The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-12
FROM GLASGOW.
q Correspondents Views Concerning the
Liberal Organ.
To the Editor of THE HERALD:

AhuCldl OISdu.
To the Editor of THE HERALD:
1t was with the usual pleasure l feel
when reading your refreshing paper, that
perused your issue of the 9th inst My
feeling of pleasure was speedily changed,
however, to one of horror and Indignation
when 1 discovered an extract therein from
your contemporary the Tribune. The ex-
tract in question is one which calls for the
denunciation of all honest men, whether
Mormon or Gentle.
I care not what party IN politics man
may espouse, care not what creed in re-
Hgion he may have adopted, so that he be a
man and have one atom of human kindness
in his breast he will hurl the thunders of
a mighty indignation at the foul caitiff mis-
called a human being, who from the edito-
rial chair of the Tribune and out of the rot
tenness of his own inner filth, spews forth
his hellish corruption, before which one
could almost imagine that hell itself would
recoil in horror and disgust Oh, the
shame of it, Oh, the iniquity and foulness
of it!
The editor of the Tribune signs for free
dom! What freedom? Freedom to rob, to
plumber, to spoliate? He has got 1t. Free
dom TO establish gambling hells, houses of
prostitution and drinking saloons! He has
got it. Freedom to shed blood, freedom to
murder and eXterminate? He has got them.
Freedom to punish others who dare to ask
for freedom too. He has got it. All these
he has and yet he is not satisfied.
In this country, by certain class of
politicians, the ''Star spangled banner is
constantly waved before our eyes, and we
hear low lamentations about Columbia!
the land of the free and the home of the
brave" We are led to believe that under
tho ns4if11tinu of tho TTnifaH StotaS NJ
man IS allowed to suffer for any opinion or
conviction he may have; that there Liberty
proudly rears her head and deties the
world, friend to the oppressed, the de-
feps sless and the weak, and a foe to tyrants
and oppressors.
But what a spectacle of humiliating
tyranny does this same America present to
the world! Licentiousness, lewdness, de-
bauchery and shame are rampant through
out the land under the sacred name and
guise of freedom. Midst all this dreary
waste of DISSOLUTION one oasis stands out in
bold relief. In this spot there is no de-
bauchery, no crime, no ruthless raviSher,
no woman's confession of ruin and
shame. And here it would also seem
that all the concentrated fury of an
inferno is located. Here an inhuman yet
mortal devil sitting in an editors chair
belches forth with sulphurous breath, from
a mind seething with frenzied spleen, an in
vitation the most hideous and horrible that
ever emanated from the public press in any
country at any time. And your enlight-
ened and free" government allows this
bag of hell to walk broadcast in the light
of day. And this man presumably is a
Christian. What shameless atrocities, o,
Christianity are being perpetrated in thy
name.
When Romulus and Remus founded
Rome, they laid the foundation stone of
while these lasted so also did Rome. But
when centuries after the Goth and the
Vandal perpetrated their sacrilegious
plumber and desecrated the holy city, they
found their most faithful accomplices in
the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the patricians and the
avarice and greed of the plebeians.
1t would seem as if history were about
TO repeat itself, and without the lapse of
centuries. What Rome accomplished in
seven centuries, America would seem to
have done in ore.
But heinous and dreadful as the crimes
OF ancient Rome were, they pale before the
atrocities of the present day pseudo-Chris-
tians who, with God on their lips and hell
inc their hearts, accomplish more than
Satan, thhir master, ever bargained for.
The words of Byron might very aptly be
applied to the Tribune and its editor:
'sIf like a snake he creeps within your walls
Till his black slime betrays him as he crawls;
II like viper to your homes he wind
And leaves the poison there he did not find;
What wonder that his bag of ruin works
Eternal evil-latent as he turks;
Creates pandemonium where he dwells
And reign the Hecate Of domestic hellsE"
Catholic and Protestant to whom have
shown the extract alike pronounce it the
most hellish, the most damnably insidious
production that ever emanated from man or
devil-begotten Of spleen, conceived in the
malice and filthy abomination of wretch,
and brought forth in the pages of journal
which John Bright might have coupled
with the Times when he described 1t as
t'the DEVILS organ on EARTH"
The subscribers of such an Infamous rag
may well take to themselves the vehement
lines of Horace:
''Fugere pudor, UsrlImQue, hOnOrQte, in
IOcum dltis sltbierG, frGudesqte, inStdtdeQue, ct
yis. ct amor sceIerdfHs hdbendi"
1 should like to have addressed the Trib-
1fne. but l shudder at the bare contempla-
ton of the possibility of contact.
Yours, etc,
GEORGE PHILLIPS, NJ. A.
Glasgow university, Nov. %, 1889.