The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-08
LOVES ALL MEN,

One of the most astounding express
sions that ever fell from human lips is
reported as an alleged sermon of Jo-
seph z. Smith, president Of the Nor
mon church, in the August number OF
| the Young Woman's Journal. That
magazine is the official organ of the
Young Ladies Mutual Improvement
| Association Of the church, and pre-
sumably, therefore, its matter is au~
| thentlc. In the course Of his remarks,
characterized by all the ignorance,
illogic, boasting, blasphemy, self-deih
cation and bathos which usually attend
upon his talks, President Smith is re-
ported to have said:
| We love all men. We havo nothing against
mankind, and will noyor oppose them so long
| as they will lehyo us alone. We do not
| mako war upon the tcnets of others; wo do
| not make war upon thor churches, nor upon
| their religious beliefs 1t is not our purpose
ti to do It, and it is not any part Of our mis-,
what they please, IL matters not.
AS the Deserct News frequently re-
marks: "There is not ono word nor
syllable Of truth in that entire utter
ance." Joseph F. Smith love all menl
He may love all women, but men
neverl This is the man whose life has
been daily exposure of his hatred
| toward this Nation and its people.
This is the man who spoke Of the peo-
pie of the United States as his Gene
mics This is the man who, in his
tabernacle in Salt Lake City-becausc
of a business difference-spoke Of
Charles A. Smurthwaite as a boil, n
carbuncle, an excrescence; and Charles
A. Smurthwaite js one of the purest
and best men in this entire community
This is the man whose chief character
istic, outside Of his love for polygamy
and money, is known to be vindictive
hated of every one who opposes him
or questions his divine right to rule
His love for mankind in general is
shown by a special circumstance which
occurred not long ago. One of the
preachers Of his church was about to
debate with some elders of the Joseph
ite or Reorganized Mormon church. In
giving instructions to his champion
President Joseph f. Smith, his whole
frame quivering with rage and his eyes
shooting CLEANS of hatred, shouted:
"Give them hell! Give them hell"
That is the. spirit of this polygamous
pretender who Gloves all men,
In order to be spared from opposi-
tion by the Mormon hierarchy men
must do more than leave the hierarchs
alone in their offenses against God and
man. They must protect and support
these hierarchs. They must do tho
bidding Of the chiefs. They must re-
sent any interference by law or public
opinion The hierarchs, it is true. make
their demand that they be let alone
let alone in their otfenses against the
law, let alone ip their violations OF
covenant, let alone in their outrages
upon public opinion. But they would
not be contented with even all these,
for they would insist that the supine
mass of mankind should adulate the
hierarchs as the givers OF all good
And a more brutal and nonsensical
untruth it would have been difficult
for even the Mormon prophet to orig
mate than his statement: HWe do not
make war upon the tenets of others"
The avowed mission and the daily
practice of the Mormon church is to
destroy the tenets of other churches.
II affects to be the only church of
Christ on the face Of the earth; it calls
all other churches the representatives
of the Prince of Darkness; it says that
all men were apostate from Christ and
were dying in their sins until this
church was established for their saliva