| Show expressions FROM THE PEOPLE THE AND THE ENFORCE met NET OF ehe THE lawn LAWS the antii 13 momon formon I 1 press and the opponents of the latter day saints when called upon to state their REASONS FOR THE PRESENT CRUSADE a against adust the church here always lepit reply qt it is because the cormons mormons Mor mons dont come within the laws congress has passed laws and the mormons cormons Mor mons disobey i them this of co course urse urge is a very plausible answer II 11 oui oni only superficially considered it stands to 0 reason that the laws of our country should be obeyed and all are interested in urging in obedience to them gut tut but there is an inside view of this subject which perhaps perhaps has not been observed by an a we often hear that nifty nitty fifty nive five millions of people demand t hat that the laws meaning the anti poleg amy laws shall be enforced and one would suppose from this statement that every person in america had been consulted on the subject in all its abases phases and after due consideration had d expressed himself or herself in that severe manner regarding the Mor mormon mons people in the first place lace I 1 would respectfully dimner differ from ts this view I 1 make the declaration and challenge chal chai ienco lenso successful con contradiction tra diction that the said FIFTY FIVE 31 MILLIONS ILLIONS dont demand any such thing the great reat american public is composed of a bout about one third each of men women and children it certainly cannot be said that these children are all ca clamoring moring for the extirpation tir of the religious body called latter day saints then we must deduct over eighteen illions millions rb which leaves less than thirty seven millions of ad adults aits alts male and I 1 female emale will any reflecting person assert that eighteen teen millions illions of or women are waiting in and watching for the imprisonment and general legal or illegal persecution se of the saints in these peaceful valleys certainly not 1 now then how about the other eighteen millions which are supposed it if the sexes are about equal to be men these include all the male thinkers readers philosophers statesmen lawyers adges authors phil ihli and general lovers 0 of the race with which this great country abounds Howl many of thom them have llave been consulted and what number have expressed their desire for the inauguration AND perpetuation OFA OF A CRUSADE that shall sever all family ties and imprison veterans whose only crime is that of loving their families too well to desert them how many endorse the incarceration of delicate women and girls giris because they will not reveal th the secrets of the marriage chamber in au an open cou con court rt room how many favor the hunting down of men and women because of or a re gigions idea or belief and casti castl castling tg them thern under color of law and after aniu anju ani unjust trial into perhaps the most loathsome den called a penitentiary in th the tha united united states at how many sanction the of refined gentlemen for a religious and biblical practice among horse thieves murderers burglars and colbo cowboys s to sleep with them in the same beh bel bed and suffer the same restrictions and prison rules 6 A x man B imprisoned FOR AN IDEA a belief a conviction is d dragged aged fro from his loving family of p perhaps e rh a S two faithful wives and a little flock of beautiful bright children and Is not allowed to see them any oftener than the allain jillain who has taken a life for money or made the mountains unsafe by ul robbery or bloody crime rin tin I 1 have too much respect for foe the american people and too high an opinion of their virtues to believe that they ghey universally or in any extended de degree gr e e endorse much less demand dema nd such proceedings ce A I 1 I 1 but bat there is another matter connected with this subject that should receive consideration and which may add still further urther I 1 to the true presentation of the case we find that the aid of rell nell rellious religious ious lous ministers has been sought by those tho interested in the crusade and in many instances has been obtained in stirring up the public mind against the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 that some ministers have used their clerical lin tin fluence to accomplish acco the passage of the cruel tiar antireligious anti antl religious ell eil alous laws which politicians so much desired is not to the credit of themselves or the christian churches they represent in many cases they have llave been deceived by the misrepresentations of interested parties in some cases no doubt they felt that it was their duty to attack a powerful religious rival one which they were unable to cope with in la the field of ar bument but as a general thing few if any of the parties who sl signed ned the petitions to confess Con congress ress or voted for the crusade understood the real condition of the people here they did not search into the depths of the situation or learn of the deceit practiced by local political demagogues in their own honesty amnesty they lost sight of the trickery which was being played upon them and in signing a petition for ing laws to be enacted they were not perhaps aware that these laws were to ae applied only to one class while another set were to go entirely rree free ire e they he y ige ife rge did not by their signatures end endorse 0 a rull nuil ruling n by the utah courts that the laws so passed were NOT DIRECTED AGAINST SEXUAL SINS or perhaps they might have withheld the potent signatures which called the laws into existence many people eople would be horror stricken if if their attention were called to the results of their favoring such an undertaking as that which has been devastating homes and distressing families during the last few months in utah tah they would b still further annoyed if they knew that special pains were taken to avoid the punishing of parties guilty of SEXUAL SINS INS who were not members of the mormon mons church and still more would they be chagrined if they knew that in signing signing said petitions they were playing g into the hands bands of a political le 1 I ring many of w whom h orn oin ridicule religion as a superstition superstition and never use the sacred name of deity delty eity elty only in derision or anger that the they were thus unwittingly the means 0 of aiding infidelity to fight a warfare upon religion was possibly farthest from their thoughts yet such is the case now take from the remaining eighteen millions those who never have favored these things thing 8 and nd hose those who wao being awakened to the fact snow now regret such action and the alf nifty fifty five nive I 1 millions nillion of people dwindle docto down to a C comparative few against whom the majority of the said afif nifty fifty ty nive five millions minions are fire really arraigned on general leslin ieslin flus fous behalf of right justice and 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