The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-13
he MOST REVEREND, CHRISTIAN AND
PHILOSOPHER JOSEPH COOK.

The Rev. JOSEPH Cook has once more
visited US. In the few years that have
passed since he last honored or inflicted US,
as you choose to look at it, with one of his
efforts, he seems neither to have been
instructed by experience nor mellowed by
age
He still repeats the yarns about Mormon
treason and kindred ofTenses which he
sprung years ago; he still views the bayonet
as a possible solution to the Mormon ques-
ton.
The Rev. MIR. Cook possesses the require
ments for an anti Mormon lecturer to an
eminent degree Living thousands of
miles distant from the territory,
with no further acquaintance with
the Latter day Saints than comes of an
occasional brief visit, he thinks himself
qualified to judge their lives and condemn
their motives. a minister of the gospel of
mercy, of love, of charity, of Him who
commanded not to Judge, he finds it posi-
BILE in heart schooled in the love of CHRIST
to applaud the confiscation of property
and the deprivation OF the elective fran
chise as punishment for belief. Posing as
an educator of the public, he presumes to
denounce what he does not understand;
processing to be a minister of CHRIST, he
| forgets the charity of even common decency
/ in his sectarian zeal.
Knowing nothing of the nature of
the endowment oaths, he pronounced
them reasonable; he praised the teachers
who had come out here to instructive Nor
| ~, L.
teachers who had taken their lives in their
hands in doing it-a hob-goblin tale either
dreamed by the reverend gentleman or i'm
posed upon his too credulous and too will
| ing mind by artful deceivers. The mani
festo he said, was trick, an opinion in
which even that most radical and erratic
sheet, the Tribune, does not agree with this
| pious representative of Christian culture
He hoped it would not be necessary to cut
out the cancer with the bayonet(we are in
clined to believe he did not express the
real hope in this case). He believed that
the keen edge of legal decisions would do
the work in time. He prefers Anderson's
boiling oil to the quick relief of a cavalry
charge, and shows himself to be an adept
in refined cruelty little characteristic of
his Christian professions; he declares
polygamy to be an actuality today, in
which we presume the reverend gentleman
means to say that polygamous marriages
are still being solempized, statement as
false as it was unbecoming in this reverend
''Man of God;' of course he cast his vote
in favor of the Struble bill. measure
designed to reduce the Mormon majority
of the territory, their property and liberty,
into the hands of the minority, for the
unrepublican and, one would suppose, the
unChristian reason that the Mormons be-
lieve in certain things regarded as
Objectionable; he declares that Utah
is subject to priestly dictatlon, a statement
suggested by ignorance and approved by
prejudice; he thought Congress should pro-
hibit the immigration of Mormons he
chad UNDERSTOOD that sixty Mormons
were arrested within week after the is
suance of the manifesto, gratuitously
false charge, and one dishonesty circu-
lated to lead the ignorant to believe that
this was for offenses committed by Nor
mons after and in disregard of the mani
festo, an example of unfalrness, quite I'M
worthy gentleman of his cloth, a self
called teacher of the American public.
1t is quite evident that the Rev. JOSEPH
lacks the capacity of industrious re-
search, the power of discriminating judg-
ment, that impartiality of temperament,
the mercy of true Christian, the patriot
ism of a true American-nearly every
quality, in fact that is essential to qualify
him for his mission of enligthening the
mind of the public upon important ques-
tons He should confine himself to mat
tiers little nearer the Back Bay. His at
tempt to tell Salt Lake audience some
thing about the Mormons, would be anus
ing if they were not so favored with the
spirit of Inquisition.