Show A christian paper and the white caps of indiana we are pleased to see a general call from prominent newspapers for the suppression suppress fon of the lawless and brutal white caps of indiana governor gray will receive popular support in his efforts to bring to justice the cowardly villains who have perpetrated the outrages that have been common of late in certain portions of his state it will be remembered that a band of those night marauders recently whipped nearly to death two men and a woman said to be cutting mans eye from its socket it remained to a very pious journal ed in chicagoans Chicago and called the christian cynosure to apologize for this cruel deed it speaks of this as but a single case where their brutality had any justification the justification was that the men were two mormon missionaries and the christian cynosure indulges in a sneer at governor grays expense by the intimation concerning his effort to clean out the white cap lodge that perhaps the cormons mormons had influence with the democratic party thia religious journal is published by the national christain association and it is as vehemently opposed to masonry as to but we have not seen in its columns any encouragement of anti masonic fana bics tics to v violence for the suppression of masonic lodges its venom is apt so much escatel by these secret societies to ellch it devo tesso much of its attention as by a religious body whose principles and spirit not understand but whose missionaries it would deliver over to cho tender mercies of murderous we are hajny in the belief that there are few editors in this wicked world who would attempt to justify the outrages in indiana because the victims were said to bo cormons mormons Mor mons and we think that if the pious writers for the christian cynosure desire any support for their sentiment in the next world they will have to seek for it in the remotest depths of the lowest choel the christinn cynosure also approves of the confiscation of mormon church property but it mourns over one defect in the process it says the cormons mormons Mor mons will hayett render an account for these properties and pay the income over to the court for the support of the school fund which shows that the pious editor know khat he is writing about but mourns that they may have the consolation of knowing that the fund comes thus back into their own hands and it seems to be a wretched detect in the law that it hoes so what a pity that the christian cynosure people make the lav and execute it as well they would soon make ducks and drakes of the mormon church property what matters that the members 0 chat church have voluntarily donated che funds held for its use and benefit they hold a different faith from any the national christian associations and its organ and therefore are fit subjects for spoliation and plunder the cynosure says of utah there is not a more beautiful country in the world and none world be more profitable if it could bo de zed yes if the very christian souls who lust tot the products of mormon industry could succeed in driving out the people who make it possible for the white race to live in this region jiey think no doubt they could make it profitable but they need not count on a repetition of former in mormon history religions fanatics will not de utah in any such manner the mor mons are here to stay and no one will find it permanently profitable to undertake to drive them out the joss of tho church property which the cynosure thinks is gone rt not materially affect the situation nor tend to de utah in the least degree but the property is yet nor is thero any of an opening for religious or other spoilers to make upon otah profitable for a people suffering the sore affliction which imagine they are the cormons mormons Mor mons are doing remarkably well they do not sot so much store upon valuables as the cynosure imagines are not set upon riches and they ahl take joyfully the spoiling of their goods should it essary rather than sacrifice their faith or de any portion of their territory Applaud mg the confiscation fis of the property of a church is in perfect harmony and sweet ac cord with the justification of against its missionaries news |