There is no such word as "jeopa-Tribune one minute if he ever gave a dize;" the word is "jeopard.” false report of anything." "Woman” is Anglo-Saxon, "lady" is Anglo-Saxon and "female" is French. "Lurid" means ghastly pale, gloomy or dismal. "Restive" must not be confounded with "restless." "Say," "speak," "tell," "answer" "Indices" are algebraic signs; "indexes" are tables of contents. Never say "in this connection" when you mean "in connection with this." That is complete which has all its parts; entire which has not been divided; whole from which nothing has been taken. Total refers to the aggregate of the parts. That is rich! As I read that in the silence of Friday's lovely morning up on the North Bench I fancied I could hear the genii of the mountains roaring with uncontrollable laughter. The dear old granny, does he not know that every man and WOman in Utah knows that if that statement were true, if it were applied to his paper and its paid prevaricators "one minute," the Tribune would not appear again until it bad found a new crew from "devil" down to "managing editor" and "space-"writing Hollister? In reference to the Tribune editor's challenge that I give the name of the reporter alluded to, I wish to say that I gave the name in my "open letter" and you cut it out. I used the name again in a first draft of this communication and again the name was cut out and you positively refused to publish the "With" denotes an instrument and name on the ground that it would be "by" a cause. "He killed with a sword; an injury to a newspaper man. That he died by an arrow." is the reason the name does not ap"Dead," Anglo-Saxon; "deceased," pear, and I put it down as a remarkold English; "demised," French; "deable manifestation of Mormon charity, funct," Latin. for you know very well how little claim that reporter has upon your forbear ance. That what I gave as the language of that reporter is true, the editor of the Tribune knows as well as I do, because he knows, without my naming him, just who the man was, and he keeps him because of his kuown ability to misrepresent anything and everything that is Mormon, or just to the Mormon people. Never separate the infinitive; example, "He promised to speedily comply." "Proceed" is French, "go on" is Anglo-Saxon. Do not suffer Mr. Addison or any body else to bluff you out of the use of that noble word, "that." Never use, except in a humorous way, those hackneyed phrases and hoary words of which notorious specimens are: "Light fantastic toe," "mine host," "his good lady," "beautiful and accomplished," "wee sme' hours," "groaned with the delicacias of the season," "speckled beauties," "creme de la creme," "dull, sickening thud" and "recherche." A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Editor Deseret News: Then the Tribune editor proceeds to say: "The best possible caricature of Charles Ellis is to publish him as he is, for in his native state he is simply a moral and intellectual monstrosity." How does the Tribune editor arrive at his conclusions? Why does he not give some evidence? Who is his authority? I really enjoy the above corruscation of the opium-fed genius of the Tribune. It puts me into the list of many famous and worthy men. The same hand that wrote the above wrote C. Broadhead "a ruffian" and the offspring of "banditti;" called him "a brute and a blackguard," it wrote George Ticknor Curtis down-"a liar and knave or a drivelling idiot," "a scoundrel by instinct;" ex Senator McDonald it called "a male prostitute," an "old hired procurer." Belva Lockwood was written down by this same Tribune editor "a female monstrosity," Now he has written me "a moral and intellectual monstrosity." I am placed in such good company that I can only rejoice that I have at last struck the Tribune pirate below the water-line. might be induced to remain several months to lecture. He recommended me, having known me for over twenty years. Those atheists asked me to lecture and having heard me wanted more. I was not an atheist and was considered so far weak, but otherwise I was reported to be "a gold mine." 1 was hired to lecture three months at a fixed remuneration. I was told that, while they all hated the evangelical churches, it would not do to "pitch into them," because "everything not Mormon is Liberal, "but I could become a power by giving the Mormons "hell." My fourth lecture was on Utal. I gave the Mormons credit where they deserved it and spoke of the utter impossibility of having anything truly liberal in such a curious conglomeration as "Utah Liberalism." They called me a Jack-Mormon. They refused to pay me and yet owe me $267. One of them took $20 from me to pay, for the hall, kept it six months and declared he had to pay for the hall himself. It ther fore appears that Belva and I are "monstrosities" because we have never denounced the Mormons. The Tribune knows of "Liberals" who are as guilty as any Mormon "cohab” in the "pen." If it is so pure in heart that it would not keep a lying reporter "one minute," why does it not have such men exposed and brought to justice? The Tribune goes on: "Then he (Ellis) went over to the Saints, and they are using him precisely as a drug store keeps assafoetida, or a German restaurant keeps limburger cheese." That is a little obscure, but if it is true I suppose "the Saints" are using me to "stink out" the Tribune. Well, that would be so good a work for Utah that I am willing to be used in that way; and judging from the excited condition of the inhabitants of "the Tribune pole-cat's nest" it would seem that I am getting in my work in a very effective manner. I have many times challenged the 7ribune to produce its proofs of all the inuendoes it uses on my name and I now make it a further proposition. It shall tell all it knows of Ellis, and Ellis shall tell all he knows of its editors, managers, owners and backers, both sides to be published in the Tribune, for the benefit of the Tribune readers. The Tribune being a lover of dirt, here is an opportunity for it to revel in "rotten mackerel," "assafoetida and limburger cheese" to its heart's content. Will it accept the challenge? It is said to be a fact that when the Another column of this paper contains an "open letter" from myself to the "alleged and actual" owners and editors of the Salt Lake Tribune in answer to a scurrilous attack upon me by that paper. Friday, February 13, the aforesaid Tribune contained an editorial in reference to my letter in the NEWS. I said that one of the Tribune men, who had made a very vicious report of my lecture on "47 to 70," told me that he had to make his reports to suit his employers. The rattlesnake gets real mad and cannot Tribune editorial of the 13th is headed strike its venom into anything else it “He Lies.” That means me evidently, will bite and poison itself. I have been for in the first sentence I am referred tormenting the Tribune rattlers until to as "the rotten-hearted Ellis." The The Tribune proceeds: "He (Ellis) they have evidently taken to biting editor then proceeds to refer to my came here with a tainted reputation; themselves with such effect as is seen statement of its reporter to the effect he was picked up by some good men in the editorial from which I have that if he had reported my lecture as and clung to until they were convinced quoted above. That its editors have he would have liked to do, he would that his heart was as rotten as a rotten lost all sense of justice, all regard for have lost his position, and says-"That mackerel." Those "good men" must truth is seen in every line it publishes much of it we brand as entirely false, have been afflicted with moral catarrh in reference to the Mormon people or as false as the heart of Charles Ellis is to the extent of brain-slough- to any man or woman who tells the by nature and by education, and shalling, or they would have truth in regard to the situation in bold to that belief until he tells me who detected the "rotten-mackerel" the reporter was who made such a statement to him. It does not amount to much, for everyone who knows any thing about the Tribune and how it has always been run, knows that no reporter on this paper would be permitted to remain in the employ of the effluvium. Were they dogs that they Utah. When the poor State of Nevada became so sick in stomach with the "rotten - mackerel - assafoetida and-limburger cheese" humanity_that had been playing tape-worm in her intestines for years and living like the parasite it was, she (that is Nevada) took an emetic and puked the worst of her burden into Salt Lake, where it immediately began to devour the Mormon people. It has succeeded in getting from them a large part of their church property, but is working for more. It has striven for years to rob them of citizenship in the territory they took as a desert and made a garden, and of citizenship in the nation wherein most of them were born. The thing that is doing this is the Salt Lake Tribune and the creatures that are doing it are the editors and owners of that paper. I make the statement without fear of contradiction that the history of the press cannot show so characterless, vile and untruthful a sheet as has been this Tribune, from the time when its owners gave it to an ex-rebel on condition that he should make it an anti-Mormon organ until now, in matters pertaining to Mormonism and the Mormon people. It is as cowardly as it is malicious, and I believe that I cannot do a better work for our country and for humanity than to consider myself "raised up" to play the "rottenmackerel" and "limburger cheese" act upon it until I have driven it down to the father of lies. If in the day of judgement its editors, managers and owners should be delivered over to the buffetings of Satan, and "Old Nick" should condemn them to stay in the basement until they had eaten the dirt they had written and published against the Mormons and their friends, that would be "a corker" on them for at least a thousand years. That, too, is what they will get. Then they wil beg me to come down and give them "rotten mackerel, assafoetida and limburger" to take the taste out of their mouths between meals, and I suppose I will be just fool enough to let them have some. CHARLES ELLIS. [It is true that Mr. Ellis named the reporter referred to in his letters but we struck the name out of the copy in both instances for the reason he has stated.-EDITOR D. E. N.] UTAH NEEDS A HAT FACTORY. Editor of the Deseret News: most from the commencement of its On in the Indian Bureau, leads me to say that I have not found, in a full examination of all the facts, evidence of deterioration in the Indian service. During the past seven or eight years the other hand the Board of Indian a mere extended effort has been made Commissioners, through the chairman, with a view of supplying Utah with have, as a result of close observation, Utah head coverings, and a host of declared to me, under date of January merchants have cheerfully sustained 10th last, that, upon the whole, the Inand sold what have been known as dian service is now in a better condi Goddard & Co.'s home-made hats, tion than ever before. The object of which are of excellent quality. From their communication was to urge an Bear Lake in the North to St. George extension of the civil service rules to in the South' a good foundation has the Indian service, but they were carebeen laid for the sustenance and suc- ful to recognize that argument was not cess of the grand industry. But the to be found in any special or recent few that have been engaged incident, but in the broader fact that in it have not had sufficient the work among the Indians is educacapital to do justice to it, and a tional and philanthropic, and should, movement is about to made therefore, be separated from party polito incorporate a company of live, active | tics. I may add that, before any business men, with sufficient means to special appeal had been made to me, build a commodious structure upon the the subject of including the Indian broad and deep foundation already agency clerks and employes in the laid. classifidd service had been under consideration.” be At In a few days a meeting will be called GEORGE GODDARD. February 12, 1891. The Russian Jews. LONDON, Feb. 10.-The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Telegraph Jews, which, he says, has been, if anywrites at length of the persecution of thing, more marked since the petition without comment by the Czar. Rusfrom Guildhall, London, was returned sia's reply to the respectful petition consists of secret circulars ordering the officials to rigorously administer the anti-Semitic laws and supply legal deficiencies by their own decisions. The correspondent says the Poles, after the rebellion of 1884, were less inhum. anly treated than the Jews are today. The Jews, through the wretched life they are forced to live, are physically degenerating and becoming the most striking embodiment of human life continuing in spite of the gradual decay of the vital functions. General knowledge of this, issues most stringGourko, Governor of Warsaw, with ent regulations as to the examination of young Jews for military recruits, harassing those found physically unable to bear arms by repeating cruel examinations, dragging them several times a year from their homes to the examining stations, many miles away, they being compelled to go on foot, chained with convict gangs. Squaws and the Soldiers. I was much gratified to peruse in In conference with Commissioner your editorial columns, of Tuesday last, not only a very interesting account Morgan this morning Hollow Horn A strange anomaly is the conduct of of the reciprocal good feeling that ex- and Bear charged that while the miliists between J. B. Stetson of world-wide tary had control over the reservation Prince Dolgouroff, governor of Moscow, "hat renown," and his employes, but during the late trouble the soldiers who has been obliged many times to the appreciable method he has adopted were the cause of great immorality turn to wealthy Jews for monetary asto secure their good will and close at among Indian women. Many soldiers sistance and is indebted to them. In tention to their labor in his behalf, viz: went through the ceremony of mar- his district the Jews are treated with riage with the squaws, the latter be-marked leniency. a handsome Christmas gift to every workman in his immense establish- lieving they were doing well by mar- Referring to the report that the Czar rying soldiers. Hollow Horn said he does not know of the enormeties perdid not know whether it was desirable petrated in his name, the correspondthat the officers allow soldiers to go off ent says the truth is the Czar knows and leave their wives and children enough to convince him that the Jews dependent for support upon the Indi- are more cruelly treated than horses, ans. He does not want soldiers near cattle or swine, which are cared for as gifts of God. ment. I was equally gratified with the editor's remarks in regard to that important industry, and asked myself the question, "Where is the best location for a Utah hat factory?" Wherever it may be, it means colonization or an increase of population in that particular locality. the reservation. A number of eminent Russian liteThe Indian Service. rary men recently addressed a declaraBOSTON, Feb. 12.-The Cambridge tion to the public and journalists, ask. Civil Service Reform Association has ing them to remember that the Jews received from the President a reply to were human beings. The government their address of the 31st of January, in refused to allow the declaration to be which the President says: "Your ref-published. A personal friend of the erence to the recent outbreak among Czar laid the document before him, the Sioux, as affording convincing with a bumble request from the authors evidence of the necessity of a change for its publication. The Czar read both al-in the manner of appointing officials papers and flung them away. To make hats and caps for the entire Western people will necessitate the employment of hundreds, if not thou sands, of active workers, including a host of our young men indentured as apprentices to learn one of the most artistic and interesting trades in existence. Hats have been made in Utah NAME. Mayor Majority. W. H. Turner.... 265 266 257 400 306 1494 Recorder John S. Corlew.. 249 234 237 365 288 1373 Treasurer .... C. P. Jennings... 243 222 232 356 276 1329 221 1st Ward, Council, W. W. Funge..... 258 ist Ward, Council, B. E. Dean........ 236 2nd Ward, Council, Frank W. Coburn 224 1st Ward, Justice, B. Ternes........ 233 2nd Ward, Council, H. C. Hartog...... 227 2nd Ward, Justice, I. Williamson. 3rd Ward, Council, Thomas D. Dee... 225 3rd Ward. Council, H. W. Shurtliff... 204 3rd Ward, Justice, Levi Billings..... 225 4th Ward, Council, John Hurst....... 346 4th Ward, Council, W. S. Stone....... 355 4th Ward, Justice, H. C. Wardleigh.. 352 5th Ward, Council, Frank J. Cannon. 393 5th Ward, Council, James A Calvert. 278 5th Ward, Justice, C. B. Pash The result of the municipal contest in Ogden February 9th was a substantial victory for the Citizens' ticket, the Liberal candidates for Mayor, four Councilmen and two justices of the peace having been defeated. The greatest interest seems to have centered upon the Mayoralty, the fight for which was not only earnest and intense, but in some of its phases quite interesting. It began to look rather blue for the Citizens an hour or so before the closing of the polis, and some of the more Marshal... Ajubilant "Liberals" were offering immense odds on their success with few, if any, takers. The methods resorted to by the "gang," as it was called, while not altogether new to the political arena, were nevertheless about as reprehensible as anything of the kind ever practiced in the country, one illustration of this being the numerous cases of illegal voting, the offenders in every instance being "heelers" or hirelings of the "Liberal" party or some of its managers. The active part taken by the saloon element in the canvass, and the arrest of the proprietor of the Novelty Theatre (a resort with a most unsavory reputation) together with the latter individual's arrest on the charge of bribery and his immediate release through the assistance of the whisky element, would seem to show conclusively about ti e standard of morality which the "Liberals" possessed and relied upon to carry them through safely. It is no open secret, but an open fact,that the "tough" element was almost to a man for that party, and that nearly the entire strength of the opposition consisted of men not noted as saloon frequenters and standing high in the community as commercial, professional or industrial citizens. This very nearly tells the whole tale and gives a reasonably fair idea of what a desperate struggle the law-and-order people had on their hands, while it faintly illustrates the importance of the result and the gratification of those who achieved it. NAME. Mayor ....... LIBERAL TICKET. 287 are more or less responsible for a large share of this ignorance, I do not think I should be far from the mark, as their silence lends color to the prevalent ilea that in Utah we are in a state of serfdom. In the pursuit of the duties incident to my present calling as a missionary I am frequently met with complaints 18 made by relatives and friends of those who have been privileged to emigrate years ago to the bosom of the Church. Assurances have been repeatedly given that those left behind should receive news from Zion, but in far too many cases these promises are and have been either forgotten or ignored. And as a consequence the fables of our enemies are accepted and believed for want of contrary proofs which could be amply supplied by their friends in the Rocky Mountains, if they would only take the trouble to fulfil their promises. This may perhaps seem a trivial matter for a newspaper, but I feel that I am championing the cause of many of 42 my brethren whose path might be 15 made brighter and duties lighter by a kindly and judicious use of writing materials, in corroborative testimony of the truths we are anxious to get before the people. 97 73 99 31 JW. McNutt.... 351 466 95 313 2511476.... Recorder Collector Thos. Bryan..... 374 501 117 348 270 1613 240 Richard J Hume 366 489 115 341 W. V. Helfrich... 378 512 122 365 One incident out of many similar related to us we deem worthy of mention. As Sheriff Belknap was on his way to the county jail with a prisoner charged with illegal voting, he was intercepted by a special officer" acting ostensibly in the interest of good Fifth Ward, Justice, T. A. Whalen... 256 order, but in reality for the furtherance of the "Liberal" programme, the latter demanding of the sheriff that he release his prisoner. This insolence was met by the officer with an outburst of defiance, he order ADVICE FROM A MISSIONARY. BIRMINGHAM, England, 101 115 262 11 Complaints are not all the reasons I have for thus arraigning the torpor of the friends who have left these shores and joined forces with the people of Utah. During my sojourn in these lands I have witnessed the departure of quite a number of Latter-day Saints who, in my hearing, made the most solemn pledges to those left behind, and I am advised that these have not been complied with. Now I know of no valid excuse to be adduced for this neglect. It may be urged as an argument that the missionaries are amply able to reveal the true status of the people at home. This sounds reasonable, and 123 might be effective were it not that the Elders are frequently looked upon with suspicion, as having ulterior motives in 257 sacrificing their time and means to 270 preach the doctrines of "Mormonism." Experience has taught me that one letter written from a relative or friend will do more to allay prejudice 2 than many times the amount of ear4 nest assertions on the part of a missionary. I have been frequently told that the people in Utah dare not write to their friends, and the silence of their friends has been used to substantiate their position, and under these circumstances what reply can I make? I have no doubt the same conditions are met with by many if not all the traveling Elders, and it is too bad that this stumbling block should exist when it might be mitigated, if not obviated, by an occasional letter. ing the other to "clear out," or he Editor Deseret News: Would be arrested too. The "clearing" I shall be gratified if by means of took place instanter, but the disgrunt- this letter I will be able to reach the ed "Liberal" went before a Commis-hearts of every Latter-day Saint, and if sioner and swore out a complaint my feeble pen can arouse them to a against the sheriff for intimidating sense of the importance of the subjects Voters! He was released on his own mentioned, my gratification will be inrecognizance, and instructed by a tensified. lawyer present to make a counter The utter ignorance of the true concomplaint against the deputy for ob-dition of the Latter-day Saints who are structing an officer in the discharge of "gathered" to the land of Zion has It is pleasant to us to know that prayers are daily being offered to God in behalf of the missionaries, and doubtless many of the dear friends are sincerely devoted to the cause, and would be glad to aid in its advancement. To such, and to all the Latterday Saints, I would say that one of the most effective plans in which they can lend assistance is to begin right now and write to their friends wherever they may be, and give them a truthful and earnest statement of their present condition of life. And then should it be that there are mis sionaries in localities where their should he not obtain money by the use of his brains as well as you? Or do you get your money in that way? Perhaps you have written your antiMormon articles so often that it has ceased to be brain work. Why should not the Mormon people welcome a man who has the courage to tell the truth in regard to them? Why should not the man who tells the truth be paid for his work? You have been publishing a paper for years that has been a continued lie against the Mormon people. You have done that work for money. At any time since you started on that work the Mormon people could have purchased any one of you, could they not? friends reside, kindly provide the so successfully battled with the un- "Ellis" "goes to lecturing." Why Elders with introductions, and solicit toward conditions of the western for them a respectful and patient hear-wilds hitherto are still to be met with ing of the principles which are ad- among the poor Saints in these lands, vocated by the people of God, and in and I earnestly appeal to those who this manner I assure them they will have received the blessing of the Lord greatly assist the Elders, and will be to think of their friends beyond the the means of leaving their testimony sea, and while the way is open, and with their friends, which will leave before the judgments overtake the them without excuse at the last day. wicked, see to it that they are not left I should like also to call the attention to partake of the coming terrors. Indiof my readers to a few passages in the cations of the near approach of the end Doctrine and Covenants, Section 10, are evident on every hand, and as our verse 65; Section 29, verses 2, 8 and God has said he would not spare any 9, and Section 44, verses 24 and 25, and who are left in Babylon, let us labor ask them to meditate upon the utter- while it is called day, and we will ances which they contain. These are then be able to rejoice that we have the words of the Lord, and as faithful been "savlors upon Mount Zion," and adherents to the principles of the re- our friends will also rejoice at their destored Gospel we are bound to give liverance. them credence. I will quote two sentences from the last section referred to: "And I will not spare any that remain in Babylon." "Wherefore if ye believe Me, ye will labor while it is called today." There is a terrible significance in the first part of this quotation. And I wish to appeal to the truehearted Saints to take it into consideration. I would point them to a period in their own history when suffering from undue pressure from their employers, and shunned by those nearest them, they prayed for deliverance from Babylon, and when it was accomplished by the blessings of God and often in a remarkably miraculous manner, with what joy did they bid farewell to their native land, and what songs of rejoicing were heard as the vessel sailed out of port! Many were the promises made by them in the exuberance of their delight that those left behind in Babylon should not be forgotten; but the first thought should be their deliverance after their more fortunate brethren and sisters had got settled; but alas! for the hopes thus raised in the hearts of those left. sooner have the friends gone before than a forgetfulness of their previous low estate overtakes them, and such a thing as a letter to their former associates is almost the last thought of. And this is doubly sad when the thought will protrude itself that many of them have been the recipients of substantial assistance from those forgotten ones. Many have told me who are still here that the means of assistance they have rendered to others would have aggregated sufficient to emigrate themselves. One of your employes said to me a Now, just a word to the Elders who few days ago that your paper was run have traveled in these lands, and who as a sensational and villifying sheet have partaken of the hospitality of the because that was the course that people, both Saints and strangers: brought the money. Another of your Where are the many promises to write workmen heard my lecture on "Utah to the friends here? Brethren, let your from '47 to '70." In your paper next minds run back to the time when you morning the lecture was soiled in the were traveling here and there, and re-usual style of that cat of the Tribune member the delight your presence nest. I asked your reporter if he could created in the hearts of some poor not as easily have given a decent menbrother or sister, and just sit down and tion of my lecture, and this is what he drop a line to them, and thus give said: them comfort. Many of them are getting old, and you can cheer them in their path to the grave. Don't forget. Sensibly realizing, as I do, the nearness of the last scenes of an earthly drama, I earnestly pray for the blessing of the Lord to abide with all, and trust all may remain faithful and true to the end. No Your fellow laborer in the cause of SCATHING REBUKE. Messrs. Editors and Owners of the Salt "If in the early days a man like Ellis "Well, Mr. Ellis, you know what kind of men I work for. You know that I have to give them not such reports as I might like to make, but such as they want to have made. I listened to your lecture with great interest. I enjoyed it. You gave me a great deal of information that I did not have. If I could have reported your lecture as I wanted to, my report wonld have been very different. But, you know, I've got to live, and to do so I must work as my employers direct." Your managing editor is a cur at heart. He hates the Mormons. He has no use for a man who does not write against the Mormons. He has refused to publish articles written by me because they contained statements that were friendly to the Mormons. Yet he, and all of you, are making money out of your persecution of the Mormons, and you keep many men employed to fill your Tribune from day to day with whatever will add to the popular prejudice against the Mormons. a Only a few days since you published statement to the effect that the old man "Le Baron," who was found dead in his bed, was a Mormon, and he left two families. Your statement was intended to convey the impression that he died a Mormon and that he was, up to the time of death, violating the law. Yet, you know that Le Baron had been a maniac in his hatred of Mormonism for many years, and your paper had published many of his anti-Mormon articles. That such a state of things should exist is rather a sad commentary upon the supposed willingness of the Latterday Saints to favor emigration to Utah. I am sorry we are not as zealous in this As an explanation of your ways that respect as our enemies give us credit are dark, I want to advise the public for. In all the plans adopted for that the fact that you have put the placing mankind upon a plane of self- above in quotation marks is no evidence supporting dignity can a parallel to the that you did not manufacture the success of the one revealed by the Lord paragraph. It is grist from the same Why can't you be honest? You are and exemplified by the thousands of mill that ground out the celebrated all old men. In a few years you will happy homes (in Utah and the sur-"Bishop West" forgery, is it not? You all be in Hades. Why not go in such rounding States and Territories) are evidently trying to manufacture wise that you could "tell the truth and owned by the Latter-day Saints be pro- evidence against "Ellis" in the same shame the devil?". All the money you duced? I think not. Individually I way that you seem to have been man- make for lying against the Mormons thank God for what it has done for me ufacturing it against the Mormons for will do you no good. You will die in giving me a happy home of my own, years. paupers, and when you pass to the life where my dear ones are safe from the But don't you know that "Brigham" in which you all believe, beyond the stings of poverty and degradation. was a remarkably good judge of men veil, you will not have even the riches This, however, is a secondary consider- and would have been the first to take of self-respect. You profess to be folatiou, the evolution of the soul from by the hand a man who had the cour-lowers of Christ. But if Christ spiritual darkness being the pre-emi-age to attack such a pole-cat's nest as ever discovers that you are following Dent object. your Tribune? Him, He will apply the same marks to you as to the hypocrites of The same bone and sinew which have You are disturbed by the fact that re His age. I advise you to keep dark when you think you are on His trail. You say the Mormons "take him (Ellis) to their bosoms" and "fall down and worship." The Mormons do not fall down. They worship erect, like meu, and they worship a live God. Neither is "Ellis" an "atheist," as you say. Don't you know that you are all atheists? Do you not know that the whole alleged Christian world is full of atheis n? You think you are worshiping God, but you are only wor shiping a personified hole in the ground, or rather an infinite vacuum. Your God has neither "body, parts nor passions," and is, therefore, a nonentity. You should always spell it with a little "g". The Mormons believein and worship a real God. To me the universe is God. But that makes no difference. I will defend your right to worship your_infinite vacuum just as strongly as I defend the Mormon to worship a personal and real God. You and your Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Unitarian and other sects that worship the infinite nothing, have the same rights to worship that the Mormons have to worship a real God; but you have no more. If you were honest men you would admit this at once. Because you will not, I am obliged to resist you. You ought to see that I am only undoing the wrong you have done. You ought to thank me just as heartily as the Mormons do, and you would if you were as honest as they. But I advise you not to worry your pinch back souls at thought of what "Brigham" may feel underground at what "Ellis" is doing. If I may trust the evidences that come to dwellers in the flesh, "Brigham" is not only pleased with what "Ellis" is doing, but he is with him in his work and aids him as far as he can. the evolution of humanity, will be your bank account in the beyond. As Burns said to the devil, I advise you to "take a thought an' mend.” Do not fret your souls as to what "Brigham" may think of "Ellis," but do something in the time you have to make a welcome for yourselves in the life eternal. If you make any reasonable effort to correct the evil of your ways, I have no doubt "Brigham" will intercede for you. When he was here he was almost a Universalist in his faith as to the ment on lot 5, block 26, plat E. Granted. Arthur Liday asked permission to run an electric bell wire from room 18, Enterprise house, Commercial Street, to No. 222 South First East. Committee on improvements. L. R. Sharp and others requested that the ditch on Roper Street be lowered. Committee on irrigation. NOMINATION CONFIRMED. The nomination of C. S. Crane as deputy recorder was unanimously confirmed. THE REPORTS ARE O. K. ultimate redemption of the wicked. Do not be presumptuous. You neither own the earth nor Utah, although you have run the steps of your Tribune Report of the committee on fire debuilding half way across a public side-partment recommending that the rewalk in violation of the rights of all the ports of the chief of the fire department people of Salt Lake. When justice is for quarter and year ending December done you will have to take that nuis- 31, 1890, be received and filed and that ance down. Or did a City Council, six the yearly report be published. of whose members were, according to Adopted. Judge Zane, not elected to the office they hold, give you permission to thus show your contempt for the rights of the people? Yours until death, and perhaps later, CHARLES ELLIS. CITY COUNCIL. The regular weekly session of the City Council was held Feb. 10th, Mayor Scott in the chair. The following members answered to the roll call: Spafford, Karrick, Parsons, Heath, Armstrong, Arderson, Pembrok, Wolstenholme and Pendleton. PETITIONS. MERCHANTS' LICENSE. The following resolution from the Chamber of Commerce was received and read. Resolved, That it is the sense of the Board of Directors of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce that the recommendation contained in City Treasurer Walden's annual report to the Mayor and City Council of Salt Lake City, that merchants' license be abolished, be hereby endorsed and that the City Council be requested to make such change. Committee on finance. Mr. Pembroke called attention to the fact that the Great Salt Lake & Hot Springs Railway Company had constructed such a grade on Third West Street that the people living on that street were indignant over it. The Petition of David White, asking that the unexpired portion of the term of his liquor license be remitted. Com-grade was so high in some places that mittee on license. it was impossible to drive over it, and he thought it was an outrage. ferred to the city engineer. J. F. Campbell asked for a similar Referred to the same commit favor. tee. J. W. Donkin asked that an electric light be placed at the intersection of Twelfth East and Second South streets. Committee on streets. Wm. H. Chapman and twenty-one others asked that his license as merchandise peddler be remitted. Com I am not a prophet, or the son of a prophet, but this I believe that what the world calls "God" is the power that works for good through all, and therefore a power works for justice, truth, for right is working in unison and har mony with God. Thus believing, I am sure i have the co operation not only of "Brigham," but also of God. There-mittee on license. fore, it may not be untruthful or sacrilegious for me to suppose that in the resurrection, when Brigham" meets his people, he will say to the angel who has called them forth from the sleep of death, "Where is Mr. Eliis?" The angel will, of course, reply: "Eilis a heretic and cannot rise is in the first resurrection." But, knowing as I do that "Brigham" was a large-minded man, I believe he will say to the angel: "Will you not go and call Charles Ellis? The resurrection of the Latter-day Saints is incomplete until he stands among us!" I know, and you know, that the Mormon faith is based upon works and not upon profession. You believe that the "vilest sinner" may, in the last gasp of breath he draws in this life, profess faith in Christ and be lifted from the gallows or the editorial rooms of the Salt Lake Tribune to the presence of God and the angels; but the Mormons do not believe in any such premium on crime. The Chamber of Commerce requested the City Council to erect street signs at the intersection of all streets throughout the city. Committee on streets. Osborne & Hayward, building contractors, asked for the privilege of piling building material in front of Little's Row, on Second South Street. Granted, under the usual restrictions. Fifteenth Ward Relief Society stated that it is a benevolent society and asked to have the city tax of $25.20, on part of Lot 1, Block, 79, Plat A, remitted. Committee on claims. FRANCHISE ACCEPTED. Re ilton, in which that gentleman siguiA communication from L. C. Hamfied his acceptance of the franchise reto construct and operate a street railcently granted to him by the Council way on Second South Street west, was read and filed. The city engineer stated that it was the practice of owners of subdivisions which they neglected to file them for to have their plats approved, after record. The matter was referred to the committee on municipal laws, with instructions to submit an ordinance governing the same. POLICE OFFICERS' SALARIES. The ordinance creating the offices of captain of police and three duty sergeants was read twice and laid over for one week. The ordinance provides that the mayor, by and with the consent of the Council, shall appoint from the police force, a captain of police and three duty sergeants; the captain shall receive $120 per month and the three A. G. Paddock asked that he be given a lease of the north bench sand-pits upon the expiration of the present lease. Committee on public grounds. Z. Wood et al., asked for the erec-duty sergeants $110 each per month. tion of a spill and watering trough at the intersection of First West and Sixth North streets. Committee on waterworks. City Engineer Doremus asked that the Council order the purchase of a cement testing machine for his office. Granted. I advise you, as a friend, not to "bank" on the construction of the atonement. What you have done in Assessor Clute asked for authority to this life, what you have been worth incorrect an error in special water assess POLICE OFFICERS APPOINTED. Mayor Scott then sent in the following nominations: Captain of Police-W. B. Parker. Sergeants-John Donovan and Ed Jenney. Committee on police. AS TO PAWNBROKERS. An ordidance relating to pawn |