Show THE SLANDERED the president of the mormon church says the chicago inter ocean in speaking of the late conference in this year 1890 assures an admiring and believing audience andi ence that it is a matter of history to be accepted as thoroughly as the fact of the in aug of washington or that the first and second persons of the sacred trinity visibly descended from seaven and poising above the aate JOSEPH SMITH said this is my beloved eon behold him hear ye him the acceptance of such stupid blasphemy for gospel truth does not exclude ita from citizenship but it proclaims their unfitness for citizenship the fact is that the president of the mormon church never taught anything of the kind nor do the mor mons believe that the lord pointed to JOSEPH SMITH and designated him as his beloved son it is tough logic however to set forth in this free country that a religious sect of intelligent thinkers should be held unfit for citizenship on account of their belief in god what if they do believe the fact of god the 1 ather and son jesus christ visited a mortal being this would be no extraordinary deviation from tha many similar events recorded in the holy book which all christians are taught embodies divine truths it is merely in keeping with its teachings to believe that the father is a being who can communicate with his children on earth in bodily form of he so choose and they be chaste and and righteous enough to merit such a visitation if we accept of such belief as detrimental ri to good society and pure government we must m the first case base our opinion on other than the bible and in the second ignore the glorious i aghta of lib erity guaranteed by the constitution it is a commonly accepted theory of our country that a man can be a good citizen whatever his religious belief might be in the eyes of the law it cuts no figure as to whether a man is a christian hebrew Mus suman mormon pagan or a confirmed atheist so long as he abides the enactments and penal code of his country if it be not the faita of the mormon sect that the country is attacking we aro at the loss to know what it is the feelings of bias and hatred which bear sway in all questions relating to this church causes one to wonder if such outrageous bills will not eventually be passed by congress as that introduced in the senate by CULLOM this week providing for the chasing of all the Mor it would have set the country in an uproar a generation ago to have merely intimated such an outrage as robbing citizens of the elective franchise on account of their belief but this seems to be an age of corrupt legislation THE LITTLE sheet published in provo once a week says to the with tears in its eyes fire away at the gazette to your hearts content god will preserve us if we are right in telling the truth about you as about all men and things if we are wrong he will burst us up sure and would long ago poor little insignificant thing we wont shoot |