| Show A CURRENT td there Is a paper published la chicago called the current this b e news to many of our readers in utah and other portions of the united states occasionally the current tries to enlighten the world on fe 1 mormon I 1 7 question estion and we wee notice that now the election is over several writers for the press hard up for a subject have returned to the ever interesting mormon munir question on which bich they can discourse ad without knowing anything correctly on the sub suu subject toc tec t the tiie current is in afie same blissful condition butas there are very few people peopled comparatively in this great country that are any better betteb informed its crass ignorance Is only nic noticeable eabie cabie by a few naw now the current like aa all ali these antia mormon quacks has an 61 only remedy for the 11 mormon normon disorder 4 it is an heroic one it consists imply p f sending pending general philip 11 II sheridan sherl sheri setly an 10 0 utah with such troop troops as lie he may deem necessary 11 what they areto are to do may bo be seen from tho the following 0 tract tracts the current says I 1 no one can long study the problem as a whole without running hard against the conclusion that when a vast and increasing area of country is sick with a religion which tile the nation holds tobe to 16 a dangerous fraud that area edwith anargy army of soldiers sent to loot foot reli rell allon to pull down it its temples to con escate acate its et estates elates ates aies and to scatter its p prophets ro we are afraid that the editor of the current has run so hard against this conclusion that it has tracked cracked his cranium wo wd do not b elleve believe that anyone buta few cranks have reached any such conclusion as that as soon sau as I 1 the nation holds that a certain religion or system isa dangerous fraud an army of sOld soldiers lers should be sent to root out that religion and andio do all the other Alre gire dreadful adful things that the mad rushing current of chicago wish wishes to carry the what eon cou country Y to we vye believe that any one who studies tudie stile the problem as a whole awhile wiit wiil set get the current writer down as a lunatic or a rash and reckless scribe who is ir as ignorant of the powers 0 of our government as he is ia of the problem that he thinks can be solved by the sword it would be a a nice piece of work for U 8 republican government to engage in would it not to root out a religion to pull down its temples to confiscate its estates and to scatter its prophets an 1 d I this kug hug suggestion which the author pretends to think is in accord with the opinion of every one who has las studied ohp problem as a whole comes from a a paper which stands on te the freedom of the press published in tiie tile free city of in a country which guarantees freedom of religion to all its it citizens citizen suppose we were to apply the currents doctrine holthe toi toj the current itself it would stand thus 1 I when the country is sick of a paper which it holds to be a dang daub dangerous berous fraud it should send sena an army of sol soi soldiers diers diera to root out that paper pull down dowd its offices confiscate its type and presses and scatter its editors how would the current like to be treated with a dose of f its own heroic quack medicine and that other anti mormon crank the tribune 2 abune of this city has no better hetter sense than to quote the current rot approvingly as a specimen of how public opinion is now being directed and to ta call that paper one of the most gifted newspapers on this continent it li will now be in order for the current to compliment the tribune on its stilted bathos attenuated gush and loud as the ne plus ultra of american journalism if the current runs much longer in this same direction irwill soon exhaust itself aud not enough will be left to flow in a chica chicago ro gutter i 4 |
