The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-28
SENSATIONAL FUNERAL TALK.

The prophetic savagery has broken
| funeral. If there is one occasion moro
than another which Joseph Z. Smith
will barbarously pounce upon for the
| purpose of narrowing the tender sensl-
bilities Of humanity, it is the funeral,
| where the hearts of men and women
and children are already torn and bleed
ing with the grief that fills them.
Services were held on Sunday after.
noon at Forestdale, so The Tribune g
report states, over the remains of a
good woman and blessed mother. 1t
was here that the prophetic brutishness
made itself extravagantly apparent. 1t
seems that the undcrbred seer does not
like the most exalted that there is IN
music. The sweet notes that pene-
trate the very souls of compassionate
humanity are discordant to him if they
are not set to words Of praise for JOS
eph f. Smith. Heavenly and inspir-
ing as are. the melodies of the old
masters, they are prophetically tabooed
unless underwritten in laudation of
the holiness Of "Joseph, the Seer or
something or someone else equally
boostful for "us.' The oft-repeated
boast is that emusic hath charms TO
soothe the savage breast;' but, God
help the Mormon people, here is one
savage who is apparently utterly un-
tameable by any sentiment on earth
or in heaven.
And flowers! Well, they do cost
little money; but can not The Unspeak-
able Smith, in his greed for tithes. per-
NIT to loving friends even this simple,
beautiful token of esteem? The ordi-
nary decent human would sell the coat
from his own back to obtain the small
means necessary TO lay upon the bier
Of loved one natures brightest and
sweetest expression of God s tender
ness. But not so with the unseen
ly prophet. He would have his worship
ers follow their valued dead in sack
cloth, consigning their corpses to
mother earth unsung Except in adora
tion of fraud) and unremembered Tex
cept in added offering to graft).
But the heathenish spume did not end
in these insults 10 the living and the
dead. Smith, the unregeneratc, must
lauut his own personal criminsity be.
fore eyes baptized in sacred tears.
He must tell of his numerous fami-
lies, his multiplied progeny, and
in what manner they are brought
into the world. He must accuse
people who did not adopt the out
rageous Smith practice with following
IN the footsteps of the ungodly Gen
tiles. The Tribune would write the
proper character of this ruffian, whose
maliciousness is the crowning piece in
the handiwork of all Of Satan S male
violence; but language has its limits,
and silent loathing must take up the
thought where words utterly fail,
Horrible as all of this may seem TO un
inspired mortals, it was as balm in
Gilead compared with the maltreatment
which was accorded to the bursting
heart, whose very soul s existence
seemed at the time to be buried under
the flowers, Leaning his viciously
trembling form over the bier, Smith
spat lust into the very petals
which his cowardly mahgnity pol
luted, Think of it! In the pres
cnce Of the dead, and in the ears
Of the living, the venomous prophetic
hissed the counsel to
speedy remarriage.
Through it all, however, the hardened
revelator feels that he is the adored |
one Of Israel. The Mormon people are |
not particularly surprised at anything
monstrous which he may uttter-"be-
cause, you know, Brother Joseph is
little hot-headcd ut tines