| Show sectarian BIGOTRY WK wn have received the june jane number of the utah christian advocate this periodical is published under the auspices of the methodist pers persuasion haslon but receives the sentimental if it not the substantial support of most of the other sects because of its senseless and unscrupulous opposition to the tche mormon people and their religion 11 it is 19 issued under the supervision of committee T TC C iliff 31 nelson neison G at jeffrey and TW LIP lincoln tolla aside from its anti antl christian christan spirit it is 13 chiefly notable notel lc for being probably the most clumsily edited len der in the west an article articie in the number at hand band leads off with a statement to the effect that I 1 poly polygamy 7 is still boldly preached by the saints this assertion is folio follo wed up by this s it is becoming a serious question here whether this tills rigid enforcement of the edmunds law is sufficient to meet the case so long as the priesthood are allowed publicly to teach the people that it is their duty before god to disobey the law and to perjure themselves in order to escape its penalties dad that to suffer the penalty of the law is praiseworthy martyrdom so long will its effects be lost upon this people it is becoming clearer to all loyal citizens here thal that tar more stringent measures must be resorted to in order to suppress the lawless acts of the mormons cormons Mor mons and aud nothing short of their disfranchisement and the appointment of a legislative commis commit slon aion together with the tile continued enforcement of the law will avail 11 without caring to 10 discuss the alleged fact of the continuous preaching of the doctrine of plural marriage s it may be pardonable to direct attention to the true nature of these sectarian vultures as indicated by the foregoing going expression their appetite whick f feeds eells upon the distress inflicted upon a people who differ from them in religious religion views is not appeased to see families disrupted and aud plunged into sorrow and their heads incarcerated in prison tor for conscience sake would be sufficient to glut the desires of natures impregnated mated win even an unusual de degree gree of refined barbarity not so with these mild mannered christians these to them theta trilling trifling incidents of persecution only i tend to io wilet their hunger and caus cause c them to call for more consequently in adGit addition ion tol the suppression of a ac tion they call in the fervency ier ter vency sency of their CL christian ristian zeal for the blotting out of A formon mormon right to free but those unreasoning zealots zealous can never produce an anu and mormon I 1 piece or 01 splenetic literature witti without out sh showing bivIng up their own flagrant 11 contradictoriness dictor dic lii iti ess while asserting that the people are taught to disobey the law and perjure themselves in order to escape Us its penalties a perfidious f fabrication abri abrl cation catlon they with the most silly inconsistency follow this up with and that to su summer suffer ff er the penalty of the law Is praiseworthy martyrdom I 1 behold the brainless iacong incongruity aulty what logic 1 the saints according to this thia mode mude of reasoning are taught to commit perjury in order to escape suffering something that it is praiseworthy martyrdom to endure the amount of meekness which characterizes these pious persons is beautifully Illustrate illustrated a bythe by the sneaking manner in which they assert that thu the priesthood are allowed publicly to teach the people that it is their duty bof before ore god to disobey the law if they uley had possessed a spark of honesty they would have properly and justly defined the position of tile the saints oil oli thi s and every other question that it is their duty and that of all other peo pleto obey agod god 11 but it serves the purpose of sectarians sect arians to throw up with malignant conspicuity the absurd falsehood th tb althe atthe chief alm aim of mormons cormons Mor mons hons is to commit breaches of the law when the true trae position is that in following g their conscientious selent ious lous duty to god they come in iri conflict with laws jaws enacted pu purposely to entrap them the p publishers of the advocate belong to 0 t the ile lle religious wing af the anti mormon crusade they assert that the present cruelties cruel ties heaped upon the objects toward whom their sectarian hatred haired is directed are not sufficient they are too and therefore failure and not success will be the result of the onslaught consequently they howl for more stringent ine lne measures asureE among these is the obliteration of A lormon mormon free speech total chisel nent the wresting from them of all power in the tho making of laws for thir their own government and that tavy thu y be bereft t of the power oi v e r of 0 4 having anything whatever aha pt c v e r to do with their own affairs aft airs men who adi q views are little if any bet tera tena berthah ahan theoretical murderers let blossom into accomplished facts and life would guld become an unendurable burden to a god fearing and truth lovitt loving community anat these unreasoning and unscrupulous bigots need are area a little common decency sense of the samme quality quail tys together with some deai degi ee of consistency if these three werm were mixed w with atti a little chii Chil christian stian charity the compound would be an excellent specific for their complaint these thes e might be some danger in administering it however for the reason that being the antipodes of 0 their individual the gudden sudden contact of conflicting conflict inc inu elements might cause a disastrous explosion |
