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Show A PARALLEL FOR ANARCHISM. Recent events in this country have aroused iutenso public indignation against tho exponents of anarchy. For some time these people have been promulgating pro-mulgating their doctrines without molestation, moles-tation, and the result has been an outburst out-burst of crime. In Utah wo have a les- ( son to draw from these facts. In June of last year the Salt Lake Ministerial Association drow up and published a comprehensive answer to a declaration which had been issued by the Mormon hierarchy in tho preceding ! April. In the document prepared by tho Christian ministers hero proof was brought forward to show that, through speech and publication, tho hicrarchs of the Mormon church were still preaching and teaching the doctrino of polygamy. The pronouncement sent out to tho world by the Mormon leaders confessed that new polj'gamous marriages had oc- I curred in the church siuco the is-suanco of tho Woodruff manifesto, and failed to show that any action whatever had becu taken to chastiso tho culprits who had engaged in this crime. In reply to tho sweeping charges mado by the Ministerial Association, the hicrarchs set apart Elder Brigham H. .Roberts to mount tho Tabernacle rostrum and hurl defiance at the whole univcrso. That he faithfully porformod his special mission mis-sion nt that time is shown in thc following, fol-lowing, uttered by Mr. Roberts: You have no right to enter tho dominion domin-ion of thought and no right to interfere with our holding to the truth of that doctrino ae an abstract principle. Hands off here! Our bolief is our own. We have a right to our opinion. Anarchists set up no broader claim than this; yet State and city officials all over thc country havo seen fit. to put a stop to thc preaching of their outrageous out-rageous beliefs, Bocauso they were permitted per-mitted to go along for some time unmolested, un-molested, the anarchists of this country becamo emboldened in their frenzy, mid the outcome "was a shocking murder, and a further attompt to put into practice their murderous beliefs. Which goes to show that between uttered belief be-lief and practical demonstration but a short stop exists. We havo another example ex-ample of this hero in Utah. When tho manifesto was issued the men in presiding presid-ing authority over the Mormon church at that time were desirous that the pe'o-plo pe'o-plo should come to a strict: observance of thc law. The' therefore eommauded thc saints to abandon tho belief in and practice of noiyguntv told them Dlain- ly that the doctrine must not bo taught, j Under thoir regime the condition hero began to improve wondorfully aud thero was gratifying prospect that the lawlessness law-lessness had ceased. But a new dyna3ty placcd itself in power, and thoro was a return to the old teaching -.at first secretly, aud afterward more openly. After a few years along this course tho hicrarchs (being compelled to do so by thc incontrovertible showings mado by indignant Gcntilos aud independent inde-pendent Mormons) confessed that thoro had been a recrudescence of polygamy within tho church. Since that time still other instances of criminality havo developed, and have boon exposed. And thoso things have boon thc direct result re-sult of such teachings and professions of belief as wero omittod- by Elder Roberts; just as anarchistic crimes have followed the open expression of belief in auarchy "as an abstract principle." Tho cases arc parallel, and the remedies reme-dies to bo applied in tho one instance should be no nioro emphatic than iu thc othor. Both doctrines aro treasonable, in that they aro in opposition ' to law and order. Bolief in them will be followed fol-lowed by practice, just as surely in tho ono instanco as in tho othor. Events under both beliefs have proved this conclusion to be a true one. Now, if it is right to cry, "Down with anarchy!" it is also righteous to shout, "Down with polygamy!" And tho cry should come from every citizen in this Stato, and more emphatically from Mormons than from others, because be-cause their sacred word of honor is involved. |