Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-13
APPEALS To "youSo UTAH"


The appeals TO Young Utah" which
were familiar to the public few years
ago and which then occupied the editor
lhI pages ~ tho anti Mormon paper
published IN this city, nrc now renewed
aud tho readers 81 that paper are treat
cd to old pieadings fevampcd Iiu, they
are not exactly reproductions n still
older editorial talks to Young Utah.
In which that paper put IN lie work
among the rising generation ~ the
coming state.
In order that the spirit and tendency
Of that paper may be- fully appreciated
we viii copy a paragraph or two from
m editorial that appeared therein on
March 6. ISL The memory Of ~ editor
Ia sadly defective. ana 4, becomes
necessary now ana then to help II a IT.
tie. quoting from alleged remarks
made by some person-lt was not "a
respectable Old lady" that time. the
editorial said;
II rejoice when I see the young Nor
mon hooduma playing billiards. get
ting drunk running with bad women.
anything 20 break the shnckics they
were born IN. and that every so-callci
religious or NirtunuH influence only
makes the stronger Some ~ them
win 20 quite 10 tho bad. ~ course. hut
u IL better ~. for they are made OF
poor stun. and since there 10 NO good
reason why they were begun for, let
them soon be done for. and the sooner
the better. Most ~ Thorn. however.
viii soon weary ~ vice and dissipation
and be- an the stronger Tor the knowi-
edge Of Il and of it, vanity. Al the
very least they will be- free. and II ~
OF such vital consequence that q man
should be- free. that IN my opinion his
freedom IA chcapiy won ut the cost ~
some familiarity with low life. And
while u Il not desirable In Itself, II N
~ me toicrnbic. because II appears "a
offer the only induccmcnt atfnns
enough TO ontice men out Of slavery
Into freedom"
Now. lest the writer Of that EFFORT to
free Young Utah shall attempt again
TO place the responsibility Of its scnti-
mcnts ON q "wcll known merchant"
mr. prominent citizen" We viii here
add some comments II the editor OF
that sheet which cannot be shifted 10
the shoulders NJ another. whether man
or myth
''out 81 darkness through hell into
aght. Freedom II the FIRST requisite
to manhood. aud N II can be- won With
out excuses 20 much the better. " II
can't, never mind the cNccssen, win the
freedom. Il II not you who are r..
Hponsible. Il Il those who cnslaved you.
That was the sort 81 sermon preached
by the anti "Morinon" sheet 10 Young
Utah" ON sunday. March 6, ISL. Those
who followed ~ advice. thrcw on thu
restraints Of religion. treated with con-
tempt the advice Of parents. abandoned
tho strait path Of virtue and tenn.
perancc. plunged into vice and tram.
Piled on chastity aud dcccncy. are tho
admiration OF that sheet today. and
stand by II IN It's appeals 20 'Nouns
Utah" nov That IL but natural.
Hut We warn the people Of this state
against the spirit and purpose 81 that
pretended advocate Of freedom" which
Il today the champion Of the now cru
rnde against the church of Jesus chris
u I.atter-day Saints. and which ear'
nestly desires the Deserct News 60 b.
silent as to the falschood and villain,
Of the attacks daily directed against
the Church to the injury Of the state
Poison u In the columns ~ the sheet
that advised Young Utah 10 waiiov
In vice and fithlncrs aa the shortest
path TO liberty. Poison II In the coun'
sol II gives today and In the Influence
II seeks Co exercise against It's old an
tagonini-thc Church that II hates II
~. A. much ~ In ISL Let "Youn'
Utah" beware OF ~ counsclH, ic. ol'
Utah exclude Il from hearth ana home