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I 16 THE SALT LAKE HEK4LB SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25 1887 SIXTEEN PAGES SALIVA SLASHES Ell A Few Brief Sags estions to the Sanpete Synod I THE RELIGIOUS HUCKSTERS 9t A GInneD at the Men Who Framed Utahs Constitution by way of Comparison To the Editor of TUB HERALD I suppose that the appeal of the Presbytery of Utah in session at MantiAugust 28th 1887 means an appeal to the Presbyterian Church members not only in Utah but throughout the United States If the people of this nation knew the character of the synod who make this appeal and could look upon Utah with an unprejudiced mind and with a i desire to do the most good to their fellow man without taking into account the difference in religious faith or belief possibly this appeal would have no effect upon any but a few backsliding church members who profess a form of godliness but deny the power thereof But the constant desire of these blackmailers and there can be no fitter name for them is apparent in all their movements Now as one said of old Come let us reason together In what way have the Presbyterian or any other selfstyled Ohristian sect ever been injured by the Mormons Did not the Mormon people make a country for these very faultfinders to come to and is it not a fact that these Mormon people pioneered and built up here a Territorial commonwealth in which these religious Presbyterian reformers are glad to live They may say as others have said If the Mormons under the leadership of Brigham Young had not redeemed and beautified aud made desirable this country somebody else would have done so1 Well grant this statement to be true is it not equally true that to the Latterday Saints belong the honor if honor there be of redeeming this portion of Uncle Sams eminent domain The Mormons are and always have been greatly in the majority Utah and in all Republican governments we find that certain principles are fundamental to that government nay without these established principles the government could not exist Then one of the chief of these principles is that the majority rules Now this majority of the people of Utah have declared by ballot that they desire change that they have been in Territorial tutelage long enough and have unitedly petitioned Congress to permit them to become a sovereign State expressing in their preamble and provisions and enactments all through a respectful desire to conform in every particular to the laws of their country that they might be admitted into the Union speedily And as this great majority of Utah people have been accused of sympathizing with the few who practiced polygamy they have inserted a clause in the Constitution prohibiting the same and making it a crime punishable by heavy fine and years of imprisonment Also this majority of the people of Utah have been accused of being desirous of a union between church and State so they declared in unmistakable terms that there should be no such union thus showing that not only were they desirous to be in the possession of Statehood but they wished to in all things conform to the spirit and opinions of the age But notwithstanding all this this religious body styling itself the Presbytery of Utah reiterating the accusations of its mouth organ the Salt Lake Tribune accuses these framers of the Constitution of Utah of insincerity and falsehood Now Mr Editor who are these men who framed these articles and clause as contained in this instrument for the admission of Utah Well a few of them I know personally To begin with then there is WRiter a man in whom the Union Pacific Railroad imposes the utmost trust and confidence placing to his credit in the bank at Omaha hundreds of thousands of dollars and saving to him Build that piece of raIlroad improve this other one and check on this company for any amount necessary to meet these expenses and we will honor your drafts It And this thing has been going on for years and instead of any falling off of this confidence it shows i unmistakable signs of increase Another Elias A Smith the Probate Judge of Salt Lake County a man of known and admitted integrity and of immense business capacity by every fair and honest citizen of Salt Lake uouniy Then there is James Sharp one of our leading railroad men and once the Mayor of Salt Lake City a conservative liberalminded gentleman and known to be an honest conscientious man and one that is trusted everywhere by all classes and the better he ia known the more he is trusted Then there is Franklin Richards the able attorney and counciloratlaw the pride of all his friends and justly so of all that know him Then there is LeGrande Young an able lawyer a clearheaded statesman and a man whose word is his boud anywhere Then come John Winder Junius Wells and Andrew Jensen of Salt Lace County and City also the genial and rising young lawyers Sam Thur man of Provo and Richards of Ogden Then among professional gentlemen we have also such solid men as Judge Warren Dusen berry of Utah County Judge Woolley of Kane County and also Farnsworth a cattle king of Southern Utah a man widely known and everywhere respected Then we have Shurtliff of Weber County besides Maughan of Cache County Hammond of the same county Representatives Abram Hatch of Wasatch and Ward Pack of Summit Counties and last but not least of these gentlemen with whom I your correspondent is well acquainted I the Honorable John Caine Utahs delegate to Congress of whom we are justly proud The abovenamed gentlemen wherever known are looked upon as among the honorable and able men of the west widely known for their conservative feelings and their probity and their honesty of purpose And the above are the kind of men that these toadeating thinkers of the Salt Lake Tribune and their echoes the Presby A i I terian Synod of Sanpete are trying to make other people believe are insincere and utterers of falsehoods I will lay a small wager Mr Editor though not abetting man that neither these red flannelmouthed Presbyterians nor the editors of the Salt Lake Tribune would I be treated any better among men where they were well known than would these very men who were the framers of the constitution and whom they are trying to besmirch with their own filth sneaked behind the folds of a public journal and cowardlike through its I columns try to bring ruin on every person who dared to disregard the Tribune lash either in politics or religion Now it was not always thus with Mr Lannan for once upon a time he became so impressed with the deep oblig tion he was under to the Loyal League and to the Presbyterian Synod of Utah that face to face and front to front hemet one of Utahs proud sons walking the streets and to convince his Sand fellow blatherskites that his soul was roused and eager to tell men of Utah even to their teeth how vile they were and from what vile parentage they had sprungI say filled chock full of this kind of patriotism he met the redoubted Utah boy Rawlins and was conquered In the words of one of the brave generals of the southern confederacy federacy he met the enemy and was theirs How great was that fall my countrymen I think I see the manager being helped out of the ditch by the darkey and methinks I hear him roar Take one of your size Mr Rawlins if you want to ngnt and not pick on a little fellow like me Well Mr Editor the Presbytery of Utah which includes the editors of the Tribune have lots of gall and they are cheek by jowl with the greatest amount ot impudence that was over known before But this is the wav that the Bait Lake Tribune and the refit of the Presbytery of Utah have always sought to carry their point by abusing and blackmailing their betters It appears that these editors and self styled Christian ministers are in the very gall of bitterness and cannot pos ibly fulfill the mandates of the meek and lowly Nazarene whom they profess to follow to love their neighbors as themselves Not only do they not love their Mormon neighbors but their hatred seems to fatten and grow stronger on the hatred it feeds on Now take warning all ye mighty preachers and teachers of the Tribune gospel say your fill fully in your Chris ttan Advocate and the Salt Lake Tribune but dont call any of the men lars personally face to face for if you should the ground might fly up in your faces and the soil of unregenerate Utah may stick to clothes Now then Mr Editor there are more than 13000 of the legal voters of this territory who have voted for the Constitution titution as it emanated frora the Convention that framed it This Conven I tion was composed of legal voters also These men then to the number of nearly 14003 are legal voters in every sense of the word They never have broken any law They have never been accused of breaking any law and when all the polygamista were disfranchised these men were still able to vote and Congress to make assurance doubly sure enacted last winter what was known as a test oath for the legal I voters of Utah asking them to bind themselves by this test oath to do in the future what they had always done in the past This might be said that they were adding insult to injury for alter prescribing the fathers and mothers of Utah in their religious faith and making a law that was at least etractiY in its measures and when all that had been tried and convicted went unmurmuringly to prison and Young Utah as these legal voters are termed had seen their dear old fathers and leading men in many instances subject themselves to a voluntary imprisonment by pleading guilty and ving seen the pioneers and leaders of Utah all disfranchised and having always kept the law themselves how could they look upon this test oath only as an extra cruelty and deem it otherwise than an insult Now we do not object to Congress enacting laws and if we did it would not change anything and so we will say for arguments sake that Congress had the right to legislate against polygamy and call it a misdemeanor or crime as well as any legis lative power has the right to legislate against theft or forgery but never in the history of our jurisprudence has any other community been legislated against in so cruel and unheard of manner and then been compelled to take an oath that they would Keep the laws for the future which they had never as yet broken in the past But this is precisely what Congress asked the legal voters of Utah to do They had never broken any laws but Congress demanded of them that they take this test oath or failing to do so be deprived of their franchise There are on the statute books of New York State enactments against the crime of bribery and a heavy fine and years of imprisonment are attached to this statute as a penalty for those who violate it Mow Mr Editor for several years the sostyled boodle aldermen of New York City have been under trial and many of them convicted and sent to Sing Sing for from four to nine years and what do you think would have been the feelings or expression of the large majority of the citizens of New York City who we may presume are not boodlers or criminals of any kind if Congress had enacted a test oath for them and made them subscribe to that oath on a condition of being depnved of their rights as citizens of New York State and forfeiting their right to go to the polls and vote unless they would one and all subscribe to and take this oath swearing that they nTer had been boodlers and never would be I wonder if the voters of New York would look on this as an insult and one not to be submitted tamely to Ill wager a nickel that not one of them would have submitted for a moment to such unheard of and unlawful enactment but that they would have gone right on with their right of franchise and voted as if the enactment had never been made Well now leave New York out of the question and come back to Utah The citizens of this Territory who enjoy still the right of franchise have never violated the Edmunds law and they subscribed to the test oath in the Ed mundsTucker act and swore to keep the law in the future that they had never violated in the past then these lathe legal voters desiring to enjoy all the rights that citizens of sovereign States enjoy hold their primary meeting elect their delegates to form a convention and these delegates all legal voters form a Constitution and ask admission of this home of theirs this Utah they love so well that they may be permitted to still show their loyalty and their honest obedience to the laws and that their usefulness may be increased and their liberties guaranteed under a State government and that Utah mv take the place she is I so justly entitled to as one of the bright stars resplendent in this glorious Union of States Yours to hear from again SALINA STORIES ABU DP SNAKES A DoubleHoaded Snake KINGSLABD Ark September tiAt Edinburgh Cleveland County Ark a few days ago a little boy killed a small spotted snake having two distinct heads There was no deformify of either head each having its full quota of eves and teeth and from each mouth protruded a fullfledged forked toqgue This two headed curiosity is about twelve inches in length It has been put in alcohol and is now on exhibition at the store of Messrs Marks Al wood where many persons have called to have a look at itGlobe Democrat A Big Snake Killed At Syracuse last Saturday evening as Masters John Saunders and Willie Mc Rae were in close pursuit of a chicken on the premises of Saunders they came upon a large rattlesnake coiled up under a lantania bush This put a sudden stop to the chicken chase and Bauuder rushed to the front and dispatched the monster with a club His head was so mangled that it was found necessary to cut it off After the snake was skinned and stuffed he measured seven feet and three inches without the head in length and twelve inches around the largest part He had eleven perfect rattles and afragment of another showed where some had been broken offSavannah News The Baby Sea Serpent The sea serpent or one specimen of him has been caught Bynum wiites from Keelers Bay to the Free Press of Burglington Vt If not the original 100footer this answers the description in all other reports in color antics etc and it can get up as much commotion aa a small steamer Thia animal fish or serpent is some six feet or more long will weigh from 150 to 200 pounds is black as jet on its head black sides while its belly is white the head is large and broad enough the nose hooked the eyes small and can kick the water into a white foam in no time In fact it is a hard matter sometimes to control it The animal was taken off from Coopers Point between Grand Isle and Savage tangled in a sturgeon net I have called it the baby sea serpent andwant others to tell me I what it is Snake Eel and Hairpin We have the following snake yarn from Bidders pond A gentleman of undoubted veracity was walking along Fresh River and in a still portion among the weeds noticed an unusual disturbance in tbe water In a few moments a snake left the brook in a lively manner with something in its month Crossing the brook our storyteller folowed the snake as it wriggled through the grass After it had reached some forty feet it was struck with a stick It had in its mouth an eel some fifteen inches in length and in the eels mouth was a hairpin shaped into a hook with a piece of pipiagcord attached The snake was the usual variety of black snake and the eel a mud borer but our narrator cant vouch for the genus of the piscatorFalmouth Local A Ground Rattlesnakes Bite Mr Green Arnold Jackson County Ga was piling lumber barefooted and felt a rattlesnake strike his toe that caused the blood to spurt Dr Holiday was there at the time and at once began to work on him Mr Arnolds leg was bandaged just above the ankle and as Jackson is a dry county and there was no whisky to be had he was given something like hartshorn He was bit at 10 oclock and it was 4 oclock that evening before he got any liquor when he drank a quart that make him very drunk He was made a little sick 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