| Show THE INDIANS aird AND THE MORMONS 11 A short time timo ago wo we noticed tome resolutions in regard to the indians and tho cormons mormons Mor mons introduced by senator H athaway hathaway in the missouri legislature tho the st louis t lican lic ansof ansOt of march loth contains the full rep a speech made by thal that gentleman in support of his resolutions it la is a strong argument against the policy of If shooting civilization ilza liza tion inlo into the red men and the gospel into the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 As we intimated in our notice mr hathaway has lived among thu indians and speaks from what he haa been been peen and what he understands of the workings of the system by which the gln gin fIn indian dian ninga ringa fatten and grow rich at the expense of the savages and the nation tie the plan of manufacturing bogus massacres which are telegraphed and published all over the land the bonding sending out of 0 a few companies of soldiers sold ls the ordering of supplies the swindles perpetrated in furnishing forage and provis provi siona iono are all described in forcible language languages and the tho withdrawal of we army armi yand and agencies from froin among the indians Is ig ur gadon the ground that tho robber rings would then disappear and the painted man would dangle from the hast convenient tree when any depredation was committed and he claims that it 11 let alone the indian would never bring on a war with the white men because he believes them to be countless in numbers like the nars wars stars in heaven and overwhelming mr Hath hathaway awas awai advocates the enfranchisement of the indians and the dividing of their lands into sev er erakles arles his ris idea la 19 make mahe them citizens and they will cease to be indians deans give to each a j just net and equitable portion of their lands and they will soon be able to support themselves by providing tuat no r sale ale aie shall be made and perfected to white settlers within a given number of years they would be kept from the wiles of the land cormorant and sp speculator culaton after exposing and denouncing noun cing the villainy of indian agents he adds all that may be ba done in the and progress of regenerate ing the indian and placing the ballot in his handy hands one thing is imperative and must mast be ba strictly observed and honor and good faith we must not make the promise to the ear and break it to the heart hear as our Rs publican friends did dla to the negro with forty acres of land lands a mule and a friedmana freed mans manlig bureau it estrue is true arne they obtained the bureaus but there is not a negro in the country who would not gladly exchange it for the mule taking up the II mormon question mr 11 athaway hathaway vigorously as sails balls the hypocrisy of those who are seeking to destroy the people of utah on the plea that that they are attacking polygamy he expresses himself as aa opposed to polygamy on prInciple but denies denlea the right of any one on that plea to corob rob them of their homes and faith ho he quotes the constitutional provision against interference ter ference with religious worship and remarks the moral sense of the ministry mini min stry latry is shocked and therefore congress is urgently and constantly importuna ed to extirpate the mormons cormons from their homes bomea unless they yield up their convictions to satisfy and relieve the consciences of pharisaical christians because they are holy men man 0 who are they and what class of men are interested in the extirpation of the mor mons who is stimulating the ministers to agitate the subject but those sharks and shar pers who are watchful for an opportunity TO possess bess sess the beautiful beau besu city by the lase they are known as the mormon ring and are heartless cormorants who subsist upon the industry of others they aro are the dangerous political scavengers who would make wreck of their country for personal gain already they have honeycombed the departments at washington with appalling borrup tion and seeing afar off in a nich rich and elegant c city ity they long for it as others have longed for the flesh pots of egypt think thinh you they are sincere in their efforts to era ers eradicator eradicate dieato dicato polygamy from the land nol no As well might you yon look for virtue inn ina in a brazen harlot I 1 shall not sermonize but speak for a purpose theeo these men have nave enlisted the ministry in their behalf and although I 1 1 belong to the congregation of a christian christi church and believe in the genuine spirit of christianity I 1 have little falth faith in those whom christ condemned as hypocrites pharis eos ees and vipers he then describes the journey of the mormons cormons Mor mons after being driven from their city and temple near the mississippi eulogizes their industry and the results or of their toll toil and aad bays baya in salt balt lake city there was a happy and ond contented people they believed they had a right to enjoy what they had earned in that city there was not a drame hop nor a gambling hell nor a place of shame nor an idler nor a pauper nor a prison till it is was invaded by the gentiles to drive that people away from their own possessions from the land they have enriched and beau bean tilled with their labor and sacrifices sacrifice and give it over into the hands of a sha shameless political ring unless they surrender a faith as dear to them as life Is to us and at the demand of those who prostitute their sacred office with hypocrisy is a crime it la is too great an ida injustice ustice to be properly named it is un american cowardly and infamous As evidence of the kind of opposition the people here have to meet and the abuse they have to endure he quotes from a vile sheet published in this city an article in which his own character and motives are attacked attached in its usual blackguard and venomous styles sty lebe because cause canse he ventured to take a stand or the tho side of fairness and justice to the mormons cormons Mor mons and makes the following remarks showing how the babe base thing is 13 regarded this needs no comment from me but if within the limits of our great state there should ever be such a bastardy of truth or such a crime against common decency as I 1 have just read I 1 would vote for its punishment and offer an apology to the CO country for the existence or of such buch a fraud in our midst I 1 now leave this matter as the game is too insignificant tor ton the distance in striking contrast to what I 1 have just read let me read a few lines from the published in the came city introducing the resolutions now before this senate mr hathaway after presenting our remarks concludes as follows there is always a strong sympathy between political cowardice and hypocrisy the one fastens himself upon u 0 n the body politic by dodging his hs own convictions the other assumes a virtue it he has his it not ooze out an unpronounced and unimportant life and de die never to b be a remembered the worth of an honest man who acts himself and fearlessly performs per forms forma what he regards to be a right although he may sometimes bo be wrong makes up the positive characters of every age let the mormons cormons mone nione I 1 have sub bitted my views and hope the resolution wiil wili pass we have no idea that the resola will be adopt adopted ad but they will do good by causing discussion on both of the important questions which they ibey treat upon A different poll poil policy ey will have to bo be pursued towards the indians and the conviction of this thib is fastening itself upon the minds of the best dest people in the country and it is also beginning to dawn upon the and impartial intel lect elect that the wild rabid and inde feasible ten fen sible policy pursued towards the people who havo have been instrumental in opening up to settlement and civilization tho the vast and wealth pro regions of the rocky mountains is wrong in principle and futile in practice and that the thena na tion has no interest in the political or colial social destruction of an industrious and progressive if heterodox community for the sake of assisting the schemes of a handful of trick and adventurers |
