| Show MORMONISM iron from the new now york truth sedor dm dec 15 it the sunday telegram of the lith dinst I 1 find tho the following article which because of the tho theat thoat atric roo ious ions spirit of intolerance displayed I 1 therein ought not I 1 think fu tu pass unnoticed I 1 have sent to the tele gram a reply substantially the same as thib this L do not expect my reply i however to be published in nal nat paper I 1 therefore ask sake you to give it a place ln that bravest and noblest of papers papera ahe ine truth seeker dr talmaye hag hsi reopen reopened ad his bis guns on mormonism iriani uhe ube great bla sin of tho the nation he H 0 I 1 reports a mormon increase of infix in aix alx months morL mord hs and ea that tiie tho the sin in what bin sin the sin of increasing so raj var Adly must tx put down liv force weare weara we are ane ameady aa aira eady adir twenty years too late ate he bo says saja how long shall tha woric of extirpation to be adjourned and adjourned till bodle la is emanated aud he be smite the land with his bis right gous indignation I 1 dig ft nation cation add acid sya rya wa sra pay la in homes bomea aud nud trampled bar han harvests harvesta vests rests and crowded grave yards sor sov our and neglect tho the situation outlined Mormon laa ism must be crushed os it will boma some days day bring brins upon the tle country a temble war the sentences in brackets and the italicizing italic iring ere are mine Never before tn fore forc per perhaps hapa were so 80 much raucell of shocking blasphemy and monstrous intolerance expressed in so BO fow words here a christian minister of high pretensions p do clares ciares that au entire sect or more of his brother are known to be are ara a remarkably markn marka bly sober Indus tilous peaceable and religious people must mast maat be put down by force must mast be extirpated utterly destroyed st like a second moses he virtually bays now go and smite amalea mormon and utterly destroy all that trey have and spare thim them not but buu slay both bath man and woman infant and anif suckling ox and hhie shie camel add ardd KS CI mam bam xv ajl hennas hid bid determined chavit shail bhail r f be said baid of salt bait lake city and of every other mormon city as it was eald said of jericho and of many another city which by a difference of religions e eglons cp opinion incurred the displeasure asure of the murderous marmi dons of the bible whom he adopts as his models and they utterly dest destroyed destroy royed ed all that wag was in the city bothman both man and woman young and old and ox and sheep and me agg with the edge of the sword sward josh A vi 21 and joshua etala talmage taimage age burnt at ai salt lake city and made it a heap forever even a desolation unto thia this day duyff josh viii 28 to what extent of atrocity la Is not the bibie bible capable of leading its fanatical votaries vot arles aries and god is declared in this thib art article leie icie to be eager for this thib universal and indiscriminate ter of the thi mormons cormons Mor mons his most sincere devout and earnest worshipers to take place as being impatient and indignant because thia thib horrible work of extirpation continues to be adjourned and adjourned 11 who is capable of giving a more moro horrible blasphemous representation of god and this is the bloody book and this the bloody god that are to be put nut into the constitution of the united states and this thia is the be ginning of their bloody but where will that work of extirpation end will Lt Iii beals benis escape are they not feared and hated bated more than thair are the cormons mormons by the religious religions bigots of the monster type who are even now to ton a great extent controlling the legislation of the country if mor inona can be extirpated for their belief we can be extirpated for our unbelief un belief let us be beware warel 1 the mor monn simply occupy the weakest point of the line for this reason aone alone is the opening attack made upon them and not upon ourselves when they are crushed we may be sure that our turn will have come while we hold no religious opinion in common with the mor mons while we pity and despise them for kneir ignorance their superstition their slavish subjection to while wo we should labor for their enlightenment and their elevation in the scale of manhood manbo cd a common danger threatens us and we should make corn mon cause with them not as aa mor mons but as human beings against that hideously bloody form of luto into erance arance that la IS heard from every pulpit in the laud land crying how long shall shail the work of exair continue to bo be adjourned algo go elay blay bec because auge of their OD opinions Inions both men inen and women infant and suckling mark my words if the cormons mormons be put down by force if lithe atthe the work of extirpation ly be suo sno cess ceas fully folly performed thair destruction will vill furnish a precedent and will give giva our intolerant enemies a power utterly fatal to us utterly fatal to all hope of civil or religious liberty in america if not la irl tho whole world let no liberal cry eacel leacel when in the face of such intolerance there can be no peace an hour ago I 1 expressed an opinion that 1 I who have fought over sixty battles batties for thia this country and who havo have suffered long from dounda wounds received in those battles battle would be compelled by the tri church party to end my days in a dungeon dau geon because of my honest opinions the will to destroy I 1 me and all other prominent Liberals certainly does exist among our enemies and the power to destroy ns certainly will boon soon exist if we are not vigilant 1 I am aware that in the oyes eyes of a fanatic and bigot like ilke talmage a difference of religious religions opinion con an an unpardonable pardonable sin bin and that for a rival beat seat to make an increase of in alx aix month mouths 11 while his beet sect makes no increase it at all ons o c ns mutes a sin which must be pat down by force I 1 am neither surprised nor alarmed then when I 1 hear bear him gnashing his bis teeth in hla hia chagrin and maniacally crying in hia bia clear desperation aeration era tion how long shall the work of extirpation bo be adjourned and adjourned when howe however vir than hellish cry for blood la Is taken up by ably conducted pa papers like ilko the sunday telegram when it Is ia taken up by nearly every one of the preachers of we ane country and by their congregations I 1 am a little surprised and a good deal debi alarmed persecution I 1 is 3 ali ready bearing heavily upon me I 1 it trai frai ages mages church could coald nave reported an increase nerease of in sis six months would that report have constituted any proof that lod iod god was impatient to have them put down by tores torea would it have constituted d any proof that he was indignant because somebody did not be begin in I 1 I 1 upon them the worl of ext ara tion would it not on the contrary have constituted in his ayea eyes a proof of gods approval a visible mar mark k of his blessing and why should the same thing be a proof of gods favor in his hla case and of gods disfavor in the case of the mor mons it may be objected however that it Is ia not the sin bin of increasing in six months for which talmage god aco co are so BO impatient to see the work of extirpation beg begin in against the Mornion mormons Mor mon mons ej but the sin ol of polygamy very good but bat when did god come ome c to look upon polygamy as a bin sin W when hen did he ha como to be impatient and indignant with men for practicing practising it did heeve beever reay say bay one word against polygamy did he not on the contrary according to the teachings 0 of f the bible aid encourage and in certain cases even compel its ita practice among his chosen people did he not select noted lats to be the oath fath fathers ers era of hib his chosen people and models of righteousness r I 1 gh were not on one 8 eha ha halt half if of the twelve patriarchs the offspring of polygamous marriages was god mp m patient with jacob when this go good od mn man W was as being bought back and forth among his wives for man drakes peanuts chewing gum kum etc was wag he displeased with pol poi polygamy datin dalin g atly amli when he h a gave laws regu regulating g its practice did he look upon polygamy as a sin when for polygamous purposes he gave tho the hebrews 32 virgins virg ine ins did he look upon polygamy as a sin when to david who already had a well filled harem ho he gave all at one ono time vi a whole houseful more of wives in short Is ia there a single passage in the bible bearing upon the subject at all that does not represent god as looking with favor upon polygamy and if he looked U upon p 0 n it as right then must mu t h ho a not look upon it as right now doe does s he be and A d if be looks look S upon it as right must it not be right does he ever err in his opinions does not talmage teach mormonism Mormon ism ibm himself every eabry time he be teaches that the bible Js is the inspired word of god and that wrought we ought to follow its teachings can mormonism ever be put down while the bible upon which it is firmly founded is sustained wab was it not from the pagans gree greeks sa and romans and not from the jews or I 1 the bible elbie that we derived our oar anti polygamous ideas as e war upon the mormons cormons la is a religious one Is ia not the bible entirely on their side and Is ia not every effort to put them down by force an act sot of puro pure persecution so Boa soa far as it Is a political coli one have not the people of utah the same right to make their own marriage of any other state or territory have to make mako theirs Hs has the united state s arly ally legitimate powers except those specially delegated to it by the states of W which aich it is co composed sed and have the states ever bp specially fally faily balega delegated ted to it the power powei to put down by force one religion and to build up another that cannot bue bues aeed very well in building itself up and have they ever delegated to it the power wen to interfere with the marriage relations aatlo u 13 0 of f the peole people in any state or territory Is not every buch such interference on 1111 act of dangerous usurpation and persecution where will it end if if it ends short of extirpation will it not sim elm ply strengthen the mormons cormons Mor mons what but the present persecution of the mormons cormons under the edmunds bill could have rats raised ed their increase from arout a year to the ably sinful number of in six montha A te w more a such booms are all they for over 40 years I 1 have mingled more abre or leb ies leea with the Mormon sand band and ican lean assure the blood bloodthirsty thirsty talmage taimage god co coy 9 that these in tensely sincere and earnest god fearing god god serving christians christiana will not yield their religion to any physical force that stops short of the complete work of ex tir pation they must lie tie made to ispay pay in obliterated homes and trampled harvests and crowded graveyards for darlng during to put in practice in their oral lives ilves an institution which with gods fili ruil approbation and blessing blessings was waa practiced by the most holy men of the bible and would there be nothing this war of extirpation and who is ia to perform this III lii hideous daous work works now that the time to was last adjourned has arrived and it be done the world has never seen s uch a war as will result if rn attempt be made to extirpate e an entire en tire great people because of their religion can not rii ral mage wage god co cope alth with these deluded people la in arga ment jf eif th they ey can cau C why not do ai is iv do the victors in argument ever resort to physical force convince these people that they ire are in error and the work of extirpation may be adjourned gine ging dig adte jahn joun JOHN E R JK Eiso elso |
