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Show NO "III.IGHT' ABOUT IT. The Xew Vork Mail and JZrpreu, the editor of which is a religious fanatic,, commenting upon the furore whicii some excite,! people are trving to rale over Uie "Mor-TuonJ'.colopy. "Mor-TuonJ'.colopy. m "panada, says: "MurmonVrii Irtights -whatever It touches." Xow, does the pious Jfatf and Xrprcti man reallr ln-llnr. mw If so, he mu.t be too densely Ignorant Igno-rant of Uie history of the Umes to figure as a public Journalist. It is well known that wherever "Mor-monism "Mor-monism ha held sway. If for ever so brief a period, Improvement, development, progress have marked Its presence. In Missouri, in Illinois, Illi-nois, in Utah, Its influence, has been to build up, to cause Uie wilderness and Uie solitary place to be glad, the desert to blossom like the rose, and quickened nature to rejoice and praise the Great Creator while It yields its treasures unto man. "WhatLss "Jlormcnisra" blight ed? What has If nt vltn...i -- . -s.,iicu anu made to bud and teem with beautv Uiat it Is hasjtouclied with Its mig-neUc mig-neUc hand? It awakens faith it quickens energy, it promoU3 'jn. dustry, union, lrs!stence and brotheihood. It utIUres, beauUfles, adorns and glorifies whatever it enters and controls. It Is a living force which various powers have tried to blight but could not. And it has ouUIved and will triumph over every element and person that seeks its destrucUon. The editor or Uie irotf and Iht. tret, couldnt tell for the life of hfm what "Mormonlsni" Is. He is wildly shrieking against a figment of his own ImaginaUon, running a "It against a windmill of his own disordered and sectarian mind. If bo would heed Uie Bible texts with which he heads his columns while Uie body of Uie paper Is a standing contradiction to those scriptural precepts, he would hear a matter before he decides It, he would examine ex-amine both sides of Uie "Mormon" mon controversy before be condemns con-demns "Mormonlsm," and be would exercise a little more charity and Christian truth. And before he says more about blighting, be should at least learn from current events what "Mormonlsm" has done towards tho growth, progress and grandeur of the nation, and the opening up and development of the once unknown vales of the itocky Mountains. |