The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-11
Vigorous Reply by J. f. Gibbs to His Assalants

Editor of The Trlbunc;--Is there a self
respecting man on earth that wouldn't
rather be kicked by a thoroughbred horse
,han by a iackass2 Yet ! have been
kicked by the Mormon church jackass-
the locally known "uemorrhase." tho
'Gimlet." smoot Mouth tic Morsr:on
church "Ananias." otherwise known az
the Herald Republican" shades OF the
old truthful and self respecting Demo
cratic Herald, 10 be linked 10 4 thing
like that,
During the past three years fanalical
members of the Mormon church have re-
Niled and cursed me. some of them to
my face tho great majority. however,
prefer to make attacks from the rear
And what is all this hell -abaloo about?
Just because as Mormon I demanded
tnat Joseph +. Smith, vicegercnt OF the
Mormon god. and his apostolic associ-
ates, Keep the sacred pledge that they
made with Benjamin Harrison AS presi-
dent OF the United States regarding the
abolition OF the practice of polygamy and
unlawful cohabitation. And that .hc
prophets. secrs and reveiator$' keep
or the stump and cease their ungolly
efforts TO politically rule the honest Nor
mons mons In the interest Of titlMs ana a
re!tSio- political despotism in Utah. All
That, seventeen years ago. | ruhlicly de-
mandcd as the right OF freeman. is now
being demanded by such Mormon stall
warts as Hon. James III. Moyle. William
II. King, Uncle" Jesse Kni sht ard hun
dreds of other devout Mormons. And ii
they continue their work of 9pcakin. ''out
in meeting, each OF them will pe en-
titled TO copy of my communication
papers. But That is hardly To tho point
Their names were suggested by tho COM
fortmg thought that I am not now alone
in my humiliation--thev too have been
Kicked by the church Republican jack
ass.
Last Saturday evening at the meet
ing OF the American club i'm Labor hall,
took occasion To tell the Americans
print il in capital Icttcrs-that sixty
page finely illustrated pamphlet on tho
Mountain Meadows massacre had iust
been issued from the press: jhat Tho
Tribune holds the copyright, md that
the, pamphlet could be obtained at The
Tribune counting room. postage pa.i. Tor
the paltry sum OF forty cents per copy.
two for scVcnty-Hvc cents. three for 81
leans that the responsibility for the in
cNpreSSably Cowardv and treachcrous
murder of nearly $50 cmigrants at the
Mountain Meadows had been placed
Of the Mormon church in those days. to
their blatant teachings that They are the
viccgcrcnrS ot Almighty God upon the
earth. that they alone hold the keys"
Of salvation and polygamous oNaltation
for every damDhool who win accept their
unsupported word, and that every latter
day Galoot who indorscs the doctrine or
blind Obedience and blood atopcmcnt rs
taught by Brigham Young. ucbcr G.
kimhall. Jcdcdiah NJ. Grant Of al. is as
guilty Of The Mountain Meadows massacre
as were those who hcguilcd those emf
grants from their wagon fort under n
flaS OF truce and Then nIcd the guns
wien powder was sCsrCc-brJincd ard cut
the throatS OF those strangers I'm = strange
land. / didn't tell the Americans all OF
The above because I didn't have time.
but ] tell them now. I alEo incidentally
told thom that by rho results of the