| Show editorials THE wilh LATELY discovered SPAULDING manuscript SOME swim time since we lye published a statement from bibliotheca sacra to the effect that a manuscript story by the rev solomon spaulding ln had bad been discovered at honolulu hawaii in possession of air L L luce rice As the discovery completely upsets the antl anti mormon theory that the book of mormon owed its origin to the ding story the subject has awakened considerable interest we learn from the faints adi aai ats derald herald that the e altor eulator of 0 that paper wrote to homr mr rice in relation to the matter and received a reply from which we make the following extract the spaulding manuscript in my possession came into my hands in this wise in isa 40 my iny partner ar alid and myself bought of K E 1 inowe 1 owe the painesville gainesville Paines vuie vUle telegraph yeii Teli graph published at kalnes kaines gainesville ville ohio the tho transfer of the printing department types press etc was accompanied with a large collection ot of books manuscripts etc this manuscript of spaulding among the rest so you yo ulsee see sec it has been I 1 in n my possession over forty years but I 1 never neve examined it or knew the character of it until gome some six or eight months since the wrapper was marked ll 11 manuscript story conneaut Conne aut crek creek the wonder is that in some of my movements I 1 did not detroy or burn it with a large amount of rubbish thab had accumulated from time to time it lt happened that president fairchild eab fab child was here on a visit at the time I 1 discovered the contents of it and it was examined by him and others with much curiosity since president fairchild published the fact of its existence in my possession I 1 have had applications for it from half a dozen sources each applicant seeming to think that he or she was entitled to it I 1 says when he was getting up a book to expose mormonism as a fraud frand at an early day when the mormons cormons had their headquarters at kirtland he obtained it from some source and it was inadvertently transferred with the other effects of his printing office A U B deming of painesville gainesville Paines ville who is also gettin up some kind of a book I 1 believe on il mormonism wants me to send it to him mrs dickinson dic Die kinson of boston claiming to be a relative of spaulding and who Is getting gettin up ug a book to show that lie he was the real author of the book of mormon wants it she thinks at least it should be sent to C Paul bings dings daughter a I 1 mrs ars somebody but she does aes not inform me where she lives deming says that howe borrowed it ib when lie he was getting up his book and did not return it as us he should have done etc the manuscript does not purport p aly to be a story of the indians formerly occupying this continent but is a history of the wars between the indians of ohio and kentucky and their progress in civilization etc it Is certain that this manuscript is origin of the mormon bible whatever some other manuscript may way have be been the only similarity between them the en is in the manner in which each purports to have been found one in a cave on the bank of conneaut ConDe Conne aut atit creek the tiie other in a hill in ontario county new york there is no identity of names of persons or places and there is no similarity of style between them As I 1 told mr air deming doming I 1 should as soon think the book of revelations was written by the author of don quixote as that the writer of this manuscript was the author of the book of mormon deming doming 9 says spaulding made three copies of manuscript found one of which sidney rigdon rl don stole from a printing office in pittsburg you can probably tell teil better than I 1 can what ground round roand there Is for such an allegation I 1 knew joseph smith jr and sidney when they were located at kirtland and I 1 once visited smith in 1841 when he was at nauvoo I 1 have heard rigdon preach both as a camp and as a mormon I 1 knew eliza ellza II 11 1 snow well she was a poetic correspondent of mine when 1 published a paper at ravenna ohio As to this manuscript I 1 cannot see sec that it can be of any use to anybody i except to the mormons cormons Mor mons to show that IT is not hot the original ot the mormon bible but that would not settle the claim that some other manuscript manu script of spaulding was the original of it I 1 propose pro ose to hold it in my own hands for a while to see sec if it cannot be put to some good use deming and howe inform me that its existence Is exciting great interest in that re relon region ion lon I 1 am under a tacit but not a positive pledge to president fairchild to deposit it eventually in the library of oberlin college I 1 shall shail be free from that pledge when I 1 see an opportunity to put it to a better use upon reflection since writing the fo forego re going ins ius I 1 am aul of the opinion that no oue one who reads this manuscript will give credit to the story that solomon 8 spaulding auldine was in any wise the author ot orthe the book of mormon it Itis is unlikely that any one who wrote so elaborate a a work as tile the mormon bible would spend his time in getting up so shallow a story as this which at best Is but a feeble imitation of the other finally I 1 am more than half convinced that this is his only writing of the sort and that auy any pretense that ine lne was in any aenese the author of ot the other is a sheer fabric fabrication itlen it was easy dorany for any bod body who may have seen lills tills or heard anything hy ling th of its contents to get gut up the story that they were identical NOT LOGICAL NOR consistent EX senator PADDOCK of nebraska aas distinguished himself since his appointment to the utah Cominis commission siou slon as being by far the most gushing and yo voluble I 1 member of that august body ile he N s full to the brim on the 11 mormon if lu question ti estion and the moment he is jostled by y a pres reporter he slops over some time ago the dispatches said be he had been interviewed in an easte caste eastern ru paper a fuller account of his diagnosis of the utah situation sit bation appears and we herewith present it it is chiefly interesting te as a curious example of how avanof a man of fair intelligence can throw his reason like physic to the dogs logs and persist in looking steadfastly at one side of a question practically refusing to acknowledge that another even oven exists mr paddock is rc ported reported to have said imy my belief is that tile the main object sought to be accomplished by the address is a revival of religious cathu enthusiasm amon among th the mormon people goas boas to make apostasy or in the church on account of the cs against the practice of poly polygamy gainy more dilli cult if it not altogether impossible the edmunds bill has been enforced with so much vigor vior vi or and success the sentiment of the country is so inous in support of the determined policy and recent decisions of the supreme court have been so pronounced in favor of the law and its lal ial methods thuds for suppressing poly pois ramy rams that many good and stron strong I 1 men hid begun to think and say to each other that it would be better to disc discontinue onti ibue the practice several persons under indictment p pleaded leaded guilty threw themselves on th the e me mercy rev of the court promised not again a in to offen dand many were released with ti slig slight h t punishment all such performances were ivere bitterly denounced by the mormon mornion press and people in my opinion the mass masi meetings the address which is mainly a defense of the poly wamie gawle covenant and the whole demon demonstration a against the enforcement of the Ed edmunds law for that is all there is ot of it were gotten up to counteract the influences at work inside and outside the tile church against polygamy bein being thus considered the movement has been a great reat deal of a success the Alor mormon nion F people certainly could liot expect to satisfy the president of the country by a an appeal based up upon on the divine re reign 1 a and sanction aiono of f P polygamy that the toe edmunds law is a bad law that the which passed the act the supreme court which afi aff affirmed irined it and the officers who have executed it bave have all been parties to a monstrous wrong froug but by such aru ara argument umen tand and denunciation of all ail who have been connected witti making i or executing the law they have undoubtedly temporarily at least stiffened tile the weak knees among the brethren and increased the difficulties of the situation I 1 believe the action will have the contrary effect from that hoped for by the mormons cormons or bv by some boine of them and will demonstrate ilie the necessity for still more string stringent eul ent legislation regarding the denunciation of the commission and its acts the senator said sald that no set of officers charged with the responsibility of enforcing a law in utah affecting tae too institution of salyg polygamy alny and determined to do their duty were ever more conservative in all their acts or less influenced by prejudice than the commission proofs of this are abundant the commission have decided important questions in accordance with the Alor mormon nion view bel bei believing bellavin levin ievin the same to be right thereby drawing upon thein themselves selves criticisms criticism from dhe rhe the gentile press and people they have stood between the two extremes and have often been unable to satisfy either but have always endeavored deavo red to secure the best results from the edmunds law so far as th they y had to do with it and their efforts b have haye e been successful throughout hout bout the commission has posse possessed the respect and conti confidence dence deuce of the liberal mormons cormons and the best sentiment among the gentile element in utah in the tile r report pon pom the commission has recommended an amendment to the edmunds law and it is because these amendments are unpalatable and if adopted by con com gress would greatly strengthen the movement against pol poi polygamy y barny garny that the mormon indictment against the commission is so strong I 1 lie he thinks the amendments will be adopted and that president cleveland and his ad administration minis will firmly uphold the laws for i the suppression of polygamy in utah one might be excused for exclaiming in incongruity thy name is paddock the honorable gentleman starts out with an expression of his belief that tile the main maln object sought to be accomplished by the address is a revival of religious reli rell clous sious enthusiasm among the Mormon 1 people etc asboth As to the e result resul the he says being thus considered the movement has been a great deat deal of a success then he suddenly floors his own conclusion by asserting 1 I believe the action will have the cog con contrary effect to that hoped for by the mormons cormons Mor Alor mons 1 11 the puff iven aven given the commissioners is a piece apiece of personal horn blowing blowin that smacks of the odor of egotism while the statement that many of their decisions were favorable to the mormon ormon view believing 0 the same to be right night 13 is exceedingly racy but richer still Is the slap he 10 unwittingly adin adminis I 1 aisters terai to the gentile which lie im holds did clid its best to induce thein them to e in a way they believed to be wrong froug tue tile credit taken for martyrdom in standing by what was believed to be right in the facell face of a scurrilous fusillade fusi lade from a parti partisan sau sah press will not hot overwhelm anybody with admiration for such an exhibition of seif self s elf eif sac sacrifice bac the thi inflation of this bubble bubbie bub ble bie id is somewhat deduced ted endangering a collapse by the shewell well weil known tact fact that the bias of the commission was antl corwon mormon f from roul the begin ginni riz this journal frequently took 0 occasion to point out the errors and wrongs that were being perpetrated on account ao lount of that condition it Is notorious that the NEWS drew attention strongly to each of the mistakes to call them by the mildest admissible name perpetrated by the commission for me the perpetration ration of which they were brought up standing by the supreme court of the united states surely that kind of conserva bisin which includes the usurpation of functions foreign to the tile jurisdiction of the olli cial who wields them is not of a it character to be boasted about mr paddock claims clairl ig that the commission mois rols slon sion have always endeavored secure 6 the best results from the ed mund law but how can he deny that they went beyond the scope even infamous amons act antl anti mormon mordou I 1 results being the object aimed at there Is neither dignity nor consistency in the position jn of ex senator Pac paddock idock and so tar as his own credit Is concerned oli oh the question upon chica he appears overanxious over anxious to empty himself his conversation might be greatly improved by the introduction of a few brilliant nashes hashes of bi hi lence ilis his fellow commissioners appear i to be sufficiently sensible and politic to pursue a course of campara ive reticence on the subject ve we ap hp pre licud that they can scarcely feel flattered at the way in which their cause has been championed by the a gentleman from nebraska PERTINENT the fol foi following lowin interesting Inte communication reached us yesterday may 1885 editor deseret velos A friend of mine who seems bewildered wil dered because of the late rulings upon the A mormon lormon cohabitation question and who wi sito make no mistake ini stake in tile the future propounds the following which I 1 submit to you knowing your ability in solving problem I 1 will awill first state the case which is as follows my bly friends first and I 1 suppose legal wife has expressed her willingness villing mess wess that he should hereafter bold boid hold ouva oitt exclusively his second or plural wife and he wants to know first if lie he can legally and lawfully do this without divor divorcing cing clug his ilis first wife for she says though she is perfectly willing to b be left alone in the tile future divorce yet divorce et she is not willing willi n to submit to a second should he hereafter hold out OH exclusively his plural wife is not a marriage necessary to make the ren legitimate for according to the law those children only born of polygamous parentage up to january ry 1883 are 1 legitimate or will the ruling of judge zane stand good in law and legitimatize their offspring third though his first wife should consent freely io to such an arrangement today to day might inight she not change her ll 11 mind to florrow and would he c not be placed in jeopardy in more ways than one should she institute proceedings against him hlin all of which is most respectfully submitted by our correspondent is in perplexity so is his friend ile lle lie he evidently desires to place us in the tlde same predicament we confess to inability to solve the conundrums he propounds without coming in direct conflict with the rulings ings ln s of the astute judge odthe of the third district court what makes the situation ali all the more difficult and awe inspiring is the fact that when people in this region re lon ion have the temerity to differ from a federal official appointed without the consent of the populace t they h e y are accused of treason the very I 1 least e a s t charge ever hurled at those who exhibit such extravagant hardihood hardi harai nood is that they are in revolt reva against the personified soni nied fied quintessence of of people eople re reduced a e to a tine focus by a not yet et explained process of concentration but nut ut we are cornered by bothered and see no 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