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Show THE IMPUDENT FALSIFIERS. There is really no antipathy between tho common citizens of tho different parties par-ties and churches. Socially. Latter-day Saints and members of other churchca mlnglo together without friction. Tho trouble is not with tho people, but with tho ngltotor who tlnd profit In agitation. agi-tation. Deseret News editorial, September Septem-ber -1, 11)08. At this session President Lyman spoke. Ho directed a few of his remarks to the marrlago question nnd advised all tho young people to get, married and havo tho ceremony performed In tho temple tem-ple at Salt Lake, when possible, otherwise other-wise by tho president of tho stako or by the bishop. Report of tho Uintah stako conference, August, 1008, as published In the Vernal Express. Ho would not soil his property to an outsider if he was offered a thousand times Its value A man Is a traitor In his hoart to God who will barter his inheritance inheri-tance In Zlon to an enemy. Tho curse of God will rest upon thoso who do tills. Ho would stand by It In time and eternity. Rfport of sermon by Joseph F. Smith In Salt Lako tabernacle. July 10. 1SS1; Deseret Nows, July 11, 1SS1. To como out from tho world under convictions con-victions that its Institutions, spirit nnd tendencies arc wrong ami contrary to tho order of heaven, and then place our tender ten-der children, with mliulR unformed or Immature, under thoso very Influences, appears to ua plain evidence cither of groat blindness or deop hypocrisy. Deseret Des-eret News editorial, April S, 1SS1. When the Deseret News printed in its oditorial columns the matter first quoted above, it wns simply malting a statement state-ment for mihddo consumption, under tho perfect knowlcdgo that no such condition con-dition as it describes could ever exist in Utnh if it could havo its own way, nnd that there would bo a complelo segregation seg-regation of tho people if tho teachings of its polygamous masters were followed. fol-lowed. Let a 3'oung Mormon bo known to attend at-tend religious services of an- other denomination, de-nomination, and what is tho result? Ho is called upon at his home by (ho block teachers, who are sent out by tho ward bishop to whip the young and old into line. They tell this young man that ho has taken a courso which can not help lending him into apostnsj'. (Thej speak tho truth in this rospect, for the hierarchical hierar-chical teaching and "practice, when intelligently in-telligently dealt with by oppononts, cut a sorry figure in tho realm of reason.) Tho youih is told that apostasy means eternal damnation, tho loss of friends and associates, degradation in the sight of tho wholo people, poverty and disgrace dis-grace beforo all men. Ho is informed' that, even if his chnngo of view should como by what ho would imagine tobc tho holiest dictates of his own conscience, con-science, he will bo in error and The black curse of God will rest upon him throughout the remainder of his life. Politically, the youth of Zion are taught by thoir . ccclesiasts that thej' should vote for "friends," and not for "enemies." An3 3'oung Mormon knows what that means, because tho announcement announce-ment is made to him continually that tho Gentiles are "enemies of the kingdom king-dom of God." .Logically ho must assume as-sume that the only "friends" he has are Mormons. Joseph F. Sniilh, in 100G, printed a signed article in tho official church paper of tho Mormou associations associa-tions of- young men and women, setting set-ting out this ver3' teaching, and supplementing sup-plementing his suggestion as to who wore tho "enemies" of his pcoplo b3 describing Gentiles as "assassins of virtue, vir-tue, tho supporters of vice and riot and lewd women, gambling, robbing and general corruption." Socially, the 3'ouug meu and women of tho church, together with tho littlo children, arc expressl3' urged to make associations only among their own pco- i pic; to avoid the compan' of Gentiles and to shun Gentile places of amusement. amuse-ment. In practical proccduro under that J teaching, the wurds of this city-, Ogden, Provo aud Logan where thero is more inducement to 3'oung people to attend ) Gentile places of recreation than in the smaller towns havo built ward amusement amuse-ment halls. Ward amusement committees, commit-tees, dpornthig under the direction of the stake amusement committees, have j been appointed to take charge of rec- J real ion for the 3-onng. These committees commit-tees are engaged in the special duty- of preventing Mormon young pcoplo from associating with Gentile 3-oung folk in this respect. They appeal to the youth under the urging that thoy should patronize ward amusements, because tho ward is under considerable expense to furnish them. In evciy conceivnblo manner there is a novcr-ending effort to keep Mormon and non-Mormon y-oung people apart. President Lj-man has voiced tho church teaching with refcrenco to marriage. mar-riage. How would a Geutilo marry a Mormon if tho ceremony' is to bo performed per-formed in the templo? No one can enter there Except a member of the church in good standing, possessing a recommend from the bishop of the ward in which he or she lives. Docs that not constitute an otVcctivo bar against intermingling in-termingling in the marriago relation, no matter how great tho affection would bo which might spring up between two young people of different religious beliefs? be-liefs? . ir.imo and .again tho. preachers have warned the, young pcoplo of the church not to marr3' outside of tho i church. That teaching has gone forth J through tho histor3' of Utah, and k I is ccnsolossly promulgated at the prcs- 1 ent. time. j As to business, it is but necessary to call attention to tho utterances of Jo- scph F. Smith in relation to dealing i with Gentiles, and to nolo the faot that tho church hns established all oorts of business and finnncial concerns to absorb ab-sorb tho patronage of tho saints to itself, it-self, nnd to rcsorvc it from the Gentiles. Gen-tiles. As to tho Doscrct Nows falsehood of toda3', it is only proper to refer tho reader to its arliclo of JSSJ , from which wo quote. That covers tho wholo matter mat-ter and goes to show how perverted and false a church 1 organ nnry be. Tho "agitators who find profit in agitation" nro the Nows and tho Mormon hiorarchs; tho profits reaching as high as two million dollars a year without a dollar of investment by these high priests, and without a cent of return to tho people. |
