Show A WRONG AND AB ABORTIVE POLICY t THE 11 san francisco chronicle chronicle com on on i the tiie murde mur dersin tennessee tr T con condemns ade ide the action of the masked but does not like to let its condemnation pass without condoning t the 11 e deed to some extent by unfair references feren ces to th the e teachings s of the mor mons 91 and that tha paper expresses a sentiment that cannot he be endorsed by think thinking people inicis in ahls great country unless their minds like the Chi loncle become clouded with bim big bigotry efti and obscured by tj prejudice re judice the thinks it was wab wron wrong to murder the elders but sa mays says a they ought to have been warned yarned to eav caa T leave eithe the country what kl kind nd of doctrine is this to teach in tree free america why should men he be i yarned to leave any part of the united states under threats of mob violence if people peopled break the law they amenable aree arfe to the law it if they violate no noa law they should be ac cord corded edthe the protection of the law if they advocate a distasteful them alone do not listen to them but those who dislike their deachin teachings s have no ri right ht to prevent other peo beope from hedri hearing ng or orto to use lawless means to stifle free speech itras it has never uden been proved that any ans of our elders elder who have been mobbed beaten or slain have preached anything but bible doctrine doc it has not been shown that they have attempted to preach polygamy polygamy whether it bead be admitted that at this ibis isa ista bible doctrine pr not it is only assumed that they bave have advocated something that is hostile to the social ethics of elle eile the times this is done to give some gome color coler of excuse for the lawlessness by which they bang hang ha hav ve 6 been a assailed it is not true to berin bevin with but ifft if it were arne it would form no valid reason for tor exercise of brute bruto force against them if they introduce anything that is to so contrary to what Is tight and prudent how Is it that the champions of orthodoxy in religion and morality are not able to overturn their errors with the tha weapons of scripture and rat rational ional toral why the necessity of masked and shotguns or comina coming down donn to the milder violence of the chronicle why should they resort to warnings s to leave we di dispute tile the right of the people in any part of the country to follow tile the advice of the san sair francl Franci francico co advocate of expulsion suppose we vve were to tu turn r n the tables when men come into arta utah h where the community are chletis 31 ni 31 mormons cormons Mor 0 r mang mons 11 and endeavor to introduce notions and dodt doctrines rines and cu customs s contrary to those of the tho great majority I 1 will wil t the e mormons cormons Mor 0 mons mon 1 I I 1 be justified iu stifle in warn warning warning inc them to leave leavell i the territory under threats of violence I 1 yet this would be in harmony with the theory of the chronicle and ana some other papers nearer home irwill it will not do the mormons cormons Mor mons have an indisputable leright ab right to preach thear doctrines in any part of the th country where the people choose to listen to them if the people donot do not want to hear they peed not if one portion of the community wish to hear and another perli perhaps aps much larger portion are ard opposed to hearing hearin the minority are entitled to their choice bolce just as much agthe majority it v the gibe la latter iatter te r because of their numbers bers have no right to prevent the former from exercising their thein lib liberty erty efty abd alid if none of the people vish wish to bear by lettin jettin jetting letting the preachers severely alone they will ivill save themselves from froni the unwelcome visitors much more quickly and certainly than by any other in method ethod the policy advised bythe by the chronicle Is wrong it is un american it is impolitic it is unlawful it is and ad oppressive it Is the doctrine of intolerance and tyranny itis the thin end of the wed wedge wede e of parsec persecution u it is it a breath of the blat blast of murderous violence and bears the musty odor of the dark ages and the fumes I 1 of smithfield fagots fagons and the panl pani ish inh duto auto adafe it does not belong to this I 1 age nor to this country and will not be endorsed by any friend to liberty or be yielded to by liy any Mo mormon who isho knows his rights and dares maintain them the only right way to fight mormonism Hism is by lawful and rational opposition or by letting its advocates alone alone the more lt it is medby met by violence of any kind th the e stronger and swifter it will grow and spread and its advocacy cannot be hindered by shotguns nor B topped stopped by 1 6 warnings P to leave |