Show r j I U. U t f I t 1 I I t t-if t MIS MISSIONARY EFFORT J t H.- H. 9 I 4 I 4 I Y f We W sorry ito to of action r arc see hc he news new of an hiell oh certain I Mormon lormon missionaries have felt f obliged ed to begin in a United States court in inThe 0 Georgia ia The Thc complainants it seems pre preaching ching r in Pit the were taken out of bed and mer mercilessly l WJ by bV citizens of two to counties in in which they h d' d worked The M h evangelical people of the i Atlantic slope siope pay Id- Id i j zealous attention to the scheme to o convert t the Mormons Mormons who seem to be he regarded legard d on on the theother other t er o side ide of the Rocky Mountains l as hopeless h heathen if not worse As a result of this this' Christian eon con concept con concept many estimable missionaries a are s sent nt here to I establish missions throughout Utah i bin bin- iii Mormon mon people from the ways and doctrines tb they y 0 have bavE inherited from their fathers We e. e have not not the slightest objection to te that l I I I It seems to us however tl at the missionary right ought to be dual and mutual I If Methodism l 1 feels feels the holy fire so strongly that it must convert the Mormons in Utah tah what constitutional or legal egal l thin thing is in the way of the Mormons trying trying- tp p. p pro proselyte proselyte prose prose- e- e lyte th Methodists in Ohio Kentucky le Tennessee 01 or Georgia The Eastern answer r to this will wilI be he that the he evangelical propaganda is right and nd that of the Mormons Mormon's wrong But this is a matter which dO does s not concern an independent newspaper planted I to m make ke a square fight for a straight deal between i all aU elements of a community r We Ve regret to say that the fact is tl af Mormon missionaries no matter how well behaved are ares s sometimes maltreated in parts larts of the United States p as we know from recent occurrences in West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee and North Carolina The good people of all these sections pay money to the missionary societies to send evangelists out here would they like it if their missionary deacons and elders were treated as they the treat Mor l Mormons Mormons' mons' mons P They w would uld not like it At the first ink ink- j ling ling n of ot such sucha iii cha a a thing the power of the Fed Federal ral Gov- Gov f It 9 f 1 I 7 t. t I 3 l itt w I pt would be invoked in and a national issue 7 would be precipitated |