The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-16
TO THE CRUSADERS.
A Few Queries by Another Who
Knows Them"
CHEYENNE. June Il. 1885.

CHEYENNE, June IL, 1885.
To the Editor of THE HERALD:
If every enemy of the Mormons were
commanded, as the people were COM
manded by the Savior, to throw stone
at the woman at the gate, "he that is
without sin throw the first stone" 1
am afraid the gateway would be filed
up, and but three would be thrown in
Utah, and they would be thrown by
the following gentry: The Tribune
would throw, because they are making
money out of the agitation. But, oh,
with what mental reservation
the mick would throw it, am afraid
That it would not kill polygamy.
| ing Company" The third would be Me
Too" on the bench. He would throw
| because some one was ''held OUT It
| is pity that he in his infancy was not
held out. longer. These three would
make all the world believe that they are
Yirtuous. am man of the world. |
want you Mormon-eaters, Jew and Gen
tile, to sit down for ten minutes and
interview yourselves. What do | care
for polygamy2 will be the first ques.
ton. Not fig. When was east or
west knew that went to places that
I would not have taken my wife or
daughter. Yes, what did you say and
| do there?
What did that little affair cost you 2?
Did you not put up champagne, get up
and dance like an idiot, to amuse who?
Not your wife, who nightly, on her
Bonded knees, prayed that you might
be kept from harm, danger, and temp
tation? What did you bring home to
please your family out of all the money
you spent while away? And what do
you say in private to your Mormon Gus
to me, (and l know you all. II wisht
these damned fools would quit this
crusade. AS for me, like
the Mormons, but you know
that am Gentle, ore Jew, and if l
am called on the jury, must decide ac-
cording to the evidence. Not bit of
it. You are slave, and you have to
decide as you are told, or you get the
lash from the court, and the Tribune.
(See Tribune in previous trlals.) Danish
every man from the jury that has broken
the seventh commandment, and there
would be but few old Mormons in dan
ger of the Pen 1t is the same old, old,
story, .sStop thiefl" The Emperor of
China sent one of his men to England
to study Jurisprudence. When he came
back he was asked what he saw, With
laugh, he said that the
English were very funny people
a good many men came together.
dressed in black, with white
hair on, and all talked. Then they took
the man out that had nothing to say,
and hung him. This was admirably
demonstrated in the last farce of Judge
IS court, when seven of Utah's
brightest luminaries all talked ami the
man that had no talk Jared just the
same as the other two. All three went
up for three and six. Why put the
country to any expense? Why not let
the marshal, when he arrests any one.i
for holding out" take them to the
Pen, and charge them with $500 and
six months in the Pen? 1t would not
alone save money to the country, but
also to those that are foolish enough to
think that lawyers can do lhenl some
good in Utah court, if the client be a
Mormon.
Gentlemen, would not call halt
but say to you business men, Gentlles
and Jews, keep on and prosecute the
very men that made the country pos
sible for you to live in. Drive those old
men away from their old wives whom
shey married, not as some of you did, |
for money or position, but for love and |
their religious belief. When these peo-
pie were alone in these valleys they
raised their children; and now your
pure-souled gentry % whine and say to
them, "You must put away one of
those women and the judge says,
mo matter which one" My Lord,
deliver me from such justicel What
a pitiable object would an old man be
in the sight of his children, standing up
in the court and saying to the Judge
that he had nominated the other wife,
instead of their mother. as his lawful
wife!
say keep right on. The most of the
Mormons will keep right on trading |
with you, just the same. You can build
fine houses on Mormon money, build
high fences between the poor Mormon
who helped to make you rich, just be- |
cause you desplse him. OH ye
Christians! May the good Lord deliver
me from you, AS to polygamy, if you |
must try and make yourself believe that
you are virtuous, send young men to |
the Pen, but have mercy on those old |
pioneers, as you well know you will |
have to have some day. Yours,
ANOTHER WHO Knows THEN.