| Show A GRAPHIC it CASE or OF DEMENTIA tur tun new york graphic lias has gone crazy over the mormon question no sane writer would pen such stuff as the annexed remarks on an the tennessee massacre and no editor in his senses would publish it approvingly I 1 the united states go government vern ment has I 1 something to dewith do with this matter perhaps the state government has something thin to dewith do with it one or the other should protect the people ol 01 lewis county from the lascivious scoundrels who are laboring to ruin women and break up families both are paid for the protection is not com errea while the rascals are areas as safe under tiie tile law as if seduction reduction and bigamy were christian virtues can these native Tenness eans do in defence of their homes what the united states government has a right to bo in ill defence of its honor why not buffor but lor tor the fact that seduction and bigamy are called virtues by the mormon church these priests would have been driven from tennessee iong ion lon ago and mim mil might have deemed them themselves se ives lucky if they escaped the rope managed by judge lynch the name naine of religion given their crimes does not make their crimes auy any better it does not make the breaking of the laws of god abd and man by the mormons cormons in utah any the less les crime and if the civil power tailing falling the army of the government should kill kiil a good many mormons cormons in order to reduce the survivors to submission bublic opinion bral senti sentiment ment went and und tle tie statute books throughout the civilized world would say sav the action was wad r perfectly right seriously what harthe united states government to do with the preaching of mormonism lu lif tennessee the government cannot prevent or support su prea preaching it has to go do with belief of any kind nor with the advocacy of that belief the state government Is in a similar position faith is free speech isaree is free religion is free in this free co country antly and only when overt acts against peace and good order are committed can the secular law whether state or national step in to interfere with the tile individual whose belief has led him into lawlessness the graphic ought to know that the general government has no power to punish people in fit tennessee for the acts which it would have people believe are arc sanctioned ba by the church in utah if a mormon were to practice polygamy in irl tennessee the general government could not do anything in the matter when the laws of tennessee are violated the authorities of tennessee tennesse munt must move for the punishment of the offender the government of the united states nas has no jurisdiction of much euch a case now it if a amorton dior Alor nion elder should go into tennessee and do anything contrary to the laws of the state does not the graphic know well enough enough that the officers of the law there wood would only be too glad lad iad to vindicate the law against a st mormon and is not the fact that no infraction of the law has even been charged against our missionaries proof sufficient that no such overt acts have nave been committed by them what protection tec tion I 1 does the graphic want forthe for the native Tenness eans against the preaching oi of the gospel by the latter day saints why not b be e and say what it means I 1 If persons bellev ing in mormonism choose cho osato to preach their peculiar faith what can the government ern ment state or national lawfully do to prevent lit it and what protection against such preaching do the natives need other than their own indifference or nonattendance non attendance at the preach preaching lb it is Z easy aay to call men I 1 lascivious scoundrels but how does docs the graphic know that the elders who were shot to death while holding religious worship on OH a sunday morning 9 were other than good and virtuous servants of the most high god we declare that they were innocent of any offense and we know what we are arc talking about while the graph graphic c writer knows nothing about them and is really talking unmitigated non nou nonsense sense for neither the government of the united united states or of the state of tennessee is paid to put put a stop to preaching whether it be mormonism or any other ism neither has the Govern government meRt any more than the native Tenness eans it any right to shoot down men in tee time of peace or kill any one in time of peace or of war for heterodox religious teaching the graphic in order to defend a wilful and cowardly and cold blooded massacre assumes that the government had the risby to do such suell a deed and failing to exercise that right alleges that the native r eans could of right commit those murders which noli now stain their souls and und the honor of their state Is not the graphic ashamed to publish such balderdash if it Is so bloodthirsty as to endorse the utterly inexcusable crime on cane creek and so bigoted as to rejoice over tiie the slaughter ot of human beings because they were mormons cormons Mor nor mons Is it so lost to common sense as to argue that to do such things Is one of the rights of the united states government ern ment and what has the alleged breaking of the laws of god and man iu in utah to do with the preaching of the gospel i in lii tennessee if certain individuals in tit utah have broken thu the law by what principle or right or reason should persons who have broken colaw no law be killed in tennessee the graphic assumes that seduction and bigamy are arc called virtues oy by mormon it this were true the I 1 killing of people who had committed no buch such crimes either before god or man but the graphic lies under auder a mistake there is church ou on earth that is more pronounced in its abhorrence of those crimes than the mormon Mor church seduction and adultery yare are considered by it capital of fences they nank rank next to murder there i is no mormon elder who preaches seduction as a virtue under lue lne sanction of the church BI bigamy bigams gams gamy as it is commonly understood is viewed by the church in a similar light no ko one oile is upheld in the practice ot that great wrong tile the graphic does docs not understand the subject it ha has gone off wrong and has hag wandered so tar far from the track of truth that it ex hibits a bewilderment and utters ravings such as are suggestive only of dementia the last sentence in the above excerpt is as wild and vicious as any 01 0 its predecessors why should the tt tie united states government kill a good many manx mormons cormons Mor mons where does it derive its authority for such a murderous policy ilcy llcy the graphic must know knod 1 if 11 it lff Iff Is not thoroughly insane that the government has not the authority to kill any Mor mormon ilion if a mormon Morn loni lont commits a crime erline worthy of death hai be must be tried convicted and executed I 1 under the laws of the Terr territory itry the national gover government U in ea it h has a s noth nothing ingi whatever to do with the matter the thel government of the united states can only act in case of a violation of its own statutes if a mormon ia convicted of marrying more nore wives than one there Is a pena penalty it prescribed proscribed con of fine finc azz anz and imprisonment but the tiie government would have no right to kill him aud and audit if it should so overleap its ita authority as to put the mab man man to death whether by the exercise of the civil or the military power the whole civilized world instead of saying in the action was perfectly right would denounce it as uncalled for tor iu in and infamous if this would be the verdict over an individual case wrab whal would be said about the wholesale murder of mor alor mons by the government in order orderly 0 convert the survivors why we believe eve that even the graphic brought to its senses by the thea unjustifiable return to mediaeval media medi eval barba bould be strick stricken efi with horror at the deed and would condemn it in language as fierce and forcible as other journals we cry shame on any pa paper havin claims to respect respectability which ich houi woula seek to justify violence against 1 i ous opinion and attempt to condone condoned and palliate so utterly indefensible a deed of atrocity as the tennessee sunday massacre the writer of the article articie articie from which we have copied should ie be taken care of by his irl iri ends endi aud and not be permitted to put pencil penell to paper again until in be has recovered in soule some degree croul this bevere attack of |
