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Show WEARISOME REITERATION. M It is the fashion of some men when they first B come to Utah if called upon to speak touchlngly H refer to the pioneers who "came to the desert H that they might worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience." Wo give full H praise to the pioneers; we would not detract in the least from their achievements, nor discount their trials, hardships, sorrows or tne courage H which sustained them. But we inB'Pt'that their chief purpose In coming here was not altogether to worship God in their own way, but that they M might be a law unto themselves. 'ine world H should understand this. The children of the pio- M neers should understand it, for until this Is un- M derstood, every man who makes the assertion ' H quoted in the beginning of this article, by indi- rection charges the men of Ohio, of Missouri, and of Illinois with the cruelty and ferocity wholly in- compatible with American' citizenship. More, they charge by indirection, that the men and women M who here in the old days sought to bring Mormon M rule under the laws of the Unitf-d States and of M civilization were cruel, vindictive, ungenerous and W unfair. This indictment will not lie. We care Hfl not how much interested and self-seeking men M may seek to turn the truth aslda, they will not M do A thousand creeds and isme prevail in this H country, and they are not Interfered with; so long M as they do not trench upon enlightened laws, so M long as they do not offend the decencies of life, they are not interfered with, they never have M been. It has come down the years that the foun- M ders of New England sought that country that M they might worship God according to the dictates H of their consciences, but the present New Eug- M lander does not deny that while that is true, the M old chaps made it very lively for anyone In their H midst to worship God in any but their own way. M They do not deny that people chaiged with witch- M craft were burned in the old days, or that their M old 'blue laws would, if possible, havo compelled M tlio mournirg dove to cease calling her mate, or M the laik from singing on Sunditv morning. Hit H they refer to them merely as evidences' of their weakness and the bigotry In a gieat people. Mor- mons had better do the same way and while de- ill daring that the pioneers came he e as to a place ffl where they could be a law unto themselves, they 1 still were as strong, resolute, s-jlf-eontained and H self-sacrificing race, with all the elements out of M which the highest manhood aal womanhood is M evolved. M The martyr claim will not prevail. The stran- M ger who comes here and for selfhh purposes pro- M claims It only advertises himself or hetseir, us a credulous ass or as one who through taffy Is seek- Ing personal or material advancement. M |