| Show EA da T 0 bial RIAL RI A L p 0 31 hot NOT HOI ZEPE KEPT IH IN TIM THE dare DASK etnis philadelphia press nut nul to be out of 0 the fashion of speaking rashly about the mormons cormons Mor mons bay says mormon missionaries do not preach polygamy and as tho the mass of their thair converts belong to the classes who don dont tread read there Is tittle little reagon reason for tho the surprise ei expressed pressed in many quarters that the edmunds bill had no apparent effect in reducing mor wo T pon mon imm immigration is this la Is intended to convey the impression that the people who join the church of jesus christ of lat ter tor day saints abroad and who compose the cM mormon ormon onmon immigration 11 1 1 are kept in the dark on the subject of mormon plural marriage until they reach utah this has been frequently charged char wed ged in i plainer language than that used by the tho press prem but a great many jour 1 nals nalo offer an opposite objection j they timy dellaro that the mormon immigrants who are arriving in large numbers come to the united w states for the special of breaking the laws of the land that Is of practicing practising polygamy which la is the correct position that mormon missionaries conceal mormon polygamy and their converts know nothing about it or that they othey scour the european continent for recruits for mormon ha hares harems rems the statements cannot bothee true and yet each is insisted upon with aa as much vigor as the other wo viii will answer the question neither assertion is correct mormon missionaries do not g generally ene rally raily t k preach on the subject of plural marriage ai at the same time they do not conceal it they are ate not sent abroad to 0 promulgate the doctrine that la not their busine busino bus ineis s it fato is to preach tho gospel of faith re repentance pent and rud nud baptism fag foi foj the rom rem remission assion of beri berl with vi ih the promise of the gift of tho iho holy holk gh ghost oat by theJa the ying laying on of hands handi and aud the tha exhortation for the p saints to nather gather out from the wicked to the land of zion bat they aro always ready when requested to explain und and defend iha tha doctrine of plural marriage mam age ago as held and tided in a utah 80 iso the people who erho receive the gospel aro are not hept kept in the dark conc concerning eining polygamy neither dolhay delhey emigrate fp for the purpose of supporting eup porting that s system s tem if they think of it at r a al it is more in the way of assent to ito its principles pbs in theory than of any adv regard to its practice p rac tice but tha press presa Is greatly mistaken ag to the class elass of converts to the emor cMor mormon mon mou church it rarely in 1 TK l 1 chides cl udes udea a person who wilo cannot read the 19 mormon mis flonary islo nary mid and ono hat is kept in the h f field more than any other ia is called mie THE roty Hoty BIBLE and it is chiefly khe the leopla who believe in and read that dook book king james translation who receive the testimony momy of the tho mormon elders and come to utah in the mormon immigration companies conversation with the people who arrive at new york in charge of our elders will provo prove the truth cf of these wiert assertions lons ions ve we also have works which are widely read and our church organ zhe the millennial star which is taken and generally by the latter day sainta in europe has been published continuously for nearly forty g 3 nive five years and keeps our scattered zeatter ed people people posted in regard to our church ir doctrines the doings in utah the laws of df Con oon congress grebs grees that relate to the mormon question andall and nil all things a bout which the onto sainta saints abroad are supposed by some people to bce kept hept la in ignorance jhb the edmunds bill does doss not affect tha the mormon immigration one way or another thern thera ia is no reason why it should the surprise ex pressed ix in many quarters is the rein sult suit of ignorance ot of the whole cl mormon question which the erml drw we are borry to beep seep see bee shares in common with Wit hother pother papers and aad the t f A dye cre public we yve respectfully recommend inquiry i and sincerely advise silence on the part of respectable spee spec tabie table journals until they can speak with some understanding of the tho subject 47 10 dispatches aae uhe rl AN AND D y tl press TRESS COMMENTS 1 IT ia s the fashion 0 of many r duent jueng t nent uenh nes neb newspapers papers in this country to 0 o t comment on press dispatches dispatch 8 concerning ions utah and the fmc euc cormons mormons Mor mons as though the tidings th telegraph were undisputed and uli uri disputable fact facts requiring no es 6 aminat ionas lonas to correctness and arid yet there la Is no moro more unreliable nowa news circulated through tha land than these bame eaino press about utah often they are arc whale clo cio h falsehood falsehoods frequently they contain just enough truth to save them from froin that imputation and now and again by telling part only ot of the truth they succeed la misleading the public mind without getting fairly within the line of lying A case iii lri point is the i dispatch concerning the circular ietter letter r of the of the tho church here buthe on the poll political situation by making a partial quotation here and there from the document sandwiched in between tho the telegraphers own re marks a text tesi has been furnished f failong for long iong discourses from the pross press we clip the annexed from a boston paper as a specimen men paragraph paragraph para pata grap h the manifesto manit maali esto which the mormon leaders have issued to their theft followers bre breathes atiles a spirit pi rit tit ot of defiance and resistance to th the execution of the edmunds edmunda law it describes the law as a mod at the repression and destruction of a portion of tho mormon religion deocares dee deo hares fares that tho tho the principle of calest celestial ivil ma marriage triage is 3 c interwoven ter woven with irlin our dearest and liol holiest hollest lest hopes conneff ed with eternity affirms that the mormons cormons have no compromise to make or principles to barter awaya sway and appeals to the morrn morin mormon on people to guard well their franchi franchine aa and in ono un broken brohen phalanx maintain and sustain their political status mormon resistance toor to or ov lasion evasion of the edmunds laws law will only on y result in other legislation which cannot be resisted or evaded and it I 1 ia perhaps just as I 1 well thant that the mormon spirit should manifest itself now as an later now fhe tha manifesto con contains taina not a syllable syll able ablo of nor a breath of resistance resistance to the edmunds law or any ather other enactment it is 13 an outspoken declaration of the sentiments of thio tilo mormon 11 py lead ers ors on buh sub subjects joett upon which eabry american citizen has the tho right to speak and so far from advising fare re si stanca or I 1 it counsels cou nEela tho the latter day balents saints to submit not only onis to that law jn in relation to the approaching el election but also to the I 1 rulen rules ladeby made mado by tue the although in bome somo respects they are in af tho tild law and the power it confers it la 13 a document that has been largely commended for its moderation and ant I 1 liberality D beall ty by persons pers ns not ia in accord with the mormon ormon church in any way nad sad can cai only be objected to in a spirit of unfairness and bigoted animosity but bet the commenia comments ahat bave been made upon it like the tho above have been provoked by bk tho garbled report of it in ih the press dispatch and nud the papers which have let lot themselves loose on the subject are td ba bs blamed more for taking a one sided and unreliable report as the ground for their attacks attack than f fer for c r the rabid nature of their remarks we think that 1 if tha the if mormon olk question is of sufficient importance to provoke frequent and cerious attention tent lon ion it ia Is grave enough to demand inquiry into the facts before I 1 wholesale and bitter denunciation ia Is indulged in and wo we suggest that the 11 manifesto which asa called forth so many miny editorials 0 hould should at least hayo havo been read bafaro befaro leading journals jou jot finals proceeded to load it down with eo many epithets however one one ono good thin thina will vill come out of this injustice if if the editors will not investigate before condemning other oiher people will and the very fierceness of tho attacks made upon everything that thra ia iscon eon connected with mormonism niam 1 will direct the attention of inquiring people who will read think bee eee and act upon their own agency and responsibility and choir con conclusions will ili ba be of value not only to themselves but hut butto to the system and people who are so sa unfairly assailed i THE TH E MORMON POLITICAL STATUS Th the utah eutah commission has encountered the opposition of the cormons mormons at the very start of its operations the high coffle alala alaia of the church have issued a manifesto to their followers bidding them pre well our franchise and in one unbroken un broken brokon phalanx maln main tain and sustain our political status and as da pat patriots r lots and freemen operate together hi in defense of what few lib ernea ernes bre are left us lis 31 if this is not an appeal for resistance to tho theauthor author ity of the tho united states then ther it bas haa no meaning the edmunds bill I 1 was vas framed for alib ex press pres s 4 purpose be of destroying the tho pili political s teof of the mormon chu church cb hs feb the first step toward ea curIng securing an enforcement of the jaw law against polygamy if the cormons mormons attempt to maintain and sustain this alil political status an anis issue sue suo will be joined which may force a speedier solution of the mormon problem than the advocates of this deac moe toe auro uro ure calculated upon we clip the fo foregone forego regon ini Sni from tho the boston berald herald it la Is one fiorell illustration lust rallon oie OIL of the slipshod kiy kly wiy in which eastern papers handle the mormon formon question they thay feel called upon to tossy bay say something on this subject bemuse because the public feel some interest in it bub bul thoy they wIll win not inko tabo the trouble to inform them selves solves enough to speake peak intelligently and correctly the utah commissioners have made a report to the secretary of the interior which has loeen loten published all over the country being circulated as a press dispatch it contained olle one error made by the operator but bus was in tha the main correct the mis mia take oaka was in crediting the mor ismor mons of the non moz mor mons with that application to the commissioners to exclude women voters from the reg registry latry lists thias this attempt was made by the clique called the cLIbe liberals rals rais but it did not succeed the mormons cormons Mor mons are in favor of woman suffrage 6 as they are of every movement calculated to secure political social and religious liberty to women equally with men in their report the commissioners make male no charge of obstruction on the part orthe 0 mormons cormons Mor mons lV dither neither in the fa start tar t nor at any other point poin t of their proceedings havo hava they experienced perien perlen ced opposition from the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 if the boston herald had paid proper attention to this matter before comin comment erit it would ha have vereen vereon been that the opposition in the start atari came from the non mor man moar 11 who objected A to the election in novem november ber which the commissioners came liero here to supervise the mormons cormons Mor mons wore were la in favor of 0 the iZet ilsc tion lon and thir opponents were so mad waa over the decision of tho the commissioners that it should ba be held that thau some of the baser basen sort commenced to abuse the commissioners and accused them ot uan wan pandering pan derins to the 4 c 11 neither have bare the high officials a of the church by manifesto or other otherwise wise wite appealed for resistance to the author authority fl of the united states and the quotation made by the boston herald ald does not convey any bue sue such sueh h impression if it to guard well our franch franchise isee isse sustain our political status and defend our liberties is to the authority of the united states bistes then it follows that the united states ara sra engaged in in an attempt to do destra trav the vie franch franchise leie iFie political status and mid civil of a portion of the people which the government was organized to protect but we do notch not charge rge this and the bosto boston a H gierald er at d should hould s h have a ve sense enough to perceive the folly of such an accusation and if the words quoted convey such a mean ing asu aathar that imputed then every political manifesto sto democratic be lwe publican or independent can be construed in the same manner the gierald needs a pinch of the tho snuff of common bense sense to clear its editorial head tho herald ia Is rash and foolas foolish again in stating that the E edmunds bill was framed for the express purpose of destroying the 1 political status of the mormon mornion church 2 we are afraid that the gierald herald has not read the edmunds bill it says nothing about nor its 41 political stated 11 if it did that would have stamped it with an additional mark of unconstitutionality tiona lity congress has DO no right to ather pass 53 laws lawa to destroy tho the political or other status of any church in the land the tho cM mormon ormon church has just as much right to a political status aa as the methodist church or the catholic church churcher Chur chor ehor lor any ot other her church the only alluvion allu aliu blon aion to the cormons mormons Mor mons mona as a religious body in the edmunds act is I 1 in n the seventh section which is favorable rather than antagonistic it legitimates all the issue of bigamous or polygamous marriages solemnized according to the carem ceremonies onles onies of the mormon soot born before the first day of J andary this does not alm aim at the destruction of any political status dots doss it mr herard hepard but butche the term political status attached to the mormon church is sheer nonsense it 11 has no such status to destroy As an ecclesiastical organization it does not figure in such a position it Is a church not a state nor a political party ilem mem bers of the mormon church haye hayo a political status just as members of any other church who aho vho are ore cit citizens freno Iveno of the united states stites and they havo have the right to organize orga nize nizo for the purpose of preserving it and to da d rend fend their political li berties liberties the authorities of that church have not lost their political statu status 8 by accession to ecclesiastical but have the right to to their friends and asso associates elates on all matters that pertain to their welfare socially morally and polli politically gic tic allys aa as well prell as religiously using the latter word in its common restricted sense we can assure the boston herald and all tho the anti Mormon fanatics in theland the land that the mormons cormons Mor mons as na citizens of the united will certainly attempt to maintain and sustain their political status that abat ia to exe ext exercise exorcise reibe relEe the elective franchise so eo far as it is left to chemin busta sustaining ening ining for what few offices are yet in their gift buch euch men as appear to them tho the best qualified to gerve serve them in a public capacity those who are ere dig dis franchised by the edmund edmunde law |
