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Show "JUSTICE" ON THE CRUSADE. A writer id ih Not? York Tribune, i over lite si.L'iiaiurc of "Ju.-tii.E-" wishes I to corjlirm the nlali iu'-nts of anoiher person writiiijr over the signature of: '"Fair Peal'iog'' ou the crusade asainat the Moriuoa-, anil aioong oilier things saj!: All lhal "Fair loa!n.-" tajs nhoul ihcir indu-try, thrift, luiiipijrance, camhliD,, and bawdy-bouses, was true until the advent of iho Lientilfs. They had litllc use for penal sanctions to law, as they we;e obedient lo their own law.s; aa a coiii'anniiy they were freer from ihe coniinoD vices ol" civilization than any similar community on the comment, and freer than all others except ex-cept "unlutoi'ud ravages." .No similareiimmunit.v on thi? continent conti-nent has achieved in the same time and under similar conditions sucli material success. Idleness and hunger were unknown. Industry is as much a part of the Mormons' relifiion as worship is that of the feci.-'. 1'ouibiDiog industry with temperance and economy, wo get the cause of their thrift. Uring these to hear on New York city and the United Uni-ted States, with t he same administration administra-tion of the results, and the cry of distress dis-tress would not be heard in the land; prime would scarcely exist. All this bus Ijjcn achieved tho wilderness of crease-wood and alkali have been made to blossom as the rose; 1 -",0,000 people made wealthy, under a pyatem of taxation the most onerous ever imposed im-posed on a people; all bccju.se they work and have cut ulf thn wastes oi' our methods. Kecleuastical despotism, combined with ncscssiiy, have done this. J lie eonipuu-iit stuuent 01 eiunoio-gical eiunoio-gical science will be compelled to admit ad-mit that they arc raising a better breed of children by their method than we produce from the same quality by our method. To those who are dissatisfied by tho present breed, and clainoriog for a better, I commend this part of the subject aa worthy of careful care-ful study. The idea that iMormonini, limited in territorial boundary to a small district dis-trict of mountainous country, one-fourth one-fourth of which can never bo available for human support, can ever seriously disturb our civil 01 social relations, is too absurd to be entertained for a moment; while the inevitable fato of the whole system is so plainly decreed in the forces at work, that a child may predict it. Cupidity and bigotry, dishonesty ' and religious intolerance, arc at (ho bottom of this raid. The western adventurers ad-venturers elainorinK for their overthrow over-throw do uot belong to a class celebrated celebra-ted for piety, virtue, or fair dealing. They want the mines, lands, business of the Mormons. Dr. Newman, who made a missionary excursion to Salt Lake oily last summer, and utterly failed to make n tingle convert, is largely rcspon.-ilile for the present trouble. That the Mormons will lamely submit sub-mit to the execution of penalties on their leaders is not to be presumed for a moment. They were driven out?ide the pale of Chmtiun civilizaltjn by Iho spirit of peivsccuiion, into tho wilderness, nakel, destitute, hungry, with only savages for their neighbors. Here they have made a home, a gov- : enimt'iit, thrift, plenty; here they have worshipped according to the dictates of their own consciences, until the cupidity cupidi-ty of their enemies has found Iheto out and demanded their overthrow. . Uere they have been organized, admit- 1 ted, tolerated and represented in Con- , pi ess lor years without a legal protest. When the enabling act was passed was the time to have provided against this , recognition. It is too late now. And this crusade is unworthy the age in : which we live, and belongs to the dark :igcs when crusades were the instru- i ments of propagating theological dogmas. grace. The powers of the air failing to touch tho incorrigible saints in a weak spot, the vengeance of the Internal Inter-nal was brought down upon them through the arm of the judiciary and the federal government. This has proved more successful, demonstrating the value of the (Jromwcllian maxim, ' Trust in God" lir.-t, hut he sure and "keep your powder dry." Fiiubh-ment Fiiubh-ment proved easier than conversion. The fact is that converting Mormon-? to Methodism is among the impossibilities. impossi-bilities. The larger portion of the present members of the Mormon faith were original Methodist. They we.v converted from lhat sect, and although converts sometimes go back to their old faith, it is net often. Menial and spiritual experiences cany men and women forward, but seldom backward. Having once attempted to navigate tint unfathomable sea of mysleiy vh;eh connecis the present life with ihc future, spiritual instinct, and a morbid long-incjfor long-incjfor "more light," constantly press thereligious inquirer onward, by progressive pro-gressive steps, from creed lo creed, and sect to Start. They cannot go back to the simple faith of (heir 0:1 r-j r-j licr religious experience. That winch has once been tasted and iviee"e t is forever after repugnant. Ileli;:iou-' life, liko cvcjy thing else in nature, is progressive, or it is nothing. Deeper thought and wider experience may raise doubts in the mind, as the storm and sun cover the horizon of the ocean W'th cloudy exhalations. And as the sailor seeks clearer skies by constantly con-stantly pushing forward, so the skeptical skepti-cal devotee naturally seeks the solution solu-tion of his mental ditheultics in tint mystorious foreground, whose secrets may possibly disclose the ever vauish-ina vauish-ina Truth, Tho Mormon church may bo broken up, but ils congregations will never bo-come bo-come Methodists. They are far more likely lo become Spiritualists, although their present creed wonld seem tn ally them closely with iho materialists. The Godbeite branch appear to have drifted almost bodily into transcendentalism. transcendent-alism. As a sect the Mormons have passed over a wider religious experience experi-ence Lhan the great body of any other denomination in America. Ignorant and simple as many of these appear they are tough and ready disputants on religious matlerp, and not easily confounded. Most of their old leaders, lead-ers, from Brigham Young down, were once Methodist preachers, familiar wilh all the influences and special pleas of that faith. They went over that ground forty years ago. At this late day ihey are the la,st of all the earth to again put on their old cast-off religious garments. A more unpromising ground for a camp meeting meet-ing could not be found than the Territory Terri-tory of Utah. Methodism may subjugate subju-gate them through the arm of federal force, but agaiust Methodism as a church they wear n coat of mail a Erejudice invulnerable to argument, f their organization should be broken up they might possibly become Catholics Catho-lics on one hand, or Spiritualists on the other anything but whit they have been. Carson Register. |
