Show ila BIT BY A NON MOEMON comparison between the pilgrim fathers and the mormon pioneers editor ENQUIRER I 1 read in some of the newspaper nes paper that harvard ia amazed suca a state meat leads people to inquire whai hag happened la not harvard an in that teaches toleration aag Sj methin mus have transpired in order that should halt and stand amazed pre bissat eliot 0 harvard visited utah a shore time sines and addressed a larg nadi enca in the Taber nacia at sik S ik lake city and in hia address evinced a spirit of toleration and good will thai every one interested in the prosperity and welfare of utah can undoubtedly indorse yet it is said that harvard ia abaz ed and the cause ia said to be because president eliot in the course of his address said As I 1 came over the plain I 1 thought of that eany journey when the lirt colonists colo across them under ali guidance of a chastain church aau his reminded me of another pilgrimage at rosa the water 1 refer to the pilgrim fathers aney too hardship for a they too waie fired with religious enthusiasm aid a id freedom also to worship god in planting a colony it is the women who have the hard part they biad faster than the men in massachi tt ha great successful colonies ot this corid are founded a religious ahus busm here you founded a colony abu you mient airship got according accor jing to the dictates ot your conscience hera in chii balley has rissa the question ol 01 religious liberty in massachusetts all churches ara equal babore the law why this liberty may not ba cajoled in all the 0 lad ried as well aa in lete us devos oursa hea to this liberty civil and religious for 0 every bort alii for the individual aldo it I 1 aoud do something to unite tha elements in this territory and brias ahm to seek religious liberty a it ia known in other parts of tha country it would oe to raa a great reward extract to amaral antono 13 to understand there aro a great many people in utah ciacera patriotic aso pla who assume the same position taken by president eliot too alo are no i cormons mormons and havo never asea connected with that church few dare to unwelcome truth without being backed by sect party anil nus be thus sustained before be fore facine afee responsibilities that will certainly follow ania ia essentially ol 01 one claa utah to acta k a class in the belief hut they are absolutely standing in the right and all others D the wrong or to defend the claga thus claimed to be in the wrong it quins considerable ciura a soul sublimed Kub limed by an idea above the region jf aad deceit a character resolutely facing it clearly alices and a penetrating vision into the spirit and heart of the objects assailed or de tended speaking to a mormon audia the mind would naturally revisit fie time when they first settled this country the reasons anat prompted them to com aud their present condition the mind oatlie buonau would as naturally re ver to mother mast the vil benm fathers the companion com too is the puritan fattier e had blaa bitterly per d in england of their rs liliona laith so much eo that they da term laed to cleaye T aey crossed ever to holland persecution followed them they determined to aeck peace to abek a place w hare they coald worship god au to the dictates of con science they embarked oa the liay awer they set sail for a bew a wild country where the sot of ha I 1 never trad there tasy would male a home they landed at plymouth rock they debit d the iund to the purpose ajr vanch trev came they own laws teem salves against the intrusions of the in diacos the parent airing them no assistance for years they wera lett entirely to their own resources thair buffering was preat but survived tha principles formulated iu the cabin of the mayflower were firmly implanted on plymouth rock au d comins down all through the years to tre present time their re joice that they live in a land where civil pal religious is guaranteed to all what of the mormon la there no similarity thay wera prosecuted be causa ol 01 their religious faith in mis oun they purchased lands of the eov filament and built homes tha governor of the state issued an order far their expulsion and their homes were destroyed somo twelve thousand asea arnen ani chil drej iu winter had to seek new homes aney moved to another stata they requested tha tha state to pro tet them he replied your cause is just but I 1 can d noth for you 1 e station folio fed them to their new homo A thirsty mob jeur dered their prophet the city they had built they ere compelled to cleaye chev their faces toward the wild uncivilized west Ls the pilgrim fo hara traversed the gibat stormy oc ai 60 they braat nn aay settling on the shores of tha great ike that was a vast undertaking the great was but ikels known they encountered hard chip but they ed aa a result of thair hardihood their trials and troubles wa see chafer and pleasant village and metropolitan citi can it be possible that thera arc pr nna eo olindah by bigotry and poeju i i e that they cannot or will not see a resemblance in the acts of both in the 7 it is as unfair to juaire tha mormon of today by tha mormon of thirty yeara aae as atia to I 1 hip of the puritan fathera br the acci of the puritan in their earlier days in ahn country all the cant about president alist only beuic n tha fact that some pert utah and out of utah davd aft 0 o leara tho leson 0 toleration ration of religious liberty it is tio much the mistake of many hopeful people 0 oar daiy diy to consider that or U AS lat eflem spring from aly may tl no authority ove 1 ih understanding if they happen to contradict certain and id n still graatz tt suppose th hese in and aaa fail yield to a tu n of opinions or u bombardment of word liberty emanis em auis that I 1 yield the right to on ta posies dueh ideas aa abay gee to him r and proper I 1 may dot adrae with him and too should I 1 be liace that his idoga ara absolu elv arons the doctrines ot the church with which I 1 am connected came over to jhb country in the cabin of the mayflower I 1 deny the right to anyone to question wy right to be connected with that church or to believe in its doctrines I 1 should resent it aa an intrusion th hauae measure I 1 demand of others I 1 am willing to give this lack of toleration in utah camusci considerable trouble and has been arf manifested when the t and social critic has taken ihn work of demolition and re cort na nl all tle to hie awn aaa r euch as his incer aico ui lalta ciu I 1 1 tl and tiers haan opportunity of tro melves his talk id fin and hu ies do him honor but nheu he conae a man when he comes to exhibit whist he ia aa well as what he thin lis it is too commonly found that of the role of so cached and ara enough to matts man gih lor their old bia and bonapart e I 1 ev to such men a president elot welcome tu men vho aho aie willing to let the dead past be buried oblivion and welcome to men who CAB kiy god to the people of utah in their efforts to caci aside all thoe tiling that in the pact have cawl strife and discord and who are to do that aich will baig harmony aud peace for the future peoro april |