| Show UTAH AND THE MORMONS AFTER DINNER ox ON saturday evening the new now 1 england club of new york had i its annual dinner at the there were the tha usual after dinner speeches echea singular na as it may seem stem utah and the mormons cormons Mor mons was one of the leading themes of tha even ing mr beecher in accordance with views already enunciated by him on the subject subjects favored the application of moral iffla ances in the solution of the question and deprecated everything la in the form of a resort to oppressive measures meas ures urea he said you cannot do anything in a great re publio republic of mix ed people of every nation and people if you undertake to ride rough ahod sho dover over their faulest faults over their errors over their evils with tiie the sword of the law mr VV M evarts manifested considerable bitterness on the subject evidently favoring the adoption of harsh methods he indulged lin kin in denunciation and invective against the mormon religion dr newman also had bad something to say bay and sald said it lu ia his usual style As to what should be done he exclaimed other means have failed what is wanted is the knife heroic treatment the benti sentiments ments of mr beecher do credit to his hla head and heart the tho mormons cormons Mor mons implicitly believe their religion to be correct and those who believe them to be in error have not a scintilla lutilla sc of right to resort to any but peaceful moral and intellectual methods every coercive and forceful means la Is an outrage on genuine civilization mr evarts evarta course on the question Is for a man of hia hla status exceedingly cee foolish his ria embargo circular letter jetter to the american ministers and consuls in europe a few years ago in relation to stopping fM mormon ormon emigration was remarkably silly and made him the butt of any amount of ridicule at home and abroad but it does not appear that that fiasco had any influence in preventing him from pursuing the same absurd course in reference to a question upon which he is grossly misinformed dr newman Is IB the individual who came out to utah to persuade par suade the cormons mormons Mor mons they were in error he was to BO badly worsted in a his discussion upon does the bible sanction polygamy by the late orson Pratt that his soul boul has been soured ever since his vanity was hurt because his bis signal defeat was made a standard joke joko throughout the country for years probably this thia account a 0 for the brutal position he be takes in re lation to this thia community ethe erwe he 1 knife ceoric treatment is a nice method for a professed minister of the gospel to advocate for the over turning of people who happen to have different views from those he be P saes to entertain but nut then he lle knows kiowa by bad sad experience that so eo far as truth Is concerned he be hab haa not a toot foot to stand upon this demonstrated fact maybe may be a partial pal leation for his anxiety to have the tho application of brute force proceeded with it |
