Show MORMONS AND MODERN civilization let nobody be discouraged about the prospects of conversion of the utah mormons cormons to the ways of modern civilization ten or a dozen leading men among them including several officeholders have already been indicted and arrested for bo of the most improved type one of the chief bood lera lers has been favored with no less than nine indictments for frauds against salt lake city great things may be expected from a people who under the disadvantages and dis courage ments of frontier life are thus able to engage in successful rivalry with those of older and more opulent and populous cities in one of the most modern of the fine arts 11 the foregoing is from the chicago globe if there were anything in the farcical proceedings against the gentlemen who have been indicted for political purposes it might be some encouragement to persons who desire to see utah converted homod to mod ern civilization 19 the truth is there bere is absolutely no grounds whatever for accusing these gentlemen of fraud or conspiracy of anything crooked 11 none of them has haa been guilty of bo and as far as we can learn neither of them has been charged with securing any boodle the whole proceeding against them Is viewed by the community here of both parties either as a huge joke at the expense of the men indicted or a very shameful assault upon them in the interest of the so called liberal lP party at the coming municipal election but there is something more encouraging cou raging than this to the friends of modern civilization here is a case in point A large number of cormons mormons Mer Mor mons who had bad never broken the law and against whose moral character nothing could be alleged have recently been refused naturalization simply because they were members of the mormon church on the same day that some of these theme moral and monogamous Mor mons were rejected a from the I 1 mormon church was admitted to citizenship on his adducing proof that he had been cut off from that church for drunkenness another case in paint is this while cormons mormons Mor mons sl who had bad never violated the moral or statutory law were refused citizenship men who had been confessedly guilty of sexual of Tenses were accepted as the fact that they had bad done so several times was not judicially considered to be against their moral character nor to be compared with the immorality of belonging to a church many of the members of which believed in polygamy here are premiums on the practices of modern civilization drunkenness harlotry and kindred vices are conduits to judicial favor and political privileges mor mons have only to break loose from the moral restraints of their creed and indulge in the liberties of so ao called modern civilization to reap the rewards of political enfranchisement and gain the applause of the world and yet it is possible that most of them will reflect upon the query of a master mind who was just as unpopular in his day as they are in theirs what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul soula 9 |