Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-09-30

SOeS DdCh IL years anu plClulSS a.
log house, 16x17, in southern Utah,
without windows or floor, where
man was said to live with two wives
and ~ children. 1t makes fun of
these poor children because they
were poorly clothed and mad beds of
straw to sleep on. Mary the mother of
Christ, did not even have a house or
straw bed, but had to go in with
the COW and the ass to give birth to
the MAN of Sorrows" and many peo-
pie in those days made fun of her
because she was poor. When a
preacher or a paper or writer has
nothing else to do but make sport of
peoples poverty and cast reproach
upon little children, they ought to be
given jobs on the chain gang. Here
is another statement that has been in
every copy of the Intermountain
Christian Advocate this summer:
"The bar at Saltair, run by the au-
thority of the so-called Church OF
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
will soon close by the ending of the
excursion season. Eternity alone will
be able to reveal the number started
on the road to drunkard's grave
and drunkard's hell"
Everyone knows this is false. AS
the Mormon church leased the Salt
Lake & Los Angeles railroad and ev-
erything pertaining to it to a certain
man and he only has a right to say
what will be sold there. Owning
buildings where rum is sold is not
alone Mormon vice. At Wilkes
barre, Pa, the superintendent of the
First Methodist Sunday school owned
the Luzerne house. He leased this
hotel to a man who maintained the
bar with it. Objections were made by
the temperance people there but on
investigation and trial it was decided
by majority that the sin of running
this bar rested upon the man who
leased the hotel instead of the man
who owned it. At Pittston, Pa, very
wealthy and active Presbyterian
loaned money to the Forest Castle
brewery. This brewery failed and the
Presbyterian had to bid it in Did
this good Presbyterian destroy all the
beer he bought? Oh, no. He hired a
man to guard it and then sold it as
soon as he secured a buyer. This
good brother was not even censured
for selling all this beer. In this same
city an active member OF the Bap-
fist church owned and ran a whole
sale liquor store and a deacon of this
same church signed an application for
saloon license and they both main
tanned their church membership with
out protest.
On December 4th last, the Rev. H.
d. Kreidler, pastor of Salem Evangel
ical church of Mahoney City, Pa, in
his sermon. said that there existed in
his borough 164 licensed saloons or
one saloon to every 80 people," With
the above showing the editor of the /.
| M. G. A. and many other reverend
knockers will come to Utah with a
great big beam in their own eyes"
and rail and foam over the great in
temperance of Utah when it is 100 per
cent better than the states they came
from. These people who are howl
ing so because the Mormons own
Saltair Pavilion and allow the man
who lease it to maintain bar will all
shout and vote for Ezra Thompson,
who owns several saloon buildings
Zone in which a man was murdered
not very long ago., just because he
belongs to the American party of
knockers and is injuring Salt Lake
City and Utah. Brother Wishard will
get on front seat and cheer such a
man as Frank ]. Cannon and the
Methodists will INVITE him to occupy
their pulpit for the same reason.