Show RELIGIOUS AS WELL AS y POLITICAL ft tili ai ii attempts to cover up p the fact that the bitter and persistent attack upon riv S thile atie latter day saints and their 4 talons la Is a religious as well as a political iet lef crusado crusade are abortive the char tg acter of the persecution Is so clear that wone would suppose that the circum sta stances es constantly arising P indelibly sta stamping aping it with its true nature would silence all ali at disclaimers to the contrary the hireling clergy of the country have worked upon the brej prejudices of the plo Pro masses asses and with the iatter latter have bave goaded stae power to enact cruel special leahl lation as a means by which lormon ibm should be in the tile iani language 6 g aage of the ogden methodist con terence ence resolutions stamped out niter liter s urile arlie laws thu thus thua s far obtained for the 1 purpose pose vose of that pet il apa object have not met the wishes of those who have incited their enactment i notwithstanding their outrageous and unconstitutional characters character they are not sufficiently ultra to suit the iamb lamb like tastes of the religious wing of the holy crusaders professed followers of the meek and lowly jesus aney still A i stand at the door and knock I 1 not nol to cr bring peace to an oppressed pie ale nor to lift lilt up those that 1 are bowed down finding chose those who are despised of the world in harmony with the cie spirit of kneir real master the devil Dovil not him liim whom they profess to serve they urge with avith characteristic vindictiveness the disruption of the tile families the breaking up of the homes and aud thrusting into prison rl s of those who differ from them i fa ia t their ti air religious v views jews and practices y jand jAu dyet yet those against whom all this it anim animus us ia Is exhibited are the genuine t followers foll in tile the footsteps of tae redeemer becmer bo so tar as they conform to the practise of the religion of their adap arlion tion lion tr 4 ali all ail this and more Is expressed in the recent presentation to president cleve cieve ian lan landoff land Jand dofa dota rota rofa request signed by over a thousand christian 11 heaven eaven caven save the y mark ministers to enforce the tile edi munds act probably not one of these harmless doves of a spurious christianity have investigated the claims of so called mormonism Alor monism to bein being the christian religion althey all ali they appear to care to know Is that there thero ai S are a people and religion who are eminently successful in the reforma tory work they have undertaken while they themselves are connected with a powerless formal formality t whose influence is on the wane mormonism being the falness of the gospel la lays y s the axe at the root of tile the religious tree their crafts are in daeger and the successful system dyste in of AA it theology neology mastbe must be destroyed even if it involves the destruction of the liber ilber ties tits and lives of its devotees j atas it is a repetition of a peculiar historical phase the clergymen as a i body are the scribes and aud phan sees ol 01 the present age aga and like those of t olden times whose prototypes they gare tare they are arc instrumental in having and saints taken before 4 rulers and judges ll 11 and harras harrus sed I 1 and perplexed by bi public prosecutors i who pervert their functions it is the vie same old spirit that caused the redeemer Ke deemer to be dragged before the tribunals oi of judea resulting in his be ing ignominious ly slain it is the same fi enci genius that caused those who desired the death beath of tae atie lamb of god to shout 2 away with him crucify him ills blood be upon us andoor children 91 there are pro fehser christian ministers dwelling here who are so deeply dyed in the same spirit that led to the sh shedding eddin of the blood of the ancient martyrs that J circumstantial evidence points clearly to them as the inciting cause of the r murder of some of the elders of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints the lc spirit which resulted in the assassination ot of joseph standing bt anding in georgia was due accord inato ing to evidence which has cometo us to bitter and unchristian like ilke anti 41 mormon publications from the pell pen lof lot of thu the rey kev coyner toy ner they were referred to and endorsed by georgian priests who inflamed the prejudices of the murderers ech ich christ rist said suffer little child rento come camu unto me and forbid them not for of such Is the kingdom of heaven his ahls ails alis professed followers in their ex pressed arid eager anxiety to have the mon mormons cormons Mor mons broken up say in effect Suffer little children to be remorse lessly dragged before gnand grand jurle jurie j urles uries sand and add 1 courts and compel them to testily against enst their parents harrow up their 11 tender feelings and till fill their minds with ideas that tend lo 10 demoralize ize them by plying them with vulgar and indecent questions oais regard t ing the conjugal relations of their fathers fathera and mothers suffer little children lo 10 bo be deprived of the care and guardianship of their fathers and robbed of the comforts and benefits ol 01 hi home me ja atter affer little children to litan starve V C t t i while their fathers ian lan languish in the cell of the felon because they conscientiously elect to obey the commands of god this picture Is not overdrawn f for or the extra legal enforcement of the edmunds edmunda act means that or nothing in their th attitude assumed in relation to the saints these christianized Christiani zed gentlemen of the clerical cloth take upon themselves the fhe theoretical re responsibility b of all the outraged that are being a and u clity a re to be perpetrated under colorow color of an inhumane law it is admitted even by the organ oran of the crusade that the death ot of the late ell B kelsey was at least hastened by the proceedings r begun against him it F is unreservedly stated by the relatives of the deceased gentleman that the prosecution entered against him was the direct cause of Ws his decease had nad the knife of the assassin been plunged into his body the work of his removal from this side of life could scarcely have been more effective nor could the consummation have been much more speedily reached those who r ho urge forward this merciless work which spares no age howe however ver ven tender 0 or r advanced and neither sex share the responsibilities of the diabolical proceedings aeed ce edings ings with its active operators when one estimates the influence i that the clergymen of the country have wielded in urging the nation forward to make 11 war upon the saints I 1 he is forced to the humiliating conclusion that even free america is more or less priest ridden and in view ot the position of this question I 1 how hollow the claim of exemption from interference by the church with the affairs of the state seems to sound |