Show MM explains his late reasoning HE MEANT wiry the mormon must truckle deal double evade deceive etc editor in a recent copy ot the enterprise published at payson I 1 notice an article quoted from your paper purporting to be a criticism of an interview furnished by meto me to the tribune correspondent at said interview being published in the salt lake tribune the ull I 1 was wholly unprepared for any such misunderstanding and misconstruction as your paper exhibits in regard to what I 1 consider as the meaning of my article I 1 fc t myself that it was more generous and considerate than is usual among miters who aim to treat the mormon question from the liberal standpoint and that was the impression made generally upon the minds of persons who read the piece as shown by letters ad dressed me in regard to it and by the testimony of individuals with whom I 1 have conversed probably the only passage that could be possibly misunderstood and misinterpreted is the one that yon have anim adverted upon and probably the only reason for your misstating my meaning was that the headlines head lines and aub heads were all in that way there occurred a separation of sentences and paragraphs that would give a different signification when united now in order to what I 1 consider the true conception of my meaning and to clear myself from what I 1 consider very unjust and unkind strictures made by your paper I 1 will ask you to reproduce several paragraphs that bear upon the one you quoted which is the last one appearing in this quotation 1 I would say at the outset that my observations and investigations of the mormon question and people impress me with the need of charity in judging them and that on the score of blameworthiness all orthodox seas should appropriate to themselves a portion of the censure that is poured out in vials upon the cormons mormons Mor mons the makeup make up of mormonism its peculiar education edn cation and discipline its many mishaps throughout its career all tends to put its into such a mental and moril attitude that an act which seems heinous and criminal to the citizens abroad to the intelligent observer here is often seen to be destitute of the essential quality of criminality the intent to transgress a sense of right oftentimes men are punished and justly punished too according to the general principles on which civilization is advancing yet the victims may have no consciousness of demerit such as is supposed to accompany transgression when law has attained no bicher stains in the minds of citizens than a merely arbitrary rolins without inherent rectitude obedience rises no higher than selfish prudence but if law is seen to he the embodiment of liht aud justice disobedience can not fail to arouse com iun of conscience to disobey prohibitory law in kansas to a portion of the po is a trivial matter for they fail to apprehend the righteousness and obligation of tho law and care ionly for the penalties attached to violation in like manner manar revenue laws fail to receive the moral approbation of a majority of the people and in all such cases punishment for violation is endured without sense of blameworthiness or demerit in utah many laws of the united states more particularly those relating to polygamy depend almost entirely for their observance upon their tive sanctions rather than their impress upon the minds and hearts of alie people as embodiments of right principles nevertheless the government can neither temporize or moralize law must be enforced and penalties must fall as the absolute sequence of violation and this must be done in order to the restraining power of penal execution of law but a haher and better end to the true stated is the effect of li the must abound in ment and disgrace so that a moral repugnance pug nance may bo generated and a moral sense created which in the end will constitute the true basis and sanction of law notwithstanding these higher ends of legal administration we should not fail to discriminate widely between a cocab case in utah where hereditary tendencies and religious tuition sanction the act and a similar transaction in the baet where custom and tradition make the case criminal crimin hl and abnormal the cocab i transgressor probably believes that a spiritual host in the heavenly world are seeking embodiment in the flesh and that these heavenly creatures are pressing longingly and prayerfully upon the gates of human life seeking admission and that he is him the line of an Abrahan fc righteousness in becoming an agency to open the doors of mortal existence to the wistful spirits his righteous faith or delusion or whatever it may be callad sanctions hiis conduct and so also does bis human love and he receives the approbation of his brethren in the kingdom so that he has only punishment to restrain him while his obedience if he does obey lacks the support of his moral sense and his moral sense and bis social and religious instincts aggressive gentiles complain of hollowness vacillation deception and double dealing everywhere among their political adversaries chow could it be otherwise when a fabric of law has been erected over the heads of the cormons mormons to which they have not yet grown up to which binds them arbitrarily but which is to thelby no means a law of liberty they must truckle deal double evade prevaricate deceive transgress and suffer until the ground work of law and government is created in the entire quotation teaches a lesson of charity and discrimination motive dis merit and criminality there is nothing that has reference to individual or social or business traits of mormon but the whole passage has reference to the influence and effect of law when it has not grown out of or obtained the moral sanction of whom it becomes obligatory I 1 eay the whole pas sage has reference tn the philosophy of the operations of law under certain specified conditions and haa no reference to individual traits ora characteristics sit means in respect to those who struck 0 and prevaricate and deal double that to them the law is net their own making not a jaw of liberty with them doing of what the law forbids beedis right to them in the of things r that they are only con strai nedo obedience by penalties it is to such hd public transactions that the laws referred and no part of paragraph refers to the social individual or business m at 9 note that grefer foi illustration to the prohibition laws of kansas where the pt rethal argument of the anti is that ahe of prohibitory lay makes all men to be H and deceivers bia is the universal invariable and T natural operation of law so ion i as law is arbitrary and has not the moral sanction of alie people governed I 1 dont say that the law should be repealed because it has this effect for the time being but J say that we should exercise chancy and discrimination in judging those who are under the law this beine my meaning and interest in this article ait icle yon will readily perceive that your strictures are wide of the mark and do me injustice I 1 am not in favor of any union of church and state and I 1 want the mormon church and all other churches to get out of politics but as to the mormon people 1 often write and speak of their industry thrift and kindliness and when J publish anything that I 1 conceive to be dictated in kindness and justice I 1 depreciate ais being perverted into an expression of slander upon many whom I 1 regard as friends respectfully CALVIN REASONER salt lake city Dec MINING NOTES centennial edreka is still on the rise with 42 bid and no sales the double compartment shaft on the toomas pulliam property is being sunk rapidly dividend no 7 of for december has been declared by the centenni al eureka there are many new arrivals and a number of them are negotiating for some of our gilt edge mining property cars and track will be put in the alabama tunnel one of of the group and work will be prosecuted all winter the keystone has shipped several cars of ora this week in fact this is getting to be the regular story for this property J H mccrystal McCry staI has let a contract to sink a shaft 50 feet on the general harrhan on the south slope of eureka hill the franklin and south eclipse extension belonging to john H mcchrystal were surveyed for patent this week by A barch an asaad of ore from the inez near silver city chos very flattering flatt erine results the property is owned by mcewan vest co of salt lake R E williams of butte owner of the iron blossom now bonded to J H me chrystal Chry atal and H hefner Is in camp grading is being done for a shaft house on this property frank bertas has purchased a fourth interest in the no 3 above the color do chief of port mehan for the latter has gone to drum to look after his mining interest there tone hopper sold the retribution this week to houston for 10 the purchase money is to be paid in two weeks and is secured by a forfeit the retribution lies west ot the colorado chief the ballion beck paid wednesday two hundred and dinty five men are now on the pay roll at this mine and the output is over tons per day the ty was closed down several days this week in order that some necessary repairs could be made john davis and partners leased and bonded their groby of claims the sacre mento pinyon side hill and Fraction i on the west slope of the keystone hil this week to driver of aspen the bond is for work is to be commenced in thirty days and continue during the life of bond one year arich strike in the golden chain close to mammoth is reported J C carloc has a lease and boul on the ground and will no doubt now that he has struck it rich take up the bond which is for and runs for 18 months the claim is owned by ed obrien dick rand dave phillips As this property ii on the great mammoth lead there is no doubt but that the recent strike will broye a great bonanza to the ever lucey kit A special on which were col T P murray A and S R marks holders of the bond on the solid mul deon judge miner and A JE hyde coma down from salt lake wednesday evening and the amount of the bond was paid over to capt Dep rezin the bullion beck had previously purchased the bond and are nov the owners of this valuable eronie it is not known that col murphy and his associate received for the bond but it must hav been a neat sum as the property pro penty wag coveted bv a number of rich companies chief |