| Show ITS educational RESULTS uncompromising controversies in communities produce couill conflicting eting educational cat ional results because one party must be more or less oil on the offensive ve while the other must necessarily assume a defensive attitude such is the position in utah today to day the enemies of the saints are arc the aggressors gres sors in the conflict in progress and they bring to bear exclusively the tactics of tyranny and coercion they attack the rights and privileges then the liberties of the people in order to bring about their subjugation that tiley they might rule over them with a rod of iron yet their program programmer pro gramme mix miD completed as they have intimated their intention of engaging gagina en in the hazardous game ot of stealing their property adil falling in that they would probably cast about lor for excuse excuses to rob them of life with many of them tile the will in that direction has been evinced b by u unmistakable n M 1 shakable sta kable kabie expressions already T there h ra are some in the ranks of me tae rabid who in theory consider that a aio Alo mormon haa baa no right to live these when mormons cormons Mor mons have been ruthlessly assassinated assassinate dhave have condoned the horr horrible iule lule c crime of murder and mocked at tile tiie grief of the sorrow stricken relatives relative sand saud and friends of the martyrs they trample constitutional tut ional principles in te tic dust and clamor for more encroach encroachments ments upon that sacred instrument thus they are rocking themselves in the cradle ot of injustice and drinking copious draughts at the fountain of tyranny they chev educate themselves in the methods of bigots who reach decisions dy by the rules ot of falsion pashion passion and prejudice in place of we weighing lil iii every question in tue tile scales of evenT even evenhanded handed banded justice and measuring matters by the standard of freedom and equal rights how different must necessarily bu be the effect of the convict upon the defenders of correct principle who are assailed from every quarter qua iter it is their province to thoughtfully consider el every ery cry bissu issue ein eln in the controversy and when right L is assaulted to vigorously combat the innovations of the oppressor the struggle constitutes a school of experience that acquaints them with tae correct principles of human I 1 government that is of tile the most practical character if they are wise it will teach them to abhor everything that is opposed to tb the mali wall maintenance of right IL it will learn them the grand fact im bedding it in their very souls bouts oy by what they have to endure that every human being has rights no matter what may be his f faith falth or whether he lie have any and that justice demands that they be respected it implants within the mind ot of the mancho man who stands up unflinchingly for tiie tile principles of human privilege and right tile the grand raud rand fact tact that all differences and questions should be adjudicated by no other method than on the basis of the recognition of thu tle rights of all conc concerned ernee prejudice and passion being elements to ail ait questions or issues that should never be allowed to enter thein them there is however a different result that might ensue to those trobe who are made alade the victims of an unwarrantable and corrupt aggression such as the latter day saints are fire being subjected to should they tamely submit to have oppressive wrong heaped upon them without an effort on their part to scan every question intelligently and resist to the last exposing betimes the villainy il of those who are seeking to enslave them every effort to deprive them cf gf that to which they are entitled under the genius of republicanism they would gradually become accustomed to the letters fetters forged for their limbs they would become immured to the condition of semi serfdom until they would eventually be unworthy the name ot of freemen but no such effect as the ane one last denned benned will be produced the outcome come will he be a triumph for liberty how far it may be distant it is hard to tell but those who will yet assume the position of champions of constitutional til tut ional lorial rights are being rapidly qualified for their prospective work and it I 1 is well occasionally to loo lupon cupon the inevitable outcome and not brood too much upon the roughness or length of the road that will have to bs be traveled before the goal is reached and by all means it should be borne in mind that fitness for future activity will be attained only by those who intelligently telli gently analyze the various issues that arise and boldly defend the truth while passive acceptance of the designs ot of tyrants begets a slav slavish ish d dis position the genuine man may max he be held down byrain by main force by being bein placed at a disadvantage for a season but ut his is being conquered by a process oi of cruel cm coercion i an impossibility |
