Show intolerance it is 13 a favorite theme of the speakers at the tabernacle in this city to descant upon the persecution the they y have suffered at the hands of the people of illinois and missouri and so effective is this found to beith be ith those uninformed as to the circumstances that hardly a meeting passes without allusion to I 1 the perse cution for religions sake formerly suffered by this people with A degree of inconsistency which would be a strange did not all history furnish us its with ample illustrations of the fact that those who are most ready to complain and most blatant in their lamentations over so called persecution when applied to themselves are the r readiest easiest of the ivady to abuse others for mere differences in belief and t bic h e most intolerant when they have or fancy they have a little power it seems that our friends of the tabernacle only object to persecution in when lien applied to themselves and have a keen heen relish for its beneficent effects when other people are the recipients and they our friends of the tabernacle aforesaid the inflict inflictors ors wo we hai ha a e seen a letter dated april which contains among other things the following pana paragraph graph violent threats are being used toward mr briggs and the other Missi ies last night the windows of one ona of the josephites were nere r smashed ni ha in on main street and we have reason to apprehend a night attack beffie long ly tile the writer is a credible person and we ban have a merely to say that those i who to do these things had better belter beware in time such a 1 state of affairs once well uell authentic authenticated abed will nill not be allowed to exist and a severe punishment will be awarded tile the perpetrators of such outrages the smashing in of windows is a contemptible and cowardly way of wreak ing in iau ill feeling and tile the tin till cats used come in with ith ill grace aiom those who 1010 so loudly complain of menaces and persecution applied in former times to themselves all this too occurs because a party of themselves morcom mormons Mor mons mom do not chose to believe in the same sam leader of the church Cli in it whom the i est place confidence no day passes by on which the comm commanding anding general of this district is not appealed to for protection by people 11 who ito f aiom all doctrinal or technical differences in belief hae bale come under und 0 r the th 0 ban b a n of the I 1 leaders C ad C r 8 of moi monism and we have to repeat emph emphatically ati cally that such a state of affairs a cannot annot and will ill not be tolerated the leaders here and those of the tl le people whom they still influence indue must learn that men in who ho do 10 not i lender cutler the themselves ea amenable to tile the law of the land havo have the same right to lift life libel libei ty anti and the pursuit of happiness ness that they have and that they must and shall be protected in the enjoyment of their tight rights and they tile the aggi essers in this case will do well alo to bear in ill mind th that it a iio io lation of law will be punished as 18 summarily sumina fily in their own case as they have Puli punished klied difference in belief or dissatisfaction with the then existing and now fast waning regime all this catta judicial surveillance and pretended ant authority hority heretofore in vogue apie is rapidly subsiding and must of necessity soon cease but we vc put it to them as prudent men that they luid had better not commit t themselves by carrying the t little I 1 ati a remnant of power that they still boast so far as to bating them into conflict with the authority of the united states in scripture it is 19 said that tho the devil aba shall come comedown do n having great wr wrath a th beca because ISO I 1 ile he that hat his time it short and to compala small things NN with ith great such seems to be the case heie baic beg pardon of his satanic majesty for comparing we him with such snell small fay since the devil has confessed and acknowledged cd led ability and our persecuting fl leris friends display is none in their actions in this territory y of late unless indeed they are working knowingly angly for their own in more or a S speedy p eed yov overthrow a in wil which 1 ich case they are makin ue of the best b est cfall of all possible means for that end I 1 A homely lion icly plovers says never nevers show bow your teeth till you can bite ani and it means till still you yo I 1 I 1 can bite to some purpose now you of the intolerant and fanatic class cannot bite and you yon know OW it all that yon can do is underhandedly and meanly to vex rex and a aggravate gate r poor and dillof unoffending reading people who zeray merely differ from you in belief belie f smash their widows nii 1111 iler aci corr co rr of night 1 alldack and act tile tho cl currish iriLli craven gen orally you dare not come out in the light of day to do these things and by your course stand confessed as I lovin loving darkness rather than light because your ledoare Led deeds sare are evil be warned then in time and see to it that when the time comes as soon it will when you will be outnumbered in population outvoted at the polls when juries shall be what they ought to be and no usurpations open or secret of authority dare be attempted your skirts maybe may be free of the contamination of these outrages and you may quietly take back seats scabs in the senago synagogue tie |