The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-15
How a Rabid Liberal Loves the
M0TmOns.
A STRANGER ON THE FACTS.
Something for Liberal CrOakers to Read,
Mark, Learn and EndeavOr to
lnwardly Digest.

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piece of gutta percha in the hands of the
leaders of the church, ready at all times to
swear, if necessary, "that a white horse
was a chandler's store, and every hair a
candle" He has no will, save that of the
priest. He is guided solely by instinct,
not reason, when removed from the inhu
ence of his spiritual leader. He is traitor
to his country, and as such ought to be
punished by death, and his property should
be confiscated, and Immediately be pre-
scented to me (but then, this last clause is
in parenthetical Whisper. He is muir
derer in theory, if not in practice. He is
as sensuous as the reading of modern
French novels and an intimacy with the
devil can make him. He lives for the graft
fieatioa of passion, and for that alone No
woman is safe whilst in his company.
Love, that divine goddess, that alone
makes life worth living; love, that impels
to noblest deeds of heroism; love, that
dwells in the breast of every pure soul, and
only in pure SOULS love, that gives Joy to
the youth, brightness to middle age, and
cheerfulness to old age, the Mormon is I'M
acquainted with.
Similar to the lower order of creation
Mormon knows not marital affection; he
knows not fathers feelings; he never
pats Johnnie on the head, or imprints kiss
on the cheeks of jamie; he sees in them
only so much live stock, which alas he
cannot sell for cash; in short, he is the
same father that Anthony Trollope carica
lures in his novels.
In business circles hei is slow, unprogress-
i've, clannish, too reliable, pays well, does
not bankrupt very often. He is so conser
vative that this city has never had a single
confagration, nor an earthquake shock,
nor lynching bee, which gives a city no
toriety. 1t is a fault due to the old
fashioned style of the Mormons that in
this city and territory there is only one
full moon a month. l merely cite this as
an instance of their sleepy propensities.
He does not know what cares and anXieties
are: insomnia and brain fever are plants
which grow in other cities, but not here
Bankruptcy has only just commenced to
flourish here through our instrumentality;
embezzlement will never be a popular
science under the regime of these old
fogies.
Mormon's nearest female relative is of
such a character as TO exhaust all the Vitu-
perative Of bilingsgate Allow me to en-
ter feeble protest against the too frequent
use of applying vile epithets against the
noblest word in the English Ian
guage (MOther). What associations
cluster around that word! To carpet
baggers that word should be especially
dear The English language, in spite of
what Shakespeare wrote, would not be
worth preserving were it not for those
grand Anglo-Saxon Words-home, mother
l have heard Liberals, or rather Illiberals,
in this city class every Mormon in one vile
category, and l maintain no one has a right
so to do. Mothers are mothers. They are
not all unchaste. Gentle mothers in Utah
do not monopolize a mothers love. The
late Mrs Thomas, long resident in this
CITY, did a mothers duty, and only moth
ers duty; the late Mrs. Maggie Woods,
who died recently in this city a compare
tive stranger, was mother to hundreds of
boys in her mountain home, as l will bear
testimony. Mormon mothers have walked
through the valley of the shadow of death.
that others might live Shall such women
be characterized by the opprobrious epi-
thets that are so unsparingly uhurled at
themi In India, Afghanistan and not
Few Of the Asiatic countries, is this same
phrase used! thank God have mother.
and the respect l owe her will not allow me
to call single mem Der of the human fam
lily any other than the son of a woman, that
woman a wife, and that wife mother.
FROM AN IMPARTIAL VIEW.
Mormons, I find to my establishment.
have four fingers and a thumb on each
hand; the thumb 1 did not expect to see,
but instead, long tail. l have for years re
garded the Mormons as the best type of
the missing link" Iexpected to see the
Gentiles moving only in large companies,
for fear of the destroying angels whom
anticipated were like the adversary of old
"going about seeking whom they may de-
Vour.' My impressions were, lean any
good thing come out of Nazarethn' Can |
men gather grapes of thOrns or figs from
thistlesln Then, but not till then, did l ex-
pect TO see a Mormon, unless he was en-
compassed with his wives, or prosecuting
to the death all who were opposed to him.
find that Utah has less crime, less bank |
ruptcy, less enlightenment and has made !
more substantial progress than any of the |
western states or territories. What other !
western state can you mention where the |
country has kept pace with the towns and |
citiess In Utah the country is in advance
of the towns and cities by at least ten |
years. Where else can you find as many
industries as are here! Five wooden mills, |
glass works, tanneries, boot and shoe fac |
tories, paper mills, etc! Where can you |
find store carrying the stock of the Z. G. |
M. I.s Where can you fad better |
buildings Scarce a building in this |
city but what has been built by Mormon |
capital, or built by money derived from |
dealing with the Mormons: nearly all the |
Mormons. Ali the wealthy men in this |
city owe not a little of their wealth to |
this much-abused sect. Where can YOU |
find so many working men who are the |
possessors of their homes? Laborers on |
public works in other cities, when the |
clock strikes twelve, Immediately rush to |
restaurants, but not so here. This alone |
is the test Of prosperity. When working
men can own the house and plot they live |
in and on, the millennium is not far dis |
tant.
"Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade.
A breath may make them, as breath has |
made,
But bold peasantry their countTy's pride,
When once destroyed, Gcan never be sup |
piled"
l do not for moment imagine that the
Mormons are all angels, either black or
white; they are men subject to like pas
sions as ourselves; there are no more |
carnated fiends in their midst than in any
religious sect, save the Quakers. Honor |
among thieves. No class can be stamped |
as wholly bad. We are what we strive TO |
be-; others are responsible for what we
are, whether presidents or prison
ers Criminals and paupers don't want
charity; they ask for justice Relig- |
ion, like politics, is largely a mat |
ter of inheritance; grand pere oblige. |
have heard preachers denounce, and with |
no sweetly-scented language, Peter for be- |
traying Christ, whereas the chances are if |
they (the preachers) had only one-tithe of |
the impetuosity that Peter possessed, they
would be fit and proper subjects for Harold |
p. Browns new instrument of execution. |
Mahomet also has been subject for abuse |
by Christian ministers. yet Mohammedan |
missionaries today are carrying on their |
grand work right in the interior of Africa, |
where the Christian gospel could not OBJ |
tain foothold. Mohammedan merchants |
ask but one price for their wares