| Show A HINT FOR OHIO LAST november ohio was affected with an outburst of virtuous indignation its anger flashed across the country to utah it was stirred to the depths with wrath at the supposed lawless situation here mormonism mormon sm must b be e extinguished and methods were adopted to attain this object so devoutly wished at cleveland the head centre of a secret organization was formed with a slashing sum of money contributed for sinews of war this secret combination intent on dark deeds with an ostensibly osten virtuous object in view s sent ent out twigs and branches there being doubtless an offshoot in cincinnati in fact every city town and hamlet hamiet hamlet hamiet in ohio was to have its society subordinate to the cleveland parent stem and from there the puritanical maze was to spread throughout the entire country so that the nation with ohio leadin leading the van t might pounce or rather slide silde like an able avalanche of morality upon distant and supposedly degraded utah and wipe the mormon blot from the face of the earth the spectacle le was a grand one probably it was not known before that there was so much theoretic morality in the heartsol heart who can doubt it after their intrinsic virtue havin having taken such definite though secre secret t shape the nobility of the ohio attitude is intensified by the fact of the movement manifesting so much self abnegation the object was to crush out an imaginary evil in utah the self seif denying nature of the effort was exhibited iu in the contribution of so much money and the expending of so much virtuous indignation and energy and putting so much endeavor forward to extinguish a myth in utah to the detriment of the home morals of ohio we hope that the good people of that state have learned the force of the old truism charity begins at home and that it is not always in order for a community to ignore its own welfare and place themselves oil on the sacrificial fici fiel at altar for the sake of strangers had this truth been more f fully aily sensed perhaps ohio would have been saved her late affliction and the streets of her chief city would not have been moistened by the blood of many of her most respectable citizens some millions of dollars worth of property would have been saved from the torch of an incendiary cen ceh diary and murderous mob and the people and military which should be as a unit in the preservation of peace would not be excited by the fires of passion the one against the other all this teaches the salutary lesson that men aim aini communities should occupy their chief attention upon matters c connected with their own immediate surroundings leaving others to do the same should they have a little time to spare after that they may with some consistency undertake to shape the morals morais of the people of more shaie shage distant parts ars reformation formation He like charity should begin at home it is proved to a demonstration that ohio has no time to use in that direction outside of her own confines and jurisdiction utah can take care of herself and her mor aliby so far as the mormon portion of it is concerned occupies a higher plane thas any other part of the world has reached |
