| Show na the mormon question n I 1 it I 1 thel faw aw as it stand stands cannot reach brigham young f it would bo be a monstrous hion xion blunder to secure his hia punish punishment men t by any other means it would be equally unwise for the government to make indiscriminate war upon the mormon church such a war would be regarded by the mormons cormons as persecution and persecution is not exactly tile the thing for this thia age and country method of lee at ht mountain meadows and exterminate all the mor mons old enough to talk the less we do in the way of persecuting them or their leaders the soon sooner er shall we be able to give them the benefit of our boasted civilization there is only one thing that will surely prevent the dismemberment ot the mormon church and that is the waging of a war of persecution against it such persecutions would bind the people together it would clothe some one of their leaders with power and authora authority tty and it aou d induce the kopul population aaion of or a quarter of or a million to act as a unit in in defense of its principles and its rights the mances chances albo are that it would recruit their ranks by excia ex eit elt citing of myriads of weal de d benti renti ahr gnout t he the world and would supply th that at blood of the tha martyrs which is the seed of the church like lilko all other sects the mormons cormons would thrive under persecution it was never a greater force than when it went into the wilderness poor and famished but full fall of fiery keal zeal we wo cannot afford to make brigham young a martyr and arouse the fanatical zeal of hla hia followers let us be patient we are dealing witha with d snarl that will disentangle disen tagle itself if handled carefully and patiently if we ueal with it roughly we may simply snarl it beyond all hope of straightening st louis journal |
