Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-05
A PRIESTHOOD BOYCOTT.
Idaho Enterprise.

"oiotdHu tlat number OF
priesthood meetings have been held
in this city for the express purpose Of
boycott'ng this paper, ani that the
church authorities have counseled
both Mormons and ex-Mormons to
withdraw their patronage or incur
their supreme displeasure and suffer
condign punishment. 1t grieves us
that these hypocritical wretches who
pretend to be Mormons, but are by
nature and education sycophants and
villains, should have taken upon
themselves so much trouble and con-
Germ. We would gladly have pub
lished their edict free Of charge had
they but furnished us the "copy."
But we pause to inquire: Is this
the Nineteenth Century, with all its
boasted freedom and enlightenment,
in which we live? There must be a
mistake somewhere. 1t is incredible
that In the Nineteenth Century, un-
der the auspices OF the freest and
grandest Government the world has
ever known, we say it is absolutely
incredible, beyond the possibility of
belief, that people making preten-
sions to civilization will submit to the
dictates of half a dozen brain
spawned, hypocritical, ignorant, de-
generate wretches whom merciful
God, out Of respect for dumb brutes
gave but two legs. We ask the Nor
mons, who are Mormons, we call up
on those who have withdrawn from
the church, in order to become loyal
citizens, we appeal to their pride and
intelligence: How long, for Gods
sake how long are you going to sub
nit to the tyrannous domineering Of
few brain-diseased, lecherous fa-
natics, whose life mission consists in
trampling you down to the lowest
depths OF AFFECTION, and who presume
to dictate what you shall eat, what
you shall drink, what you shall wear
whom you may associate with, anc
what you must or must not read. Is
all your manhood gone? Have the
chains been so wrapped and bound
around you that the slavish links have
warped your souls and your minds
CONCEALED? Do the poor wretche'
who presume to instruct you imagine
that by refraining from reading The
Enterprise you will be more pure
more sanity, more god-like? is thi
why they hold their impotent threa
over your heads, and conjure HEAVIER
and hell to destroy us? Let US tel
you; those hings-nondescripts-
lower in the scale of creation tina
brutes, manifest holy horror TO
nothing but intelligence, freedom c
thought and moral and statutory laws
They care nothing for you or you
salvation; all they want is cattle
Are you such slaves as to remain for
ever under the yoke? Do not you
necks begin to chafe? Are not you
hoofs worn to the quick? Are nc
!, the stripes of your masters lash sti
: soaring your backs? and still ben
r the knee in cowardly submission? L
the name of humanity, let your man
:, hood be asserted, be free, be inde
pendent, be men. Be submissive
no human or brute being, exercls
+ your rightful prerogatives, respef
S the laws of your country, reverene
e the laws of heaven aud leave the fl
ture to great and meroilul Cod
If you do not want to read tn
Enterprise, we conjure you, by a
Il YOU hold sacred, not to do so. W
c appeal to you in the name OF freedo
n and liberty to do nothing again
o your own free will and choice unle
l. the laws to which you have avowt
; allegiance demand the sacrlhoe'
e VIM. SWEET will leave this wet