Show STRANGE INDEED cue ot the strangest in american history is the effort of the general government to despoil the mormon church of its property never before since the dark ages has such a spectacle been witnessed as that which presents itself to alic people on this the ninth day of the eleventh of the of our lord 1887 with the coolness of expert bood lers of a great nation arc engaged in an effort in of the government which employs to rob a people of their freewill free will offerings to a cause judges on bench lend their aid to the foul work and so called ministers of the gospel look on and ariu undisguised feelings of pleasure at what they the prospective downfall 0 f a dangerous rival ia the religious end moral world where arc the brave men and true devoted to principles of justice and freedom that voices arc not raised with a tumultuous sound throughout alie civilized world against this great wrong at this very hour may be counted a numerous host of individuals professors in colleges ministers lawyers and doctors who have uttered sentiments of disapproval to alic punishment of the condemned anarchists but where arc lie voices against wholesale robbery and persecution of the people of these valleys on the buo ouo hand it is widely known from overt nets committed and from wild speeches made and recorded that among anarchists i an clement aliat loudly favors the destruction of life and properly a menace to safety and good on the oilier hand alic cormons mormons arc a people w ho arc known lobe zealously devoted to the arts of peace to the promulgation of religious principles to the building up of waste places establishing homes and cities adding to the wealth of alic country and the safety of society one cannot help but blush for alic men who arc swayed by popular sentiment will tout regard to its justness they arc the bane of society and responsible for many ot the wrongs in r flitting suffering humanity they bestow worse than curses upon their own age vt are not prepared to bilicic that they arc strong enough to carry through to culmination the work of despoliation that has rom minced in this age against lie unpopular cormons mormons Mor mons |