| Show wito laft 0 R RIALS I 1 A LS v irs its r ATTACKS ON MORMONISM atla isia 1 WE noti ce tha that 6 a few fow of our exchanges F nl u 1 lk s thid find space in spite spile of news dews to void a ven veu fo U om fi against the cormons mormons cormons mormons Mor nor monr mons mong mons ane ac louia blobs globs G lobe lube democrat di iiii ous oua not only for against certain alleged breakers the uw lut iut ut for fur an assault ils lis a religion is what it suggests bugg hugg ests while tho the ho excitement is high it t be rame remembered that nu more mure dav favorable arable time than the could bo be found for attacking and root and the entire system of mor monism at arti rii cioe ose who are so terribly exer c isi dover doyer eveir tb the e mormon question so anxious for extreme I 1 measures nea stires generally disguise their against the system by that they thoy have mo jao war to wage against it bu t are only oua for the overthrow of its leaders athe paper that parts parta its name it the tue middle ia Is refreshingly frank tt rs is 11 t hat that is to be taa tan elied blied A religious fus ius system that lino ii u be lie extirpated root and ind b rank rane I 1 and this is fa to b be ek done under tile the influence of popular ex ate ote dunt hent not nut allily c deliberate 1 ay iy by strong feas fias reasons ons ous and a fair pro ces ceh ph batby t by bru brute to force while pred judice excites excited and reason is dil sll slie nile by rage and udd clamor Is 18 not this sage counsel from a lit literary balou by lir what right ia 6 11 attacked with anything but hut argument and who but arigot a and murderer at it heart would seek reek to dearo derro destroy i by violence is t system estem which be aver tu r rued by reason teason reasons 1 if mormon nin hiu ia Is so false and evilla evil la its char ebar amer aker arid arld iet let the learned divine and the ohe logical editors unite in its fallacy and its 14 wicked wickedness hess and if they tall fall iu ili this i let them worn cluse their mouths a and nd their pens penis so far as this subject Is concerned and not riot expose thir own oily antl anil villainy by in inciting aud anil tanning fanning the fl arett rug reg 0 of r but thia this h I 1 I 1 1 spirit 1 r f t g generally e inspire inspires A bpi bigot g 0 t and the defeated the theologian olo gian and they would invoke grga pru pre where words cannot prevail we vl fj claim that mormonism niam stands impregnable against argumentative menta tive as auita aulta indeed very few arguments men ts have ever been used it the would be te abfall mormonism chiefly asi aai aa asu i agu ume for it a certain position and h hen en to overthrow it they manufacture so m eth ilg ing absurd egl ciL 11 it 11 W 1 and iund proceed to deni oliah if the nimat first book has haa yet to td be published the tind firt t sermon to be tk the ferat lecture to b delivered i against ainest mormonism niam 11 in iti I 1 doctrines and principles have bave been beel fairly stated staled and truthfully explained what wonder dorthen then that the champions of orthodox sectarianism sec see waste their for naught daught and that II 11 mor mon lain iain still flourishes and its vo baries remain flim film jn ju their convictions eions of its it struth truth no matter how absurd or anti antl t miff diff stian Mormonism I may tauy ap pear taits opponents they have no right morally religiously or legally to seek its destruction by such means aa as the globe democrat would woula employ the prosecution ot alleged criminals Is inot another herand heraud and en ea different matter mattei mormonism neither teaches countenances nor shelters elters sli mii crime erime the affirmations of Itse demies to the contrary not riot the law should be sustained but legal prosecution does not mean religious i ous or personal persecution and the processes or of tiia the baw law should not be stimulated by torian animosity nor conduct i ed under the spur of popular excite the tho cause of juisti justice ce will not hot be sub served by rage and nor dor vindicated by mob violi violence huce puce we direct the attention 0 the editor editon of the democrat to une principle that he seema seems I 1 to have forgotten n in hla hia tirade tirado against the mormon in a criminal prosecution cuti orf olf conviction must precede general belief is not lit fit even the opinion of a st luuis louis editor Is not conclusive evidence of odthe the gulifor guilt of an accused person no matter if the defendant la Is a murm murmon mormon bo SO while that editor cries out for punishment AV h should bold himself quie band tand wait for proof not merely suspicion or belief of guilt he id is wrong to call for the extirpation of a religious system he Is wrong to alamo for fur the blood of alleged no matter how popular they may be simply on the grounds of gentral belief in their wickedness the bt st paul dispatch believes ane whole 11 mormon hierarchy fifer archy to be corrupt and arid says that iq begin with to end emd with it exclaimed eli ell nis nip let them be accursedly accursed thedia the din patch editor has a right to believe what seems right to him although bo he is rash to jump at so foolish a coh com conclusion elusion but he ha has no right to indulge in such sueh curlings cur eur sings however it matters nothing to the objects of his maledictions male dictions indeed he be id is more morg likely to wk injure re himself than than anybody else I 1 wb simply remind him of the adage c curse ourse 4 like cb Ickens chickens generally come home to roost 11 THE MOUTH OF THE mississippi CAPTAIN EADS the engineer engine r whose whose plan to open an outlet to the mississippi sis bis sippi river has so much e canvassed Anva medi has made buch euch tory progress in his great work as to leave no question as to ti its s ultimate triumphant bome home of the leading civil 11 engl engi engineers f n ers of the country threw throw doubt upon tipon his plans and asserted that his attempt would result in failure readers will doubtless remember the character of his plans lie he proposed by as a system of jetties jet ties built upon an unused duped outlet of the vast i river to cr create aate a channel which should be deepened kept open and made practicable for the passage of ships drawing the greatest greate ht depth of water thia this would add greatly greally to the value of new orleans aa as a port and alid manove remove the obstacles from the mouth of bf the which have been so dangerous andretil and mental to navigation for two ciara work has now been bein going on at the betties jetties jet fies ties up to the present time tue tuu concentration of the water the sanu bar at the hiou th odthe of the by tle the jetties betties has created a channel over two hundred feet wide and in no do place jess less than thau twenty feet deep where oftay about eight feet bad previously existed the concentration of the water flowing over the shoal in the river at the head bead of the pas pass has hay likewise created a channel over feet wide ulde ili n ho bo portion less dess I 1 han ihan 20 feet deg diz deep and 30 fett feet fet ft et t deep in the center w where beffie the beuth wai scarcely 14 feel feet engl engi ii i buhr who have been opposed to captain eads ealis plan have aser asserted td that while it was probable that the channel between the jetties betties might ib lie deepened the sand rand washed out current would form a bar in advance of the jetties betties jet ties and the dlf dif of the entrance would not be conquered but instead of a bar being formed at this thia point it is found that the accumulation of sand if to prevented by the gulf guif current athwart the mouth of the pass which deepens tile the outer slope of the bar and sweeps away any sueh such portion of the discharged sediment ua as the river current falie faile to carry to great distances se seaward captain eads states in hla hia report that during the time in which a portion of the flow into the pass was waa interrupted by the works at its head and while the current slackened a temporary deposit of pediment took look place in the pass and between the jetties betties Jet ties the gradual restoration of the normal flow into the pass through the new channel at its head has already begun to enlarge the pas again and has since thin s restored flow commenced removed from between the jetties betties within ibe the past three months over half a million cubic yards of deposit and given through more than halt half the length of the jetties betties a much larger and deeper channel than ever previously existed the tho size of which 19 la 19 already throughout more than 2000 feet 28 feet by feet or that re quiren to entitle ua us to the fifth payment frem from the united statis states while many hundred feet of it exceeds 30 feet by feet at the bead of the paries passes the river has bas a width of over feet and yet is brought under complete control by captain eads works which are so designed as to allow of the increase or limit of the discharge into the south pass paes if ir hereafter necessary with but little ad lit Jit lonai lonal outlay the law of congress which anth authorizes th orizes captain eads to do this work grants him thirty months mouths after the approval of the tho which to secure a navigable depth of 20 fet tou through g the pass pasi if not accomplished comp complis lishe bed hed d in n that time congress may ravo revoke I 1 a the privileges granted to him hito under the samo same penalty he murt must secure additional depth of not ies les less than two feet during each year thereafter until 20 16 1 feet feets hall hali ball have been secured if these conditions shall be fully complied with the united stat B rales tales fes lea hgr agrees agres es to pay captain eads for constructing the works and obtaining a depth of or 30 30 feet in the channel and the annual sum of fo for every year that t h at said depth of 30 feet shall be maintained the payment of the large slim is only made at stated in intervals upon the completion of the work and captain eads has tu to perform it at his bis own expense the government only paying when it clearly appears the stipulated depths of water aie are are secured it is gratifying to rea read d the cl clop clor op ing warda of the report of this eminent engineer 1 I may add with ats als plute certainty that tills entire system ertem of works is now so far completed that no financial can intervene to arrest the processes of na ture alch are aid constantly desfred ing ta nd perfect the tho desired deur channel through them COMING AROUND TO THE tue TUB f ov ew york sufi sun of july 27 in makes akes the following noticeable acknowledgment oun CUn unquestionably society is not as should be if all men were goad the general hap happiness phinees would be vastly increased therefore as the step to improvement we urge on all priests and pastors thod the duty duly uty of inculcating oa on ilch anil anti poor alike the r of their u conduct on according to the highest precepts of morals morale and religion the sure way to make the world better and happier is for fur each man to make himself better to deal deai justly and to eschew wickedness it is patent to everybody that society isgut is not ii lil in L the most satisfactory condit condition ioD lod indeed it often beems seems to bain lain le in anything else than a condition satisfactory tb to a fair minded person to such the world fre appears to be sadly out of joint and anan in an exceedingly dered dt red sante in many important respects there tires no argument to brov this most alost men acknowledge il it freely nut but how fo mend matters is noto patent to the in fact there bag bal been a great amount of upon this point at divera times and by divers parties and aud still to the mass of mankind if le Is ii an question and one that they aie liot not likely to agne agree u upon pon very soon eoon indeed almost lilithe 1111 all the he quarrels in the world public arld abild private national and n are based basest mor more or ies lets les upon this thia important but bui much disputed question the therun sun however as above quoted bl bas has as evidently 1 an ydea of the source whence all hopeful ail advance varice vatice in the desired direction must emanate that the met first step in the wa way y of this needed and most desirable improvement must be the regulation of individual conduct in accordance with the highest precepts of morals and thesis this id something like what we have been contending for all the ifie time we ve have havo maintained and arld do still maintain that the goepel pt p jesus christ is the grand panacea orilie forthe evils that hat are in tv the world individual and national nt ional lonal political and roil roll religious ious lous temporal an and spiritual and that it is useless sheer waste of time to look to any other means mans for real leal and pi manent relief this is in accordance too with wi it h the t bf doctrines of the bible bibie Bib leand and ia Is indeed the burden of the teachings of that sacred book and of every servant of god whose test testimony mony may maybe ba found therein among the very tory first thing required of all men and women by the gospel 13 18 ia 13 repentance taree tamee of sin forsaking that which is evil and cleaving unto the lord with full purpose of heart to keep his holy commandments and to observe his precepts which would lead to the living of a blameless ilfe life full of good words and good works to all the workmanship of his hands As the sun sen suggests if this were the case with j men and an id worn women theft would 1 IJ be b i no such evill in as ex astin ja the pre pro present tilt eilt tiit day but the rae rare would be jilted lifted up out 0 ot me the nils nila erable lough slouch m hii fil which much of it Is at tee tea the preb present ent and aud exalted t to a beautified beatified beati fied fled condition condl tion a lulik lunz way fly kiy in advance of anything any thing that the world hns has yet geen ee h or aa as possible p gna ira 1 in this mortal life we may observe again that atter alter all discussions and reformatory for matory attempts lh ili th this ia direction comparative failure will be the result unless ss such atte are based upon n gospel principles conviction WANTED THE new ew york herald of july 28 speaking of the arrest of general gene ral rai 11 T burton hurton of this city tallis talks in this wild way of his rial trial git fit it will conclusively show one thing whether it la Is possible tto to obtain a conviction of a in erli criminal minal binal under the present resent jury system of the territory if lie he rp jes capes justice justlee will be a mere mockery and aud congress must interfere forever or surrender utah to brigham Y young oung this is the style in which the herala herald prejudges pre judges utah matters a all nil 11 ti tife life folline felline lime time the method of judicial ratiocination adopt adopted edby by that paper has the merit of bi bling being ing exceedingly simple dimple if it to recommend it being thin this assume a man is guilty as he be is charred if not nut benore before and no matter how bow or by whom the ephre es aro trumped up call hith h in every bad bid thing you can if think hink of at insist on his bis conviction and punishment aud and abuse to the lowest degree judge judg ejury jury lawyers antl anil witnesses if conviction is not nol obtained if upon the system of jurisprudence a man is to be hild held bild guilty because he is so charged iby somebody s thua re rever verning ning king the 61 bid J law doctrine that a man be until guilty then what Is the tise use of courts at ail all judge jury bs es prose cution defence trial etc are all all that if J I 1 wanted is somebody to prefer a J charge aga ilist a citizen and tomer come body eise else to execute upon the eitl clil zen the penalty |
