Show rITE ATLANTA Ouns itution perhaps per-haps the ablest and best newspaper in the south is usually correct in matters treated upon in its columns but it has ever been singularly ig noraut or malicious in regard to the Mormons and heir doctrines and practices In the latest issue to hand of the Constitution is a leading editorial concerningJ the Mormon elders in the south The article is full of bitterness and wicked libels and closes as follows Before converts are received icto the eocalied church they are baptized and the ruio is i to strip them nakedjfor that purpose These naked baptisms occur oc-cur at night and the propagandists are supposed to have a good deal of fan on their own hook In one county in North Carolina the emissaries bed an adventure which they related to the newspaper news-paper msn with great gusto They saw two women hoeing cotton in the field approached and soon converted them They then took them oil to a creek stripped them and baptized them Next day the women left for Utah Incidents In-cidents of this sort are occurring allover all-over the United States every day What do the people propose to do about it If the editor of the Constitution doesnt know that the above story is a wicked lie he is too Ignorant to stand at the head of a great journal and if he does know the story is false ought he to edit a newspaper If attacks upon the Mormons cannot can-not be be kept within the bounds of truth they had best not be made no matter from what standpoint one looks at the matter |