Show AN OUTRAGE A FEW days ago as our readers will probably remember an alsoc assoc press presa dispatch was published giving an account of a brutal outrage alleged to have been committed upon two mormon elders the laramie boomerang of a late date purports porte to give a fuller account of the affair than appeared in the dispatches these more recent details were probably gleaned from reports in other papers according to the latest statement the two meu men who were so ferociously attacked were in indiana and claimed to be able to perform miracles such as healing the sick the part of the populace demanded a sample of their power in that respect and brought to them an old lady who was blind clamoring that her sight be restored to her the result was a failure on the part of the unfortunate victims of hate in consequence the men were seized by white caps while holding a meeting taken to an adjoining wood and given fifty lashes each upon the bare back added to this barbarous treatment was the command for them to leave that part of the country within a certain number of hours on pain of being put to death the effects of the whipping upon these theme poor fellows was terrible they wandered away for far the purpose of finding some place where they bey would be free from such inhuman attacks one of them traveled twenty miles before stopping and his sufferings were so great that his mind had become affected the other was left by the wayside and probably perished one OH would suppose that without respect to who the victims of this outrage might be the story of their sufferings would be sufficient to move the sympathy of a rhinoceros it could hardly be expected that a man with sufficient intelligence to 0 edit even a low grade newspaper would condone such doings yet such is the case the editor of the boomerang thus claps clapa his clammy hands over the exploit of his congenial spirits the white caps this incident is simply one of the many indications that the mor mons use the most unfair and dis honest means to secure converts convert to their abomination they make their way upon wee false representation they deceive they utter falsehoods they make extravagant pretentious and then they wonder why a liberty loving people look upon them with such just hatred these thin things th they do in the name of religion and su such treatment as they received in indiana although severe was richly deserved all this indicates that the man who penned such an atrocious article might learn sense sympathy and originality from a government mule in the first place he accepts the story of the miracle business as strictly accurate and even if it were true it would afford no justification for the lawless outrage perpetrated upon the white caps victims it is not the first time that ca a wicked and adulterous generation have asked for a sign and no sign has been given them pa these sign seekers iffie their counterparts in the days of christ were murderers in their hearts and it is ie no stretch to imagine they were a also capable of boing being adulterers sign seeking is one of the indications of that status he also accepts the statement that the unfortunate men subjected to horrible maltreatment were mormon elders this it is exceedingly cee improbable the name naine of one of them is given as williams and there is no elder of the church by that name at present laboring either in the northern or southern states this we have ascertained by reference to the list of those now in the field this unlikelihood is strengthened by the feet fact that no official or direct information as to the outrage has reached this point it is not improbable that the men who were abused were joseph ites there is no special reason ia why we should look upon the members of that sect as friends buebe but be that as it may and without regard begird to who or what the victims were the attack upon them was a lawless cruel and brutal outrage abe tb perpetrators of which were a lot of murderous and hose who applaud the latter are of til the same stripe it does not follow that those are persecuted are always a ways right but it is loan an infallible fact that the persecutors are invariably wrong the boomerang man headed his article mormon monsters P lo in order to cap the climax of absurdity he should have introduced subhead sub sul head characterizing the assailants of the victims of the assault as aa white cap angels |