Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-04
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less prominently before the local
public for some time past. He in
Cured the deadly emnity Of the
Tribune gang several months ago,
while delivering a course of lectures
under the auspices of the secularists
Of this city. In one of them he in
cidentally said a good word for the
''AIormon" people, deprecating the
attacks that were made upon them
by other religious bodies.
This was sufficient to let loose
upon him the whole pack Of the
most active Of the black conspiratO5s
and fanatics who have been seeking
to crush the ''Mormons'' into the
dust and trample them under the
heel Of ferocious despOtism. Not
only are the "Mormons" themselves
made the subjects of the onslaughts
Of hate from that source but every
man who has the courage to sug-
gest in the remotest manner that
they have some rights entitled to
respect. Among the human hounds
who parked aud snapped and tore
at Mr.. Ellis was o. H. HOLSTER.
4 bilious-blOOded fanatic who has
favored the robbing Of the sGIor-
mons" for over twenty years. He
even went so far as to intimate that
the killing Of the lecturer would
not be highly improper.
This phase Of the situation led
Mr.. Ellis to investigate the cause Of
such phenomenal hste and abuse Of
which he was made the target. As
his libellers had lied about, SANDER
ed and villified him, might it not
be the case that the same treatment
had been directed against the
''Mormsns" from an equally base
less standpoint: He scrutinized
and analysed the facts of local his
tory, drawing without stint upon
the statements and recorded acts OF
the slanderers. lie has presented
the results OF his researches in the
shape Of two lectures, the last OF
which, entitled "Uhh Liberalism, =
was delivered in the Theatre on
Sunday evening. He has also used |
his pen in the same direction. This |
is the ''head and 'front.' Of his s'of- |
fending.D
There has been no attempt to
answer either the facts or logic pre-
scented by Mr.. Ellis, because Good
win and his whole gang would be
unable TO cope with him on that
basis, but in the use Of billingsgate
and deiamatOry blackguardism they
stand unrivallej. They meet his
Of truth and philosophy
with such expressions as this: ''The
and despicable liter
airy rufIian,'' and ''this beastly
Eliis.''
Here Is Z special sample OF the
polemic literature emitted by c. c.
Goodwin and his gang:
"He is an outcast socially; he is a
sorry fraud intellectually; he is but a
whiied sepulchre morally, posing in
he form OF manhood, while fire
Essay would develop that OF real man.
hood there is not in all his compo-
sition one half OF one per cent And I
our friends, the Saints, exulting as
hey do, for the time being, over his !
;apacity 10 call up some biackguard
1latitudes which creatures less de- I
1ased than he invented, will, in the
ong run, as we said above, be glad TO :
,e rid Of him and be anxious that it .
hall be forgotten that they ever reeog- 5
lied him. :
1t will be seen, as we have al q
eady observed, that not the slight :
ST intimation Of an attempt is made '
o refute or oyerturn 4 single SEN t
ence or statement that Dir. Ellis d
las spoken or written. His calumn-
ltors cannot do it. They have not I
he ability 10 begin with, the head
nj front OF the Tribune being a {
'tal failure as n polemic writer, even 1
his cause were just, and it is the {,
sverse Of that. When It comes to
generalities, fulsome and n
Iaggeratiye yencomiums ami vi 4
operative personal attacks he takes il
&c palm, but for sound invincible l;
gic and hard facts he is far in the
ar Of Mr.. Ellis as a writer.
II the Tribune scribe has any dam d,
ling truth to exhibit in relation to b'
I. Ellis, why does he not present -,
The fact that he docs not is evil q
nee that he does not possess any, If
ing Of that nature. If he had he
1uld only be too glad to hurl it at th
g object Of his hate. hl
The subject in hand has nothing AZ
do with the 'sMormons." Mr.. su
lis is, so far as they are concerned, gr
lowing his own bent. He has tei
IN driven into hispresent position ne
the merciless attacks Of a lot of su
serupulous libellers, whose fire 20
been drawn upon him because S,I
had the courage to speak n single fr1
ID word for The most abused and de
represented people on this or any va
er continent. The Tribune whip 81, 20.
been whirled around the head ins
very man who has said anything Sol
tasteful TO the rule or ruin gang POI
infesting this fair Ter. IN ~.
~. Most OF those who have To
n thus assaulted for telling the gro
n have succumbed 10 the lash w
become the plant tools Of the s .tn
ne. As TO whether Mr.. Ellis me
suffer himself to be thus igno- ing
liously subjugsted we know not. wa
know this, however, that the 4. = 4,
tai attack made upon him Ian
ugh the columns of Mr.. Good \
IS paper could not well be either effe
-e cowardly or unwarranted. sau
wat
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