| Show A GREAT JOURNAL IN ERROR the new york world la an interesting and paper cou with remarkable ability and edited with a degree of learning that lias commanded great respect but it lamentable on the utah question it is filled with alic ideas advanced by tho clique ot auti mormon politicians of utah its treatment 0 the statehood move 9 evidence of this fact to believe that an honest gentile would have to lacavo here upon the admission of utah into tho union of stales is folly on the contrary intelligent men de eirin to capital would und better inducements with utah a state than exist now the condition would be more and consequently there would be better security for capital even new with fair prospects of statehood there has entered upon the territory a more prosperous era gentiles jews and mor share in it it is not onfre for papers to contain notices of individuals who arc looking up the opportunities for investment with utah a stale nian who have looked tor their political salvation in the passage of un laws placing in bondage the majority ol 01 alie people would seek for that salvation in increased population and in harmony with american government they would seek to induce capital to come here and establish industries develop the vast resources and employ labor As democrats do in republican nebraska or as republicans do in democratic states those not of the majority party in alio new state would seek to increase the numbers own political faith in various ways considered legitimate in this country the world is far wrong ben it slates the mormon organization is essentially un american it is decidedly american in the true sense of the word it embodies principles largely democratic in Us govern il is only necessary for the world editor to attend one of the general conferences of the church to be convinced of this truth the perfect system of the organization is worthy the study of alic best minds in the world it is so broadly laid and so cona on a plan that has no paro leil on earth aliat it es beautifully the glorious principles of free government established by the patriots it is a religious development that properly had a growth on this american soil where liberty of conscience has so distinguished itself it is wrong again when it says it imposes treasonable oaths upon its members and renders alic forms 0 popular government n farce it is controlled by a priesthood whose teachings at home and first lessons to the emigrant convert aru hostility to the united slates this kind of trash is more fitting the exponent of alic radical anti mormon clement of utah than it is such a paper as the world any well informed person on mormon history knows thai there is no reasonable ground for aliese charges they are not true alic weakness of the opposition to utah 1 slate is shown in the use of such unreliable statements the people of aliis territory have in various ways demonstrated their love for the principles embraced in the con eli ulion of alic united stales they nhan receiving cruel treatment have shown a love for the union which is proving loyalty to to be above question |
