The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-17
KIPLING ON MORMoNIsM.

KIPLlNG ON MORM0NISM.
. Probably the dreariest and scrubbiest of
recent articles on Mormonism is that of
HUBBARD kIPLING in the Sunday issue of
the down town anti-Mormon sheet.
1t begins with the quotation, "a fool is
full OF words" and thoroughly exemphties
that fact by showing the writer of the ar
tlcle to be just such character. In a waste
OF words amounting to three columns, the
imbecile has scarcely hit the truth half
dozen tunes. Speaking of this city, for ex-
ample, he approaches the truth in this re-
mark:
In that city, the Gentiles are only third
of the total population, but the mass of 'em are
grown men, capable of voting.
A little further on he tells of distinction
between Mormon and GENTLE.
Main street appears to be inhabited by the
commercial Gentle, who has made of it a busy,
busting thoroughfare, and in the eye OF the sun
swigs the ungodly lager, and smokes the i'm
proper cigar all day long. For which like him.
1t must be very gratifying to our thrifty,
commercial Gentiles" to be praised in this
miserably maudlin fashion.
The puerile writer has this to say of the
temple now in course of erection in this
city:
There is no design. These men directly in
spired from on high headed stone on stone and
pillar on pillar without achieving either dignity,
relief or interest. There is over the main door
some pitiful scratching in stone representing
the all-seeing eye, the Masonic grip, the sun,
moon and stars and perhaps other sfSittles. The
tiatness and meanness of the whole thing make
you weep.
Another extract will disclose the extent
of the writer's knowledge concerning the
Book of Mormon:
'And MOSES said unto the people of Israel,
Great Scott, what air you doing@" There is
no sentence in the Book of Mormon word to
word with the foregoing, but the general tone is
not widely different.
To person desiring some information on
the subject, the foregoing extract would be
peculiarly exasperating from the depth OF
its senseless vacuity.
The following DIT Conformation concern,
ing the Z. c. NJ l., the largest co operative
institution in this city is also replete with
interesting nonsense:
The church, fancy, looks after the finance:
of this Institution, and it consequently pay.
good dividends
Concerning the appearance of the Nor
mon people the following libel is uttered:
The faces of the women were not lovely =
The women wore hidious garments and the
men appeared to be tied up with strings.
Now how does that libel correspond with
an assertion of the same idiot just little
before in the same pusillanimous article
Here is the other assertion:
And you bet your sweet life there is a holy in
fuence working to their conversion in the kis:
OF the average Gentle, especially when the cir
knows that he won't think it necessary for he
salvation to load the house up with other VIC
men folk.
We suppose the average Gentile' will
very much relish being told that he likes t
kiss ugly women.
One more quotation vii complete the sci
exposure of the weak ignoramus that thu
proves himself chattering maybe:
But to-day, so far from killing openly or ST
cretly or burning Gentle farms, it is all tn
Mormon dare do to freely try 10 boycott the il
terloper His journals preach defiance to tn
United States government, and in the tabern;
Gle on Sunday the preachers follow suit Whe
, went there the place was full of people VIII
would have been much better for washing.
: KIPLING then felicitates himself tina
. fate did not order him ''to be brick in tn
up building of the Mormon church," bu
| it seems pity the weak Ounce could nc
have added one thing more, namely, hoy
glad the Mormons are for the same reason
: Now. we ask every self-respecting non
7 Mormon here what he thinks of this stal
trash about the Mormons, which the Sa
Lake Tribune parallels with such gusto, an
thunders forth the announcements cor
corning it days in advance. This is til
kind of stuff that journal delights in, tt
. sort of miserable diatrioes that it eagerl
secures and publishes in order to iniul
the Mormons. The article in question
weak, to be sure, but it dlscloses, none tt
S less, the malice of the Salt Lake newspapt
Y that would stoop to publish it. 1t is tn
e kind of literature that keeps this territor
o from making the progress which its re
: sources and advantages call for; and thel
must be cessation of such paltry NEAR
Y ness or the growth of the territory wi
f forever be hampered.
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