Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-02-18

would you think of the orthodox Jew
who would picture the birth of the
man of SORROWS and hold him up to
derision before the world? Brother
Wishard, in this Assembly Herald of
October, 1903, are two more pictures;
the first is one of John j.. Leilich's
pictures of "a Mormon home" II
represents one of the poorest log
houses that can be found in Utah The
next picture is the Interior of a
Mormon home" this is probably the
poorest room that could be found in
all Utah 1t represents the bare walls
of logs. the rude table and n mother
sitting holding a little boy on her
lap.
A preacher has no more right to
ridicule that poor mother in her pov
erty or the little boy nestled on her
breast than he has to scott at the
wife and baby of king Graded in
the lap of luxury. AS | look at these
| pictures | ask myself, Is there no
heights or depths or limits that
preacher will not go to further his re-
| ligious prosecutions and hatred? This
| rude house and room is this poor
womans castle and any man who
would try TO deny her that right
| Is n fiend. | took dinner once in n
sod house in Cairo, Nebraska. The
family occupying IL were Methodists
who came from Pennsylvania n few
years before. The father and man Of
| this sod house was a kind, conscien-
| tious, honest Christian man, one of
the best | ever met. His wife was a
good mother and a Woodworking
| Christian woman who worked with
her husband to get this sod house
home. What would you think of a
Mormon who would take photograph
of this sod house and exhibit 1t to
the world as Methodist home in
Nebraska? You would say that the
people of Nebraska would mob him
for his damnable meanness. This
family graduated from the sod house
and now own good farm and home
in Bear River Valley and are pros
porous. | have been in dugouts in
Kansas and / found in them just as
good Christians and kind people as
ever lived in an up-to-date Presbyte-
rian parsonage. Brother Wishard, II
is an aXium, a self-e' ident truth, that
a story half told Is the meanest kind
of lie. You or your paper pictured
to the world one of the poorest schools
you could find and denominateo it
Utah school. If you were honest. WY
did you not picture by its side one of
Utah's best schools, one of our high
schools or universities or colleges
and show the evolution our students
must have gone through passing from
one to the other. You pictured out
one of the meanest houses in all
Utah and called it Mormon home"
If honesty was your aim, why did you
not picture by its side the Bee Hive
or the Peery or McCune mansions,
and let the people of the world know
of the great change that has taken
place in Utah? Brother Wishard,
don't you know that the lady of one
of the finest Mormon mansions in
: Salt Lake once lived in a very poor
house and made DOLBY (adobe) brick
and she succeeded in her work be-
cause she did it cheerfully and made
good brick. And / want to say to
every Mormon boy and girl, what
soever thy hand findeth to do, do it
, with thy might" whether it Is on
your knees thinning sugar beets or
feeding calves or making dog bis
cults, do your work cheerfully, do it
well and don't be afraid you will work
overtime. There Is always something
/, better n SIRE reward ahead for such