| Show VCR FOIL A few tow days clays ago we mentioned In these columns column the tha commotion caused in IlI certain religious circles In ln Paterson X N J 3 by luP 1110 tho presence In that city of ot a aI I couple of Ot Mormon boys boy The Tho Paterson I News which seems to be bo a IL fair and broadminded paper ably edited re ro reminds minds tho the good people pl plo of af f Patterson I that the Mormons in Utah r I close cloo their houses hOUF of ot against I minister minis lei of other denominations nor create any disturbances at the meet meetIngs meetings Ings of ot other sects and suggests that this example of ot tolerance be bo followed followell Our IOn contemporary says sas Thorp are arc some seine people In city who are greatly worked up because a couple of ot if Mormon elders ciders who seem to Tw 1 very cry Inoffensive chaps have havo como come cometo to 10 this city to 10 preach their peculiar doctrines The News does not take cloy any nn stock In but It thinks this Is a it I tree fro country antI and thIS tha Constitution grants freedom treed om of belief bel t to tn II everybody and prohibits prohibit favoring an 1111 religion that It is a no waste of breath because theo Mormons havo come cOllie to the benighted East Kast to 10 preach their doctrine Out In Utah whore tho ho Mormons are aro In a n majority tho the Gentiles Gentile as lIS g Mormons term em havo sent their thell missionaries of at all nil denominations to preach to the tho th Mor Mormons rituAl mons and ami turn them from the tho error of at their ways Tho The Mormons lot let them thorn preach anti and oven even open their churches to I them Nobody ever hears hoots nowadays of ot the disturbing the tho preachers of other othor sects sect rio these the Mor Mormons Mormons mons seat should bould bo be b followed el by hy us Let them all they thoy like Its a II tree free country anti and nobody Is compelled to tn attend their preaching or to believe In their doctrines Their peculiar doe doc trine trifle of u a plurality of ot wives hue has been boen knocked out by the tho lawn passed by Congress i The Smoot Investigation 11 proved prod that tho the practice has been l Jon abandoned These elders eldom now not no In iii Paterson deny den that tho Mor Mormon Mormon mon men Church believes In or practices it They certainly do not liot preach It Wo We e believe If it th op of ot Mormonism refrain from advertising tho the subject It 11 will rill III bo ho a 0 ten days wonder and be forgotten Hut Dut If irn ICCIL Ire are persecuted lr 1 there thero is ts taut tain to be 00 sympathy f felt lt for thorn thom Tho The average American always takes tho the Ide Ida of lit tho under dog anti and many will wilt be bo attracted to their meetings who other otherwise wise Would never noor think of ot going to 10 them thom TIM Tir advice of our contemporary Is tu sound ai n that of ot Gamaliel of ot old Its Iti contention that the tho Smoot Investigation ion tion proved that the practice of ot hu been boon Abandoned by hm b tho time Church IH l I There I is therefore ab absolutely I no excuse o now for persecution whatever basis there tony may have boon been for or It formerly And this Is as true rue In Utah as ns In itt Now Nw Jersey |
