The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03
HOLDING UPAM MIRROR
Ellis Has a Few Words in Reply
to HOLSTER.
LIBERALISM A MOCK AND SHAM.
Comparison of Records Invited-Eating
Crow May Have Caused Dyspepsia and
the Usual Result.
An open letter to OF. HOLSTER.

Salt Lake Daily Deci'S Delight. mlscaleu
Tribune" to get me to galvanlze you
again. A man must be pretty thoroughly /
dead in his community when he has TO |
abuse some one into kicking him, that he
may not be wholly forgotten. You are not
worth the trouble you give me to write this
letter. and yet, since through me you are
trying to iniure others, | must degrade
myself to notice you.
You remind me Of an anecdote told of
"Old Sojeurner Tenth,'' the ex-slave.
When she was ninety years old she was
once making an anti-slavery address. A
supercilious crank, like you, who held Office
under pro slavery administration, dep
uty collectorship, or something equally
cheap, undertook to break the old lady up
by interruptions. She finally said to him:
mister, Is bin runnin' arter children all
my life VIII chips in my hans, and l spose
rs got to clean up arter you,'
do not call you puppy" because
have more respect for an average canine
than 20 make the comparison.
You are liar and, of course. a coward,
when You insinuate anything against my
character here or elsewhere. In Michigan
/ found a lot Of robbed, pauperized and de-
baucheG Indians, the victims Of such fol
lowers OF Jesus as you. | took their cause
and after long struggle succeeded In get
ting the government 10 defend and protect
them. The record is in Washington. The
only reward got was the enmity OF such
as yourself The thieves | had brought
TO justice said they would Kill
me. They have spent a great deal OF
money they stole from those Indians, in eff
forts TO accomplish the murder. They have
hired men and women to aid them. You
have threatened TO "hill' me. / infer
therefore, that they hired you aud that you
are now working for them. A man who
would urge government TO double the fines
imposed on ''cohabs" and then divide the
money with the lnformer, would not hest
tate to take money from those Michigan
thieves to ''kill'' me. A man who, having
spent twenty years damning MormonS and
bowling for the success Of the so-called
Liberal party and. then, when the ladies
of his ward called upon him Tor contribu-
ton to aid in purchasing a flag for the Lib
eral marching corps OF his ward in the
campaign of 1889 and 1880, gave
b cents, would be just the man to do the
dirty work of those Michigan thieves
against me. They have prosecuted me for
years and caused me much suffering. but if
1 should meet with Indians in the same con-
dition again l should do as 1 did then. Your
dirt will not deter me from doing my duty
in Salt Lake. / came here and studied the
situation for myself | soon saw that what
YOU and other Christians-God save the
mark had been writing against the Nor
mons was both malicious and false
would not join IN your Infamous persecu-
ton of a people who were vastly bet
ter than yourself. When you saw that |
was obtaining a foothold and welding
an influence against your scheme TO rob the
Mormons, your rage got the better Of what
little sense you have and you attacked me
- i
ened TO Kill me. j replied TO you and the
paper that Published your exuvia, paper
III which you are said to own $40 worth of
stock; a paper that passes in the business
world as company, and yet is not incor-
porated, it is said; that paper REUSED my
reply to you. | challenged you TO debate
the questions at issue and you
of--did you run off!-to the Great
Salt lake and got your CLOVER
parts deep in the water" You know the
ostrich, which is also q crank, hides its
head and thinks its whole body is safe.
When you got your Clover parts deep in
the water did you feel that you had moth,
ing more to hiae. If you did, | must give
you credit for more sense than you seem
to possess. But you need not have gone
i would not take any revenge on your
Flower parts.n | would not kick even q
dog-unless it was abusing some other dog
Just what is my crime! ] happen 10 be
opposed to your scheme to crush the Nor
mon people. Have you not been waiting
for twenty years to see them forced to fee
again from their homes. Have YOU
not waited year after year. renting
houses and declining to build, because
you. expected to geta vacated Mormon house
for nothing. | have done what | could Il
destroy the scheme. That is all have done
That is all propose to do. | tell you now
you win die and rot land poison the worm.
that feed OF you, will you not y but you will
never drive the Mormons. They will STAY
and they will triumph over the rotter
Christianity that has been fighting then
through such malevolent GdiotsD as yot
for years.
When you call me ''dyspetic,m if makes
me laugh. If you only knew the eupepuc
10Y that sits enthroned upon my live
and dances through my vein,
you would grow madden yet witt
envy. It would be well for you i
you had little dyspepsia as l. if you
heart were as pure and your health as goot
as mine. | pity you, you poor jaundiced
demonstrating creature. But don't yol
know what ais yout In 1874 your Liberia
party, thinking to catch the Mormons b.
guile, made up municipal ticket on whic
there were eighteen live Mormons. Yol
ate so much crow that year that you neve
got over it. and never will. Twenty year
VI ndlI Will 1HdAO lltO udtcI UdSt. i Ou DIT
base, are you net If not, why q
you SO insist upon keeping your 'lowe
parts deep in the water. The hate yo
have kept burning for the Mormons ha
harmed you more than them. Look in tn
glass and learn that the chronic snarl upo
your face is the reflex action of your hat
of the Mormons. Dyspepsia, Man, com
learn OF me. might yet start new lif
in you that would at any rate make you les
severe on the worms when you die TIL
picture you draw of me is q photograph O
yourself. You say you wasted postag
stamp on me. The record you got is wrong
There is no "A. A. Brown and n
Tribune in Kalamazoo Ask Powers
consult Traddles. All ask of Won is +
publish the truth in regard to my record a
far back as you choose to go. You Wi
never find me to have been living like
calf upon the government COW and spenG
ing my time, when l was not milking. i
trying to rob a portion of the people VIII
were being taxed to support me- You wi
never find me trying to drive people fro,
their homes that might get their propert,
You viii never find me trying to cover n
the Credit Mobilier stealjpgs of nv brothe,
in-law You will find that as it has bee
given me to see the right | have don
it, and | have never counted the cos
When l discovered the character Of Ii
Utah Liberalism that you helped to max
infamous, / said would ''kill'' it, not yo,
and you know yourself it is damned a
ready. You talk about money, you snee
at what get. Why, if | had been seekin
money, would not have remained long
Salt Lake. l had little business de-
with some of your Liberals" and the
owe yet S267 that / shall never get, b.
cause / supposed they were honest. an
asked no bond. A man who is not go,
erned by selfishness, is so far above VIC
that you can not understand him. Ha
you lived in Jesus time, you would HAY