Show f from the be hebrew hebrews san MORE SLANDERS REFUTED the golden era a literary paper of this thia city has from time to time published articles of 0 a trip overland to the pacific written b by 7 fitz hugh ludlow of new york in its issue of march the writer speaks of the mormons cormons Mor mons and indulges in the following remarks the whole secret of their fanaticism is intelligible telli gible the momert t that you understand one act fact they are saturated through and through with a love for forthe the old testament Te stamen t cah civilization aaion as understood by hem them you cannot talk with one ona of their strongest men like young or tor lor an hour without Alt ait hont hout seeing that their national model is the jewish people like the jews they are grossly sensuous and end physical in all their ideas of religion and a future state ake them they have no notion of the pure conjugal relation and consider polygamy its highest form like them they believe themselves the con constituted 3 t 1 buted rulers of the gentiles and will com compass piss heaven and earth to make a proselyte lile like them they hey think themselves doing god a service by as ar such aa as have made defection from their creed and murder be the enemies of their faith with aa as little compunction aa as the old Israel tish barbarians were wont to aay slay say the Canaan ites itea like them they extort in volun tary contributions for the support ot of their ecclesiastical organization and exact the some blind obedience to a privileged egid priesthood aa as under pain of or death was paid to the behesta behests beh ests but I 1 might run the parallel interminably it only remains necessary for me roe to add that in spite of their being like the jews shameless polygamists aa as assiad bigots inquisitors inqui deligh erb ers in massacre ex and zealots zealous zea lots they claim to do all these things under the sanction and by the order of god almighty in fact to be his chosen people they are an attempt to revive the civil bation in the century whether mr ludlow writes of ancient or modern jews hi bis s argument is untenable as besides the bigotry expressed in the above the writer most signally exposes his on ignorance igi orance it is admitted by all theologians and jurists that the foun toun foundation datin of the Ch chirstian Chr ustian stian church as well as the legal enactments which govern man in a civilized and enlightened likened lit ened con ditle dit lJ the mo alc law the code which is at once the moral and aad religious creed of the jew ho hov v can it be that the latter are assassins extortion extortionists lats polygamist bigots in re and zealous zealots zea lots for such are the terms he ne employs in of the chida n of israel it ia in not our e to defend the mormon creed we know no hing of the people or their custom save by report the report also says that they were most secured in free amerbe their theli religious belief driven out by bire fire and the sword from a ad cities P adversaries until they i to shelter and a habitation under aleader der they traversed the rocky mountains and in the great basin of the continent oll oil ou the shores of a salt lake in a debert desert country as 1 as that surrounding the dead sea they i sett oett settled led prospered and became a people I 1 even the ascetic mr ludlow bays says in another I 1 part of his bis article the cormons mormons asor Alor mons fled to a desert where life itself would be a burden to most moat of us by incredible labor have replaced the sage brush and the alkali plains with smiling gardens gar deng dene reen meadows luxuriant orchards and golden barvest S arvest fields have never ceased to wage war with hostile nature knowing that armistice means defeat to them of the sorest kindard kind kin dand and that one yearb years neglect of their laborious system of artificial irrigation woud blowout blot out tae triumphs of the past painful years they stand thu bold rig tig the e desert from their doors by main force 3 he could pay them no higher tribute for the constancy with which they have upheld their belief in the creed of their adoption no matter how antagonistic it may be with the be belief bellef lief ilef of others in which they have exhibited an abiding faith in the almighty to do this as the writer observes they added to the ordinary formula of christianity forms forma of the jewish civil and religious code and for this they are held up as an immoral people that there have been and still are thieves murderers assassins extortion ers and bigot bigots ss in other christian communities than the mor mons the criminal history of the world best beat at attests tests and we a e can see no reason why mor alm bondom should become the especial mark for christian malevolence in this respect we do protest however against the outrageous Ith lahl eithe elthe the writer endeavors to fasten onabe on the jews antle in tle tie whole history of crime in inthe the united states and it itis is not less prolific here bere than in europe it has always been a matter of just pride with the jews that no one was yer ever even ver punished for murder or assassination and in the list of derelicts for felonies and high crimes the prison records of the corli are comparatively bare of jews A shed jurist who h a taken pains to ascertain facts informs us that the proportion of jews to christians as criminals throughout the world word is but one in ten thousand we can see nothing to brag of then mr ludlow in the morality you advocate to the brej dice of the fair fame of the jews the mormons cormons Mor mons in making proselytes prose lytes do just the same as other christian denominations the jews do not refuse admission to their I 1 church but they the have haye invariably discounted danced the inquisitorial portion of the crimes laid a at t the door of the jewish church is a great stretch of imagination Is not mr ludlow familiar with the history of the christian inquisition of the war that fanatics and bigots so cruelly waged against the jews under the cloak of religion yet the jews survived all such persecution i the jews neter neier sanctioned buch such a moral ou rage and if the mormons cormons do they are indebted for that feature of their religious belief to the catholic church the jew has bad to bear enough of this worlds contumely just such as mr ludlow exhibits and i if is time that duch calumnies calum nies should be refuted we do but det def defend end our own creed it hab haa been handed banded down to ua us from roa rom generation to generation for nearly six thousand years it has been maintained through ages of persecution with a devotion and constancy no other nation can exhibit whilst history alone is the record of the many powerful nations who have risen and fallen during that period yet the jew twists and is the living witness of the christian in regard to polygamy mr air ludlow as well adf other writers of the day classes it as an immorality we differ with him but only in the exact term to be applied to it the jews as a people are polygamists ony in the lands where that custom exists it is an eastern custom the butom ot of the hoy HWY land but it is not the custom in what is termed christian lands whenever the Jew dwells in christian lands be he conforms to its amral laws and we have yet to meet with a jew who is a polygamist or an advocate or defender tb thereof ereon in the united states in a land where universal uni versal vereal re ligias liberty is ore one of the boons granted by character it is difficult to legislate on marriage some states hold bold it to be a religious whilst others a civil contract and ia when hen ben doctors ds disagree gree who can decide if a avil community have a right to discriminate in relation to the marriage act according to monogamy others certainly have the same right to decide according to polygamy the law ot of the land the constitution of the united states is their shield for this but polygamy is of offensive to the moral sense of the public and in this consists the en crt e of the mormons cormons Mor mons that same moral kensit veness of the christians is of a peculiar character chara ctr r it describes descries des cries and is offended by the iniquities of their neighbors whilst it hides and battens batters 0 oer oen er an immoral pestilence of far greater horror the millions ct cf poor anfor dunate females who are the victims of the social evils evil s reflect a far more lasting dieg ace on monogamy than the abuse of poly polygamy gamy by the Sl Mor ormos moes there are evils in in all social regulations which cannot byset beset aright by controversy and the mormon question is 0 one ne of them if people do not like their ha habits bits they are not compelled to adopt them we believe and conat too that a greader grea fed tsi portion of the II 11 ill lii l fame of the mormons cormons Mor mons has arisen from prejudice bigotry and persecution the jewish people As as a body are a montim monument ent of what whal christian Intoe intolerance can inflict and we judge judges flar mpa and persecution p ere what I 1 j the mormons cormons hive have have in the past and are yet to endure in the future aside from their religion they are an industrious united people who maintain an abiding fai h IH the correctness of their belief andin and in the multiplicity of the creeds of the christian church the fo to lowers of each individual one entertaining the s same a m e idea is it tight for any man to aay say 1 1 that T b at atis is ls dicing 11 ithac 11 is right ye shall be blessed and ye accursed |