The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-14
"a PIOUS CUSS.n

The editor of the New York Mail and Er
press, who profanes the sacred scriptures
by placing quotation from them daily at
the head of his columns, uses threats and
excavations toward the Mormons that could
come only from malignant mind and
wicked heart. Brother SHEPARD will bear
watching. Those biood-cur6ling denuncia
tions indicate an abandoned wretch rather
than Christian gentleman. We have
often noticed that the nest corrupt men are
frequently the most violent in denouncing
the real or fancied faults in others.
Commenting or the recent action of the
Mormon church, which this Christian
blackguard politely denominates 'the
traitorous and oft-perjured Mormon hei-
rarchy," the pious demon says:
We might as we'll expect tigers to turn into
lambs or rattlesnakes into cells as to put any
faith in any pledge of reform by these chronic
traitors, perjurers and enemies Of Christian civ
ilization.
The Mormons do not ask the faith of men
of the disposition shown in the above state
ment. They would trust to the mercies of
tigers and rattlesnakes in preference to
those of such brute as would write the
foregoing concerning people of whom he
knows nothing. Hear the villain:
| Were every Mormon's wife stricken dead to
day, the Mormon hierarchy would be an intoler
able nuisance and menace to the laws of Utah.
Next the pious fraud mentions the editor
of the Salt Lake Tribune as faithful and
honest and fearless witness, - "the fearless
defender of Christian civilization, who for
SO many years has risked his life so many
thousands of times" This mans love for
the Tribune began when that sheet allowed
him to publish in it's columns solution"
of the Mormon question, and deepens from
year to year as he reads the Tribune's advo-
cacy of saloons, gambling halls, and houses
of ill-fame as the proper agencies by which
to reform the young men of Utah. In all
the years the editor of the Tribune has de
famed the Mormon people, no man has
been safer than he and he knows it.
This sample Christian continues in this
strain:
| The Republican Senate will never vote to
admit Utah as tate until the Mormon HE
rarchy is crushed out of existence
| Nobody has asked the Republican Senate
| to vote to admit Utah as state; but the
proposition to crush the Morn ons out Of
existence could be made only by "Chris-
TAM of SHEPARD's stripe.
The next article on this subject by the
pious scoundrel is headed mo good Nor
mons but dead Mormons," and demands
that the Mormons shall change, not their
practices, but their creeds.
If there is among all the members of
the Mormon church q man so un-Christian
and blood thirsty as the editor Of the Mai
and Express he is unknown to the public
If there is man in Utah so ignorant OF
human rights as this Christian editor, he
should be labored with.
Is it any wonder that the Mormon people
do not change their creed, when these de-
tenders of Christianity have only such in
tolerant and savage creeds to offer them?
The Mormons have not been afraid to &c
among heathens, sceptics, Mohammedans
or Indians, all of whom treat them fairly
and do not think of killing them because O.
their creed. But God save the Mormon!
from ever falling into the hands Of tn,
type Of Christians the Mail and Express re
presents! 1t would be more profitable tt
plead with the wolf not to cause the eve t,
bleat for the lamb than to plead with sucl
christians for the natural rights of man
Better the tooth and claw Of the Benga
tiger than the vicious rage OF pious hypo
critics who have others in their power. w
may expect ere long that the Mormons vii
chant new litany: lord, deliver thou u
from the tender mercies of our Christian
brethren