| Show alft IW IN UTAH t jfhn i Th elate crusade of bf the united state states a government against polygamy is not inthe in the interest of law order virtue virtu e morality religion or tolerance it ios los is simply sim piya a put up job intended to benefit united states ofa officials laia isla loafers and those who hang on to the government train wagons its object being the in burring of bills of cost employment of witnesses paying some bome somebody b oi jar for the pro prop o lection of troops add ad dingo n 9 the expenses of the then stion nation apoi and apol making mak ng plunder easy for those who are ard ever willing IQ e engage in such work when pure water can be drawn from a barrel filled with filth then will we believe that the crusade against polygamy springs from irom laudable motives of those in federal authority in salt lake city there is not one man lu in any capacity whose life is pure moral virtuous temperate or in any way characteristic of the upright citizen A visit of three weeks to that city a careful watching of and bilan sinners erb ers there an impartial observer an energetic taker of items and searcher tor for or information we are enabled to speak by the card when gamblers drunkards government lovern ment robbers peculators speculators tors and speculators open for any anything thing that brings to them notoriety or profit unwilling to endorse that which may be honest moral or industrious commence crusades in behalf of the right ib it is safe to say that other than honest motives actuate them we are not defending mormonism poly polygamy gamy the civil uncivil or reng lous loua practices of those living in utah the mormons cormons need no defense from us aa As citizens their work shows for itself they have by work well begun and perseveringly verl veri angly engaged in made of erse erbe utah t sh a barren plain a land of villages and a nd beautiful farms the people of utah territory arg are more civil honest I 1 virtuous and temperate ten than those of washington the seat of our dur government they live by labor are frugal industrious economical economic ali and kind to the poor the them government which through its drunken gambling and adulterous minions in salt lake city is warring lipon upon these people cannot say cay as much those who are there professing to do the work of christians and moving upon the principles of mormonism backed by powerful courts rigorous laws and bristling bayonets ayon 8 are e themselves men notoriously busl ux unworthy orthy the confidence of a christianized Christiani zed civilized and respectable community they are men who wander through that community as dogs wander for bones on which to chew they are men guilty of all the vices BO so demoralizing in their tendencies tiey they are men who draw their inspiration from intoxicating liquors who hold their caucus ses sea in the interest of religion ligion rp in saloons and places of dissipation who lay their plans and draft their resolutions for the encouragement of morality in jn houses of ill fame and andin anden in the company of prostitutes tit utes patronized only by the officers of the united states government who claim to represent the interest of that re religion igou element ement 1 in the country which re refuses fuses to tolerate that which itself admits to be religion I 1 all the efforts of such men nien to drive polygamy from utah territory will fail this matter is beyond the reach 0 of f any n law in this country all efforts ear orts to drive rive d such people from that territory by the power of the bayonet will fall fail we have had enough of war and the consequent expense thereof in this thia country to last for years to come the people are tired of engaging in crusades intended only to benefit a select fe few W the people pf af utah have rights right sunder under this government as have the people of any state they have lands homes shops schools and churches church eg of their own won by honest toil they are endeavoring deavo ring to improve rather than destroy the country or a portion thereof there is no process of law or of other than of might tyranny and that can drive them from their homes or confiscate them for the benefit of thieves without committing a terrible wrong and disgracing a people whose boast la Is liberty and whose religion claims to be tolerance an army of a million men could not loot drive these people from their mountain fastnesses fast nesses if they are living in accordance with the wishes of god he will protect them if not when comes the day of judgment he will punish them them according to their thein deserts and it is not riot for those who are themselves sinful sud wicked to tic sit pit it in judgment upon u P on their betters 4 there are other ether and aad greater evils in the land worthy of im collate bol boi vol late lato attention j j all ali ril if jf polygamy is a disgrace to ameri america ca I 1 ow wiil will bewell befell to remember it ed upon that bible christians everywhere reve reverence rende as the revealed word of god bo so longus long iong as the people of utah territory mind their own business pay their heir debts and sud comport themselves as good citizens the stink of their religious heresy is not sufficiently strong to overcome overcome the thousand tho u sand odors of rottenness and corruption springing from this the so called beat government the world eversal eyer ever baw saw opposition to td mormonism but strengthens it af alone the people there will not consider themselves as martyrs and od polygamy will dle die buh duh out oat of 10 its own accord for beven seven eighths of ne women are opposed to jt but once it attack t under the protection of the law la that thai bit hit which the law protects and which la is believed by mormons cormons to be a religion and ind not only the men but the coment women who are growing tired of being considered chattels and brevet wives lyes will rally nally to td defend their church audits interests te lay la claim 0 o am and i il d tua tub more more widely sow the tho seeds of that which fio no man maji can prove is ii moe mot 4 teil teli klon glon and ad entitled under noer the Is aws w of theland the land to the same samo protection aa as may be he given other cre breedi creeds edi denominations aud aad religions reli rell giong Pomer bya hya hys democrat Demb crat |
