Show the cormons mormons Mor mons an english paper in on the lamenta 1 we ne lack of wisdom which seem to mark the adminis of neo all the governa governments tents of europe thus refers b bycy bywy agy of contrast mormon of sit salt lake very nation is baffled in the attempt to better JU ift government every government shakes over the be volcanic ground of discontent the mor in aws bof of salt ante lake are taking steps steffi to establish intercourse ter tere course ourse with the pacific the progress of that simular similar wet sect which may be called the very very organ aron of ignorance and low superstition might be a reproach to older and more learned governments they are making way at all events they have their struggles and their contests but they have arrived at t knowing their own minds they are wayward mind ad we should call them lawless hot but their leaders have leave studied the art so generally forgotten in older europe that of influencing the people ignorance is of 64 tw kinds the passive or involuntary which is the lack of knowledge and the voluntary active which is the refusal of knowledge and the voluntary seems memo to be not more respectable or lew less mischievous than the involuntary voluntary olun tary perhaps it is the worse since it is possible to carry it out with a more than insa insane e consistency the above is worthy of record as a matter of gentral general editorial ad and news paper history of the century what the writer intended to communicate might inight be about as difficult to determine as an it be to know what is intended by a thousand other similar news paper editorials that are astride UK the winds going to and fro in the earth welting seeking how they might deceive some somebody loody or as iti it might i ht be to ascertain why that singular r sect which may be called the very organization of ignorance and low superstition might be a reproach to older elder and more learned governments of europe while those how governments I 1 ern cr ments mets manifest a lamentable tomen lack of wisdom is acir otheir administration and every nation is baffled in n its attempt to better its government and alev enery A vern erit ment shakes over the tha volcanic ground of naval disco discontent amt and their rulers have forgot the ra t I 1 bof of influencing the y people pa 6 11 aye y no we have it they the mormons cormons Mor mons with ith a more than insane consistency have arrived 1 t knowing their own minds and their rulers are capable of ef influencing the people who are making their way at all ail events and being wayward ad lawless are taking steps that the rocky mount ins s cannot prevent them establishing intercourse aith th t the pacific which steps the nations have been crying Y ing to take for many years and accomplished nothing ing because they were not possessed of sufficient I 1 ignorance andlor superstition and had not be 40 tome me wayward in lawless insane inconsistency having found the editors ideas we h have ave no cow com lento ants ty only if the mormons cormons Mor mons are such a miserable t 0 of superstitious ignoramuses ignoramus es and by their baledge ledge 11 have got ahead of all other govern ata t ta 1 as an the writer Im ight igAt represent we pity se governments 1 for if a lawless insane ig 1 I is an aa absolute prerequisite lor for people rulers I 1 governments in order that they might know it own minds and how to influence the peo I 1 we might think those rulers and governments are shaking over the volcano might have d to some more exalted dignified and perfect g of administration long ago and not have for more than insane consistency to set 1 an ln example of government by moral influence jad i of percussion locks aad gunpowder gun powder jowder this should be called singular incorrigible insane isten cy 1 E ED D |