Show I 1 I 1 MORMONISM it has for I 1 AN arricale OF DARTER industry peace and goodwill chaas its converts I 1 I 1 I 1 we are indebted to anguay wright eq for a copy of the poverty new zealand inde pendent of dec 1887 it con bains as a leading editorial the fol lowling excellent article under the litle mormonism I 1 if ever there was any modern movement more roundly villi fied and less generally understood lb another that one undoubtedly 18 mormonism for long years the re of t he united stated of america were looked lipon as the most liberal and free in the world they were assuredly far in advance odthe narrow minded ad 11 despotic social religious and political laws which obtained throughout europe wb en in 1776 the americans succeeded in snap ping the chain which bound them to a tyrannical code of badly ad ministered laws but such gigantic strides have since been made in science education and thought by tin ever increasing majority of man kind as to render the whole dobso lete machinery of modern society throughout the known world totally il applicable to our present troll able aspirations and altered cir cum stances while this applies to all nations alike yet in lio country are its evidences more apparent and more keenly demonstrated than amongst the teeming masses of america it was the first practical this new inspire in spira lion this ever increasing yearning for a more equitable adjustment of the relationship existing between the disintegrated sections of society it fairer distribution of those bounteous gifts which nature offers to all alike but which class greed and monopoly claim the sole right to appropriate and control that gave birth to the mormon movement and led its urise I 1 fish gators to plant the parent stem the soil of those pioneers w I 1 io nearly a century previously had g i yen such tangible proofs of their progressive proclivities and determination to free themselves from the serpentine coils of hereditary byrand y an kingly misrule but the of the sect apparently overlooked that eyen in republican america there had grow a u P a developement elopement dev or that domin ant principle of greed which wor ships at the shrine of the almighty dollar and coolis upon veste d ill teresta te rests as the alabu and omega of human ambition and rights it is this bordia spirit which has prompted the american powers to wage such an unmerciful aud unjust war and which has excited such an intense ant dinst the mormon movement it is solely because the hole mormon system social religious and industrial is based on the two great fundamental principles of co opera tion and arbitration that every con ceivalle cei vable effort has been made to u monopoly restricted compel hion could be be forced by no more deadly foe every exertion has been made to fire the popular heart and excite public acim i against a people professedly hostile to feeding feeing lawyers und the grinding per cent policy on which fatten the commercial aristocracy ariato cracy the cry of polygamy which las been made the red flag to irritate the people aga inist Alor monism has nomore thing to do with the main points at issue than Alono gamy with his twin relict prostitution has to do with the price of consuls it is but an excuse for ulterico ends it in eans to increase power and r eap the fruits of extortion it cry raised by the worshipers at the shrine A the almighty dollar polygamy is but the flaring bait to catch the inexperienced denizens of economic ro all those intelligent men who know that co operation and arbitration are the key notes ofa higher civilization than that now enjoyed by the great massei of the people a higher I 1 civilization which is surely calculated to dis pe nse natures vast stores and lifes blevings ble tings Is with a free hand to all alike the study of the mormon question is one of intense interest PE I 1 nap with golden instruction the disposed dispi sed M brwon Is ap allie in one of the greatest causes yet known to mauk iud co 13 it becomes en duty to try and cade batand the philo a ojay of ilia system driven from blo and from the very haunts of deiv i j by the bitterest persecution they in 1847 entered the bait lake valley then a barren dreary dessert fleres in their faith and ability to work out there scheme and th e of water as common property out 4 home for themselves mutual abid dreary ill bolge brush gave to ij ichards rc wa ilg of goldau grain a ud alis sub aued by cocoris aidi bated by L IL CO U I 1 be etsity mell out A withe twid all mid viding individual interests into be our is tf tile faith however much we way did tent froll his religious views it Is 8 i e for any III its t t an to deny that d y e 0 p e d i n U t a 1 1 a i d 0 n e thau acty known MoUr nellt to sol ve gle of the t problems of the world and thus deserves I 1 the ma son a gener al co organization 9 the territory slid an in depend anee was mainly eved but no sooner ba 1 I I 1 blotman made himself a ml I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 home fair beyond the haunts of CIT on a foreign soil and in a waste alkaline wilderness wilder than the wolves of comroe and tile jackala jackals of in ono p 0 y canted him from afar off av at v cious traders with their attendant hordes flocked into utah and disputes amongst theme eloes called in the intervene lim of the united states in 1850 three abort vean after their advelia ad the government of utah wai and cheter to the united states apace forbids the prosecution of the this in its entirely bill enough has been advanced t show that the is ft tin I 1 ly a co operative onland that the b itter feeling which has been raised again t them is mainly it not solely instigated by commercial and religious bigots who join in a crusade against the common emelity ene lity of their interests inte one clan wishing to expropriate the fertile farms slid homes wrested from the barren debert by hou t industry another who view with sel filk the effects operation cooperation co has upon their interests and still an ot her who live in tile spirit of greed would convert the peaceful 9 r i cultural community into law a I 1 1 cam with all these are joined the asinine bray of the goeltl exhorter and wrathful because he finds his ap peal for subscriptions towards giving him a comfortable salary falls upon deaf ears the leaves his home without purse and without script is self reliant and w self dependent be receives no sill ary and has to work his way to the atmo bends of the earth industry frugality morality crift peace aad goodwill mark his foot a and characterize his converts in a few short months Is lormon ism has wrought far more good and a higher state of civilization amon g th e alafris than has f iel tha long years of anglican i lou precept which has hitherto been drawled forth in for broad acre the natives find that the religion is not an arti cleof barter a promise of future bi in exchange for present au 1 benedita bene fita but a fair quid fro quo coull erring an equal bless ing and permanent benefit upon and pupil alike setting aside the adne obsolete question of polygamy the mormon teachings are calculated to inculcate the true principles of operation cooperation co unity of action and of means the only method of securing for the peo pie freedom from arbitrary and ty ranu ical rule and from degrading dependence on those who under fiand little and care less for the is pirai ions and happiness of the great masses of mankind Forthe serea 80 D sif for no other we could wah to see mormonism supersede supercede super cede the the hollow selfish teachings of like conglomerates ot A n gel when a purer e xa pie shall take the place of art fully con strutted ted when beligio reli gio abs I 1 dot be made the na ans fr acquin bog large estates and stately nian from the when the priest shall practice a if that humility and charity lie so aadu oady tries to inculcate into the minds of others at present tile bigoted autery raised against mor monism by anglican divines is like that of their Demetri tip the silversmith ous this our craft U in danger to I 1 be set at naught I 1 |