| Show THE alth ALTA ON THE MORMONS i i the lilie atia alta alta alia has haa been display in angius 91 gi 91 it s logic reil recently in an article on the never stale question qu estfon of mormonism the Theartic article leto to which we refer is remarkable only forlis for its inconsistency and the ponderous nothings which it con bains the writer starts out by referring to our last ga general conference and says that the speeches sermons and remarks til tia then delivered were full of that counsel cobel to the people which if followed must make them wealthy vital and I 1 powerfully influential then follows a 8 disquisition on president young showing how little he is understood by the thet world at large and proving that the writer is ls no better acquainted with his character than those upon whose ignorance ia e lie he reflects the subjects treated upon at conference en de the gentleman passes under review and says bays that they tiley were pressed home 10 rne upon ithe the people by every argument that could touch their pockets pride or religion further certainly no ruler tuler could under the circumstances give better advice if the people follow it they will very soon gather around their settlements every avery erva elta neut uuno or material power and be quite independent of the rest of the world now all this would scarcely appear to 6 a liberal enlightened 0 mind min d as caus cause e dbr dor for abusing a the people who were taught sucha such a wise policy or the men who taught it nor 1 is there anything any thing in such principles of political economy as would produce these results to justify those who accepted and practiced them being called fanatics and pointed to as a growing 0 wing danger in the nation feid feld it has been the custom to deride the I 1 Mpr mons for their lack of enterprise in not rushing into certain avenues by which wealth was supposed to be easily reached especially hunting and digging for the precious metals but now the result of the principles of economy taught by our leaders and accepted by th the I 1 people is viewed by thi this s writer in fh the e aita alia as something alarming we have been poor and we were fanatics and criminals because we were poor but there is now a prospect of our becoming rich and powerful and that condition will make us worse than the other such is the logic of the alta a d of others as well true no ruler could i under the circumstances give better etter advice but no matter how good ii ins is it must musi be bad because it is accepted e by py the latter day saints and this 1919 is a liberal age this writer says th the points which he pressed upon tija people were these first no more trade trad with gentiles incorrect for gentiles gentile read open enemies second ri rigid gid domestic economy including the ostracism i cism of whisky hisky and and tobacco third hom home e manufactures fourth the cultivation of the useful sciences chemistry botan botany ya surgery etc fifth working of iron mines and the creation 0 of f machinery abad and sixth to keep up the reli rell religious giolas part of the establishment the speedy completion of the new henr temple tabernacle which the unusually large crowd in attendance at this conference shows to be a necessity and he admits that this was good ad ce that it could not beckter sei sef yei he closes his artic article ile lle byu by urging I 1 government to take the matter in hand vigorously it is not said eaid for chati but the inference is easily deduced to crush and obliterate mormonism 11 crush economy industry sobriety intelligence and the good condition of 6 society which exists here and which the ved very principles taught will in inc ine reasel and for what surely not ift because the world is so much better than we for this samo same article hits with mith bitter truth against the condition of the age ichi when it says let any infamy hedge itself about wih with money and power and its chan ehan chance C e of af becoming ruing respectable and popular was never better than now true and where will that truth lead to coall to all ali the castes and classes of society showing us that infamy and corruption corrupts 10 ns dreading the truth and the power of righteousness have been able by possessing wealth and power to circulate and keep alive alice every species of calumny against us thinking by thus exerting their powers to keep the truth from spreading this is no rash assertion but capable of being fully sustained well may the age decry the mor mons shenone wh when enone one of its friends in in a brief sentence can thus show its fearful condition if infamy can become respectable spec table and popular simply because it possesses wealth and power which we admit then is the power and wealth of the age most carru corrupt p t and if we are to be persecuted because we teach and practice principles ples pies which are admitted to be good by every person of sane mind that condition of a world which urges or permits it will be stamped with infamy as well as corruption of the low language in which the aita alia indulges when speaking of president young we have nothing to say we cannot descend to io mahe make further reference to it but the reeling feeling which would hound on the national power to persecute a people for accepting and practicing the commonest principles of political economy is so glaringly inconsistent with t the e professions of the age that we are almost surprised that an attack is made on us upon such grounds anything and everything it appears is sufficient reason for pouring abuse upon the 11 mor mons 11 |
