The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-12
ANIMOSITY AGAINST ONE.


Now, which would be the most profita-
BILE. and advance the cause OF God the
| most II a pcrIon should step in and un
dertalse 20 break asundcr that union that
exists in the first presidency OF this
forward and say him or her? 1t would
be better for me to slay them and let the
union continue; for 1t is better for one
person to suffer than q whole nation TO
| first counselor TO President Brigham
| Young, in Salt Lake bowery, April 10,
1857 Journal of Discourses. volume 4,
| page 362.
On account OF the fact that he has
recently expressed his honest opinions
concerning the dastardly political in
tcrference of the Smith Smoot combine,
tho Hon. Brigham II. Roberts has been
made the object of vicious attack
through ecclesiastical agencies available
TO the hierarchical tyrants. In other
words, the higher Of the high priests
have commenced the operation Of turn.
ing Mr.. Roberts over to tho ''buffet
| ings of Satan While the expression
| here used in quotation marks is one Of
| hypocrisy, under which the chief hie-
|
individuals due to his personal hatred,
it is measurably true. If there be in
this world any individual who, more
than all others of mankind, represents
| the foulness and impersonates the vim"
dictive characteristics of Satan, that
man IS the "prophet' person known
as Joseph F.. Smith, And any "buf-
| h., hos dc 80 hot
uppish priest may well be attributed
to Satanic invention. There is no i'm.
probity, no moral turpitude, no despica.
| bic, shabbiness, no dishoporable base
ness no perfidious knaveY and no
roguish villainy that is too infamous TO
be utilized in carrying out the de-
graded purposes of Smith.
The Tribune has heretofore called at.
tention to the circumstance that Apos-
Tie Hyrum Smith went about through
the stakes of Zion setting out the false
hood that APOSTLE Reed Smoot had
"vindicated the gospel in the halls Of
| Congress. - Hyrum, tho exalted pur
veyor of butter, eggs and cheese, would
| never have dared to utter that senti-
ment except after instruction from his
father. The chief prophet utilized the
voice of his son for the purpose of e1
pressing his political preferences and
desires. 1t was as if Joseph f. Smith
himself spoke.
Now we come TO tho Roberts matter
of recent date. George c. Smith played
| similar part in this instance. He is
one of the numerous sons of the spuri-
Gus prophet. When he uttered his foul
iusinuation against Mr Roberts-when
he accused that brother high priest with
entertaining aparcbistic notions and
with harboring a secret desire for as
sassination-thc blab, ,mouthed son of his
father merely exposed the parental and
professedly prophetic mind. Again il
was as if Joseph F. Smith himself
spoke.
| We reproduce at the opening OF this
article the matter taken from tho SER
mon Of Heber G. Kimball simply to di.
vulge what is the secret doctrine under
which the attack upon Mr., Roberts is
! being made. That gentleman has
"raised his heel and his voice against
the priesthood The recent political
utterances of Mr. Roberts-patriotic
and righteous as they were to the view
of all right thinkers-were looked upon
| by this unspeakable tyrant, Joseph L.
Smith, as tending TO disrupt the solid
arity Of his support among his coadlu-
tors; as dangerous to that union
which is but acquioscence In the com
mands of reasonable despot: as de-
structive of that harmony between
| the governing twentyasix of the Nor
mon church that is but the shuffhng,
| trimming, abject conformity to the
autocratie Will of a supreme oEgarch.
| Therefore, as Heber G.. kimball said,
it is better that Hon. B, II. Roberts be
slain. And the chief prophet has set
| his machinery TO work to assassinatc
! the Roberts character, which is worse
| than to take his life. lie has put his
servitors and minIons to work spread
| ing infamous stories concerning one of
the bravest and most intellectual of
Mormon sons. He has instructed his
lickspittle minions to hurl his priestly
dirtIness against the fair name of one
with whom Joseph L. Smith Is not
worthy to be compared. In short, Smith
has figuratively set out TO slay Mr., Rob
erts. rather than he shall be permitted
| to fbreak asunder that union that cx.
lists in the first presidency of the
church.
The Mormon people are indignant. for
they love Brigham Ii. Roberts. These
attacks which Smith has been launch.
ing against the church s champion at
need are creating in the hearts of honest
Mormons feeling of hatred for the
Smith dynasty that BODIES no good TO
that reigning house. Should Brigham
| II. Roberts rise is his might to lead Is
rael out OF the wilderness into which
they have been plunged by Smith, the
whole fabric of complete despotism that
! hoe bccu uurparel durinn tho rnio,, nf