Show THE TIM BULLETIN hullet AND THE MORMONS it lias has been a long time since wo we saw anything hostile ostile Ii to the mormon mon people in the tile san francisco bulletin That journal so far as we have observed has been neutral neut on the question which lias has so long ion agitated g the christian world in both hemispheres hemisphere but it is a subject on which neither politician theologian nor journalist can neutral they will be forced to tako take sides for or against the system and tho the butle bulle him in will choose its side in the contest at p present resent that journal is not rabid although it makes some statements in a recent article on oil the mormon formon question which arc are not true in speaking of the utah gate ship tho the bulletin says trio mona for many y years hare hard contrived to keep a very serviceable delegate in congress hooper per af one wife notoriety was dic discreet reet and well w ell informed he biad tact and knew how to allay hostilities and to keep down antagonisms cannon succeeded Ho llo gloried in laving having several wives he is an agre sive man dear li e r headed cool calculating and annl diplomatic the question of his right to a scat seat as a delegate Dc legato in con gress is is likely to bring up the whole question of mormon n polity and its relation to federal law the bulletin does not seem to indorse the measures which have been propos proposed ed by some of the radicals to abolish tho the legislature substitute a council appointed by F federal authority and thereby deprive tho the people of this territory of any independent action in matters that most deeply concern them and them alone our western contemporary thinks the fulminations by tho the bitter mormon baters haters in Congress will amount ato general grant could n aB trini r ent nt an anti tl corroon Mor roon ara grap li I Is message president could in make ake one a little stronger and general garfield could make hi his a little more emphatic but all that really amounted to nothing the tile bulletin knos knows well enough that a amess message age without mormonism in it would bo be too dry too commonplace a document and would subject ita its author to the denunciations of the pious crew who arc are now urging a the government to use force to deprive an innocent people of worshiping their creat creator r in a manner contrad contrary y to the false notions of modern christians w on i this subject s k in speaking caking ep of the recent rant ings at ata the meetings held a few days since in several of the states our contemporary thinks asa result there will n ill bo be a st strong rong public U bli I LC opinion created whee e it lias has E been n developing slowly heretofore there has been a strong strom neutral element clement in com congress ress some part of this will be found found at last on the side of the cormons mormons Mor mons the greater part of it will bo be merged in the tile opposition if all or even a largo large majority of the Prote protestant stint churches of tho the united states arc are to make common cause against agal ast phoso features ism i I which are in direct conflict with the law the beginning of the end can it hardly be mistaken polygamy will w ill disappear but suppose al all I or a great majority ty of the Pros churches do 10 make common cause against the cormons mormons Mor mons what will they accomplish by it exactly what they have done before nothing mormonism is backed by liy a power stronger than that of man and hence mans inability to wrestle cf ef ya factually with the momentous question t it is like banquot r ghost host I it will not down at the bidding of mortal but suppose plural marriage the most P objectionable and as some pc people ople say tho the only ob objectionable feature ca t ure in tho the IN mormon formon religion E sl should disappear bo be gh given ell up would the protestant churches fraternize with us then As they did before plural marriage was promulgated as a tenet odthe of the mormon mornion faith so they woul dif it should disappear ip pear find some other ac a against us u which would be considered just cause by them to disfranchise us but there is no prospect of the experiment being a tried nevertheless our assertion is borne out by the bulletin which F says ays i if f polygamy should be extirpated even then there will not bo be a complete solution of the question the alien spirit will remain and that will be far more difficult to deal with than paly polygamy gamy the bulletin does not neither can fr P R it point out herein wherein tho the 11 11 mormon ormon people are alien to the constitution or the institutions of the united states whether citizens by birth or by naturalization they arc are and ever have been loyal to the government and the only law they refuse to acknowledge ledgle a as s constitutional is the law of 1862 time vill will demonstrate who are the most law abiding citizens the latter day saints or their accuser accusers A washington dispatch of this afternoon in forma ns that la a warfare on mormonism sni is being kept up by all the old and diew new po pop P guns of sensational fanatical and bigo politics it says as that the senator hoar of Massac massachusetts bm where white slavery is prevalent in the form of female factory serfdom presented a petition from the officers of the suffrage rage association of missouri protesting against legislation ai for un unconditional condit ion al di difranchise meni man odthe of the women of attali and praying for the extirpation n of polygamy agamy |