Show MORMON advertisements ria via uj every spring the are t p a shrewd people contrive to secure a most valuable general advertisement of their Territory and their con these times the country la Is solemnly informed that the expect fm ed mormon immigration ration for the coming year will bier be so many thou sands and then speculations are in bulged as to the future plans of the cormons mormons Mor mons and usually some of their agents are interviewed then the press takes tabes up the whole question of mormonism niam and observes that this kind of immigration is both disgraceful and dangerous and the more energetic and impatient papers want va ar to know how long the government is is going to put up with it and deif mand that congress bhai at once va legislate against polygamy Last year yean 4 mr hin secretary evarts evarta imparted a pa ia little variety to the business by send Z J jug ug a grave circular letter to our en v voys and consuls all over euro europe pe iii i lii protesting against the introduction of intending polygamists As might have been anticipated the protest produced no results whatever foreign governments did not see their I 1 way vay to superintending super intending and weed weeding uund I 1 tuut tout the emigration to the united states and it is just possible that iu they tid clid lid not care greatly what hap r opened jp ened in the premise premises but what dees continue to happen Is the steady accession of recruits to mormonism the steady extension and growth of WI tsat peculiar people the steady disregard of congressional legislation 2 and journalistic ili in a 01 t word the mormons go about their tr bli bil business siness systematically quietly but with an energy and persistence y which produce very appreciable rey f cults hil hii while hll e all the opposition to and A denunciation of them end in smoke y congress has several times tried its r hand at solving the mormon problem and each time it has failed gen garfield in his hir inaugural referred to the question as one which he i should like to see settled but while it is very easy to evoke the strongest kind of expressions on the subject thus thua far bio fio nothing thing has been boen ione lone done which in ja the least degree detracts T firon ficon the growth or power of the HP mormon heir archy or which has advanced the case one step nearer to a real solution politicians often make ff a feint of taking it up and talk all ail around it in a general way but when it comes to legislation the sovereignty of the united states abw always ays appears inadequate to cope with the situation we have several times endeavored to point out the reason lof of these failures the case of the cormons mormons is in nearly all respects ja identical with that of the south ta the lesson it teaches is that no government can impose upon a community munt ty jaws wh which ich they believe to r be unjust or iniquitous unless it is proposed to enforce tb them em by the im por or tation of extraneous forces so go long jong as respect ct is paid to the spirit coffree of free institutions it must be imps wi sible to do thia it has hag proved t impossible in the south and it has proved impossible in utah we are not now concerned at ail ali jall J fail all with the character of the belief which cause the rejection and cation fl 11 of the laws sought to ba be im posed we are only concerned with the facts the mormons cormons are in truth anallen an alien allen community they donot do not believe as the american people gen 58 eral y believe the laws which S american america people regard as necessary 1 and right they regard in many instances as unnecessary and wrong H the question ie is whether under these circumstances it can ever be possible to enforce the lassof 1 without treating utah as a conquered country una end coercing the mor mons of course the further question iw whether such a course as this j would be compatible with a due re gard for the principles upon which r the republic stands is involved rut both t these ese questions will it seem f clear to us have to be met and an Bw ered before the tiie mormon problem an can be practically dealt with mean time pe all that is being said about t r that hatm people pie only advertises them the better and no doubt serves to increase their annual army of prose lytes the above is an editorial which appeared in the sacramento record muon union M hon don of may ad that paper generally takes a thought thoughtful fu and consistent view of the mormon question but errs sometimes through a lack of full information being led astray by incorrect reports iturea its ita reasoning on most of the subjects which it handles is close and logical and in some of them profound and convincing its attitude on the subject of mormonism usually noticeable noti cable for calmness and the absence of that vindictive spirit which is common with the press when to touching u upon pon this topic may be accounted for by the fact that the record accord union is not tinctured with the modem modern christian sentiment papers that are at all sectarian in their tendency are rabid anti antl mormons the sacramento paper is heretical and freethinking free thinking we do oo not expect lu justice stice from strongly religious C people or journals we may and do sometimes get a little from skeptics and those not committed to a creed to most of the article which we have reproduced we have no objections to offer we acknowledge th the hand of the lord in the result of all ali the tumult and anger and nonsense that are annually stirred up against us that is we recognize his providence overruling all this for the tile extension of the work in which we are engaged indifference is the hardest foe we have to fight in our warfare a against deep rooted traditions and mo moss ss covered creeds sta stagnation is against our internal interests but our enemies seem determined to keep us alive on the alert and to attract that attention and arouse that interest for us abroad that we could not gain by our own exertions they also exhibit I 1 us in such a false and shameful ilg light ht that those who are thus prejudiced the most violently against us experience a revulsion of feeling when they get to see the truths truth and the outcome Is that they become our warmest friends and often otten our most enthusiastic proselytes prose lytes the worst thing our christian friends and political antagonists could do against us would be to let us alone but to the latter part of the record unions remarks we do take exceptions it is not true that the mormons cormons Mor mons are an alien community we may not believe as the american people generally believe on some things and neither do they see eye to eye on most things thing but this does not make us flan plan an alien community we believe in ili the american system of political government we believe that its fundamental principles were given by inspiration from god we acknowledge now ledge allegiance to the authority of the united states we teach our foreign born people the neches sity and benefits of lse Ise coming becoming eld cid citizens we teach our oun c children in our schools the duty of individuals to the state we use the same text books in illustration of this as adopted in other parts of the country if there is or hag lias been at any time any feeling of or discord between us and the government it has haq not been from any alien spirit in us but in consequence of the attitude of hostility repeatedly assumed towards us by the government based on an incorrect estimate we have never assumed the offensive but we have been forced into the defensive and it is not true that the laws which the american people r regard as necessary and right the mor mons regard in many instances as unnecessary and wrong this Is is a common calumny it is in bruited bruised abroad that we are defiant and registers of the laws of the united states why not state the faccas fact as it is why not say that the mor mons do not regard one of the laws of the united states in the same light as it is viewed by the rest of the cio CID country if there is any law of the I 1 land nd except the unrighteous antireligious anti antl religious act of 1860 1862 j which we disregard or to which we v e ofner offer any resistance will the record please point it out it is not fair to the he quiet 0 orderly and law abiding people of utah whose superiors in hese these respects cannot be found upon he tiie continent to class them as a k body of lawbreakers law breakers all this talk about ix extreme trenie mea for cl enforcing the laws of the united states in utah is balderdash there is just one law that is not looked upon among the latter day saints as right and just and w which filch may be occasionally violated in utah guly that one in the very nature of things it is le unlikely i t impossible possible in that it can bo be broken to any very large extent why then this of the matter into a momentous national question involving the grave query as to the propriety of a national departure from the baic balc principles of our government the ruin of an acknowledged thrifty and in many respects admirable community and the t e establishment of a grinding despotism in the midst of a I 1 popular republic but the ques question tiou will he be asked what ought to be done Is the authority of the united to be se betat tat naught Is the law to be left a dead otter lutter not feces ar arlly ily lly if the lay laxy lav is broken proceed as in the violation of other laws in other place no less aud and no more what need is there for the government or the papers or the people to go into violent spasms every now and again over the reported acts of a few persons in a small community in the heart of the rocky mountains why cannot clearheaded clear headed beaded people seo see the folly of this tills periodical outburst and perceive through all the smoke and din the origin of this ireat great cry over so little wool it comes from a few officials afraid of losing their federal pap whiskey and cigars from their hangers on who arg are hand band and glove with their plots and from a small gang of schemers who are vire on the look out for spoil spoils they easily gain the aid of the pious peek Peck sniffs s and the latter day pharisees Pharis Phar hees bees ees with the clergy who live by making merchandise of human souls and whose craft is in danger and thus the country is arous aroused eho eno to these frequent t demands for the stamping out of ism I 1 and prominent politicians mins bins have to do something to satisfy the clamor what comes of i tall tail I 1 all ail As the re cord union observes a valuable genera general I 1 advertisement advertise mentor for the mor mons 11 when it comes to acal action on there is so little to proceed against the fahe hoods set in elre eire circulation about it are so glaring and the biffl in the way of effecting anything like what the bigots and clam borers want are so lurge large urge and complicated that nothing is done of any pm practical cacal character but mormonism is made a topic of discussion the gosper is preached the cause if Is vindle vindicated abed shed the truth triumphs and god is glorified go on with your anti antl mormon music |