Show expressions FROM erom TIIE THE PEOPLE NOTES OF trivel travel editors deseret news neus having had ample opportunity tunit durin ing the past three months to acome become ae acquainted with the feelings feedings of tle tie fie mormon people in relation to the peculiar pecullar course now bein being pursued pursued in dealloz with the ica relic I 1 U 1 I suppose ose we shall have to use this term hereafter hereafter seeing it originated with the party now in power I 1 thought I 1 would lot jot down clown a few items in reference therado th erato that the readers of the NEWS might have an opportunity to compare notes and correct me if I 1 am in error to say that the universal feeling is ONE OF indignation would not be sufficiently expressive in fact I 1 question if the entire vocabulary of words could furnish one that could fully express the feelings of the people eople it is proverbial that the lat ter day saints revere the constitution more than any other portion of the american people for the reason that they recognize it as being the result of divine 13 inspiration and anif there are no people to be found today to day who clin cling with such tenacity to and have so much reverence for inspirational productions and for this reason they receive very little sympathy from those who reject present inspiration this reverence for constitutional provi provisions SIGns makes them feel all the more keenly those innovations that are being made to carry outtie out the pet sc schemes hertle hertie of our ofir amoral while those who have their eyes open to see things as they are ate know the object to be to dispossess us of ever every right civil religious possess ous and political political icaT and that the onslaught aau made upon polygamy is only a MEANS MF ANS TO THIS END the unwarrantable unjust and illegal illegal proceedings s la in the third D strict the extrajudicial extra judicial acts of the immaculate boreman in the second district coupled with the unprecedented course of the presiding judge and officers of the court dourt in arizona all tend to open the eyes of the peo people pleto pieto to the situation and if it these are not abt enough we vve will only have to wait until the next term of the first judicial district court to be held in ogden for the finale providing a judge can be obtained that will play into the hands of the unscrupulous ring judge emerson having tendered his resignation to take effect the present month should he be retained however and continue to sit I 1 do not believe him capable 0 of imitating the course of his associates in the other districts of the territory but it will require all the strength of independent manhood to resist the heavy pressure that will be brought to bear upon him 1 I sincerely hope the judge will not be assailed by his own party because of the honest expressions of a solitary american citizen that very accidental DRAWING from the j jury ury cry box in provo lately of nearly dearly all even numbers for both grand and petit jurors Is ominous perhaps the officer who drew them could explain it is understood that na no united states staten cases are tried tn in that section of the district all united states business for that district being done conein in ogden it would not be a matter of surprise ihen then if it the drawing of both grand and petit jurors should be so satisfactory that no disappointment could possibly occur as was the case at the tall fall term when an open venire ventre was refused by the present judge thus baffling for the time being the plans ot of the professed reformers af of utah utan and her people peoble in the interim between the sitting of grand juries there will probably not be wanting red hot U S commissioners to issue warrants for the ARREST OF SUSPECTED individuals is also subpoenas for wives and children to testify to at least sufficient to justify the accused being bound over oven probable tor cause and if the money should hold out there will not be wanting in those to act as deputy marshals who will wil I 1 play into the hands of the prosecutors prosecutors ho no matter what humiliating F service is required of them and woe betide be tide the man who is taken either cither before commissioner or court his committal and conviction are fore aone gone sorie conclusions for earth and hell itself will be exhausted if necess necessary aryl to accomplish this object talk about the rules of evid evidence ence enco being observed vedi vedo or any other legal methods being employed oved oyed to insure conviction it will be inked Io ked for in vain during the present crusade for a jury made to order is perfectly reliable and would not be guilty of questioning any of the methods method used and a judge who is in perfect harmony with the prosecution will always rule in their favor eve even in to the severe straining of the law and will seek to blind the eyes of jurors by their sophistical reasoning notably vas was this the case in the late trials in arizona since i I 1 returned to your city I 1 have heard some talk about the course per sued by the prosecuting attorney IN INN ine lne alie IRE grand GRIND JURY room KOOM in polygamy cases witnesses it appears pears are quest questioned toned very sparingly by the jurors the prosecutor aresu presuming ming to take full fall charge of this business of course this Is only rumor and cannot be proved but madam rumor sometimes tells a straight E story tory tors all I 1 have to say IS if Ms this be so why Is it thus there Is one singular feature in regard to this persecution prosecution and that is that the leaders of the people are arc made the first point of attack then those who write for the public as also the ex of the doctrines of the church especially if they should bay say anything in support of if the principles that in the least offends the ears of those very moral hypocrites the object seemingly being to silence as far lar as possible every man who has influence with the people and yet strange to say should nothing be saia said through the press or from the pulpit that could possibly be interpreted as defiant they then accuse both writer and speaker of tameness lameness while every manly utterance Is pronounced as treasonable I 1 find in most of the settlements a class of people who are termed sore heads I 1 MOSTLY APOSTATES from the church who have seemingly been nursing their wrath for years and now nov they have an opportunity how gladly they embrace it to tell something against their neighbors and in very many instances these are their best f friends this seems strange in view of many of their worldly Inte interest resti being so closely identified with the men mien they are so ready to prosecute and the disaster that must necessarily accrue to their business interests should conviction be secured but the attitude i Is due to the fact that an apostate from any church Is always mare more bitter than one that never nemer was a member this bitterness seems to be graded craded however far an apostate catholic and more especially a priest of that faith is far more cruel and vindictive than one of any other sectarian church while the hate of a former mormon elder has no co comparison rhe The world are at a loss how to explain this phenomenon but the latter day sal sai saints ants under understand stana it perfectly M the onslaught that Is being made upon the leading men of the anity will if it perT peri persisted sted in lead to OF A SERIOUS CHARACTER for let the world call it sagacity or adv anything else on the part of the leaders of bf the church in selecting these men they are the very backbone of the country they are foremost in everything look ng to the general welfare of the community and to their efforts Is largely due the present prosperity of the people they have been and are today to day the temporal as well aa as the spiritual galdes guides g aldes aides of the people tiie the material in i r rests of the community comm community unIt being belaz so closely interwoven with lt t that of these men coupled with their ecclesiastical pa positions and the confidence that the people repose in them the result of years of us association are subjects of constant discussion among the saints and many have expressed themselves freely in re regard ward gard 1 to the sacrifice demanded and are casting about for tor satisfactory is answers to questions that involuntarily spring aprin up inthis in this relation the idea of APPEALING TO THE aggressive PARTY has long a ago go been abandoned for they see in every lineament of their faces in every stroke of their pen in every utterance of their lips the words wid WE WIC WILL RULE OR WE WILL RUIN 2 I 1 the youth of zion man many of w whom hom were considered incorrigible in consequence of their wildness are waking up to the true situation and are beginning to make some very important endures enquiries having discovered as they think a FRUITFUL SOURCE OF EVIL to the people it is the existence of business houses scattered throughout the proprietors of which ar are e what are commonly termed gentile these while receiving material support necessary to success in business from the latter day saints and in many instances are becoming wealthy in consequence lose no opportunity port unity to sustain the ring in their unjust proceedings and freely spend the money derived from the people for this purpose these and other considerations side rations of a like character have prompted the passing of resolutions in their association meetings that they will not only withdraw their personal support from these men but will vill use their influence to have others bolike do likewise this course I 1 thin thinkie kis to be commended for no sensible community would be guilty of sustaining their avowed enemies for like 0 our oun anew new england ancestors when the british thought to compel them to purchase their heir wares that they had already agreed among themselves not to do would rather see the goods destroyed i than touch them although the we price had much reduced as a bait to get them to forego their resol resolution ution so determined in were ere they that three cargoes were thrown overboard in boston baroor december loth 1773 when the attempt was made to land the merchandise on shore while I 1 do not ad r the destruction of property still I 1 feel that devould we would ouid be lusti justified ed tn in fol foi following loving this example in part and leave the goods of our enemies entirely alone whether they wate waste or not the young sisters also have followed the example of the sterner sex in respect to their purchases hereafter which if carried out to the extent I 1 hope it will be ber must result in closing up some of the avenues of support that have largely supplied the means to cut our own throats P another thing I 1 have hava observed the present crusade is not accomplishing the object sought unless it be a little cheap notoriety abroad to to the principal actors on the contrary I 1 never faund the doctrine of poly polygamy gainy so universally advocated and sustained heretofore questions have been raised and objections offered that seem now to be entirely forgotten for the belief in this principle is almost universal salan and A I 1 i verily nellese believe that hundreds of our young people would enter into nto its practice today to day that otherwise would nave have gone to their graves either cither in a condition of single blessedness or as most rigid monogamists thus proving idythe the truth of the adage that the blood blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church I 1 am reminded in this con coD connection nectOn of a remark made by president geo Q cannon about one year ago said lie he speaking of the influences of modern civilization 1 I am more afraid of milliners shops than I 1 am of an army if the assimilation of the mormon people with the people of the world and the suppression suppress ion fon of many of their rac tices are the objects sought to bp be attained bained then the course taken by the courts here as well as by the prosecuting attorney and his satellites and seemingly sustained by the cou con kitry at large are calculated to produce the verr verv very opposite results for the civilizing ini agencies of christianity among 11 htwe us were re most effect effectually hally doing t their ir work previous to this crusade then in view of this I 1 am almost led to exclaim though hard bard to bear thank god for persecution I 1 expect to travel again take notes by the way and will r report ort my observations in due time vill till then adieu OBSERVER salt lake city march lith isk 1885 cogitations OF AIT AN OLD DEMOCRAT PLEASANT GROVE march 10 1885 editor deseret deseret hews news I 1 send you a few reflections on the question of mormonism mormonism politically 11 y considered many are very anxious to know what the democratic party will do with it the republican party have been grappling with it for twenty four years and have done much have worked hard and accomplished nothing against but for it they have advanced it wonderfully in their efforts to destroy it if it they had ADMITTED UTAH into the union as a state twenty years ago and left her people to themselves they would have buried 11 mormonism completely and the world today to day would know much less about it than they do they would have bad to depend upon the mormons cormons Mor mons themselves the antl Mor mormon press and clergy for information about mormonism mormonism 11 they have denied the people in the territory of utah the RIGHT OF government to which they were constitutionally entitled and continued the territorial government I 1 so that the general government cou could id have the mormon question under their thir immediate control 1 and be able to handle it and bring about abou t its destruction more easily and in their operations they joined in with the cormons mormons Mor mons the press and the clergy to enlighten the world on 11 mormonism 11 the republican party for twenty four years have in all their party platforms conspicuously placed POLYGAMY THE TWIN RELIC before the whole county and every four years have devoted one whole summer to preaching it on the stump in every precinct t throughout the states of the union pledging th em selves to the country that if they were continued in power they would use up polygamy in utah then too all of their presidents in their annual messages es to congress ress have devoted quite a chapter to utah and the mormons cormons Mor Alor mons and this being a state document is read in all civilized countries by these means they have made it a national question and given it a prominence before the world that its votaries vot aries the press and ana clergy combined never could have done and for fear that the crowned heads of europe with their cabinets were so engaged that they could not notice these advertisements nip nid evarts secretary of state wrote a ON MORMONISM 1 11 and sent copies of it to all the american min ministers 1 in europe with instructions to lay them officially before the rulers of the nations for several years the party tried to devise plans and means under the constitution ution to destroy 11 mormonism but to their great astonishment tilt that document protected it ito on nall nail all ali sides this gave cave it the name of the 4 knotty dknott question but their zeal was so great and they were so anxious to carry out their pro gramme that after several years hesitation the republican party with a few timid democrats 9 lium JUMPED PED THE tue constitution J and passed some bills of attainder and facto laws specially applicable e to the mormons cormons Mor mons determined to accomplish their object constitution or no constitution as some of them expressed it those democrats who aided this thin thing thins were not ot the JACKSON TYPE or they would have stood by the constitution ution let it please or offend whom it |