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Show IT WILL BE DESTROYED. The Deseret News makes the charge In effect against the opponents of the present Mormon hlerarchv that these opponents expect to destroy Mormon-Ism. Mormon-Ism. What Ik "Mormon ism " ' If the News means the religion of the Mormon people, no one is seeking to destroy It. If it means ihe Mormon people, no one Fa seeking to destroy them. If It means, as we are unhappily led to suppose, .i claim of right to break the laws, then there is an effort to de-strov de-strov it and it will be destroyed. The trouble with the News and all Its echoes In pulpit and press Is that any reference to the violation of covenants cove-nants by the Mormon leaders, any allusion al-lusion to their defiance of law and sen-tlmentality sen-tlmentality is called at once an attack on the religion. Such fools should be defended from themselves and The Tribune has sought earnesily through the years to make their defense. The ende.r or Of this paper lms been to segregate. seg-regate. If possible, the Illegal purposes from ;he religious faith. But the Deseret Des-eret News will have none of this its incessant complaint and teaching are th&t criticism of la w-brenking is persecution per-secution of people for their religious faith. Taking the Deseret News at Its own word, and taking the so-called prophets and their echoes at their word, their religion must indeed he degraded de-graded for they assume that their religion re-ligion la a right lo violate law and pic dges of honoi . li-cppily these frauds and fools are not the entirety of the Mormon system either as to theology or as to personnel. There are hundreds of thousands of Industrious In-dustrious and thrifty Mormon people who would be honorable, law-abiding, patriotic and high-minded citizens of the Republic, but for the false teachings of the leaders of their church. And too, In the Mormon social system, as 11 was intended to bo with a complete abolition aboli-tion of poverty, ihere was and is the seeed of an old truth, as is evidenced by the writ lugs of some of the greatest men of ihe age In their comments upon up-on the subject. If the good people and the good Ideas could be preserved, thev would be of some value to the world; but the charlatans who stand out are determined that they will destroy all things wreck the people, wreck the religion, re-ligion, wreck the ocial system bring all to rum. in order that, the community com-munity may fall when they, ihe false prophets, shall fall. |