Show A some congressional gressional C on tinkers have haxe lately been trying to patch up and scrape together a bill which they supposed would indirectly work to the tiie detriment of mormonism the bill as a whole shows petty imbecility and a dwarfed and selfish statesmanship state manship on the part of its authors that deny either them or their acts the credit of beng blessed with common sense if mormonism is wrong why is it not boldly met by the representatives of the people and a quietus put to its existence if the mormons cormons are right why are these would be wise men and congressional mountebanks mount ebanks continually agitating the question ift lot if the he mormon mordou doctrine is wrong we think it would atwould be perfectly safe to trust the correction of the evil to the neutralizing influences of a mixed religion and the union pacific railroad we can never change the opinions or docie trines brines of either elther an individual or a people by oppressive invidious or re subterfuges the mormons cormons Mor mons as a class are industrious honest and from their stand point moral there is certainly less crime committed against t their laws in salt lake bake than any city of its bize size in the world they have re redeemed the wilderness and made it blossom as the A rose nose sei sel and have transformed the waste evaste places pintas into one of the hands handsomest onest and t cities in XU the U union they have ave no poor houses and less jess haupers paupers than we know of there ia Is hot bot a bagnio baio 11 balo dalo in the whole city if all ali this good results from brighams Brig hams rule without any visible attendant evils it would be advisable for us to 6 move out of our glass houses before we fling stones at mormon evils and denounce pois polygamy gamy on account of its immoral teachings omaha evening eimes times |