| Show A MORMON ON MORMONISM THE EDITOR 0 OP P THE DESERET NEWS DEFENDS tele THE PEOPLE the following is from the sacramento bee charles W penrose editor of the 69 deseret news s the organ of the mormon church published at salt lake was in sacramento the other day days and had quite a chat with one of the editors of the BEE rue mr penrose is a mild mannered and pleas ant spoken mans many man intelligent plain plaint direct and forcible in hh hib language and seemingly thoroughly in earnest in defense of the mormon people he said bald that the latest story that the mormons were preparing to take up arms arma against the government or had bad entertained any buch such thou was simply preposterous and abaury why 11 taid said bald he be that would be supreme folly what would we be against the power of this nation or even against a mob these stories are circulated by interested individuals who would like to bring down the army upon us u that they can further their own personal and political ends there Is a crowd of federal office holders in utah whose on only ly hope of retention the therein reinia reinIs ia to keep it in territorial limits and prevent it from becoming a state to do this they lavis bavis recourse to the most abominable lies which are spread broadcast through the land and seized upon with avidity everywhere and commented upon most savagely in the daily press the question of polygamy outs cuts a very little figure at present few comparatively of the mormon men have more than one wife in the first place there are not women enough to go around and if there were our people are not rich enough to support such euch households as we are credited with maintaining the large cities of the union hold up their hands in holy horror at the mormon who has more than one wife and yet they themE themselves relves are very bink sink hoies boies of prostitution it Is ia supremely ridiculous to see representatives in congress Cong rees ress denounce us most bitterly because of our oar marriage relations when it is notorious that they themselves are nrc maintaining four five and six mi stresses I 1 notice by the papers that governer governor murray Is ia again branding us well that la Is part of his hka stock block in trade he is desirous of holding hla hig position again and he Is but following the tactics in which all ali the federal ring ing in U telah bugage it they did not do that and create the impression abroad gnat we are moral monsters who needed eded to be curbed by the strong arm of the law they would finds nind find like othello their occupation gone I 1 am not certain though that murray will be success ful fui in his a present ambition when he refused a certificate of election to george Q cannon and gave it to his opponent campbell he be weakened himself even among the republicans cannon you know was elected by a very large majority but murray deliberately gave the certificate to campbell alleging that Cannon was not a citizen of ane united states in doing so he usurped powers belonging only to the house of Representatives which is the judge of the election and qua qualification of its ita awu members all AD the duty devolving on governor murray was to give the certificate of election to the person receiving the highest number of votes cannon had already proved his citizenship bat but even if he had not that was a question which only the house of representatives Representative a could settle speaking of governor murray personally persona lly liy mr penrose eaid that he was a verry social and affable man with fine conversational powers who had made a fair record in the army who was soldierly and handsome in appearance app earence but ncr icv exceedingly ingy vain of his good looks he had ad a good word also to bay esy of goodwin editor of the salt lake tribune which has always bitterly opposed the mormon church and whom he describes as a well educated and evena even a brilliant writer neither of these gentlemen however knew know of what they spoke when they attempted to discuss mormon affairs they were only recent im importations p into the territory and the denunciations of the one and the editorials of the other appeared childish to those conversant with all the facts mr penrose was much taken with sacramento which reminded him greatly of halt palt alt lake especially in the uniformity and regularity with which the street streets were laid out although with true native pride he asserted that salt lake was much the thep prettier of the two |
