The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-21
THE MoUTHING HYPOCRISY.

1t may be that. as Apostle Whitney
told the saints III the Tabernacle on
Sunday, the creed to which he is at
tached teaches "peace and brotherlv
love;' but there is at least one dis
tlnguished parsonage within his church
who observes that teaching in its will
full breach
Mr.. Whitney might have known,
when he made that particular state
meut, that there are people living
hereaboutS who have memories which
run TO contrary conclusion. These
men and women recall the fact that
the chief prophet, seer, and reveIator
of the Mormon church habitually de-
signates non-Mormons as enemies -
He has urged the saints to fee the
association of Gentiles; TO refuse to do
business with them; to sell no land
to them. And as an evidence of the
deep brotherly affection which he holds
for mankind outside of his own par
ticular cult, the prophet has told the
saints that while he had never desired
to be large land owner he had never
sold an inch of land TO a Gentle in
his life. Mr. Smith has called non
Mormons carbuncles, and "excres-
cences,' and utterers of "twaddle." 3"
merely because they desired him to live
i'll Hpeace and brotherly love- with
them ON an equal footing of loyal citi-
zenship; because they were persistent
in determination that the laws of
this commonwealth should be properly
observed, in order that all the inhab
itants might dwell in "peace and broth
erly love, " The prophet has frequent
ly worked himself up into a towering
rage at Gentiles, for the sole reason
that they refused to accept his defama-
tory assertion that all the people of this
community condoned his unlawful
method of living. Whatever may be
the teaching, that is the prophetic prac-
tIce; and inasmuch as Joseph +. Smith
is continually mouthing something to
the effect that "by their fruits ye shall
know them" Mr.. Whitney must not
take it too much to heart if some
people are able to discover considerable
humor in his remarks.
There are men in this region, who
were once members of the Mormon
church, who could say something con
cerning the "peace and brotherly Iove'
observed and extended by the particular
Smith Through the exercise of the be.
lief which Mr.. Whitney attributes TO
the church, these men have been cx-
communicated from their religious as
sociations; they have been ostracized
by their personal friends and neigh
bors; they have been turned over to
the buffeting of Satan; many of them
have been ruined in business; some of
them have been separated from their
families, all on account Of the malevo-
lent persecution which has come to them
from the vicious hierarchical pursuit.
These men would be able to say that
there may be a condition of .1pcace
and brotherly love-" even of the kind
which permits the lion and the lamb to
lie down together-with the latter on
the inside
The widow Raleigh, who was robbed
of the home for which she toiled dur
ing almost all Of her life, knows the
quality Of the prophetic ''pesce and
brotherly love- Time and again she
petitioned the seer and revelator TO re-
leve' her Of the distress which would
be forced upon her through the confisca
tion of her rightful property. But the
pious buccaneer turned to her deaf
ear, pleading that the property was in
the hands Of corporation-one which
however, he caused to be organized for
Just such purposes. Yes, Mrs. Raleigh
has learned Of the hierarchical affection.
Miss Cora Birdsall has also received
demonstration of the benign peace in