFTER BUM.
rbe Man to Settle the Poly
gamy Question.
nur MORALS OF BUNN'S HOME.
Idaho Governor and His
newspaper Again sounaly
Berated

=. &c stated in Philadelphia news
nor that Governor William NJ
p1r pr Idaho's chief executive, will be-
10 long return to Boise City, his leave
Dtobsence granted by the President ex-
ting early in June" and to the same
iournaI Governor Bum communicates
~ rurpose "to continue the work we
haoup in Idaho last winter, which has
70, its object the suppression of polyg-
N.Y. As AN earnest of his vigorous
a,ecutive plans and OF the extreme
rievsn which he admits that he holds
mon the subject of social evils, he re-
tsrs to a double-leaded editorial on
uormonism in his paper, the Sunday
transcript, of Philadelphia. This leaves
no room for doubt in the mind Of the
reader that he is about to move on the
nlairs and haremic temples of the sala-
cious saints" To meet "a moral issue
f,aneht with the seeds of death to I'M
horn thousands" to preserve his gar
Taentsef chastity from rubbing against
The robes of ''lust and lechery." and to
vinJicate not only the revealed Teli-
zion of the Son of Man" but to enforce
THE laws of the United States. the
laws Of the entire civilized world and the
laws of Almighty God, face to face"
with their violation, Gov. Bum is now
strengthening himself.
In Philadelphia, where Gov. Bum
and his Sunday Transcript are known,
this proclamation of his high purpose
will create no surprise, In purity another
st. Anthony, in holy zeal modern
Peter the Hermit, and IN his horror OF
the very appearance OF certain eVlis a
Greater than Anthony Comstock, 1t is
easy to believe that Governor Bum mas
been EMPLOYING all the time of his va
cation in Philadelphia in preparations
for this crusade of the White Cross in
the far west.
But there is some danger that, where
be is known only by his paper, he may
be misunderstood. And if the issue in
which his soul-stirring, double-leaded
PROCLAMATION against MOrmonism Is
printed, be like every other issue of the
SUNDAY Transcript, it will be calculated
TO subject Governor Bum to misunder-
standing and possibly to misrepresenta-
ton. For the chief feature of its publ
cation is a department in which it is
made to appear. as regularly as the
blessed Sabbath day comes around, that
Philadelphia is perfect Sodom of social
ihfamy, and that its society is as i'm
moral and vicious as that which left the
memorials of its lewdness Oh the walls
Of the buried cities of the plain. Gov
ernor Bunn's most direct drives at the
MOrmons, and all that has been said OF
their immoralities, do not carry with
them such a story of shame for Salt
Lake City as these revelations of the
Transcript weekly disclose for Philadel-
phia.
Now where Governor Bum is not
known to be the King Arthur that he is,
it may be suspected that his journal
either hes or tells the truth. If it lies it
is vicious, degraded, demoralizing,
hlackmailing sheet, which of course no
good man would refer to as an exponent
of his purposes as governor of Idaho. II
ii tells the truth then obviously Phil
adelphia offers wider field for mission
aryiWOrk than Idaho, or even Utah, and
the President may incline TO think that
such fiery zeal for social reform is most
needed at home.
In either event we fear that Governor
Bum and his Transcript, by inviting at
tentiOn TO their exemplary champion
ship OF the purity OF the freside, have
tempted all good men to pray that their
effec i've work may be concentrated upon
the sheYt-range enforcement of the
seventh commandment in Philadelphia,
where by their own accounts there is
yuch alarming decadence of virtue and
such need Of its spostles.-Lancaster
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