Show NEWS FROM THE JAPANESE MISSION Elder Grants Letter Lottor to tho Newspaper Tokyo THE IBE ME of b Volvo oto of lull hal Iho ho l 1 h hlll ol or There Thore have been a II number of ot rumor rumo afloat an un alleged movement to prevent tho Ihl hO IMen iker laboring lit Ja In Japan Inpan pan from promulgating tho thu principles of ot In that country rim Tho following lottor IcHor from J 3 Grant irant to the tho editor of ot JIJI a II l In lu Tokyo In III 10 to n fl mom from tho Women Wallie II H II toi o light on oi tim whole mat mit matter mattor tor ter Tim Tho ho memorial has not reached 2 us u but 11 lit lilt Ita purport may bi bo readily understood leading IIiI which wo hom holu iu ie produce uco In till full Tokyo Japan Oct 22 1001 10 To tho the ot of the tho JIJI your paper having iutin published tho the memorial to tu the Iho minister of or homo affairs s and to 10 the governor ot of gawa made mullo jointly by hy tho Iho Julian antI and Tokyo societies 1111 ln Inn that the to Mormons ho the tim privilege of ot preaching In this land I will viiI thank you to 10 publish my ny reply L I from foin the tho Kobo which says ty after publishing tim the mem memorial orial It qt would ho bo Interesting to know 1110 0 who Wh are nl a the lie mil ret authors of ot tho the but hut we wo think wo so shall Rhall not flat bo be far rill iong in III crediting the tho to tho tim nib who are ao naturally not t ious to fleo ivo tho t of ot a ft t Tho Tim voice oto is 18 s that p of ot Jacob but Ut the tue hand Is IH I that or ot K au auMen Mon MOil cannot successfully their face fon or oi their th lr hand wilting It Il Is hi plain for tor alt all tu tl see ee that tho the furnished and load loatI loaded ed ell the ho gun tun for tim the ladles of ot Japan to Hio 1110 nt at tim tho A wayfaring roan man though a n fool need neol not err rr Thoro Is I no nail BO so worthy of ot tim tho contempt of or decent people as t the tho anonymous letter Jelter writer and un a tt man mall Is Iii Isn n ft full brother If tf not the tile father of or n tho the k cowardly anonymous writer who gets StR eti ladles to father a 1 production which ho Is IH to own Oln I have supreme contempt for cor or tho the character 1011 particularly larl for tor one who iio Is 1 too t do hll hIN own dirty work anti an therefore gets ladles whom ho he knows knoy gentlemen will nil not attack to do O It for him Tho In ladles ladies 1111 8 have hn Vo been deceived Into that thai a n man named Grant Giant has hns Iia como collie propagate In 1 this thiM country a 1 religion named d Mere Hero wo so nee Hee He plainly tim tho th listed hand of Ht Ksau Mor monism Is la ii no moro more tho name of at our religion l th n l hi the name nain of ot tho Japanese people Our Church Is III I tho tim Church of or o ChrIst of ot ny taints pod tho the father and fl Ills His Son Jesus Christ Ghrist have again the thu earth erti talked with men man and nM nn the tho Church of or Christ has again boon bon es eR by IJ tho the visitation of or angels under tho thio ot of our Savior Fow Fo will refrain from from smiling to think that the tho ladles of or Japan would bo h discussing a n religion an a n heretical creed once mora more we eo tho thu hand hanti of at Esau Who but Chrition ministers would ho guilty of ot such Huch a n comment Theio Is religious freedom tre In Japan and therefore tho the charge of ot having a n heretical cr creed od needs no an nn as no In Japan Jain nil all Christians aro no without looked upon ns ne cal col by n it majority of ot tho the people As to 10 our OUI religion being detrimental to public 1 morallY morality and 1 the order ot of so society o 1 clety tho the author of 01 the tho memorial knows when ho he Mates tate this that tutt ho hols Is asking tho the Indies to sign a t ns na the public of ot Japan are aro not that the statement lo I will give gle tho the necessary to brand It a n nV such V Wider l Miles Orant the tho and editor of ot tho the Worlds Crisis says ayS Attar After n 1 careful observation tot for soma somo days we came caine to the tho conclusion that there Js Ja J less licentiousness In Salt Suit V Lake City than In any nn other 01 her ono one of ot the tho name lamo size In the United States and 1101 wo Yoto to bring brinE up Ui a I 1 filmily family of ot it children In these last lust days aya of or wickedness wo we should have less fears of at their moral morn I corruption were they In that city than In any other Swearing drinking rambling gambling Idleness and licentiousness have havo made but little headway there when compared compare with other places lIace of at Doua equal size IZ General Thomas L Kane Ine of at Pennsyl sayas ny I have havo given you OU In Int terms terina t tho the opinion my tour four yearn year ex ox haa lino enabled mo me to form torm of ot the tho Mormons preferring to force you Ol to deduce It for Cor yourselves oU selves from rain tho the facts lint Hut I will add that thai I have havo not heard a n made against them us lIS asit usa a it community against their habitual purity of ot life ICe their willing Integrity their heir toleration of 01 religious differences Df of opinion their regard for tor the tho laws h ws their devotion to the tho constitutional ROV gov under which we WI live that I do donot doot doriot V riot not ot from my own observation or upon the hu testimony of ot others know to bo be un on unfounded rounded founded Shall bo be pleased to furnish additional testimony It If desired Having answered the Introduction to 10 the four to r C In tho the memorial I will how take up uli the tho reasons themselves Tho The first charge Is that we wo are polygamy und nod Intimates that we wo will violate the tho code that a IL man Is not flat notto notto flatto to take toko n a second wife wire who already has hils Doe no Time and time again In the public publio prints and In Interviews and conversa conversations lion Ions I have stated that a 11 man cannot C today get a 1 plural wife In our Church And nd as aH our Church now refuses to allow men en to take plural wives tubA this charge falls rahl to the ground It any man In Japan apan becomes n a Mormon hoping to tot togI gI t a n plural wife he ho will bo IJo doomed to disappointment The author of ot the tho ladles Ladies memorial Is III Ignorant In addition j to 10 lacking honesty There Is IA no law of at 4 the Ihl United ll States Slates against polygamy that can con apply to tho the Mormons and they cannot are not violating any nn law of ot tho the United States Charge second cond speaks of the tho different officers of the tho Church Why the tho author of lr the th ladles ladies memorial should think the tho Japanese o officials care caie en an Off to tM number anti and kind hind of or officers ome rs In the of or Christ of nf rIIA faints I cannot understand I T quote the Ihl sixth article of ot our faith We bo be h behove hove In the tho same Mill organization that ex ox In tho the primitive Church namely mely 1 apostles prophets pastors astor teachers etc If It Hans do 10 not have hn Jn ln their organization these which th ft learn belong to the Church of ot Christ they should attack attach the tho Bible DIble and not the Ihl Mormons WP We Vp believe In n a practical religion Jr In doIng good to nil all men materially a aM aK ivell 11 ns OR praying and singing for tor them Our huTCh aids Mil anti frontier communities anti nn lakes nell an nn Interest In enter enterprises arises for tor the Ihl wl of 01 the people there therefore fore loti ot e of ot t necessity n the tho head liend of or the Church Is 19 J an Influential man mon In our Jur community V But M does not claim tho the right to 10 dIet die dictate tate matters In lit addition he hew hei h w i reverenced and med a ita III a Ii c of or tIm tiro truo and living Clod The rho of or to 10 tho tim United States which It II Is claimed tho Iho Mormons Mormon O Is child childish ish Tho rhu United la Is nut not com corn complaining Congress hutS has Utah a n this thiN amply ih thit of or annoyance rho Tho of ot lie tho la ilL ladles h tiie memorial known this fact Why Wh dont ho Iw toll tell how In iii lUll 1037 tim tiro Christian combined with Ito converts caused cl a u tragic nut and bloody rebellion n aln t the country and It 1 In It 1 under understood understood stood that those o Intended to 10 subjugate Japan to their thell own mother country It is IN that our Is a n aking aking king and ban hlll treat great power iu l that the tue propagation of or our doctrines may laity great danger clangor politically Article twelve tw IJ of ot our OUI Articles of or Faith and anti tim tho th following quotations front from our 1 i anti anil Covenants state fully our lIr position loslI on onon onOR on OR the o ls Wo We W bUo In bo Jo lug ing subject u to kings presidents inters and 1111 magistrates In and sustaining tho the law Ill No flo power or Influence win CAn or ought to tt bo bl maintained by hy virtue of oC tho tue Priesthood only by h persuasion by long by gentleness and meekness and by love 1010 unfeigned by tW kindness nfl and nil pure lIuro knowledge which shall great greatly mut mutI ly I enlarge the tho Bout without hypocrisy and without guile Wo Wu l believe that nil men are aro bound tc t sustain and uphold tho lie respective governments In which they r protected III In their Ih Inherent mid able rights by lIy the Iho lawn of ot suck such guy gov and that Sedition and rebel rebellion rebelliOn lion Ion BIO art unbecoming every citizen thus thuR und anti should ho bo punished ac no accordingly cordingly and that nil nh governments have havo n a light I ht to such laws as an In their thol judgment are best b to enro the tho public Interests nt lit tho tue same holding u cl tho free freedom dom loIn of ot conscience To Vi teach men m to sustain tho tim laws of ot bite tho lit land and to n a Priesthood with charity charlt and love IMo unfeigned will not strike m men n ni Its very vory vcr than dan reruns rite Tho third charge Is the heinous of rf murder I r will leave thin this till the last Tho Iho fourth charge ollOr o IH is that I our mis visit 1 und and Invite poo OO pM pl to como and enjoy the abundant HII of Utah This s Imputation I t ion III IH so childish that hut I 1 nm run ashamed to take up UI the tho time of Il your youl tenders readers by 11 referring to It Nono but narrow minded and bigoted minister would be bego go fat I It I n Ill as to claim that Mormons should bo be prohibited from Irom preaching In III thin land IlInd some Homo of tho the con Cal veiLs veitH might go 10 to Utah Utai mind and 1 be le ma 1111 nm benefited I Willi under millor this slon that tho tIme of or Japan J were pleased to tl have their tho r countrymen kindly In iii other lands and ana have thorn them the th privilege of ot asso associating 0 dating on an nil equality with people p of nt other places Should any Japanese embrace the tho faith of ot the tho Paints anti and move to 10 Utah however wo wu shall not hot 11 O them to do tie ml fO o I 1 can and auth do 10 assure the time good people orllo of at Japan that their r countrymen will wll bo he to so kindly l received that no eloquent man of ot their th lr nation will be ablo allO to make mako a n of ot theIr treatment similar to If tho one delivered by hy Mr JUngO M at nl tho the Worlds Parliament nt of or Religions Chicago 1893 wherein ho lie complained of ot Christian peo ICO pies biles treatment of ot his countrymen I now como conic to tho time horrible crIme crimo ot of murder which the tho author of ot tho the Indies hellOs memorial charges against tie us As AA tho the Indies have been br 11 deceived Into signing II a memorial with this horrible In It by mon men m ll professing to bo lie of at our tur Savior I will freely and fully tully exonerate them from vomit nil all blume ml but hut butI I r say to tho author of ot thou memorial that tho the Mormons believe bellee and teach tench that there IH Is no forgiveness In iii this life lite or In III tho the life to come for tor a 1 l murderer mini and If It wo io therefore are guilty of or that crime we wo have eternally our own damnation I have already refuted In inthe the tho Japan Mall tho the charge that tho the Mormons were guilty of that horrible crime to which tho time author of or the la In ladles lies memorial refers ref rs Ie Time The Mountain Meadows lle Massacre MII but I Hi in again giving the time tho tue United States Court COUll records John D DLee DIee 1 Lee Ice was convicted of ot thin thia crime on Mormon testimony and verdict of guilty was brought In I it a u Mormon Jury Jill Howard Jus Ius Justice tice Uce ot of Arizona tho T U S 8 prosecuting ing attorney at lit tIm tho second trial of l John JohnI JohnD IX D I Lee LC repented repeated again what he had said at nt a it former trial that he hod nd come for tal tho tim purpose of ot trying John D Lee L e eb because b tho the evidence led and pointed to him hint n as 08 tho the main instigator In and loader leader of ot the tho Ih Mountain lII Meadows Massacre and he had given the tho Jury JulY unanswerable unan documentary evidence proving that the authorities of at this the Mormon Church know knew nothing of ot the tho butchery butchers until af at after n atter ter tel It was waR committed and thAt thai Leo In hit his letter to President Young a n few tow weeks later Inter hind had knowingly misrepresented the tho actual facts relative to tIme the Ih seeking peeking to lIMp keep him hini still In Inthe time the dark mind and In Ignorance In lie no had received all nil tho the assistance n any nn United States official could auk asic n on earth In any ease Nothing had been kept back and 1101 he lie was determined to cal enter of ot very overy against any uny any allY every actual guilty participator In Inthe Inthe Inthe the massacre I agaIn to from tho tIm Kobo Koho Chron thron hron lob When Whon recounting the tho murder of ot emigrants by tIm tho th Mormon would It 11 not have keen been more Just ju t If it te HIO mur murder tier del of or Mormons by tho the Gentiles lied hall also ulso been referred to lo The Incident two Iwo hundred roughs broke Into Inton n a jail on Juno June 27 IStl 1511 and killed 1 the two Smiths In cold coll blood does dOR not pay Pl much for tor the tho orthodox opponents of 01 m Nor NOI bus the tho history of ot Christianity been without bloodshed Time Tho missionaries of nt orthodox Christians Christian ity It should be bo careful how hol they the th lemon demon of Intolerance e Hen even cn when slen tho the victims vl are arc only Mormons Intolerance erance grows by b what It feeds on and If It It bo ho tho tIme Intention of ot tho the government V as ns time tho t assert na crl to 10 put t In him thin country It Itna may no g with Christian n reels which am 1110 Just ns tH heretical no YO tar far as mum Japan la is colt Irn ed UH OR a tire are Mormons lomonA f 1 I brand braini tho tIm author Luth r of ot the ladle 1110 rn I an nil u a and let film como out from Il this la 11 tIie skirts where wh re he ho Is hU hl ll 1111 how his hil taco faco In II tin tho day I l I Yours respectfully I l J t I J |