The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-21
A BLAST FOR BUM.
1dabo's Governor Back of a
Vile Publication.
,pTHUR's DETACHABLE BUM.
philadelphia Public Herald Goes
after the Idaho Ruler in
Brilliant style.

The Philadelphia Public Herald, a
ionrnal which has for its aim the ex-
o.rre of quacks. bilks, frauds and gen.
vol rascality, and which has acquired a
notable reputation from its success in
that line. has the following to say of the
pbiladelphia Sunday Transcript, most of
-,bicb will be news to our readers:
It will appear very strange to our
,eaders that the proprietor of this Sun
dav newspaper (2l is none other than
Mr. VIM. NJ. Bum, by ex-President
Arthur recently appointed and at the
crescent time Governor of the Territory
Of Idaho, yet such is the fact. 1t will
make al good citizens. especially Phil
odelphians, hang their heads in shame
when they reflect to what depth of in
fanny journalism and politics has
brought our Government-that man
o,bIis0ing q Sunday newspaper"
which is destroying society by the low
ost and yiles of methods, can yet be
. Governor of a great Territory. Why
should honors be heaped upon such
men as deserve great censure. There
are too many good, true. honest and
hrave men i'll this country to justify
such an appointment as that OF
William NJ. Bum, Governor OF Idaho,
bv the President of the United States.
We hope the time is at hand when
william NJ. Bum will be called upon to
cease publishing such beastly matter as
appears in his paper or resign his office.
II Is disgrace to our city that such
newspaper (?) cah be published IN it,
and an insult to the citizens of Idaho
that the publisher of it is sent from
Philadelphia to govern them. Idaho
undoubtedly has hundreds of her own
citizens who are as well qualified for the
office William NJ. Bum fills as he is and
who would under no circumstances
father the vile sheet he publishes. We
would like to know what President
Cleveland and the good citizens of Idaho
think about this matter?
Philadelphia is cursed with some of
the most vile publications OF any city In
the country, in fact we very much
doubt if such publications as the Sunday
Transcript, Item and Tdggart'S Times
would be allowed to appear anywhere
else. New York, Chicago, st. Louis or
Cincinnati, though noted for vile news
DdDcI
such sheets, and vet the citizens of this
city. Pharisee like, look at those cities
and mutually say "We are holier than
thou" Philadelphia enjoys the unde-
served reputation of the "City of Bro
therly Love" This reputation cannot
always serve as a cloak to hide our
wicked and pernicious press. Just i'm
agine the shsck that would occur to one
who looks upon our city in the light
which common report places it, if he
should pick up a copy of the Sunday
transcript. He would undoubtedly
come to the conclusion that Sodom was
a paradise in comparison-that our
men were all ibertines and our women
all harlots-our children the offspring
Of vice and our homes places OF beastly
intrigues, our ministers merely beasts
of prey and our church-going people
only such that they may use the church
as a cloak to hide their crimes, and our
temples of worship merely places where
honor, virtue and all that makes life
worth living is exchanged for dollars
and cents.
The stranger, reader, could not think
otherwise. A careful reading of several
numbers of the vile sheet, Sunday
Transcript would warrant such con-
clusion-
Citizens of Philadelphia, how do you
like the picture that the Sunday
Transcript paints of you, your
homes. ministers and churches? Of
course it is often false as the depraved
minds of the beings who writes the filth
that appears in the columns of that
sheet, and IN many instances the &C
counts are searched for in brothels and |
the slums of society. But if you submit
to these ISLANDERS, strangers everywhere
may think they refer to Philadelphia'S
best people.
We know there are many honorable |
men who are silent on this subject be- |
cause they never give it thought. The
shiny and putrid offspring OF the devils |
printing press" has SO stealthlly crept |
into their bosoms that they do not know
whether to rebel or not. 1t seems they
are willing for peace at any cost. We
hope such persons may become aroused |
to the danger threatened, especially to
our young men and women. We must
not let them grow up with the thought |
that one-half of the world was made to
devour the other and that there Is no
honor or virtue in the land. This is the
idea the Sunday transcripts implanting
in their minds. 1t is teaching them to
believe that their struggle to reach
honorable manhood and womanhood is
time worse than wasted, for when they
srriYe at that state they will find
they have reached a barren goal.
Is not this sheet the hand
maid of the devil incarnate?
Who knows how many innocent lives
are started on the road to destruction
by such publications. 1t would be hard
to tell, but when we think of the weak
ness of human nature-of how many
persons there are who sOothe their con-
sciences when committing their first sin
with the thought that they are no
verse than others, in fact every other
person would be just as bad if they had
me opportunity 1.-THE Transcript teaches
thls.) Once the ice is broken the way to
obstruction is plain, even inviting, but
tne shoals are soon reached aud a pre-
clous soul is destroyed on the treacher-
Gus breakers. Is not the Sunday Trans
|tPt and its kind the pilots that lured 1t
10 destruction? Is it not responsible?
What honorable man would be willing
70 admit such vile sheet to his home
ci5rcle? What would be the effect upon
She pure and innocent wife ana
daughters? Arouse, pure men and
women @nr,f