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Show TIIK "ILU'STItATKIl AMfcltlCAN." lis Anll.Mormoril.in I amlncl h; an Aintrlran Hall.nsllil. Tho llttutralal loirnWm ol January 21, IMH, Mrs of IU attack upon the Morm in or le that It "went Into UiM matUr with foil determination lu bring thu Mormon situation lefore the rutin try and to ruade Congresa, In pursii-ancaof pursii-ancaof Trrshlrnt Harrison's mewoge, thot prunipt action was necessary." 1 propose lo examine this and other taleinents of the afore lid paper. The Trcehleiil's nuwsage Is made the pnlcxt fur thacuurif thltpar In relation to the Latter-day Hslnts. The Treat lint's message was ghentothe country It) December, l(l Tho attack at-tack of the abuvo named aper began In Its Uue i4 Iirreml-rr IIHi, HO". That a pij rr tlioul I obtain a compute and reliable history nf Mormoiilsm, rocure holographs, maku llluslratlotis an I get the mstUr ujhoii the market lu so short atlmo Is highly Irnj robable, If not Imjomlhle. UI us look at the mlltor's "full da-termination da-termination to bring tha Mormon situation situ-ation liefore the country." If stioh n iletermlnatlou were honest and In the Interest of truth and Jutllca It would I a work of months Instead of days to bring It out. Tho ono-sl led, misleading nn 1 falsu statements of llio pas-r shows clearly enough that the editor was not seeking toiubl!h the truth. Ho as)s' "The Iicadera of the Mormon Church am lot men worthy or uur steel " Why, then, In preparing to lay the Mormon sltuall n la fore the country, dl. I he not call tiism them to statu tin Ir rase, to, try tin Ir "steel" with him? Hucli a coiirie would certainly hare lieeu of gnwl ttrrlce lo hint lu gillliigncorrect statement of the "Mormon situation Ufore the country." Instiad, tha editor has s1ni ly pllfrri-d from the an-tl-Muiuion liutkster-shop tha chnnuts that hare l-ren on the market for orrr thirty yiars. Hie editor should lisre written "steal" Insttalof "steel" In his reference to the Mormon leaders. riieunfniusof this lllustrato.1 paper Is not illlllciill of discovery. It Is Itself an Illustration of tho ixnuni ttituhgl-cum. ttituhgl-cum. hrom the atpiaranco of the Mormon faith It has been liatt-1 aud fought ami rrecutnl by tho evangelical evan-gelical sects Never a mob murdered aud drove Mormons that was not In stlgsttdtoact by so-called Christian mini. ten. If It was not even led by them. If this j Ictiirn nper were to put the Mormon situation I fore the country lu Its true llghllUpiibllcMlona onthesuljtit would be the most terrible ter-rible condemnation of the erangillcal setts that has ever api-earcd. The editor ot the .l-iivTrOiii appears to entertain a dvep symisithy for our wronged, rolltJ,dr!reii and murdered Iullaus. Ifhu were only to acquaint him. If w lilt the truth of the history of Hie Mormon su la he would find that they hare been treated In theMiuo way Hie Indiana hare lieeu, and In rt for thu sains reason; that Is, bo-causu bo-causu tin y haro alwaya beeu obliged lo boon the outskirts or whllo a-lrauce across the country and by Ihelrmag nlrlccut Industry lure ererywhere male themselves the isisaeiesira or valuable properties that havu excltcl Uia cut hilly of adrenlurira. Thu so-calletl Chrlstlau church has sished the bunler-rufllaii element against the Mormon tvople by Us denunciation of them as ' lulldels" and "beasts," Just aa It has encouraged the samo element against tha I n Hans by Ita cry or "sav-agta "sav-agta " Home of llio worst slaughters of Indians havo been urn Juiied hy al hged Christians, aa witness thu Hand Creek massscru under Colonel Chlv Ington. Vet since Ihoda-aof Tenn no tao la have l-wn so successrul In their ire anient of our Indians as have lieeu these aatuo mxllgued and i-urwutiUd Mormons. Hut, to return to tho main iiuestlou, the motive of tills editor may, 1 res-ut, bu found lu his sectarianism. Jits lata la-ta r Is an output of lhe"llble House, New Vork." J'.viry priarhcr, lolltl-clan lolltl-clan and adrenturer who has defamed the Mormons fur hair a itntnry has l-ren a lllbla man. Vet the Moruious stand tijsin the lllble us u rock of their faith. Ills not on record that they eeer Interfered with anyw-cton earth. I n the early years of their ro l-sgandlsm they oftea deUli-d with eraugellsts, Irut as they always vanquished van-quished their ouci!ts on strictly scrltural gruuius, debate waaabati-d waaabati-d jned and the mob was snUtltutwl for It.' It canuot be proreil tliat any mis sluuary sent against the Mormons was erer molested, an 1 yet Mormou mis slonarlea hare lieeu murdirod In al h-getl Chrlsllau communities I y pro fe-eed followers of ( hrltt. For ) ears tho Mormons liirltid tsirslng evangelists evange-lists to pleach lu their rabernaclu at Hilt I-oke Cllr, aud Hit re juirson .N e . man round a Waterloo In debate with Orson TrattoiilllbhipohjKaniy. Hlnce then ttar-ons hare not been tagir to i resell for tho Mormons. I f the lllble Isthe Infallible wont aud will of (Jod, Ihu Mormons nru right and thu evan ftllstiknow It. Heiita their optnsl Ion. This action or this "lllble House" pir Is therefore i robatily only an outliriakof eNangellcal fury thrown oil at the uniting ot it Congress lu which It had l-ren ptrhuw planned to make u struggle to iruciirusuch Itgls latlon as woul crush the Mormons aud I nit Utah Into tho bauds of their enemies. What aro the merits of the antl-Mor moj light? It has none. It Is such a lertoeutlou as Iitl to the massacre of the Moors uud Jews luHpaln, llio Huguenots Hu-guenots lu 1-ranie, What Is the "crluiu" or the Mormons? I heir In lor nutlon of thu lllble. Tiny are guilty of believing that do J Is not a theological acuuni but nreal, llrlng material person. Their opjoueuta as sert that llod has neither ' hotly, istrla or isualons," that Is, that ho Is at tho aatuo time an Almighty Uoit and a uuu-tutlty. Hie Mormons exiosisl the absurtltty uf such a concetlon and ralstdthe rtaudsrd ofartwl tlod, and fur this tin-aro damned b) the w or shliars of the Infnlte vacuum. Wi) hirouottlie oruugellcal sects callaj for a thorough luistlgatlou of the Mormon faith lu ajolotcoufervnce thatvioull Include the ablest luun of Isilhlldit? Are they afraid D meet "foviuau worthy of their steel"" Ihu men who aro fighting Morinoulsm knqw nothhu of It and are n luatetl only I y a tlealre to destroy what to tlltiu Is hen s) , Unablo to meet It Jill argument, tiny retort to abuse and fulHliuod juttas the ihunh fell uuiu riininas I'aluv w hen hu ubllshctl his "ALeof Iteoson," In this latest attai 1; ujsm tha Mormons Mor-mons thriugh this "lllble Housu" Icrtha attacking patties giro their nam and their case away In llielr nttenitt palm their work iiii the worl i aa ranlna from a Mormon. "Old Mormon" Is, of course, an Imiglnary i-suii. .Many persons hare alJed Ihilr lollloti to thelsil of falsehood out of which llio .Imcrlrat'a artlrlrs hsre benllshi-d ami formed. The editor esrusea himself lu on in guarded eon fiialoii that "we dl I not afttiUhat this entrnble nuniUr of the Mormon f'hurih waa still llrlng In Hill Iake Lit). What we OMcrtcd was that, os aconternjiorary of Jose; h Hmllh, he knew tho hlslory of the Mormon ( hurrh from Its Inception." lint tho llrit article i-il.ll.lird on tho sulject, slgnwl "(lid Mormon," a-erleil that the writer was In prison with Joserh Hmltli when ho was killed Now, thn tniorfoan siring Its blunter, altemtts to heuira by excusing Its "wiu Monnon" mjth ly "sylngi "If, lu thn course of a long narration, his memory has proved defective here nnd Iheie, hlsnsriss" Is to be found In his age. If 'DIJ Mormon" was ao ilcfecllvu In memory that he Imagined he had I ten lu llb-oll Willi JoMtl Smith when the litter was aolualed, what rellauro tan lie placed lloll his statement on other points? If ho Is to be excused from the chargn of lying on that point because of his age It Is l roier to set aside hla whole stilement as the glblierltli or an ol 1 child If he Is not that ho Is an old kluire, ti tiding tid-ing him to tw a real rrsoti Hut iloi a any atnei-erson suppose that If lliero were an) audi Individual luexliteucu the Mormon le could not name him at once? The) know who wa In prison with Jon hand Hyrutn rtnillli when they were killed an 1 they know whetlur thoeo men aro nor nllve. Those men am all dtad, every one, and they all died In the Mormon faith Hence, the atlimt to condemn tho Mormons out of the Hi of une of tin Ir own men I reaks down on the very threshold or Its career as alungllng lie, and tin n fore tha wholonorkls condemued by llio ovilmurof lta ro meters. There aro eurvrat Mormons In Utah over ninety, but there Is tics Mormon In the world "eighty llvo," or any other age, who would a rllo the 1,icr lain article signed "01.1 Mormon " A n "apostato" might an write, for at a class they aro Litter against the church from with li they fell and cau mlsrefre eentatdifllynslf they lial novtrleft lite evangelical churrliee from wlihh tin y went lo J ln the Mormou diurih. Hut the Mormon church knows Its apottati-eand H Old Mormon" were ereuanasvtate It coull jiame him. That 11 cannot Is prool tint no such eraoii exists. or theee rrasona I arrr that the attack of thu llliutnttat American Amer-ican tisin thu Jlormoii tnplu Is con ilcmncil by Ha own language. 1 ustead of l-tlng nctuatetl by a ' fulldstirmln atlon to brlDg the Mormon situation lieforothe cuinitry." Its uritoso crl dently Is to take adrolagonf the ant! Mormon irrjudlm lo stll Itwir and make money. The paper Is further fur-ther condemncl by lis mlt-rrprrsentatlona mlt-rrprrsentatlona as to the recent report of llio Utah Commission. The i-lllor shows hla lack of Information iiou thu subject by sayluir that whin the n port of the Commission makes Ita appearanco'Mt will show a different statu of things That Is, "It will show" that polygamy hat not been abandonid by the Mormons. It Is only necessary to say that that ritort has la-en out for months; that Is, Its statement state-ment In reference to polygamy was sent from Halt l.ae by lie agent ot the AmocIiIciI Tress and published all orer the country inoulha agu and tho hport llttir does not differ from that ill.l-.tch. Now what were the facts? Thn report state Hut It Is iVuic.i that there liarn Ls-s-n forty-ono cosca of polygamy In Utah lu the past ) tar. They uld not say there were forty-one forty-one cases, or that they had discovered 41 cases, but It was eui jcd there wrru 41 rases. When It Is conildtrtil that audi a slatouit nt would l-a used to the Injury of the Mormon people, the aitlou of the Utah Commission lu firing It to Uio rest Isvomea malero-.nt. malero-.nt. At long ago aa July, 19)9, Colonel Colo-nel (lodfrcy, chairman of this Cmli Commission, state. In a private ion verratlon that polygamy w as dead lu CUh. Ho adiledi "We do not rare a damn for pol) enmy; we must (lotm Me .Vurmou 7'cojo.f" If Mr. Uodfrty wants the pmof he ran have It. Tho Jliuttratat Amttlcwt further condemns Itself and lu causo by at lemitlngto force Ihlef JuUce sue, of Utah, lutolhera-eonlU own side. It Intimates tint Julge Kane has no faith, or not much, that nlygimy hoa ten abandoned. The facta are that Judge site expreasvd his opinion very soon after the aitlou of tho Mormon Mor-mon Church on Tresldent Wood-rulPa Wood-rulPa "Manifesto" In OUuhcr last. A foreigner an lied to Judge ..ane'a court for uaturalliatlon. Auiongolher jlluitloiis the Judge asked theapi Meant If be was a member tf tho Mormon Church, and pronwletl to t lain that he took thu action of Ihu Mormon Church upon llio question of isilygam-lomarila,io isilygam-lomarila,io as having lieon made In good filth and Im should not loustder membershlu In that Church a lar to natural Izatlou. Theooursuof tho lUut'rateil Ameri can It bauit upon thu assumption that tho Mormons must bu Ui. Ilevtul guilty until they rove them-selret them-selret InnoceLt, and then It proceeds lolecturu the Jury tho sibllo lii or. iIit to rrjudlcelt agalnsithe Moruious and thus reveig them from having an opiortuulty to prove their Iniioconco. This Is the cfl proceiu or trying wltclus. llln lutein and throw thoiu4 Into thou n. If they drown they are Innocent, but If they are likely to aavu their lives, LIU them! Huiti inrllio.lt 4snim1 curreut 1 1 tho dark detpotUrut aul the thiol-glial tyrannies of the l-ist, I ut w hat aiust houmt men attd women say of litem under a gurern inenttliat professtt to hold freedom of CO nschiic sacred and Inalienable,' The 7furufro!t)irrfcari refers lo an article ublMii-.l In the Chicago 7V!oim!0 yeurs ai;o at tiavlug uerer bt-eii nfiited It la enough Uiaay lu auswtr that that artlcli was written by a man who ItmUen for ) tare a maniac on Moruioiilsni nad whose word will not be taken today on the Utah situation as reliable, b) either Mormon or untt-Morinou, untt-Morinou, wluro ho Is known, In conclusion I say, and my sUto munt It based iisin coriful ohserrn tlons running through marly a two years n si lencu In Utah ami tsmtl kr able traveling; through the Terrltor), that thrru Is not a more law abiding peo le on the continent than tho Mormons Mor-mons Theie Is no inoro rtason for this strife In Utah than them Is for a similar strife la New ork Ktsto Iw. tv, rtn the htattgellcal aud Calhullu sects, nn J I nialulalu that as longos tho government nrotuU all teeU In Neil utk ItshouljrurtheKaiiienason protcttho Morinoiislii Utah, If.on thu utlrer haul, tha govirmnent must cruihthu Morn.on., It about I, for tho same reasons, rruth and annihilate all other m u, 1 f the Mormons are guilt) , o tiUH) are all other tuts. If the lllble Is the word ami will of Cod the Korernment thuul.l Kotect allsecU In their right lo worship accorJIng to Hit Ir own ronsrleiitleiia uiidrrtlaiullng ofthalwlll. ir the Jill le ll wrung, then let thecorenimenl crush, not the rlttlmsoftheilltile, butlhc lllble. If tho lllble Is wrong, let the gorernment taknnillon.lmmt-llalenndditirmliircl, ag-iliistdotl and still I rutrct the people. If government will rot ilo this, then let It fnrevir reaso to pandir to the hatnd of tho evangelical sects In Hit Ir Insane an 1 Inhuman desire to "down the Mormou people " This, and nothing Ins than this, will be American Ameri-can ami the i-xt ration of Ihu spirit of Aruwlcau I air Tlay. CitAittrj I.t I is. |
