| Show MR GLAD olad STONES ATTITUDE tind tins attitude of mr gladstone toward the tha anti antl Mormon committee that waited upon him on the dinst did good credit to his hla capacious c brain and generous heart it wouldga would be ba well for our leading men of national reputations to consider the position on this question of one of the foremost statesmen in t the he world it appears that the committee was grossly ignorant of the subject rg regarding arling which they solicited mr Glad stones aid they represented that the elders eiders r were vere ero ere traveling about the country making a special business of entrapping trapping en young girls and shipping them off to utah for Bin sinister lefer and imm immoral orgil purposes doubtless they unjustly judged the elders from the standard that prevails only too widely in the world it is easily ascertainable by all who wish to inform themselves on the subject that the missionaries preach the gospel of falth faith faithy repentance baptism for tiie trie remission of sins eins and the imparting of the holy ghost by the laying on of hands and all who believe an dobey their message male and female fema leold old oid or young youn gare bre are admitted into the church that people of no one lexor sex or age ago predominate could readily be ascertained by ob serving the comp companies adles of emigrants which leave the port of liverpool but nut notwithstanding the cepro or rather misrepresentations of the committee the venerable premier stood by the position he assumed on a former occasion of a similar character he did not know that the elders resorted to any illegal methods to obtain prose lytes and did not see that he could interfere he appeared pronoun pronouncedly cealy opposed to any legislation whose object would be the prevention of mormon emigration from tho the country although mr gladstone was mistaken jn in hib his opinion thatis that it was wasi generally kenen kener baly EAly tome bope hope at 0 material benefit fall into the arms of utah mission arlea his remark that measures looking to the improvement of the material condition of tho the working classes would bo be a better method than a resort to legislation was a mild yet somewhat cutting rebuke to the committee |
