| Show expressions FROM tiie THE PEOPLE SOME POINTED reflections UPON PECULIAR pecullar proceedings SALT laicu LAKE CITY april th 1883 1885 editor deseret nees News some surroundings of the trials of mormons cormons Mor mons for alleged breaking of the edmunds law jaw strike an observer as singular in a marked degree one of these is the tact fact that the party who assumes the willing task of prosecuting witness in swearing to the complaint and accusation and who appears from r that document to be so well weli 11 pa posted ia in the particulars as to be able to g lve ive e date locus lows and names Is never ca called i to the witness stand lor for the prosecution and yet the witnesses who are subpoenaed I 1 or this purpose are termed recusant untruthful know nothings and perjurers per jurers because of their inability ap apparently parenti to satisfy the prosecution by their test testimony fi if the well posted individual who enters the complaint in the interest of morality were brought forward and re required aired to give in court tile the information forma Xii which he claims to possess would it not be comparatively an easy method of at once convicting the accused and would ihnot it not save savea a great deal of unnecessary expense and useless labor now cons coas consumed umed ingathering Inga therin multitudes of persons as witnesses who when they ap appear ear seem to be either unable or u unwilling filing to supply the necessary evidence why should persons be called from the east and the west and the north orth and the south to reluctantly do what certain other oilier peron lowi who like the poor are always with t u us seem so willing and so able Z to d do 0 i il onla solicited by simply dimply introducing t acl these willin willing and doubtless I 1 capable wit witnesses u esses niue nine much h ot of this public annoyance which disturbs business would be avoided old ladies who are naw kept in a turmoil of uncertainty as to when they may be aroused from their restless slumbers by the call of oha ota a deputy marshal might repose in quietude children who linein daily lear fear of being dragged before terrible tribunals might engla engage e in their games with their former glee premature confinements would be less frequent and the ordinary citizen might resume his Ms dally occupation without being belog compelled to wear his bis best clothes lest he e should be required to suddenly min mingle ie court levees and Jur orical receptions with the laying of bricks or the mixing of In mortar those gentlemen who take such interest te rest in lathe the marital secrets of their neighbors that they can readily give the day and the hour and perchance the identical moment when certain social acts were committed are certainly tain lythe the proper persons to call upon for details and particulars which the general public may not perhaps have so closely investigated another thing they would be always at hand no lengthy rides or dangerous escapades would be required to produce them ko no attachment or special orders to break into dwellings of unsuspecting citizens would be necessary fleeing witnesses would then be entirely unknown and the I 1 U G R R which it is claimed has been doing such a heavy business of late would like the other roads be able to discharge halt half of its employees and lay og onn several non ton essential trains in other cases than those referred to the party complaining of having been aggrieved Is usually usual ay found th tirs tins 0 most roost important witness at the trial if he fall fail to appear the government officer would perhaps say bay neither do I 1 accuse thee but sIn singular guar to state in and unlawful cohabitation cases the person whose righteous soul has been so sorely grieved by the alleged act of the accused is found to be distressingly scarce just when he is wanted and ZI ail all his treasured information Is hidden at the moment when it would be of the n greatest creat se sery rylee ice another strange thing in connection with this affair is that the alleged plural wives who are said to be so desperately anxious to get free from the so called bondage d do not seem to fall of their own accord accord into nto the eager arins arms of the prosecuting officer to tell ot of their woes boes and seek his protection on the contrary they are apparently more ready to drop in any other direction and if caught which they have to belf be if obtained at all they are considered recusant 29 and threatened with imprisonment for con contempt should they decline to give the whole business away 11 or in other words f furnish the evidence which the prosecuting witness who laid the complaint claims to be in possession of and has manifested f such a desire to coave convey please mr editor give us a little 11 light ht on these inconsistencies and relieve bellev e my obtuse understand understanding ing lug of the puzzling azz llo III problems by a well timed solution solution or r may be marshal ireland or mr gil allson so 11 that om omnipresent u present A informer wormer can give I 1 us a reason yours in a quandary SERVER A 1 FELLOW FEELING MAKES US WONDEROUS KIND SALT LAKE CITY april editor deseret it has always been a very delightful enjoyment during the thirty years I 1 have spent in my mountain home to interview all the thi strangers I 1 could fairly get a chance with and today to day I 1 met with one entirely to my mind in the person of a gentleman who pointedly yet iet courteously opened the ball by asking a simple question which I 1 1 felt feit much pleasure in replying to I 1 informed inform him how long iong I 1 had been a resident here and of my nearly forty years ears cars membership in the church which iad kad had the effect ot of arousing his curiosity and of opening a very a agreeable ree able abie chat in the course of which chic h he stated that he tie hailed irom from stockton Cal cai california fornia and was making for home after afdera a visit 1 to shenew the new orleans exposition he very feelingly alluded to the present unhallowed aud and inexcusable raid now being made upon us expressing his indignation at the conduct of those who are carrying it on comparing their action to the tre atine nt inflicted a upon his co from the time of queen E elizabeth lizabeth to the present he ile also spoke of the good feel feelings ings lugs entertained for us by a recently y decea deceased se d catholic priest of his acquaintance who had resided here for several years lie he then began a string ot of earnest re marks upon the situation to which I 1 listened with intense pleasure and in which he enumerate enumerated the praiseworthy and successful operations of the saints in the providing of homes for the destitute and industrious poor from the oid countries by means of the perpetual emigration fund but more particularly and emphatically did he allude to the erection of temples meeting and schoolhouses as well as the thousands of elegant and prosperous homes and farms sarins and our other numerous and praiseworthy enterprises arises fo for adding to the general comfort 8 and nd prosperity ile he continued nis his remarks by expressing his conviction that all these raiders wanted was our valuable and hard earned possess possession ons ong and inor lnor moreover coven cover he concluded by saying that wherever he lie went in speak iut luc fj f the mormons cormons Mor mons he had bad always felt a great pleasure in advocating their cour course sein seln in consequence of which he had frequently been stigmatized as a 94 mormon 11 though an irish catholic he did not particularly object to this imputation and remarked that the people who could do all that the mor mons have done in these isolated and barren valleys of the mountains are no common herd and were never taken out of the gutter many blessings crown his days and angels guard his ways yours truly amalgamator 1 EDUCATION A SALT LAKE CITY S 4 april ath 1883 1885 t editor deseret nevis neris the subject of e education du cation catlon is one of vast importance to the latter day saints I 1 believe we prize knowledge and learning more thoroughly for its true truc worth than any other people extant for we realize that knowledge means power hereafter and intelligence means exaltation eternally while the world only onik values education for tor its present worth and the power and position it givs here our enemies are continually raising theory that weare a grossly ignorant people and that the only proper way too overcome to verco me the influence of the mormon I 1 leaders is to give glie the people education they form societies missions etc and claim it to bs be their object to raise the people intellectually and thus i save them from THE HORROR OF MORMONISM 11 it cannot be denied that there are arc among us some ignorant people and even some who do not care tor lor education as there are arc in every community but these are greatly inthe in the minority and they are found chiefly to be old per persons s ons while it Is a fact that the mormon on boys and girls who have been born in utah are bright and intelligent to a degree far above the average and they are very generally seeking after and andoe ob tai tal nine GOOD educations it is false that as a people we are grossly ignorant taken as a whole we are above the average in intelligence an and education throughout thel the states it is also false that education will destroy the influence of the leaders of this people tor for our religion Is so rea SO pad leand and Is based upon such perfect truth and science that the more kno knowledge wl we obtain the greater Is our appreciation pre clation of its beauties and consistencies and the more difficult it becomes to weaken our faith or overthrow the influence which it our religion and not man exercises over us lis now of what does true education consist comil st Is it all contained in books I 1 think not my aly idea of education is far broader than this we are sent here upon this earth as to a preparatory school to learn the lessons placed before us in our daily lives if our education meant only what could bo be found in books then it would bean be an easy problem to solve I 1 am pained to see sec however that many of our people look at it in this narrow way because such and such schools offer superior opportunities to study the accomplishments of the age the ther they will send their children to them any and jeopardize THEIR ETERNAL 1 WELFARE the S savior aylor says what shall it profit crofit a man if he g gain aln the whole borit world and lose his own soul and we may say what shall it profit our child if he gald gain all this worlds knowledge and lose his bis own soul it were better that he had grown up in ignorance of all these things but obedience to gods revealed truth than that knowing them he should turn away from the truth and become a castaway from god for has not the almighty power to endow his own with all wisdom but I 1 contend that IGNORANCE IS NOT NECESSARY to a faithful ilie life ilfe in the gospel our opportunities are ample for ob learning if we will only improve them but 16 I 1 do entreat my brethren and sisters not to place the precious treasures entrusted to them under the influence nce of those whose object it is to draw them from the path they should tread and we should not be scared into thinking that in takina this course we are not exercising the rights of free men for it is our duty both to god and the commonwealth to carefully our chi children I 1 dr e n we should remember that it took the special act of god to enlighten our minds in regard to the brutus of the gospel because we had been trained from childhood in false doctrines and it should be our object to watch carefully that THE foundation of our childrens education Is rl hight right ht we do not fear to let our children chizen have a good broad look around the world but as bishop whitney says vye nye we propose to place in their hands the right kind of glass through which to look we want to so trag train them that when they come in contact with the errors and allurements allure ments of this wicked world worl d they will have in the their I 1 r 0 pvn wn io possession the correct standard hy by to judge them antl anti then we fiad hiie ilie no fear that when they look arotine the tin world they will obtain anything lul lui good experience and we are no not afraid that our children should study the religion of their fathers in the broad LIGHT OF NOONDAY mr cooley in his letter to the herald challenges this thia people to bring their system out into the noonday of gods truth how absurd 1 our system has been out in the noonday for over 50 years and every civilized nation has been invited to examine it I 1 saw a letter a few weeks ago upon the educational status of Utah written ay by mrs paddock of this city and published in the daily spy of worcester mass which shows the the kind of gods truth that the advocates of the new west commission use I 1 regret 11 1 1 that I 1 am unable to obtain the paper and give you the letter entire the waitr writ r starts in by congratulating the newlest educational commission upon the noble work it Is doing here in utah in deduc educating abing and christianizing the ili ill mormons cormons Mor mons alu aid hen then proceeds to tell that the tho densest ignorance ignorance prevails here she says that in several years experience here she has employed not less than FORTY WOMEN AND GIRLS as domestic helps and not one of them was able to read or write and only a very few could tell the time by the aock or knew the number of days in a week or weeks in a month she tells a story of a man whose neighbor owed him some money which was due on the of the month an and d the man came to her in great anxiety to know it if the was near the beginning or end of the month quite a letter la Is made up of liast such truth as this A number of anecdotes are told but they are not worth repetition as i they are all similar to the foregoing the lady winds up by urging the good people of worcester to be liberal an fn la their donations to help along this glorious work among TUESE THESE BENIGHTED lie HEATHENS these are the kind of 11 good friends who are laboring for the intellectual advancement of our children for my part if it my children are to become such specimens of 11 truth as this as a result of their so called christian education I 1 prefer that they remain ignorant alli aill their lives no I 1 no let us place our children where they will get a correct foundation and if we cannot send them to other than the district schools where religion must not be taught let us take special care that they obtain their religious II glus training at home and now I 1 would say a word about nome HOME TRAINING we should remember thatchat that what Is known as the schoolroom school room is not the only place where we obtain our education this world is one great school for us and parents are placed as teachers to their children I 1 fear that there are some who are so occupied with their care for the welfare of others that they neglect to give the attention to their own children that duty requires I 1 consider it binding upon parents to train and instruct the little ones entrusted to their care and not to allow them to grow up wildly and trust to chance whether they turn out good or bad inasmuch as parents have nave children in zion that teach them not to understand certain doctrines the sin be u upon on the heads of the parents for this stall shall shail be a LAW LA W UNTO ZION home will exert its influence upon the child when he has grown to manhood its power will be felt all through life home should be made ha happy appy attractive enticing father should be found there often entering ente into the joys sorrows and amusements of the inmates not as a taskmaster task master at sound of whose footsteps the chIld childish sh voices are hushed in dread but as the loving |
