Show rUE FOLLY lOLLY OF 01 Th The folly toll as all well aa as a wrong of ot trying Ito Ito to suppress supposed error by physical force torce to Innovations In ro ligion science or philosophy by liy blood or tray liny hInd of at personal violence hap hM been in hi the history of at the tho world worl both hoth ancient and modern This la Is fastening Itself on the tho minds of ot best hest thinkers of ot the tho ago nao and should ho upon all rational mal people Thero Is yet yot et much of the tho In tho makeUp of ot so civilized and often takes tho of when com eom I mo iy und practices uro vuo brought In III or ur disturbed by hy whether It Il bo too ap now or an old cult unit or custom revived The Tho thus thua occa occasioned are aro not only wrong per so but hut butt bey t usually defeat their own purpose Wo We uro somewhat surprised to see Kee In tho Troy Press Preen nf ot June 27 21 nn an editorial that convoys this thin lesson That piper Is III such Rueh nn an unfair and venomous anti Mormon publication that It Is in rather rathor It gives lveR place to III tho the ox ex expressions to which we refer We Wn copy the entire article M aH II follows Sixty years jears ago today Josoph Smith tin the of ot Mormonism and Ida his brother worn wern murdered l hy by y n a 1 ooh nob at nt III Ill They wore In Jail Jull and to characterize the tho Incident us as in III n damnable ragn would ho he to keep n well within the truth Joseph Willi los loss thun Chun forty years old aid 01 1 at lit tho time find In his last hours hairs during durin his nUH nus Incarceration ho he probably little dreamed that his would hocomo prosperous and amI powerful him IH In largo measure of ot fame or III fame Moro than sixteen hundred years ago cams camo to tho sa sago o conclusIon that tho the blood Mond of or the tho martyrs Is la tho the need of or tho the church h anti thorn theme hns heat beon nn an abundant verification of at his ment since 0 his hili time lime nt thorn was before b toro lt it who whit nook to destroy any re rn K political or social movement by hy killing Its Ill devotees are aro shortsighted ns nn 8 well veil ns nR Iniquitous for far nothing Is iN surer r tin Ito to Intensify the tho zeal and self of ofUs Its Us surviving followers It Is IR ns its futile and foolish as the tho effort to prevent preY mur milt murders ders derR by h capital i punishment Ignorant of ot tho rho principle that one ono wrong never nover rights another fly Ity murdering Smith the Insane enemies of ot Mormonism gave tint Immoral Institution In a II more dan dnn dangerous germis devilish lender than any an Smith that ever lived lId ono with great executive ability something no notoriously wanting In III the thA Smiths Smith No other event wan WM 1111 1 In III solidifying nail strengthening tho the Mormons to tho the dastardly double murder of ot sixty years yearn enra ngo Tho rho lesson le lIon conveyed In ht tho the foregoing Is 18 valuable thin tho language used exhibits tho the animus and lade lack of ot knowl know knowledge edge odo on tho the Mormon question com cout common mon mOil to that paper If U the tho public ut lit utterances utterances and published predictions of or ortho tho the Prophet Joseph Josoph Smith were taken Into account by h tho the Press iresa editor ho lie would probably have havo refrained from stating that the Prophet little litho dreamed that his Ids Church would become prosper prosperous ous powerful and give him a IL largo large measure of ot fame fu or III fame Jo sepia neph Smith announced nt at the tho very vory opening of ot his hili mission that the tho divine messenger who revealed tho the record of ot this thit continent told hint him that Ills hlll natty namu should bo ho known for tal good or evil among all nIt nations This rhia has hns been a H familiar saying among the Saints for more mom then seventy yours years yoa Tho magnitude of ot the work accomplished by Mormon inn Us its rower power and prosperity wore were foretold by b the Ito Prophet and It has haR not yet yot leached reached anything near the tho lucmo of ot Us its Influence e on 01 n the time that ho he predicted Ha ih of at tho the coming coining nf of the Saints to the tho thoi i Rocky Kooky Mountains they thoy should I become a II mighty people Ho lie depleted depicted ithe I tho growth and spread Pl of ot the Church hurch until It should gather to tn It people of lit lovery levery nation under heaven and nil all that tho thin prophets of ot old concerning thin the might glory of lit the tho Kingdom Ingham to which the tho King of ot kings should come coma comeI I AH AR to the tho grunt grant nun man who sued veiled him the tho Troy Press is in equally In tho the i Ink dak Young Yong was u IL I benefactor n a wise lender hander a n spiritual and profound teacher amid a 1 devoted 1 follower of tho the Prophet t whoso whose policy Polley executive principles mist and exam plo ho Avos over ever ginger to carry out The Press editor says these were no notoriously wanting In the Smiths which shows that ho le either cither does tIMS not lIot Know what he Is talking shout nh ut or Is III so dense denso Ily y that ho he must say IllY some something something thing evil even endeavoring to show up ull nn an Important truth Tho The martyrdom om of ot Jo ph and Smith did 1111 have hae tho the effect of ot solidify solidifying Ins ing and strengthening the Mormon though tho the cruel l deed Will van Intended In tI ell to scatter and dew destroy troy them the It will ho bo PO so with every elry scheme devised for their Injury nud the over overthrow overthrow overthrow throw of that which is in called Ier monism Its success succeed depends do PO upon no lie man luau Its Ile destruction cannot ho bo effected by h h human force or ur human cunning And AnA the history of ot tho the ages Og A will be ho repented In iii tho the pr present ent cen century century tury for tor every eer outrage Injustice I perpetrated against tho the Lotter t Saints will but the divine F work In which they are aro engaged and tL In confusion non and failure n upon L L their And the Truss may toko teko to itself Hult lh he r that tho rho MillO will follow tho ha made upon gout goal mom man and n a grand cause from fram sout source o or with whatever Vh to r for tor Truth Is 18 mighty and It shall |