The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-05
THE FEE FIENDS
The Trinity and Their Little Tricks
Shown Up.
SALT LAKE CITY, July Sd, 1sS

SALT LAKE CRY. July Sd, 1885.
To the Editor of THE HERALD:
see by your paper that you are Ia
boring hard to make it appear, to an
unsophisticated public, that the right
eous, moral and valiant men who are
laboring with self-sacrifcing zeal for
their Gods and their country's glory, in
purifying Utah's moral atmosphere, are
toiling for fees merely. You are sure
to fail in this. You wrong these noble
men-wrong them every way. have
been at some pains to inquire into their
past lives and find them spotless as the
| driven Snow. One has only to find out
where they hail from, to be satisfied
The HERALD is unjust; and it NAV be
well for me TO inform THE HERALD that
our beloved Goodwin, whom some call
Judge; that our stalwart Dickson, with
his man Friday Varian, all hail from
our most moral neighbor, Nevada; so.
we may with justice call them The Ne
vida Trinity" and fancy THE HERALD
will add Great Beeizebub's High
PrieSts.n
This Trinity having made pure the
S ge Brush State. having looked upon
her mining towns and her China towns:
having; as they say out west, "gone
through" all towns and made pure what
little was impure in Nevada, they make
descent on Utah, and at one fell
swoop take away our breath. as it were.
o Nevadai Nevada! how shall we
ever repay you for sending US this
trinityl | too, in years past, have
looked upon the aforesaid towns with
something of alarm for Neyada's
moral Little did / then dream of the
great moral work these noble men.
these heroes, would perform by "goine
through" these townsl But it was little
for the heroic trinity. They labored
there-not for fees, Ma. HERALD: not
for fees, for they came away as poor as
church mice; therefore, / am shocked to
hear you say, and repeat 1t, that fees
have anything to do with this great
moral work. | tell you again and again.
that this trinity desires only to enforce
all moral laws. Show me a moral
law on the statute books of the
United States that is not rigidly
enforced by our noble heroes. l know
The HERALD will call my attention to
abortlons, and Furnishing those who even
hinder conception, "'-(Section 8. $50 Re-
vised Statutes, think, but tell Won
Mr.. HERALD, this law is also inforced nv
our beloved Trinity. They begin at
home with this. Tor have they not all a
large number of children born to fba;-
wives. ,ooa fGOlI Q - sSqf
Is there case of abortion In the land |
then put this Trinity on track of il To
the practice of ''hindering conception. y
and thereby living in violation of a |
United States statute, prac ticed to anv
extent amongst the acquaintances Of |
these noble ones ri tell you, no. If II |
were SO you would see how quickly this
moral Trinity would pounce upon ali
such and, without ever thinking of fees.
put them IN the Penitentiary.
Having cleaned, or gone through
Nevada, they are here only to do ms
goodwto purify our morals by example
as wen as precept, and we treat them
so Shame, OF Shamel
Nor are they alone. Behold in adj
ditlon, our own. beautiful, matbe-
NAUTICAL I'll! Pure as an angel, entirely
with vice OF anv kind
ana YET HE HARALD will unblushingIy
state that Eli tlpples, and. once nar3Iy
tull, he can't be restrained from teII;ns
ais little story about a man that bonob7
= ticket and then he bought anotRar
same NC
WHAT care these men for their Offices
.IoT their fees? Have they not hitherto
iVed ON next to nothing? And because
,Iney are getting few luxuries now.
4 he HERALD straitway insinuates that
ssiley are working for the loaves and
is I, ne Let me tell you, sir, they care
little for luxuries.
Then again, we have some holy
heh by profession, one of whom, for :
,s great and good work, deserves
MENTION here, Rev. R. G. McMush the
l@I me-. % MN. He it was who proposed l
y ieslslate the Mormons out of their
property rights" TIE HERALD makes