The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-21
The Rule or Ruin Gang Again
Shown Up.
SOME FOOD FOR REFLECTION,
There is Terrible Wrong Being Done in the
United States in the Name
of Utah."
To the Editor of THE HERALD:

very recent statement of prominent
man in confederation of my avowal The
Reverend Sam Small is IN the east beg
ging money for the Methodist school IN
Ogden. In purported interview in Phil
adelphia, that person is represented as saw
ing:
II am in the east in my official capacity
to solicit help in making that (schooD a
lighthouse and training station for Chris
tlan influences and educated brains to scat
ter the darkness of disloyalty and heresy
from the great and profitable inter noun
tain region of our country"
III they (the Mormons) were subjected
to the test oath laws they would soon find
1t necessary TO become loyal citizens or
leave the country for other and better peo-
pie to occupy"
AS am hereto in the Judgment of this
Ministerial mosquito | am interested lii his
buzz. He would drive neretics as well as
Mormons out OF Utah, and therefore l am
entitled to hearing In the case, unless we
are all to be banished without even hear
ing.
This Methodist mouth is more distinguish.
able for facial cavity than for brains, but it
voices the American Reform association"
and hence its utterances are to be taken as
menacing, as are the odors of the polecat
This fellow claiming to be a minister of
God and follower of Jesus, whose stand
ara OF fellowship In the kingdom of heaven
was that the brethren should not only love
one another, but their enemies also, goes
about the country begging money to sup
port sectarian school-and insure his
salary-by preaching and teaching gospel
OF hate against those who do not believe as
he pretends to believe. If Sam Small is an
Intelligent man, if he is fit to be a teacher
OF American youth in this age, ne knows
that the doctrine of vicarious atonement,
upon which he seeks to build his sectariau
school, is a premium on crime, and yet he
has the Cheek the ''gall'' to advocate
the. Punishment from Utah of the people
who took it as an uninhabited desert and
made it the envy, not only of itinerant
Methodists, but of all who have had the
good fortune to know it, The Mormons
came TO this country fugitives from a land
that professsed to guarantee freedom Of
| conscience to all. They came here to find
home where they might worship God &C
cording to the dictates of conscience. They
were eventually driven out of the United
States and came here when this was
foreign territory. They were as truly
pilgrims as were those whites who landed
on Plymouth rock in the clear December Of
1921. Their success here excited the envy
Of those who drove them away. But the
first thing they did was TO take possession
Of this country in the name of the United
States and over it they hoisted the Ameri-
can flag. Then they formed a provisional
government and asked recognition of the
United States. Sam Small grudgingly
says: 1.-THE Mormons want statehood and
presented once very specious constitu-
ton to that end.' The pious liar
hides the fact that from 1852 to
the present the Mormons have half
dozen times asked to be admitted to the
nnIOn and have a60ntpd itfrti in,
which polygamy is not Only forbidden, but
in which it is made the foundation law Of
the proposed state that the article pro-
| hibiting polyg cannot be changed with
| out the consent of Congress. This same
religious mountebank talks about ''the
| disloyal, defiant and lawless element of the
| Mormon followers" and yet he has not
been month 10 the territory and knows
absolutely nothing about the Mormon
| people. Such a man the representative Of
| the will of God! As well might it be said
] that Andre was the representative of the
liberty for which the colonists were striv-
ing, when he betrayed them for British
gold.
There is terrible wrong being done in
| the United States in the name of Utah. and
| the pretended followers of the meak and
| lowly Jesus are the fathers of it. The
christian religion is being prostituted to the
condition of an engine of persecution. and
| ouCu USBRGES dS GodLu OIudll alQ OIU6fS WHO
| might be named, are the mouth-pieces OF
it. 1t is all disgrace to the American
nation, and if the east could but know the
truth they would repudiate it as they re-
| pudiated Andre and his mission in the days
of the revolution.
Sam Small talk about driving heresy out
| of Utah. With the same grace might the
cuckoo talk of its right to drive the young
robins out of their nest to make home for
its piratical progeny! The United States,
in the largnesS of their conception of human
freedom said to the Methodists: ''You are
welc ONE and we will protect you, but you
must not assume that that protection gives
any right to initiate against the equal free
| dom that we guarantee to all other sects."
But that word of caution is now forgotten,
and the Methodists assume to be the
| United States, and IN the person of Sam
Small to say to the Mormons and heretics,
/ ''You must git! We want this country and
we are going to have it!' Let the Sam
Small spirit increase unrebuked, and il will
not be long before we have Methodist in
! QUESTION and Methodist Torquemadas and
Ximenes' to burn and otherwise destroy all
who are not Methodists, as in other days
was the lot of those who were not catho-
| lies.
Down with such presumption, say ! If
| the Methodists cannot be content to live
sharing the liberty that our government
/
be content without the whole land as theirs,
the day will come when they will have
raised the red hand of war and will
/ find Themselves swimming in blood.
| / say, give all sects the right TO
| live and grow under the flag,
but strangle all despotisms in the cradle,
and il Sam Small is not satisfied with that
| let him raise his standard of revolt at once
and defy. freedom to the issue.
| This government was created for the
people, and nothing but the people. Priest
hoods have no tag upon it. 1t is not theirs.
By intrigue they may get it, but they can
not hold it. The Power that inspires the
universe is the Spirit that leads humanity
| from savagery towards freedom, and it
will not long submit to be coerced by Sam
Slnalls. II such beggars think to secure
conquest by pandering to the ignorance
and biggotry of idol worshipers, they are
doomed to wild awakening when they
attempt to Danish heresy from the United
States. If they choose to couple Mormon
! ism with heresy, all right. Mormons have
! learned through persecution the value of
| friends, and though they may hate heretics
as Sam does, they will not object to accept
| ing the help of heretics in defending their
rights and their liberties. Let the un-
/ churched people of this country once Know
the truth in regard to the history of the
Mormens and they will stand by them, and
even though Salt Lake and Ogden should
| hold towards, the country is large and the
heretics many, and the Methodist Small
| will find job ON his hands that he cannot
execute. CHARLES ELLIS.
Christy's London Derby hats in all COL
orS. We are sole agents.
I p.c