Show i A GENTILE PROTEST MESA CITY maricola maricopa Mari Marl copa county arizona ty may 6 S 82 E editor edcor deseret av mews news ewa I 1 will if you permit trouble your columns with a short review of the famous or infamous as you like it circular emanating from christian gentlemen of your city tho the first and only paragraph cf this brilliant epistle w which ech ich I 1 intend to no notice tice lice reads aa as follows L 1 out of a total tami population lamn lawn of 1 in utah about are adherents of mormonism of ghe tte anti mormon minority only a small per cent render us awve active aid la in 0 our cur endeavors to establish chrie Chrle christian atlan homes in the place of 0 the foul system of which prevails in utah hence va greatly feel the need of y your youn sympathy and efforts that ten learned and dignified churchmen all I 1 presume well grounded in the mysteries of modern christianity should make such a lamentable and humiliating confession fes sion slon as contained in the above paragraph la Is indeed astonishing as well as a sad blow to their brethren n of the east as well as being a con proof to infidels jn in general that the mixed they seek to inculcate is la not of such a nature as to command the respect of human minds the confession must also be a drawback to senator edmunds and his eccle eccie ecclesiastical sias backers up inasmuch aa these thesa ten worthy soul soui sou leavers bavers savers admit tha that in various portions of the nand particularly in utah their deformed doctrines are unequal to stem estem tho the tide of mormonism Mormon niam hm or even gain the support or active aid of the va vs rious congregations over whom they preside the weeping walling and gnash ing of teeth by these gospel worthies amounts to this and this alone there is no money in com batting Mormonism or any doctrine a ax taught by and preached by his apostles Apost lea of one fact however the readers of that circular are put in possession and that is that the congregations of the ten who signed it have the wisdom to see eee that their mormon fellow citizens are morally hoci socially nily ally and physically their equal it not their bul sul superiors 1 would alfee to bring before the notice of your readers one of the clergymen whose name ia Is appended to that document the very rev ii Scan benn scanlan lati lari V G ia Is either cither an irishman by birth bilth or the descendant of one in any case be he must retain in his hia memory from actual observation or or still better from irish history that no people on godys goda earth ever suffered more for conscience F sake ake fake than the inhabitants of the green isle and that no race ever clung with greater fidelity and tenacity to the teachings of their church through long years of bitter vindictive and powerful persecution the recital of which alone even at this distant day will make mabe their youngest descendants of american birth give vent to bitter imprecations against the tyranny of those days the very reverend gentleman must also know that persecution instead of bootin rooting g out the faith of the irishman caused it to take tahe deeper root was stronger and spread out from continent to continent until tc day it exceeds over six million souls in ah the united states alone he be must be still further aware of the fact that no race are more liberty loving or more opposed to proscription in any form or shape than his hia compatriots of these things the wery very davd father must be well aware and for the these thebe reasons I 1 and hundreds of others in this territory de descendants of that persecuted jaee jace feel sorrow borrowed unseeing in seeing the name of an irish catholic divine associated with a flock of gospel tinkers who would gloat with wilh malignant glee over oven the burning and leking of every roman catholic church in our broad domain short indeed must be the memory of this gentleman 2 when he forgot in a moment of unworthy carthan heat the despotism of a penal code which assigned his ancestors and their descendants to a position worse woree than slaves starvation ignorance and if possible extermination I 1 blush for very bhame shame that an irish priest bearing a name illustrious in irish history should so far forget the dignity of his high calling in vainly trying to trample under foot the liberty and freedom to worship god aa as they please of citizens who have never indeed or in inwood woid offended the flax of their country had yon you very read father con nult nuit d elo tiso of bf your church or held in memory the moral pre jre cents which i you daily con over in your br breviary instead of allowing your name to appear at sst the bottom of such a document you yon would have turned away from its ita originators and with uplifted hands have prayed for them in the words of your redeemer when expiring on the c ross cross father forgive them for they know not what they do T S R |