Show 4 MORMON the following contains tho the larger portion of an ar article artibee tible in the lancaster pa ancer of january 13 13 s musser SaUla luy WHy city utah utan such was wal the inscription upon the card which intro introduced deuced inta into the sanctum EIder elder Musser et of the latter day saints that tha wonderful people more commonly known as mormons cormons Mor mons who have al ready filled a large share of popular attention and are in all probability destined to be the subject at aan nan an early day of exciting political and social agitation in this country 0 mr musser mussen is a medium sited heavy set gentleman light complexion and about 46 years of age he is accompanied by elder whitney a EL young man of about 91 1 native born in utah and unmarried unmarked the two came east last spring have visited diffie different rent sections of the country and ana propose to tp remain here bere several weeks to come the purpose of their visit being partly recreation and elgh sightseeing beel seeing seel ng partly a desire on the parrot mr to vl ethis Othis his old home and add a desiro desico on the tho part pait of both to advance the interests of their people by answering andre and resisting the many false faise accusations which they allege llave bee beb been i n urged against them for three nights they discussed discus sed eed the question odmor of mor monism in strasburg Bt in massasoit hall with one dr martin of i ohio whom elder eider musser describe describes s aa as a polemical bigoted irishman ir 11 on wednesday night mr lectured or preached in quarryville Quarry ville and he is willing to dreach preach or speak in this city provided any meeting place or hall is afforded him for such an audience as will come zo 10 hear arhim he him he niso also intends v visiting 1 columbia and other towns in the county for this purpose and for general observation on mr musser lusser A is ig quite ready in converset conversation conver bat sat I 1 and freely discusses every phase i of the thel mormon question which is of course uppermost in hi the minds of all who meet him and are informed of his position in the church and community which he represents about thirty years ago a number of mormon mis missionaries alon slon aries arles visited this county preaching their doctrines within its borders and laboring with some effect to gain converts among the leaders who visited this section were the famous orson hyde julian moses elder elisha navis mavis of lancaster county himself and wm J appleb appleby N also originally a lancaster Ln caster countihan coun count tian lan the mormon headquarters at this time were at nauvoo ill ili which they then expected ito to make the centro centre of 0 their temporal tem temporal dorai soral power among those who became converts to the new doctrine and followed the missionaries with their lives and fortunes were john neff jacob bushman wm mcguire and mrs bitner formerly mrs mra musser and the mother of A milton musser who was then a ad lad of 16 this party joined the latter day saints at nauvoo just about the time the local opposition against them was becoming most intense and twe the westward journey was being determined upon they followed the bloody trall trail which marked the mormon march to veah utah and have since been closely and prominently identified with the history and material growth groeth of this pie mr musser represents that neither he noi noy nor his aso associates clates have ever evee regretted their connection with the mormons cormons Mor mons nor lost the faith which they then embraced ho ile maintains that popular ideas regarding tha the sect are highly erroneous and have their origin in the misrepresentations of or their enem enemies les led he quotes freely from statistics which he has at hand to prove that in all the elements of intellectual and material prosperity utah is above the average 0 of the tho whole country he com compares pares it with the tho most advanced a danced states jlko ilko pennsylvania tyl kyl vania vanla ohio and indiana to prove that in average intelligence laurabee ilu lau raber of schools printing capita wealth number of churches etc it is up to a very high stan standard lard aard in like manner d emon euon remonstrates strates tho tao comparative absence from among its people ol 01 oty afflictions a and nd other commonly accepted indications of bodily or moral MOMI degeneracy these facts and figures taken foin from outside bid sid official investigations elder musser claims as proof proofs of an advanced danced civilization and as Us 93 per cen cent it of jot the population ot Uta hare mormons cormons Mor Mo imons mons he thinks the credit should be awarded to the church its principles alad and leaders such sueh humanitarian results he argues could not flow except from a well ordered community aud and the length of or time that it haslie hasseld ha hasile ld together gether and the steady progress pro gress gresa which it has made he claims are the best answers zen zin to the charge that its principles conflict with the laws of f god or those most salutary to 0 man politically the mormons cormons feel a deep interest in the ther admission of utah aaa as a state he claims that in all the requirements of admission the territory is far in ad advance Vatice of any previously granted nied admission and thinks it only just that utah Ufah should be ba given kiven the chance for self government that other territories of its it size have received he ue recognizes the fact that the institution of polygamy 1 is the most moat insuperable objection to their weir admission and complains bitterly tivit that this objection comes from congressmen who keep more wi than anyone any one would maintain under the forms or usage of mono monn on law he believes the tho antia anti antl polygamy law passed by congress to be unconstitutional and that it will be to fao declared by the supreme court in a worldly point of view the th mormons cormons are highly prosperous the community central atory which has about two iund lund red fed branches hast last did a business bc oyer over capital is highly remunerative and commands comma ada a ye return of jofh aj to 2 per cen cent t per iper month with double the amount of first clas class collateral put up as security socially he declares that the people live happily and contentedly all disputes are settled within the church and law lawsuits suits snits are unknown known the tho women aae aie contented t with their lot and eager to proclaim ther satisfaction to their sex e everywhere disputes between mormons cormons and outsiders must ba be carried to the courts and in such cases modoc of nonresistance non resistance restrains them from defending their rights almost thu tha ih entire outside or r auti anti mormon morman element in the terri tory resides infalt in sait bait lake city and only about 80 per cont cent of bf the population there are cormons mormons Mor mons or latter day saints as s th they ibey dyball call cail themselves 2 the terms gentiles and iborra mormons cormons Mor mons ons being the distine dis tinell j tion adopted by the outsiders the lindlof the individual mor war mons aref held in fee simple but their devotion to the church prevents them from ais alb disposing posing of it sd that outsiders can make disagrees 4 abid able inroads upon the mormon possessions in answer to the question whether ther there ewas was adja not a probability that since polygamy was the chief objection to the mormons cormons Mor mons it might some time be abolished by ahe the he people themselves so as to ta secure a popular recognition of the acknowledged now ledged merits of their government elder eldor musser shook his Ms head heid he regards polygamy ss a fundamental principle of their faith falth and not eradicable it was founded he said on jhb thid natural excess of female population and as long as this thia continued he declarer declare that it is better for one man inan to have several beveral wives than for any woman to mafa mata unmarried this feature in Is however he says sass grossly exaggerated jn popular estimation most of the men only have one wife some have two a few three and very few more their Tho irreligious religious faith mr mussed says cays like the christian is founded on the old and new testaments their principles are ard ho the cardinal dictates of these scriptures and they profess to find therein a abundant und ant justification and no condemnation of polygamy while they hold bold unswervingly to their own faith they extend a liberal bearing to all others othera and mr musser declares that every clergyman of other denomination christian Chri stfan pagan or jew catholic lutheran or episcopalian who comes to salt lake city is afforded not only a church to preach inbur in but secures an overflowing audience of mormons cormons Mor mons this the elder thinks is in striking contrast with the treatment he receives from christians who not only refuse to allow him thim their churches to preach in but denounce them as pagans from their pulpits he was a aggrieved grieved 9 at such a reference to his people recently by dr greenwald of this city and in reference thereto he publishes publishes an article in the Exa rAiner and express substantially ly setting forth the views of mormonism which we have accredited to him I 1 I 1 |