Show OF OLD frequently the wish is father to the tho thought and when ome some malicious I persons think that something no matter how cruel or even Aen fiendish dish has happened to a neighbor they hope it is o doubtless this was the feeling that inspired the old general singleton the tile other day in tho the house of representatives I do no believe said be e that there a aro re three men on the floor of this house who are to tho the mormons Mor Wr mons if such tuch were the fact what a comment it would be on the christianity ti of the representatives of the nation there assem assembled blod to demand justice equality and protection for every citizen while in the legal purr pursuit wit of life liberty and happiness 16 singleton ingleton evinces the same spirit of bitterness towards tb the e mormons cormons Mor mons that ho he did at nauvoo thirty sir six years ago andrio would like to inspire all others with the same mob disposition it is the spirit of cowardly hate bate that inspired old governor bogge boggs when he issued hia his infamous order to drive the latter day saints from their homes or exterminate them on the of oct 1838 1888 that old nero issued an order from jefferson city jr mo to general dark clark in which ho he said the cormons mormons Mor mons must be treated as enemies and laust be exterminated or driven from the state he also issued orders to generals Val lock do dani ni phan parks and others to operate with dark clark to intercept and cut off tho the retreat of the mormons Mor mons that ahat there should be no chance for th them em to escape the destruction designed for them these gallant officers were to a special army for the purpose of murde murdering rim their sivo fellow citizens simply on account of their religion on the the noble army army arched marched to the far west when tb the leaders of the people were betrayed by bt col hinkle into the hand hands of a set of robbers and assassins by whom they were held prisoners ancl do not let it enter your minds I eaid said gen dark clark to the people that you will see their faces again for their fate is fixed their die is cast their doom is scaled what befell them and the people subsequently we wo do not wish to recount when the mob began to drive the cormons mormons Mor mons from the state of illinois a named john carlin raised an army army of a thousand men officered and equipped them and gave the command to general then colonel john W singleton he accepted the position but did not retain it long for adire disagreement ement arose between him r and somo some others when he threw lp his commission he now cornea comes forward thirty six years later as a reformer of the morals of the people who have eur dived his desires dires and those of his compeers com peers for their destruction for this purpose ho be makes his bungling little speech in the house of congress and earns a little cheap new notoriety but like many other better men ho he confesses es that ho be does net not knew know how to cure the evil he complains of ho he does venture an opinion and here hero it is in my opinion a sure cure would be the enactment of a law to cempel compel every polygamous mormon to keep all bis wives wires under the same roof theres a st daniel com come e to judgment an intellectual gianti what mental effort the opinion must havo have cost him now it is quito quite possible that this plan would work more mors harmoniously bythan than the general would think or hope it would certainly it would not be productive of less matrimonial felicity than compelling every man to live in the same house with his legal wife and his kept mis rais tressee tremm if Cong congressmen instead of con turning suming so much time reading hom bom alies and proposing sing measures for the regeneration of the cormons mormons Mor mons would remove the beam from their own eyes they would see clearer and perhaps discern what ought to be dono done nearer home the virginin kev nov chronicle which is not a 1131 mormon ormon by any mean q has the following z pertinent remarks on tho the mormon i question which peddlers meddlers medd lers in other peoples aff affairs will do well to ponder over everybody from the tile president down low n to the tile editor of tho smallest country weekly takes a shy at the tile mormons cormons Mor mons at every opportunity the whole liole country raises its hands in chronic holy horror at the immorality ot this sect of religionists of clourse course polygamy is immoral and nd butof tune with civilization hut but one would think by the endless clatter going u up over thie this handful of over marr married detmen men in utah that all the rest ofte of the e land presented a pleas pleasingly ingi y monotonous spectacle of virtue while evear city of the Kc Ile public has whole ft hole streets inhabited only by fallen wo women and tho tile divorce courts arc are packed picked with husbands hns bands and wives charging each other with breaking their marriage vows there is is something incongruous about all the virtuous indignation bestowed apoll alio cormons mormons Mor mons 11 |