| Show consistency UNDER this caption the breckenridge colorado journal contains the following incisive and pertinent article in common with all citizens of this country we are compelled to take note of the growing crusade against mor monism in ln this generation A generation ago these same people I 1 not practicing or preaching plurality of wives were persecuted and driven to ilie ille the wilderness then supposed to be uninhabited by by industry thrift and perseverance they brought the great wild unknown heart of tile the rocky mountains to blossom like the rose and no now w persecution is again set on them and nothing short of the crushing power of the strong arm of the national government will suffice the fanatics who are hounding these people while the almost universal intelli ent public sentiment of the country denounces en ounces the system of polygamy my I 1 it t must still not be overlooked t that at the practice had universal endorsement in the laud lawa and aud among the people veople oi at whom to the exclusion of all others the almighty made the connecting link between the godhead and the human race the practical polygamist abra ham was ivas promised great things his grandson the real polygamist with his eminent descendants david and solo h mon through whose loins the victim of i calvary passed assed were noted mists ae the veins of the babe 0 of bethlehem were vere filled with the blood of i polygamists of a thousand years practice it therefore is not consistent to denounce the practice as one of the cursed things prompted by the prince of darkness while the oal only hope op e f for mans salvation came through brough blood a thola thousand and times polluted by t the e same sin make polygamy a belme adelme against law but not against religion if IT against religion then take from religion the present book on which it is founded it is monstrous to denounce polygamy from the pulpit nt at the altar before w which ich men and women worship the dan man aan child who was bom of a pol rol poloy amous parentage running back to the misty traditions close up to the first sunrise either put away our ion lon long iong enshrined patriarchs prophets ary any and kings or cease the religious clamor of godliness against the practice for which jacob david and solomon were noted the inter of denver is enlisted for t the guv gut e crusade against not polygamy but mormonism rude crude tales are made illustrated facts casual remarks are distorted and made church cannons the same spirit that controls and directs these fanatical persecutors drove christ all bla bia blameless moless as he was to the cross the christians of early rome to martyrdom the purl ruhn tants to new england england ilie lile the qua quakers kers to rhode island islan the A mormons cormons armons from illinois to utah bah in every case agn grave lve charges were trumped up against the persecuted by their persecutors sectors now forsooth that the mor mons do not fall down and worship the hand that would crush them they are to be crushed let us ask in all candor does an any one suppose the inter ocean or its fe fellow T low fanatics who are giving tongue i e to this on to utah cry care for the morality part of the question not a bit of it they live in an atmosphere and are surrounded by a com corm in which more crime against morality is committed than that for which sodom and gomorrah ware were des troye dand yet hese would be mormon destroying reformers raise not their voices against the stench which surrounds them ambut but bub are horror stricken a against g aigist the sin bin the they utah tuta imagine exists in away T off the real kernel of this nut is the republican party at the coming election will need something that will bring to its support the fanaticism that is ever latent in the minds of too many professing christians these political how lers for religious reforms care nothing for the absurdity of the position into absurdity which they anve inveigle gle gie their dupes so that therwin the they win any corpse is a good morgan for them |
