The St. Johns herald., 1885-06-11
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LET US SEE HOW IT IS.

in the interview reported from Philadelphia, is that journal in Salt Lake had charged that the l masses of the Mormons were ig- norant people. The statement Is only partially true. Doubtless Taylor meant the Tribune. The ex- tent of the offense is that this jour nal has made the charge often that the great mass of the Mormon people is composed of ignorant foreigners and their children. Will young Taylor dispute this propo- sition? He certainly cannot. His own father, the President of the church, is far from being an igno- rant man, but he is an infinite dis tance from the place of finished scholar. And when it comes to that, there has never been any thing like a finished scholar at- tached to the Mormon church. Not one. Orson Pratt was proba- bly, the mlst cultivated man who ever belonged to the church, but when his scholarship is analysed it will not bear the test in any par ticular.
 Not only have the Mormons been conspicuously (not to say re- diculously) lacking in men of ed ucation and culture, but in their own chosen speciality of theology, they have been outrageously crude and indecent. From men claim- ing to be in daily communication with God, and therefore supposedly on the highest and most refined plane of thought, never came there so complete and disgusting a mass of cruel and wrong-headed rub bish. All their conceptions Tn this field have been about of an or der of ideally that might have been expected from the vicious and consienceless sawages of Ashantee or Dahomy grafted on the robust blasphemy of Wabash flatboat. men. Their idea of the Deity is grossly vulgar and sensual. Their motion of spirits is wholly sala cious, and their main theory ol that subject is calculated solely t' spur men on to greater efforts II procreation. Their astronomico bestial theory of heaven (KOlob is a degree more depraved tIm was ever dreamt of in Moham med's vagaries. Their formula O "ouorums of Gods" is polythc ism more absurd and recklessl. unmeaning and blasphemous thal any other form of organism tha ever prevailed among men. Thei persistent a Id fiendishly ingeniou theories, formulated for the so. purpose of cxacting men and de grading women, have no parall' even among the lowest and mos depIaved savages; for these hay never held any theory more cruC for their mothers, wifes and daugl ters than total annihilation where as the Mormon creed consign them to everlasting future tormer unless "in the flesh" they becOm mere slaves to lechery and brut; bedevilment of all kinds that ma |. please any constituencies scoul drel who has them in his tolls makes even the prize to be Ina by a slavish submission to all tn in this world a thinly veneered pr
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