Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-05
THg SHAMEFUL WORK GOES or.

30 attack the Chdfch IN a plausible
manner. appears in the eastern H.
lustrsted magsZine which contained
his first effusion. This time It is
without Illustrations, excepting a
viIlainous caricature of the pleasant
eountenance OF President Woodruff.
Under cover of a pretended tribute
to the honesty, quietness AMI gene
raj good qualities of the 'fMormon"
people, this scOuDdrel darts his jets
Of malice and faisehoOd for the
purpose Of maligning those whom
he pretends to eulogize. As In
the first article, old scraps
of history and WELL worn com
ments of other writers ere here
copied, verbatim, as though they
were original, and a few facts are
interviewer with much fiction in
such wayas TO deceive the reader
at distance, who, ignorant OF
: affairs in Utah, cannot readily pick
out the truth from the fslsehooJ.
No Mormon" could fall into Tho
errors with which the pretended
history abounds, and 1t is evident
that the mean aud scurvy scribe
who performs this dirty work does
not understand the or,er and
organization of the Church, but mis-
represents it even when intending
to describe it correctly.
For instance, he says:
Among Mormons there are no dis
cussions on religion or politics, no
opinions, no variety of views, but only
iron-clad Obedience
1.-THE result is, that every member
fthe Territorial Legislature is a high
dignitary Of the Church; all local and
municipal government is under the
same control; and thus it comes 10
pass that, in America, a Church abso-
lutely governs a Territory"
''In every block of buildings is the
Teacher 1t is his duty to keep
himself thoroughly informed as to
the religious faithfulness, domestic
life, business affairs. political attitude.
and personal plans of every one re-
siding in that block. He NAV enter
every house, question and cross-ques-
ton every inmate thereof, demand the
most explicit statements, and insist
upon truthful answers TO all his in
quiries.
''In every ward is the Ward
Bishop He has the same supervi-
sion of the ward as the teachers have
of the blocks of buildings, and to him
the teachers report
'-0ver the whole town is the Pre-
siding Bishop to him the ward
bishops report"
He speaks of "The United Orler
of Orderville" as though II were n 4
present and active organization in
stead of thing Of the past, and
quotes notice, issued by the late
Bishop Hunter in this city about
forty years ago, as being now post
ed in all the settlements And
after giving the "Mormonsv credit
for being ''conspicuously honest,
industrious and SOBER" he says:
And nevertheless they are dis ,
z-asaa i.A-.i-s--.-----s-tne-w orId by ,
doctrine for the defence OF which they
would tomorrow leave their ploughs
and take up arms
"But polygamy will no. die out. In
every endowment house in Utah
plural marriages are being secretly
celebrated today. The courts ara {
Powerless to prevent them. The bills
enacted against them are dead letters,
These are samples OF the Mingled
ignorance and malice of the sneak
ing si2nderer who has not the man.
MOOD to attack openly the people
"hom he desires To destroy. Every
Mormon" and every person who :
has been a ''Mormon,, can defect In
these paragraphs We have quoted
The hand of one who does not I'M
ierstand the Church, the present :
or the commonest affairs
'f the Mormon" people, or even
IL the Territory as a political organ
zstion. Every one of those sen. ,,
ences is either willfulIy false or /,
'tupidly erroneous.
The purpose Of these articles is
'iain- tits to aid in the new al.
empt that is to be made to effect
complete "Mormon" disfranchise-
nent in Utah. 1t is part of the plot !
n which the most despicable and ;
lnprinciplei Of the anti-"Msrmon,, !,
'dventUrers in Utah are engaged.
{ Is worthy OF their diaboIical
Methods and their infamous and
letestao!e cause. 1t is the lower /,
lepth Of their degradation, too low !,
or any creatures but their kind Il
I'm honest Embellishments may be :
espectesi, even in his strongest hos 7
iiity; the miserable wretch wbe I"
as sought this sub;erfnge is too vile u
nd contemplate for controversy.
If the editor of the magazine
'hich prints this stuff in or,Ier TO u
Increase its circulation is not in e
,ague with the impostor that writes a
, his uiterances in reference to the =
beiious matter belle his attitude =
lie speaks Of apolicy OF deception -
y President Woodruff and his a.
pcs;les, "and without qualification r,
expression Of opinion declares =
auy: W
$50 far from being prosecuted they ~,
fy the courts. They celebrate plural o.
arriages coverily where once they
ebrated them openly. That is the ~,
" concession they make to the leg =
tive acts OF Congress- ems
Df course all this IL mere a.s.,rii,,, oci
u contrary TO well known facts. ohs
1t 1t shows the animus OF the ~
itor, and 50 does the final sentence ~
his Remarks, which is as fol- e
US: =
III the leaders of the Mormon NJ,
Iurch could be driven out Of the Vi
nntry or imprisoned for life, poly "a
my would die in week" =.
The folly as well as vindictlveness o.,
these words is manifest in the
ticie of which this editor writes \;
proviDgly. According TO that, ito
e "MOrmOn" psople a 4 whole of
2 "a unit I'm snsfnininrr rnI,.