Show LOOK AT THEM Where is the source of Mormon persecutions i per-secutions Here in Utah That little changing gang oi Liberals with the Tribune as its organ may lay the flat teing unction to its soulpardon the hyperbolethat every sorrow that has come to the Godfearing people of Utah has emanated from it The Liberals have branded Mormons as murderers when Utah has been exceptionally free from bloodshed they have accused them of intolerance while conduting the most violent and mendacious sheet in their midst they have accused them or being slaves because they did not join in efforts to render innocence infamous in-famous and to bring the Territory tinder tin-der the yoke of despotism they have been called unAmerican because they chose to worshi God as they saw fit without trenching upon the rigbts of other they arc called treasonable believing be-lieving that God Almighty inspired the American Constitution they are pointed at as adultereJs when no adulterer can have a standing among them and when they are demonstrably the freest people from unchastity and immorality in the civilized world they are termed ignorant ignor-ant in spite of the census reports to the contrary they are called unchristian but yet are unassailable from that Christian standpoint the Scriptures These baseless accusations against the Mormon people spread broadcast have been listened to by the American people I peo-ple for years Their influence has permeated per-meated religious bodies always in the van of intolerance has found its way into the secular press always seeking to ride upon the crest of popular fancy and from the homes of the ueople has journeyed to legislativo has where it it ha found an echo in repressive laws lLis patent that if it had not been for the ceaseless onslaughts of Liberals their ly1ng dispatches their tirlees efforts ef-forts for more special legislallOI1 the Amencm people would have dwelt inc in-c > m lete Ignorance that Mormonism is m nIcer It has been because o the systematic dingdon or a few broken down political hacks and their coadjutors that the sun of prosperity and justice has set in Utah rith hat shrewdne rin tha n J tUI11 tourists over to trained hackmen and with what damnable inventions in-ventions did they feed the Grand Army it needs not detailed proof that aU of the ills ofthe persecuted Mormons are traceable to the socalled Liberals of this Territory nor do imagine for a moment that they would displte the honor it is their glory that they are reformers Look nt them Stand them up gaze into their countenances Was there aver such a motley crew since Falstaff that great prototype otthe Utah il > ft mt 4 4 4W f erI arrayed his warriors bold It is a good enough crowd so far as drinking gin playing pOker swearing st1f oaths harg a good time with the girl and bending all their energies to the capture of the mighty dollar are concernedbut I sh1desof LuJherI What sorry material i f from which ta build reformers These are the mess whos righteous sotilsrevplt at the unchastity of Mormon marriages who are willing to consecrate tbeirloIie to the wor of regenerating Utah whose love for Young Utah for those hapless souls born in the bondage of Mormonism would lead them to sacrifice their all could they but redeem them I 0 noble souTs No one may lay at your door the imputation of insincerity no one can brand yon with the charge of hypocrisy hy-pocrisy You great and kindly men show in the consistency of your daily wal that sinister motives may not be imputed to yon Let us nraY1rClI J To think that these ungodLy Mormons should say that you seek for your own political advancement that you sigh for the spoils to think that they should impugn your motives and assail your livesit is revolting but still they do it It must be evident to every person that the motives actuating the Liberal ring in this Territory are open to question ques-tion If it is principle that moves them we will ask what principle Is there ono of them who understands what it is to sacrifice to principle Can one of them understand the constant adherence adher-ence of a Mormon to hisbelief We believe that the spectacle of a people willing to sacrifice all for the sake of religion or indeed for anything is to their sordid natures humorous rather than pathatic or sublime When we say that it is impossible to believe that the crusade against the Mormons is so far as the Utah Liberals are concerned con-cerned anything but a warfare conceived con-ceived in lust for gain and executed in malice we express an opinion from which there is no escape To accept the othervipw we must believe in a rare collection of logical paradoxes or must believe that an irreligious set of men are the champions of relieion that a set ot men not above the average of the age in morals have become the champions of morality that men who demonstrate in their lives that money is their king are willing to subordinate all earthly interests to the regeneration of Utah that rnenwho are in receipt of handsome incomes because of agitation agita-tion are actuated by the most unselfish motives that men who are willing to bee every principle of usual application violated in case of a Mormon are the true exponents of American freedom andthe defenderselect of the Constitution Consti-tution Wemay be pardoned if we refuse to take such a dose the other alternative the beEefthat the offices of thIs Territory Terri-tory the opportunity of increasing salaries and multiplying taxes of putting put-ting up jobs upon the treasury is the the one that appeals to reason And once more we wish to say that while we feel that the English language is inadequate to the task of picturing the Liberal we dQ not include in our strictures the nonLiberal Gentiles those substantial business men ol the Territory who deplore when they do not openly condemn the infamous meaSures of others to bring ruin to their doors and punishment to an orderly and lawrespecting people |