| Show CONFISCATION Our morning contemporary on Friday delivered itself of the following bit of pleasantry THE HERALD again declares that an appea to the Mormon people to come within the laws to Americanize Utahlest the government should pursue them to disfranchisement and confiscation confisca-tion Is an expression of D desre on our part that they shall be robbed of their property Of course the lying hound knows batter THE HERALD declared no such thing We simply printed tho words of the Tribune on this subject and remarked that our readers could judge for themselves a to whether the words suggested confiscation or not To clinch this thing wo hero reproduce re-produce what was quoted in our columns from the Tribune editorials Mr GOOD WINS words so that the reader may judge as to who is the lying hound for the sheet first denied ihe words though it has repeated similar ones a score of times and then tried to make out that Senator Eu SIITNDS was responsible for them One of tha strangest features of Mormonism and the Mormons is their seeming utter lack of comprehension of the enormity of disobeying tho laws The first thing probably that wI be taken from them will be the franchise I which they have so long prostituted Then they will find themselves at the mercy of such laws as may bo prescribed for them I that will not I do the next attack will be on their property and I no man who believes it right for him to obey the First Presidency rather than the laws will be permitted to acquire title to lands This will I mean final bankruptcy not only for the masc but the rich In tho organization Tribune Ssp ember JGt lass Tho above is the quotation irom tha I Tribune not from Senator EDMUNDS at all that wo used the other day We had not thought of that other editorial implicating Senator EDMUNDS in this advocacy of pillage lage But since the organis so proud of that particular editorial we here give theist the-ist ort Suppose like PHAROATI suggests tho Tribune they still harden their hearts until another plaguo shall bo sent Suppose Sup-pose the governor should begin suits against saints who OWl laud to have their patents set aside and their lands forfeited because in no real sense wore they citizens Further on Judge EI IXDS is credited with saying that i the Mormons rejected his gracious and merciful overtures We will next attack I at-tack their property and see by what title they hold land etc The Tribune adds I The attack upon the church property is i but a trifle by comparison r Surely i I the chief love their people they will spare them such an afllicJAon as would come with the consficutioa of their homes Tho priests that are holding this people in their present course are not only putting off their prosperity but they are moreover placing plac-ing in jeopardy their very homes > I this last editorial suits the oran any better as an exposition of its allegation that it has not suggested the consflcation of private pr perty we have no objections objec-tions But the choice is like that between Scylla and Charybdist The above quotations are from the Tribune We have not accused the sheet We have merely reprinted its own sat s-at which tho foolish thing flies into a rage and calls us a lyin hound Then it tries to justify the words by talking about the utter depravity of people who do not obey the law but observe that there is now no question about disobeying tho laws The laws arc obeyed When the Tribune pretended dissatisfaction with the anti polygamy manifesto we asked what next it would have the Mormons do in order to escape the slavery which Mr GOODWIX and his party were plotting to bring upon them Here is the answer made by the sheet Before the Mormonj liticians can establish that Mormonism is not an absDlute theocracy they must deny the faith They must blot out the written ana published and acted record The files of all Mormon newspapers news-papers and periodicals must be called in C They must then lie out of existence the history and traditions of Utah and blot out the memo rice of alluring Mormons Tiibuni Octo ber 29 1800In In other words nothing that the Mormons Mor-mons could ever do would absolve them from the socalled crime of theocrac and for this crime and this alone tie Liberal organ slYs they should be disfranchised dis-franchised prevented from obtaining citizenship papers denied the right to enter land l or even to hold the land they already own |
