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Show - F TnrnSTO iireak it force. 4.5 iOT lT ,s 'ntnUDSt n'5" tlion- WJ vSi. lignant efforts that arobelog mule, ' ' aB through a prostltutsJ ue of the . ! F itlejraph -wfrei and of the jircss of i flB lbe untIT l bra. the force of ' J fj u, minlfoto wcent'y lsfurd by - Precldent Wocdrufl, -an J which tl-SB was 8U-UIned an J accepted by the - general Con'erenco of the Church fl; on Monday. One oj ,ibese cod" I IM temptlbto attempts appears fu the W5 Denve'.Aew, in the form of n dU- ! J ffi jotch dated at thU city. M H The attitude of our Denver co- I f temporary in relation to what lix j E been called "The Mormon' Quet- j C tion" ha. n a rule, been consistent ')S mndjurt. The perron wlio supplied '. j W tUadispatchlaToInthascDdeaYored jl ' 1 to mislead It, however, and rro'uljly B ; 3 sjxpecteil 'la rau it to chs-bge it PS y fr consistent attitude. Tiiere ia at H M preeent no evidence of his IisvIhc B - If rucceeded, as no comment on the H ' ' ' , dispatch appears In the Meter col- ' 1: nmns. - B ' , I The sender of the telegram f-'itt Bflj i ' what tool: place at the Conference Hfl ' j' when the manifesto was aloptetl HB J fe. fairly enough, but h appends a lot f J f" of anti-"Monnon" rubbish to it for the evident purpoo of destroying BB i tho effect of the document and the BJ I f action taken upon it by the giuiral HK i " assembly of the Churrh. He wa- BB ! afraid ca leave tlie matt, r to the dis- BB J f passionate judgment of the rcaden- BB fj lest they might get a proper under- BB f j standing of the nibjcii. The dis- BB J patcher thus comment. BB "The news that the conference had BB eodorsed the maaltesto against pslyz BE v amy spread rapMly thronghoat tlie BBj city, bat tt created no consternation BB I or earpne. In raci, it tearcely oe- BB cauoned any comment. The ani BBj Mormons rather expected such a BBJ more, and viewed it in tho light of BBj projected legislation and said it was Bpj only another trie!, of the Mormon BB Church to retain control of the Tern- BpJ tory." BBj The thin-brained deceiver who BpJ penned this could not see the con- BBj Hicf In his own fctatctnint. JuM BBj Imagine an inUdent spreading BBj "rapidly throughout the city" BBj causing "no comment." The very BBj fact that tlie news of tbc fact spread BBJ with such rapidity, proves the unl- BBj vers&i comment It created. As it BBj j completely swept away the anti BBJ ,' "ilormon" ho'jby tlie local active BBj politicians have been nding so long, I the censternatioa it carried amoug that ejus may ) more readily, imagined Uun described. This conternation is being- ex- BBJ biblted by such persons as BBK the fellow who sent tbi BBj decetlve dirnich to the Driver BBJ Sew, as they are in mortal ttrror BBV j lest the manifesto be taken for what BBfl it Is, acenuine vsnrr&lAn of t. ( attitude of tho "Jlurmon" Chuirli BBj) In reference to thelawsofthLlTulted BBj 'States forbidding plural marmot. BBj The "official declaration" wa BBl what Uio antl-' Mormoiib" de- BBJ manded, so long as the believe-j BBjt that the heal of the Church and the BBS Church Itself would not i-Mie anu BBj) adopt such a measure. The BBj moment It b done, however, thij HHj ctu actenze it as a subtLrfuge. ouch BB repodlatiou, without a scintilla ol BBlj j evidence to bac 5 it, is a lllalnou. BBB The only attempt at evj Jeuce of BBB fcred by the clijue to which thi dispa'cher belong is what he sae BBjff occurred Are years ago, when tin BBB Latter-day Saint, vji-mg their BBB SLntiiavntE in a mas meciiog, BBB formulated a tuition to lh- BW TresiJent of tbu Unile'd States BBS tetting foith their gritvance;- BB against the csnduct ot certalu BBB Federal ufllci-ils who hid gone BBB outside tlie la r in an anti- BBB " Mormon " crusade. In tiiat BBB document the lc' cf of the Latter- BBB diy Saints in the doctrine or plun! BBj marriage was honestly set forth BBB Tn. dj-Ura'.lon of t.iI!eT i stilt BBB fartUu- emplrasizcd by thedivatcb- BBj erby tlie following quotation he BBJ gives from tile repin of (he Utah HHH Commission to luc secretary of the BBB) Interior, furwarded alxut Uin same BBBj tinneas the (petition referred to. BBJ "This article of their falih is as BBJ rnnch an CMsn'iat and tib.tauual a BBBj. part of their creed as tl.eir belief in BBBJ baptism, repentance for tho forhe- BBBJ , nsas of alns, and the like. All o.tho- BBBB W. 'oz Mormons biivo polygamy to be BBBJ L right and that it is an essential part of BBB their creed " BkBBj Prom the use mule of these pro- BBBJ ceedings of the I ast it ould app-ar BBBJ that a class of political tricksters BBj and religious fanatics and bigots' BBBJ take the ground tha' the right of petition and et'should be denied BBJBJ to the ''Mormons," aud lint whtn BBBJ they t-xercise them they s!idjJ be BBBJ denoancedanj hounded and roblieil. BBBJ The supreme Court decisions, sub- BBG sequently rendertd, sustained the BBJ position of the petitioners iu rc&r- eaoe to the persecutire cgnJuct of BBJ certain federal offlcials, nhose ao BBBJ Uons the court of last resort over- BBBJ turned. ( BBBJ And further, if there Is any (iti- BBBJ zen'religioua 'or otherwise, within BBBJ thre United States who is to be do BBBJ prlved of his rights b:eane his BBBJ bzhef does not agree with, the belief BBBJ cf somebody ilr, It is time, that BBJ fact was unlerslooJ. We have BBJ always bad til- ioiprcsslen, backed BBBJ by eij'rea language wei by t'10 BBBJ Supreme Court of the nation, tlmt( BBBJ. the laws ouly deal with overt acts BBBB and not with behef, which Is with- BBBj out the talc of legislative action. BBBBJ The crowning absurdity is BBBBj reached by the fellow who sent the BBBBJ telegram to our Denver otemporat BBBB I when he cites past teaching and BBBB practices of tlie "Mormons? as t I. BBBBj dence that the manifesto is not what" BlHBBf it purports to Le. There Is no one BBBB that we kn w of that Is bitempting BBBBj to deny that the doctrine has In J the past Jcu a practical instltulija oftbc Church. Jf. it had not been, ppppj. it Is to be presumed by every sane BBBB ponon that tlie minUestod -Glaring BBBB Viepreeni position of tho Church BBBB on-the subject woald have been en- BBBBJ tlrely unnecessary. |