The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-01
How the Late Proceedings Strike
aF0rmeT Resident.
"rHE GOOD OLD DAYS OF GORE"
The Secret of the Bloody YelI-Captain Evans
BraYery-The Bashi-Bazouk Of
Salt Lake.

Mormons, the Danites and the Destroying
Angels were after him again rough-shod.
The familiar names of Mcbride
WHO SOAKED HIS MOCCAsISs
in the "dews" of Salt Lake valley some
seventy five years ago, and of Baskin, an
other of the ancient crusaders, appear in
the daily news, and to people generally it
wouli seem from the dispatches that your
streets must be almost running with gore,
if they didn't know better.
But many soul-stirring names are miss
ing from the accounts, such as Woods,
Maxwell, Strickland, and even the heroic
Stillson, of later suspeuder-buckle fame;
and as whole the dispatches
sent east to day lack the artistic touch Of
Gould, or the rotund Oscar Sawyer, and
are tame and insipid compared with the
fiery specials of those experienced and
veteran Mormon eaters. Evidently there
is novice at the business now, else he
would not rehash the stale and threadbare
tales of quarter of a century ago, or en-
deavor to excite interest by describing
THE UNDERcLorHEs OF THE SAINTS,
Of which we have so often heard that the
story has become tiresome.
When Porter Rockwell, with braided
cue and fiery charger, and Bill Hickman,
whisky soaked and ugly, used to dash down
Main street with yells unearthly as those
of an Apache savage, and Gould and saw
yer caught inspiration therefrom, the news
from Zion was we'll worth reading.
l recollect vividly the eventful fall OF
1871, when Brigham Young was under ar
rest, and fourteen thousand blood thirsty
". tI1.f not q
street and escorted Judge Mexican to and
from court" How my blood curdled in
those days as, fresh from the states, L
listened to the terrible accounts OF
MURDER IN ZION,
with which the country was daily deluged,
all of which passed through my hands as
the sole night press dispatcher at Salt
Lake city; and as walked home from my
Office at midnight every night it was with
fear and trembling, revolver in each hip
pocket and bowie-knife in my bootleg,
my eyes protruding like hatpegs as l
peered through the darkness, for the ex-
pected DANTE who was to raise my scalp
The only villain | ever encountered during
wears of night duty in Salt Lake city was
the doughty Captain Evans, who might be
met at almost any hour squirting around
lamp post but never daring to shoot. And
y ~
Jaws OF death and gates Of Halifax,
learned
THE SECRET OF THE BLOODY YELL,
and knew as the east is gradually learning
TO know, that it merely means, when
sounded loudest, fresh crusade OF plumber
against the Mormon people, which Con-
gress is expected to inaugurate.
For my part, it is difficult to understand
why the army of the United States was
not long since turned loose in Utah, with
Cat ing guns, and orders to shoot
down every Mormon, man, woman
and child. What wonderful for
Oearance On the part OF Inc American
people that they have not slaughtered the
entire mob of pertidious Mormons, say one
hundred and fifty thousand (more or less),
put the Liberals God save the mark in
complete control and admitted Utah into
the Union.
With Pat Lannan as governor, Farley
Williams and Judge Zane as United States
Senators, Mcbride and Baskin as Congress
men, and the state Offices apportioned out
TO THE REMAINING FANATICS
there would be just about enough to make
each an official, and the country at large
might then have peace and quiet in regard
to the twin relic" while these Jealous gen
tlemen and model reformers could acquire
wealth and influence to their hearts con-
tent.
What do few hundred thousand Nor
mons amount to anyway, compared with
the handful of blue-bloods who are burn
ing so much sulphur and Greek fire!
What matter, though this truth be self
evident, that all men are endowed by their
Creator with the inalienable right TO life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happinessf
What matter that the genius Of our gov
is founded in the rule of the
It is easy to reduce the majority
and increase the minority to the majority,
in Utah. by adopting the tactics of Charles
X of France, aud Catherine de Medicis,
WHO at
THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW
very readily got rid of hundred thousand
obstinate Hugenots; or by following the
notorious examples Of Phillip II of
Spain and the Duke Of Alva in
the Netherlands. Why ara the Nor
mons treated so leniently in the
face Of the terrible tales OF treason and
s ,cret oaths that have deluged the country
for the past twenty yearsl Because the
people of the United States are not quite
ready to adopt or endorse an evident
scheme to reduce the majority in Utah to
the rule of the minority, and because they
believe the predominant press reports from
Salt Lake clty 10 pc elaborate lies.
The Chicago Herald knows something of
the situation in Utah when it advises "a
FANATIcAL NEWSPAPER IN SALT LAKE,
the Tribune by NAME" that the American
people are not yet prepared to put the
anti Mormon tactics of that paper into
general use, and assures it that Chi
cago never had even an Anarchist
more unmindful OF the rights of others than
this journalistic bashi bazouk of Salt Lake
has proved itself to be " Evidently, too,
though Edmunds has secured the passage
of some iniquitous legislative acts, the peo-
in the periodical anti Mormon
howl than they are in the waving Of the
bloody shirt by Foraker, of Ohio, or the
war cries of Och-Mahone, of Virginia.
Tales of murders by Mormons and Eudow
ment house oaths produce much the same
effect as the story of 1.-THE Battle of Linn
erick.r The two might be combined in
very pleasant fashion by
YOUR ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER.
Did he know enough, videicet:
rye genii of the nation.
Who hear with much veXation,
And Utah-S botheration onsaysingly deplore.
Ye sons Of Giner3l jackson
Who thrampled on the Saxon,
Attend TO the transaction IN Mormon gore"
'Cut down the Mormon horde
Yells O'PoTers of the sword.
Twould do your sowl good
To hear TIE old man roar.
In his glory he arose,
And he rushed upon his foes;
But they hit him on the nose,
And he said nothing MORE"
pat Lannan, he harangued,
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