The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-29
ANOTHER OUTRAGE.

Young Joseph Howell. the son Of Congress,
man Howell, is reported By the press dis
patches 10 have been apnoyingly, but not
dangerously shot in tho rear by n farmer,
upon whose field he was trospabSing, in Con.
necticut. Lest the News should lose good
opportunity to attribute that outrage to q
non Mormon mobocrat, and lest II should fail
TO discover tho importance OF this attack
upon young elder, who is the son Of an
elder, who, in turn, is ono of tho favoritcs
of tho church, Tho Tribune suggests tho
following ms being in tho usual News tome
For, as Is well known. the Dcserot News
finds o connection between each present dis
pressed in lottor to The Tribune twenty
years ago.
Readers of tho Dcseret News will
probably call to mind the account pub
lished yesterday Of an outrage upon
young Joseph Howell, Mormon elder
and son of Elder and Congressman
Joseph Howell, prominent portion of
whose anatomy (the young man g an
atomy) was filed with bird shot by an
irate farmer in Connecticut. Without
any provocation this person, who calls
himself an agrieulturist, but undoubted
ly is a Presbyterian in disguise-in-
cited thereto by the Presbyterian Book
Of Faith-aimed his shotgun at the in
nocent young man (while the young
man was facing the other way), pulled
the trigger and sped the harmful mis-
siles on their diabolical mission. This
pretended agriculturist, who probably
is an elder in the Presbyterian church,
cruelty insisted that young Elder How
ell should vacate his premises, and
when the companions Of Elder Howell
approached the mobocrat, who mis-
called himself farmer, he threatened
to do for the whole bunch Of thom If
they did not get, off his farm, Under
the circumstances there was nothing
left for them to do but to flee, which
they did under protest-young Elder
Howell limping seriously as he fed.
After they left these Presbyterian
premises council was held and it was
determined that discretion was the bet
ter part of valor, and that these young
men would better not attempt TO cross
the field which that bigot, that mobo.
crat, that murder-ninded sectarian-
who profaned the word Ager by call
ing himself farmer-claimed belonged
to him.
1t will also be remembered that
young Elder Howell is a student at
Columbia College and was out for the
summer with a party Of young men
belonging TO his class. They were
merely doing things to that Presbytc-
rian IS field, os they had perfect right
to do; for the earth is the Lord g and
the fullness thereof, and that Preshy~
terian was merely holding few acres
and the crops thereon in trust for the
Most High, 1t must be quite apparent
to any person possessing a reasonable
and moral mind that young Elder How
ell had an inherited right from the
church Of which he is member to
CROSS "anybody's field for any purpose,
and if he and his companions trampled
upon crops it was not the Presbyterian
planter IS prerogative TO find fault. He
should have gone to the Lord with his
trouble, for the Lord is responsible.
We see in this anew stirring up Of
the old bitterness. This outrage upon
Elder Howell IS undoubtedly due to the
publication Of Apostle Smoot's sermon
at La Jara, Colorado When will this
bitterness against the Saints end3
There arc no words in the English lam
guage too forcible TO express the deep
depravity Of individuals who descend
TO a publication of sermon which was
not intended for the public to know.
Apostle Smoot spoke in private, as he
had a perfect right to do and every
man was commanded to secrecy. There
fore, any person who reveals and any
person who prints the account Of Apos
tie Reed Smoot's sermon is guilty of
theft. Such persons will not live long