Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-11
A GOOD BEJOIyDER.


WHEN an enemy does good thing
we feel almost as ready 10 commend
him NJ we would u he were friend.
Sam Small has done n great many
mean things, but In sending tho an-
nexed communication to n much
meanct man he has shown himself In
n better light, and we arv pleased to
endorse bis statements.
1t seems that Que I'D. Huntley has
been sending postal cards through the
mails containinga vile attack on the
Jews. One OF them being received by
Sam Small, he answered as follows:
81 have just received FROM you a postal
card addressed to myself with certain
letters "a. J. =. s. appended to my namo,
tho meaning OF which letters | cannot
Imagine. ] suppose there Ia Joke OF
some occult sort, Characteristic OF your
self, involved IN the caballsiic super
scriptlon. AZ l am not In the cheap
clothing business, do not understand
why you should sond me such earl,
with an address that IL unbocoming, for
! humbly consider myself entitled to the
ordinary respect which obtains among
gentlemen. II, however, "a sccmn
probable, you thought your mothod oi
advertising your business by slurriug
tho appearance and enterprise oi rhe
Jcw' would afford pe qualification
because am Christian minister,
You are immcasumhly mistaken. bog
to say to you that nothing Is moro oiIcn-
sive To my sense OF manhood, docCncy
aud religious duty than the too common
practice among some Christians, and
many who think they arc Christians be-
cause they are no, Jews, OF casting COM
tempt upon aud using approbrlons terms
toward our fellow.ci,lzons who arolsuel.
ties.
sin nationality many Of thom are ne
truly American rs any Of tho desceud-
an,a Of tho 'Mayh1wcr' adycnturcrs or
the cavalier scltlcr u the south Atlantic
coast. In religion they are, when they
are religious, adhcronts or tho iundn.
montal faith Of all those In tho world
That truly believe In tho one God. As
citizens Of the United States they have
proved for more than = century among
the most law'ablilus. patriotic, thrifty
and socially pure ~ our composite popu-
lation. In commerce they may excite
envy and jealousy, but II we only mn
our courts and penal Institutions In tho
United States for tho trial and punish
mcnt OF jews those Institutions would
speedily become tho minor rather than
the major machinorics Of our judicial
and social order. thank God that It h
phasizo preludlr against aud inauguratc
prosecutions OF the jews, but II Is rather
to break down the middle wall or parti-
ton between Jews and Gontilos and
finally bring both to tho ono baptism,
one faith and ono Lord. ~ humble
minister Of that Christianity I stand al
ways to share tho blessings oi the age.
the country and the constitution with
the lows, AID to pAr,ake with thom In
the battle against silly traditional prclu.
dicos aud all other forms OF petty and
un-Chrlsliau ostracism.
40 say tho least ioi It, In the United
States OF America, however Il may DO ia
Russia or elsewhere, II IL unpa,rloilu,
unjust aud almost unpnrdoniblo to drag
these rangroned methods VI speech, In.
iluonco and competition into the aroma OF
business HE. II you cannot compete
with the jew without such aid, tlen do
not curse hun but go into some other
business wherein you will not encounter
his vigilance, diligence and enterprise
Al any rso. such change Of business
might FREQ you from tho necessity OF
mailing abroad those ungenieol and up-
American postal card, aud Of being
robbed Of your diamonds in such man
nor ~ to obtain widespread advertise.
mcnt."
IfSmall would practice toward the
"Mormons" what he breaches NJ "a
the Jewe, ho would be benefited by
his own remarks and might appear 4
little more consistent. We hope to Sc,
him still further improve.