Show MORMON missionaries thu THE new york jyerald makes some sensible comments and some not quite up to that mark on the agitation of certain feeble minds over reported convers conversions lons to mormonism in alabama georgia and tennessee these reports are gross exaggerations such communications a are likely to be while prominent papers are eager to receive sensational rumors and publish them as news but whether they be within the bounds of truth or not Co mormon missionaries have a perfect right to proselyte in any state of the union so long as they do not violate the law or advise or assist in its ite infraction the elders who labor in the south do neither it is so admitted even by persons who favor violence vio leace against them the herald says in regard to the alleged successful labors labora 1 of the mormon missionaries well can you do anything 9 e dept shrug your shoulders ta ou m may a y indorse the remark of pucks puck what fools these mortals be p but that is about all if a free born american citizen thinks it necessary to his salvation to stand on head three times a day r there is DO dago law to prevent hi his s doing ng so the great constitution constitution of the t e united unite states protects him and aff if he is do denied his rights it would boa be perfectly perfect JY proper to call out our little bit of an army and summon our few ron iron dads to see that he stands on his bia head without interference there is no spot on the globe where one has such perfect freedom either to be a wise man or an idiot referring to the polygamy question the herald says even then however the la law does doea not step in until the theory has n been reduced to practice if a man 1 merely talks about the propriety of 0 having eight or ten wives and w Is ambitious to buy spring bonnew bonnets for a numerous family we generally ene n rallY leave him undisturbed in the e poow sion of his nonsense uon sense 11 the new york merald herald ought to know by this time that the mormon elders who are preaching the gospel in the united states or etee else where do not preach or advocate polygamy nor even refer to it desired to explain it they are not noi sent for that purpose their mi mis sion does not relate to it but under the constitution and laws of thio country they have the right to do so and no one has the right to pro vent them by violence A n inay advocate or oppose any doctrine that can be advanced if people choose to listen to or read what be oe advances but preaching the principles of mormonism as our are sent to proclaim them aa nas nothing to do with the poleg adly question pro or con the herald is correct in its state jaent Ine ritas as to the rights of american citi citizens zeng and also on the propriety of protecting them in those rights the full force of law ought to be exerted as much in favor of a mormon as of any other preacher whose right of free speech and free worship is assailed by monocracy if he breaks the law let him be punished by the law if he advises others to do so let him be dealt with 48 the law may provide but it is buot only cowardly but dangerous to society to encourage brute force that ile he may be muzzled or battered into silence for if this can be coun ced against a c mormon P 1 it WAY ay be turned against other re zionists whose views view s differ from those of the majority and mob law ill take taw the place of statutory law and d social order be turned into chaos we ve have been surprised and grieved to see papers which ought to 0 o be the champions of freedoms freedom ol of speech applaud brute force against unoffending elders and even hint that hat this is the proper weapon with ich to put down the preaching of mormonism I they are no doubt under the impression that such ahing oh ing implies polygamous teach 1119 fi they are in this greatly mis token but if they were not derived deceived as to this their support of is disgraceful and unworthy of the day and country in which we live Y true lover of the free irti tut fa lotions iOus which make this nation eat will invoke the aid of the W for the protection of the unorthodox Orthodox and u unpopular popular as ch as for ha the suppression of y tess nesa in any other form ad it is a shame and reproach to 4 Pape and tand any locality where 1 our elders are mobbed and beaten to u abused while peacefully en gw in lawful that 1 l any pursuit things are permitted and cou lr aSed raged and that all the powers of ament a ent if necessary are not for the maintenance of law 1 ba protection of citizens who bave broken no law in the exercise vl ad 0 o ivL inalienable alienable right |