| Show U I UK M MONK The Jan an 11 Frantl Ml recently hal had hada hala a leading editorial entitled Fighting the Mormons It meets m t the situation so sa fairly and nl Intelligently that we re reo reproduce produce It with the lie exception ex of oC the theu opening u C paragraph which h h Intimates that the he war Is Ii I on that It has hu been declared hy hJ the Presbyterian General Assembly and that the th Mormons have ave accepted the challenge The Tue only mis mig mistake take t In the statement Is III that the Mor Mormons mona mons nave Iran accepted a J the challenge and therefore the Inference that the war tIr Is II Ison on the religious hodies Is III not a Just Jat r one On can scarcely call that a war Which consists of ot threats of ot crushing on vu ono one oldo villo with without without without out any an attempts nt at retaliation on the theother th theother other We have hlll no fight against nn on church or er people The Tho Call goes on lo to MX say Sd fly Ily demanding the exclusion of ot oftIe tie Smoot multi from the Senate tho Iho would Mem to bu ti ill Invoking nn an alliance with Wills the lie civil power In UH Its pro pru proposal attack upon tipon Nil Now ow the th civil power lower can tightly lightly do till nothing In such ca eH unless units the law Is IK vio sIo violated Iu The feet fact t that u ss man elected to te the Senate If ii I line ant of the tile Twelve Twel Apos Apostle tle U ties of ot the Mormon Church of ot th tise ministry or er the Methodist Method 1st or Catholic hierarchy Is s nut an nn offense ng ln t the law la the civil power can no snore more be Invoked In the Ibis th cope clue e of ot one oni than tile the other Our friends should atoll etol and gnu that If It one une religious hotly body can ran call the doll ehll power to 10 Its lis In the absence of ot any infraction of ot f the law bow any n 11 other religious body lody has hall the theun sluT un right and find the lie government would oon tOOn be on the stormy Boa goa 01 of troubles that would have hll no iso end Such Buch alliance with the Die civil power woos was W B the hoe odium of that religious controversy which agitated In III the tho past IJ st and drenched many countries with blood se W dont want to begin suds such a n policy hero for like would lead lend to like Ilka i I I I I remits The Th history of ot mankind prove pro that persecution per never yet nt arrested the spread of ot any un form torm of the religious Idea hoa hoaI Even I ven when persecution noes ito to the ex ElX extreme extermination It II does doe do pot not suc succeed III Is proved pro 1 by the origin of ot the tue French rench I Huguenots and even hy by h the Ii sur lur survival ur vival of ot liMit itself Those re te religious i g sects ct which tench teach the tho rights lIht of human r reaSon u on and of ot human judgment as against th the conclusions conclusion of external authority should he h the tue last to appeal to force farce In reunions religIous controversy H Jt should be Le evident to every t ery observer er Cr that fore force can make no headway against If It that sect hail hlll been let alone In lii Nauvoo It would probably probably probably ably have hayo disappeared But Hut Jcl Rave It n a martyr when Joseph Smith woos was murdered by lIy a n mob In jail and tind the tills SeCt hue has over since wherever planted Its Ita organization lion tion Is la perfect Its lis It methods appeal to the tue dulle t Imagination It Is a tempore temporal al at and spiritual corporation and Its lis followers rs n arc re cured cared for toad and taught in their materia Why Wh not appeal to toreo reason rennon reo Ron against t It It II claimed persecution I tion under tinder the tho law lawand i and atoil linn line been stronger Iron er loan limn ever over since the th civil and anti criminal statutes wore were en enacted acted to check cheele It It Is la stronger today than limn ever beote stool anti Is III probably Rain gala RainIng Ing more snore rapidly than any other church churchIn In the United States It must be admitted that Its spiritual appeal has captivated the brightest and sharpest as well as nR the tile dullest of ot minds When pressed train from the outside every order of Intellect Int In has boat stood In ill compact romped combination Tim Tue apostate ling ions gene Rone back brick to his lots altar The Indifferent has been tired fired by L zeal The fhe hesitating has ban ha been confirmed and made malic certain anti and all 01 have havo stood to together together gether antI and the church line has been strengthened Tho ho leaders loaders are arc by no means unlearned In the book of wisdom They are aro born loaders leaders of men They have profound of human na no nature nature ture and man It Is an all open book to them The Tho only Way nay wn In which they tho can bo Lo op opposed opposed opposed posed Is by I the entire withdrawal of ot persecution ant pressure AB A ts their members taco faco the outside world they thoy should find It friendly In a human sense displaying Its virtues and aIl Its Ih kindness rather than offering a II sown Mown Ing front and a n flat 1st Against equality of treatment human Interest manly womanly social sympathy the Mormon hierarchy can make no headway Under such conditions Mormons will find their tolls aile glanco to the unbuckled They Thuy Thc will see sec that outside of It there Is all nil that Is promised and provided Inside of It and they will ovill lose the Impression that they tisey th tore arc n a peculiar people Then If the tho teachIngs teaching of or the th church are against human nature If It they tho affront human reason r and put the tue mind In shackles men mon can be trusted to 10 revolt against t them Item anti and the progress of oC the lie Mormon Church 1111 cense cease Hut But perse persecute cute It give It martyrs marlYIS enlist the tho civil power against It all aU the tho mighty forces force II of mann spiritual 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