Show THE MORMON QUESTION timet loui loul f g republican has had something to say on the mormon question lately and has discussed it ina lna in a better mannen manner than is usual with our opponents the common style is to abue abuse us without stint accuse us of rimes crimes we never thought of committing and intentions that never entered our souls and then call on the government to convert us with prisons and chains or bayonets and field guns but the republican recognizes izes the worth of t the h e people who have li ve been the means of opening to colonization the vast hist region now occupied by two states and half a dozen territories and also the aims alms of the adventurers who start the villainous villain stories concerning the mormons cormons Mor mons and who lust for their possession we cl clip elip a couple of paragraphs from the as subject a sample of its utterances on this facing th these ese facts what I 1 is to be d done one onedo tredo the do nothing policy ic Y h has as failed what shall shail be ber the character of the f 0 do o something if the mor mons were a worthless class of citizens we might and undoubtedly would offer onner them the alternative of contenting themselves with one wife or departing in heape oro orp orether lher wise bt As the necessities of the case required we might and aud undo undoubtedly abt would say to them conform to our m marriage mirrl arnia arria age e laws and stay continue to defy them and you must go but they are an exceedingly valuable class of citizens they have displayed an energy and skill in colonization under the most unfavorable circumstances wh which ieh leh has bas provoked the admiration of the world they have literally made tho the he wilde wilderness ruess to bud and blossom as the rose and in an inhospitable desert compared with which the new england of the pilgrim fathers was wasa a paradise have reared a zi nourishing flou r commonwealth which foreigners cross the atlantic to 6 see how can we bring th the 0 mor mons into what may be termed shape how can we eliminate polygamy and yet not drive away the polygamists it is to be hoped that the government ju in any dealing with the matter which mily may be attempted hereafter will always remember that the strongest opposition to the mormons cormons comes from those who are hungry for the mor wor mons property and that ih it will dot le lie unduly influenced by these theses wolves in cheeps clothing no n action can succeed oc or ought to td succeed which is not based upon justice honesty and honor |