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Show An-"iI0nH0 BEAbOMSG.I). "Tutnt arc men in this city who belong to Christian chnrchCT. Tlifly aro devout religionist. Tho TCEWs certainly would not favor admitting them Into a priesthood meeting, oV the ground that they wore ChYlslin7 that they believed In redemption through the bailor, that thslr lncs wcro abovo reproach and had been for years. Tho Nnw would answer: 'Very well, but you do not believe in oar -TrophcL You could, coljsiii-. scientionsly tako trra obligations thst a Mormon has to take to belong to our invito Ion, and hence yon hae no right to a oico In it coV.ro' ' In the same wny Americans-ay thafwhitr Mormons aro good men, whilo their lives aro'huneit lh es, while there is complaint aga'iut tbcm as peaceable citizen, thero i no hardship in den -ing them a part In the government of ihis country becane Obey are not of it" V The foregmg- mess of sophisto and nonsense is taken from the oubj paper which makes this kind of pabulum a staple. The notion it contains has been T;reseu'ed again and again yet is almost too .vcaktto bear the breath ot o pasting notice. Certainly the DcseBET New s would not favor admitting to a priesthood meeting members of tho varijus Christian churches because they were Chri-lUn". But the objection would not be on the ground that thiy had not taken certain "obligations." "obliga-tions." A priesthood meeting would be composed of penono hold ing the Priesthood. Persons not of that cbs would not be ndmittcii, and uuiess they w ere w ithout com mun nse or comuiou propriety, they would cot tk to be admitted. A Mormon' would not expect to intrude into a conclave of Catholic, KpIco-ahan, Preliter-ian, Preliter-ian, Methodist or other seetarUn ministers, uo matter wliat pteition he might hold in -his own Church A church meeting of auj denomination denomi-nation not opeu to the gcutnt pub-Pc, pub-Pc, woall I exclusiic o all but church members. Thequutiuu of thiir Christian character or irnp-oachabie lives woul I not enter into the matter at all.. Then is no reason why tlie "Jtoraimi" Church should forri an exception to this universal rule. But whit has tills to do with the denial of the franchi'-u to ''good men" tif "honest lives," agiinst whom there is "no complaint'' as "Iicaccablo citizens," simply be-cau'o be-cau'o they belong to the "Mormon'' Church"" Whit relation has one cf these propositions to tlreothct? Tin re mai be fanatics in tho "Mormon" Church. There aie some in all churches. But there is no fanatic anywhere who is equal to thev; antI-"Morraon" bigot. Tftclr hatred of everything "Mormon" "Mor-mon" not on'3 makes them savage aud untruthful but idiotic ind nonsensical. non-sensical. Beiau-ca Catholic or MetbcdUt of good character and devout faith I would not be admitted to a "Mor-niou"' "Mor-niou"' Prics'hood meeting, therefore n "Mormon" of honest Ills, a gool man aud a peaceable citizen, ought not to eercio tho tleetivu fran-clii'eand fran-clii'eand thire is "no liard-hip In denying" it to him. Tiiat is Tnf. use Iogii It has btnm reiteralod for some j cars as profound reason ng ani acute arguujint' If no belter excuse than this en u beofllred for the infatn coutein-plateil coutein-plateil iu the bills which the "Lib erals" of this Territory hive framed and fos'ered and now urge on their passage, they ought to be gathcreu In bundles and burned, and the'r a-lie-f east Into the nearest cesspool , Give the wri'er of such mbbl''i some bromide, tie a wet cloth around his brow and put him to bed or send him to Provo" |