The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

stand the tests of time; it would not wear. An at
tempt to enforce it in these days would be almos
certain to produce rebellion against the aforesaid
holy Priesthood and the temptation would be in
creased to call them "holy grafters' instead Hence
the present tendency of Mormon leaders is to avoic
all reference to this teaching, thus indicating the
fact that even they ashamed of it. and when il
happens to be thrust upon their attention. to cal
their utmost efforts into exercise in order to make
the meaning appear to be something else than that
which the language implies
1t will be noticed also that the Prophets money
loving mind led him to attempt to impose upon his
too credulous followers by trying to make the Civ
ing of all surplus property appear to be "tithing
(And after that, those who have thus been tthed)
What insult thus offered to the intelligence of
the Mormon people All that the prophet could
get them to surrender called 'tthng," the
TENTH in order to give the robbery religious color
ing. What an insult also to the Almighty to repre-
sent him as being the author of such teaching. The
sin of Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, in securing
money and garments from Naanan, the Syrian, by
Misrepresentation was evidently trife by com
parison We think that Joseph F. Smith will not
allow his work of "resuming" to include this in
famous teaching.
Fourteenth, Righteous "Gentiles' or False Proph-
ecy; Which? -"The wicked will not come unto it,
and it shall be called Zion" This is part of the
teaching of Doctrine and Covenants, section As :67.
The whole paragraph reads: "And the glory of the
Lord shall be there, and the terror of the Lord
also shall be there insomuch that the wicked will
not come unto it, and it shall be called Zion"
No matter how this teaching is taken, it is a thorn
in the side of Mormonism. If the claim be made
that it represents true prophetic work. then the thou
sands of non Mormons who have come to Salt Lake
City, in sufficient numbers to carry the elections on
two three occasions, unqueStlonably righteous
people, Joseph Smith himself having given them a
certificate of character On the other hand, if these
people are wicked, then the Mormon prophet
fraud and he goes down with them If the former is
the real condition of things naturally ask: What
is the advantage of being a Mormon? If the latter
is the condition, what becomes of Mormonism?
The attempt used to be made to damage the char
acters of these non Mormons by charging them with
having brought the saloons to Salt Lake City, or
Mormondom But success was not made of this
effort A few years ago, two Salt Lake City papers
favored their subscribers with pictures of salt
Lake City in the early days." In one of these pic
lures saloon sign could be plainly SEEM and in the
other the sign of Liquor Store" as conspicuous.
Recently Salt Lake paper (the Inter Mountain
Christian Advocate for March, 1908, gave some
facts upon this subject which were taken from the
records of the Salt Lake City Council and as they
lad been written down by Mormon recorders"
Some of these records as follows:
'"The City Council, organized January H. 1851, On
une 81 1851 an ordinance passed for the sale of
iquor'
September Is, 1852, William Henefer as granted
he right to sell beer and ale"
December TO- 1852, Jeter (probably Peter) Gin
on, who was quarantine physician reported that he
lad visited the City Brewery and shocked to
ind that there was swearing and that "a species of