Show whoso sm sin was it the tho mormon bishop john D lee A never wasa was a bishop ED NEWS F ih has pa paid the tho penalty for his greal great r elt eit crime leewah lee was na nd ordin ordinary ary I 1 cri crl criminal in I 1 al b he ewas was a religious en enthusiast thus bast anz and and not a u man of brutal in he Re committed recommitted wholesale murder he mercilessly sacrificed the tender infant the helpless invalid and the grey haired matron and aud yet jet he was noted for beneva lenge leppe fote fore enterprise for brain pov pow er or and for devotion to his religious belief but he was persecuted a ma man n andthil and this this it was that led leit him in into to crime religious lous lods persecution in the nineteenth century and and in rep bep Be republican publican tib lican america is a curious fact for our out political creed has been I 1 said by its enemies to mean unlimited lidil ted li license celise 11 however unlimited license certainly did not mean license of any kind for the mormons cormons Mor mons popular clamor drove him a fugitive flying by night from his home and temple in ohio again in missouri we see their factorial oe destroyed etro y 0 their farms laid vib they were sain bain saints s to ito them assassinated and their prophet imprisoned ed with wath tre treason aion agon As applied to jos P mith this was p a ridiculous charge bub but it is one wat that has a been c convenient 0 the imprisonment of religious leaders eri cri was the object in view at last cam compelled bellid to abandon the labor of yearb years ra we see them flying fly ing from their homes omes while murder rapine and pillage stalk over their ir well cultivated farms and through their thriving villages women and children sick blek people hud and cripples the age dand the idiotic were shot sho and burned in their homes by scores on the banks of the mississippi far fair froin their persecutors they stop their night flight again peace and prosperity smile upon them and oa city of inhabitants grin ing glinto sinto hoei at their command temples of worship are erected I 1 farms and or orchards chatas teem with wealth and yet a volcano slumbers beneath them they worship at a strange J shrine they reverence a new bible they have latter day saints and they follow the teachings of living jiving prophets against them comes bomes the combined weight of all other churches divided as between themselves but united in the effort to put down the new dogmas A crusade against them is organize arby religious fanatics but being taken up jup by the tho criminal classes and ignorant enthusiasts it is carried to a result not contemplated by its originators the prophets are ate slain their city destroyed and after a brief battle the last mormon is driven across the father of waters and on the western bank of the great river in feil fall sight of their desolated homes over three hundred women children and feeble folk per perished libed and still they refused to doubt the truth of the revelations contained in the book of mormon and still they trusted in tho the teachings of their living prophets let us go beyond the reach of our enemies they said and into the land of savages they plunged that they might leave behind their more deadly and unrelenting foes Stormi 8 tor ms bied bled over their liew ilem heads Is cold pinched heat scorched and hunger withered them seasons came and went before the emaciated survivors arrived on the barren desert beside the dead sea of america from the mississippi river to utah it is said the mormon trail can be followed by the rude piles of abono w lich which mark the tho graves gravey oy ol the devoted fol lowers of the american amerlean prophet they were no now on oh mexican klean territory and they flattered themselves that here they could r remain emain walled wailed in iri by the everlasting moun taimi taing and if they could coald only wrest from the desert sufficient nourishment to su life they could live and die in peace but the mor mons though goias were hotbo noot toot forgotten r brother jonnia Jonathan n fought and cinq conquered e red It mexico exico and baving sea seen t the industry jot jo the mormons Mor mons 1 hobell ho believed eved their territory barren though it was wa might someday some day be valuable an and d so sd be he took it and sent a military expedition to secure obedience to his laws brigham xou You young was waa then thou n penniless but spirited young leader and he heard th athe atthe old enemies of his fait falt falth faith wao were i bending sending e n dingan an army to destroy his hii people then he called together his bis men formed them into battalions and they swore to flu fla night fight lit alberty as did their fathers till in 1776 1773 and if it we wo mistake not their thil ir songs indicated something 0 of f that spirit remember the wrongs of missouri ite lie member remember the fate of when the god ba hating ting tle fee 0 Is before you stand faithful be firm and to bce true by the blood of our and sages by their thein toils and woes boes and pain we wiil will fight for farour our homes and altars altare till we bur our blood with the slain in the narrow pass where the weber rolls down its angry floods the mormon band blocked the path of united states troops and anti here first they opposed our governmental authority at last the mor mons were convinced that the army wa was s not designed to destroy them and was not even sent to fight light thern them eo so they withdrew to salt lake packed up all they owned and taking a southerly direction departed A deserted city was not wanted and the commanding general followed brigham and n d by making many kind promises pr mise sand and using much persuasion induced him to return with varying fortunes the aror mormon people battled with a soil ravenous grasshoppers savage indians and a hostile congress until one summer a band of emigrants entered their settlements it is claimed that they had carriages that once belonged to th the e mor orill mons tons when they lived in missouri it is claimed that the leaders of the emigrant party boasted of their prowess sst ssi in driving mormons from their state and it is said that wh when en they saw that irrigation was turning the desert into an oasis they warned the mormons cormons that when they reached california they would raise an expedition and drive them grom from from the country how much of this is is true we do not know the mormons cormons had been bathed in blood no man had ever evergood gone gooe through the semblance of a trial for murdering a mormon vengeance had eriel cried aloud but her voice had not been heard jos smiths ghost whispered ill in their earmas ears as did hamlets fathers to the princely dane bane remember me their brothers sons and daughters had many of them perished on the bleak prairies and their chief men their fathers fathera and their fathers friends had bad been shot to death or stabbed in the back neither age nor sex had been spared by their relentless enemies do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you was forgotten the and wrongs of two generations rose up before them their enemies were I 1 in in their power and should they go by unharmed revenge was offered 1 should they refuse they forgot the teachings of christ and remembered re only the mosaic rul rui rule ruie of an eye cye for an eye a tooth for a tooth they remembered how joshoa smote the philistines and left none to mourn and then came the carnival of blood we will draw a curtain over the ghastly scene it was terrible but whose was the sin we trace it back tand land and despite popular prejudice in the face of the people of the whole world we say it was not the mor mons not john D lees not brigham youngs erring passionate sinful mortals though they be but it rests on the heads of those who instituted religious persecution in republican america john D lee has paid the penalty for his crime etwas it was justan just and right dright that he should and justice cries aloud for others who aided in that bloody massacre but cast your eyes back on the prairies of missouri the banks of the mississippi and trace the graves above which no friendly hand has written vengeance is mine and I 1 w will ill iii repay saith the lord nord glance back at the murder of jos smith and his friends see how bow the they y died with prayers on their lips reflect on the hundreds who perished on the plains remember all this and remember too apat that men now live and prosper who make it their boast that they helped to kill hill jos smith and drive the mormons cormons from illinois remember this and you will bay say with us that though we rejoice that oneff one of the mountain meadow murderers has haa at last been convicted by a mormon jury before another word I 1 is 8 said about the M mountain meadows we should indict and try the fanatical bigots who taught the mormons cormons how to murder and who made it pos possible bible aible for them to hold in veneration a host of mar martyrs tyre omaha maha western lV estern At magazine agazine the jewish times publishes a list of clergy clergymen rhen then who have fallen from grace within a year in the united states the number of con vio vic iong tiona for crimes Is given as f orty forty |