| Show TUTTLE ON THE MORMONS P 1 tiie tile st yaul paul pioneer press of march 17 contains a report of a discourse de leered by bishop tattle at the he pia pis apis pla copal church who resides in salt lake city and drew an immense conw cong congregation grega when it was announced that he would speak on mormonism hundreds were not able to gain admission to christs episcopal church on sunday march farch 16 after speaking in terms of great respect and endearment of the late bishop clarkson of nebra nebraska s he touched on missionary work in the west in general and proceeded to the discussion of 11 mormonism as follows missionary work in utah takes on a peculiar aspect however as this is looked upon as th the mormon stronghold but in order that I 1 may not n ot become verbose with the multiplicity of ideas bearing upon this question and that my hearers may not become fatigued in consequence I 1 will divide the subject matter under two heads and so consider it mormonism politically and mormonism religiously from their standpoint and as regards our work amon among them thoin first politic politically ally the the mormons cormons are stron strong because they stand together for their institutions the utah government is different from almost any other in the union in all states and territories but this the legislatures have the power to pass a measure over the governors veto but in utah the governors veto is absolute and it is well that it is so the governor is a gentile and he acts as a check upon the mormon legislation up to the year vear 1802 the mormons cormons had never violated a united states statute law because prior to that time the am american government had enacted no laws in relation to mormonism or poly polygamy there Is now no law in utah polygamy in relation re famy atlon to marriage licenses or the solemnize in ing of marriages by civil or religious religions process in 1862 however the united states government enacted laws intended to restrain mormonism which the mormons cormons have hare ever since been violating latin despite these violations only one mormon offender has ever been brought to trial under the law of 1862 1863 and ani his was a case agreed upon by opposing counsel to test the law before the united states supreme court the mormons cormons claimed that the law was unconstitutional but the court decided it constitutional yet the mormons cormons have continued to defy this law why they been punished because the enforcement ol of the criminal laws is in the hands of mormon juries and they will not convict no matter w what h at the evidence maybe may be the same idea in a somewhat different direction in may ay be cited in this city will a sti stpaul yaul laul lury jury convict the liquor dealers I 1 trow not under the utah law a polygamist cannot be convicted the surest and most effective remedy for this political evil is to divide the mormons cormons themselves the most ur urgent ent need is two political parties in utah eia the building up of a young mens party in opposition to the old leaders who have been so long in power of course a government in utah such as this would lack the sweetness and strength of our own government A contest between tile the mormons cormons should not be like a night fight t between our democrats and republicans re u I 1 not as partisans but sturdily ly to sustain honest and free government of and by the people eight out of nine of the mormons cormons are arrayed in what they call the peoples party in utah the people are divided into the church and antichurch anti church parties 4 the church meaning mormon institutions both parties amount to nothing so far as nominations aud and elections arc concerned ecclesiastical secret councils decide who are to be put rut into theofel the onni ces the ballots are printed in such form as the bouncil directs and are voted by the mormons cormons Mor mons there never being any opposition female suffrage is in force in a the territory and tie the women vote the printed ballots without a word when the uie right of the suffrage was placed inthe in the hands odthe women it was thought they would tak take e occasion to defend their own rights but it has not turned out so an fn fact ninety nine out of a hundred seeming seemingly ay care not for their thel rowil own sorrows but vote as the men do the true policy is to encourage the building up of an opposition in the ranks of the mormons cormons Mor mons such a course would result in wholesome reforms the edmunds bill has not been a failure in utah as has been charged on the contrary it is doing much good the mormons cormons obey this law do not offer to vote neither do they hold office and they feel the sting keenly too the affixing of such a stigma upon them acts in a very wholesome manner but th young ouno oung mormons cormons are waking up they kave have been asleep on their rights accustomed cus tomed to seem seeing the polygamous chiefs chief still fill all the offices ices under the edmunds bill a young mormon has been elected mayor of salt sait lake and a number are in the legislature though they are still under the I 1 influence of the old men they are beginning n 1 n to realize their own im importance imp 0 orance rance which vh 1 ll 11 may result eventually eventual eventually fy in n the formation of anew a new party in this way Y the edmunds bill is doing good As individuals the mormons cormons are not as near black as they have been painted I 1 hate their institutions but I 1 am candid enough to admit that there are many good true earnest men and women among the mormons cormons Mor mons people who I 1 la am in proud to call friends and neighbors they love the refining influences of music and have good music in all their churches and houses they are not mere licentious people their leaders however are selfish schemers brigham youn in his kig early days was wag an earnest religious fanatic later he became an avaricious selfish ciema elema demagogue 0 losing his better qua qualities gitles ors orson 0 n pratt when he had char charge chare e of the mormon work in E england aland id in 1830 1850 was an earnest self seif sacrificing benevolent benevolent man he is still a tine nine orator and a well meaning fanatic the INform mormons cormons ons keep the lords day in their own owl 1 way vay 1 I 1 but carelessness and irreverence is I 1 growing upon the young people there ther are mormon bishops in utah twenty one in salt lake city once a month they have a fast day and contribute liberally for distribution among the poor the farming population entertain hospitably and nearly all of them have family prayer they are not vicious us criminals by any means entitled to nu rights they contribute largely for missionary work and there are mormon congregations today to day in various parts of europe getting ready to deml emigrate r ate to zion they will swell the mormon 91 ormon vote and thus give the party renewed strength there are areas as many in I 1 n more I 1 mormons cormons in australia and europe eu as in utah they are not in polygamy and this doctrine Is not preached to them they will be astonished toni shed when they arrive at salt lake and nind find thin thins things s so different from what they had been led to expect there is religious earnestness among the mor mons and the government has to deal with a body of earnest religious banat ies les too many men have impractical ble sugg suggestions est ions lons as to how to curb mormonism any method should be adopted to buildup build up another political party the young men against the tile old leaders aside from this plan I 1 dont know what the government can do to check the evil preaching sermons to I 1 mormons does no especial good argumentation gu umen tation is not the thin thing those who gho renounced the MormonT alth aith w were ere generally wrecked drawn away from religious faith and the mormons cormons ari 1 xe art utterly impervious the mormons cormons will not improve their schools they have no good teachers among themselves A small body of mormons cormons send their children to the gentile schools insisting that they should be well educated but these parents are arc generally those who are indifferent or have apostatized from the mormon faith the government and the church should put free schooling and training within their reach the thie gentile schools now there afford them an education from the elementary to the high school grades fitting them for college the religious people should do all in their power to build up and sustain the gentile schools in utah the bishop has never so far as we are aware joined in the wholesale and bitter denunciation of the latter day saints which ministers of the methodist presbyterian congregational and other sectarian bodle bodies s have indulged in for the purpose of raising mone moner money ile he seems to speak conscientious conscientiously fi from his standpoint and endeavors while opposing mormonism to disabuse the public mind of many falso ideas concerning the mormons Mor mons 11 ills his testimony that until a law was made specially to meet their case the mor mons had never violated a united states statute law is perfectly correct re ct and quite valuable from such a source and his concession that many a n of the mormons cormons Mor mons are tg good 0 0 yd true earnest mer mea and women whom he is proud to call friends and neighbors will be quite surprising to those good christians who look upon the L lat at ter day saints as a pecolar race akin to the wild tribes of the plains or fit for tor n p athing but extermination there are two big errors into w which hicl hiel has fal lenor perhaps he hal has has been badly reported in one instance at least we are inclined to think that tile the mistake is the newspapers rather than the bishops ile he surely ca cannot bunot be ignorant of tile fact that apostle orson pratt is no lon ion loner ioner loader er among adinow the living orators of of the church but has gone sone to highest his rest with the martyrs I 1 it t is possible however that he may ibe under the impression that mormon juries prevent convictions for polygamy and yet if he had only read the edmunds law which he says is I 1 not riot a failure but is doing doin doln much good he would have learned that no 11 mormon I 1 can serve on a jury when a case of bl blamy bigamy amy or polygamy is tried and if h he had paid the attention to utah affairs which all should devote who attempt to speak about them in public he would have been able to explain that this was the practice in the courts here before there was any law to support it all persons believing in plural plumi marriage being excluded from the jury simply for that belief in the celebrated celebrated Mile but this would hise hive destroyed the plausibility of one of his points a very common error that the reason why polygamists are not punished is because mormon juries will not convict no matter what the evidence may be ills lils remarks about the manner mauner in which our political tickets are made up a and nel nei also in relation to our schools arc are incorrect but it is not to be expected that a man in his position would give a better account of the mormon position than he has adne and while thero there are some things stated in his address which are not just to the people some of whose virtues he feels compelled to acknowledge on the whole his discourse is to be commended forthe for the evident intent intention on it exhibits to refrain from that wilful misrepresentation which marks most of the so called exposures of mormonism made by the orthodox preachers of of 0 the oay day |
