The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-09
LITTLE SAWED-OFF.
He Has Become a Prey to the
Passion For Place.
GONE OVER TO METHoDISM.
At the Head of Crew OF nastardiy Priests
and Politicians He Now
Poses.
To the Editor of THE HERALD:

To the Editor of THE HERALD:
You can always tell by mans talk when
the maggoJ of political ambition gets into
his brain No matter how free he may
have been once, the virus Of fattery
pcisons bis hope, he becomes slave to the
desire to rise up before the world as great
man, and in this sense great is never
guilty of meaning more than noted. Most
men viii submit that their greatness shall
even be only notoriety, Cheap John, tape
worm doctor publicity being food for their
hungry vanity. But when a man once be-
comes prey to the passion for place, his
usefulness as sensible man, supposing
him ever to have been such. has vanished
forever
This thought has been suggested by the
Gecsnt conduct of Governor Thomas. A
year ago Mr.. Thomas was classed among
the intidels What2 Facti The two-bit
ofice-seeking infidels of Salt Lake claimed
MIR. Thomas even less than a year ago.
They wanted him TO be governor when it
became clear that West had 10 go. The
infidels worked for Thomas and got him the
appointment He no sooner secured 1t
than his head began TO swell with ambition
TO reach the top round of the ladder OF
lame. He disappeared as infdel and be-
came deyout Christian. Not a church meet
ing, conference or convention has occurred
hereabouts in which the guv'no has not
appeared with little speech IN his pocket
lauding the christian churches and cen
demning that of the MormonS. When the
COngregatOnallStS moved out to make Way
for prize ring. MIR. Thomas was there to
Tell how much that church had done In Utah
with the Bible in one hand and school
book in the other. He did not know, or
would not then admit that that very IN
dependence hall'' was the work of lot Of
infidels who years ago began on South
Temple street, opposite the tabernacle, to
discuss social and religious problems. he
forgot all about what Harrison and others
had done, went back on his intidel friends
and showed his cap up for the christian
church forever.
When the Methodists held their confer
ence here in June he was there asking them
TO pray for him and aid him to prey upon
the liberties Of the Mormon people; and
they preyed. They instructed the Lord to
support the guy'nOr. They wouldn't vote
tor no son OF sea cook Tor any office who
was not "a christian" They denounced
the Mormons as ''beastly' polygamists, and
at the same time they we've trying to hide
the fact that their beloved pastor was
bringing more souls into the world than he
WAS bringing to Christ
Now, the governor appears with his
piece at the dedication of the Methodist
school in Ogden. HIS speech is acuriosity.
He has given his infidel hackers the cold
shoulder and slapped them in the face. His
treatment of The Mormons foreshadowed
in this speech is to be that of an old
fashioned inquisitor. AS governor of U tab,
this man is pledged by every sense of righl
TO show no pa-tiality. He as governor
rh,-ic%
gentle nor infidel. Instead he has in this
speech become an anti Mormon rantei
with Baskin, Mcbride, Powers, Tiff and
Pat He wants the Methodists because
they viii emancipate the Mormons from
the thralidom of intolerance and bigotry.'
He wants the "misguided'' Mormon'
strung up to "a higher plane of civiliza
tion.'' He stands at the head of a dastardll
crew of priests and politicians who have
for years coined money by lying against
these same MormonS who in honesty, in
dustry, in the virtues, in education anl
love of country stand the equals of ever
the people Of the Oldest eastern states Thil
man, whose Office should lift him abov'
partisanship, misrepresentation and thu
yilliication that are to be expected from
the ordinary sour, disappointed and impe
cunious politician or priest, stooos TO false
hood against the Mormon people in order Il
tickle the Methodists and get himself ad
vertised throughout the country prepare
tory to mis- appearance as candidate TO
further promotion. When Mr.. Thoma
says the Mormon people, as
people, neither respect nor obey tn
the laws Of Congress, nor the decisions o
the supreme court of the United States,
he descends from his high office and be
comes a compatriot Of the malevolen
knayes and liars who run the anti Mormo
ring under the whistle of the Jesuit Lar
nan.
Mr.. Thomas in This speech ceased to b
governor and became q commonest scru
exhorter. When he talks about the great
ness of religious freedom. he knows tha
the whole Protestant church and the coun
try is combinef in an avowed effort I
overthrow the constitution of the Unite
States and set up Protestant nierarch
with Jesus Christ as ruler of the nation
Yet, while those churches represer
5000, 900 people, Thomas encourages thel
in their treason to liberty and joins them
hunting down 10000 Mormons, who's
only crime is that they took the Bible 3
their corner stone and lived up to i
teachings. never thinking that they coul
possibly be in conflict with d national COZ
stitution which, in their Judgment, was in
spired by the same power that gave til
world the Bible
Mr.. Thomas is a lout in logic and a val
glorious simpleton in the hands of thos
WHO DY GlChltIG HIS Sg
usm use him to aid them in begging none
for sectarian purposes. Why, even tn
Small Sam whom they have taken for
figurehead, on account of his SIX
as beggar, has time aft
time put himself on record
an exponent of the purposes of ''the N
tional Reform association He beiiey,
in driving the people who will not reco
nize Jesus Christ as the temporal al
spiritual ruler of this country, out of
No Mormon, not even in the DAYS wis
thieves, whore -mongers and murderers we
forcing themselves into this coamuni
and using the old prejudices TO create ane
an open war upon the successful Mormo
and compel them TO leave their home
the benefit of hooters, not even then, und
the most terrible provocation that viii
people ever felt on this continent. did Z
Mormons manifest disposition so hosti
TO the government of the United States
is this determination of this Protesta
hierarchy to put into the White House
priest whose only allegiance shall be
Jesus Christ. Out upon you, Thomas
man or dof your crown and put on a C
lar with string to it, Eat YOUR wore
good sir, or become man and an Anne
can. You say:
1.-The master said render unto Caesar
things that are Caesars, and unto God t
things that are God's.n Why don't v
practice what you preachl You kns
that the Mormons have shown more he
ism in their devotion to life, liberty a
the pursuit of happiness than a
people who have toiled and suffer
on this continent since the whites beg
to dwell upon it. You know that in all tt
goes to make good citizens the Mormons
EQUALS CT the very best Christians in I
land. You know that the charge, hatch
in the protestant churches and propaga'
by scrub politicians seeking pap at the g,