| Show WANTS A REST A FEW days ago an editorial article appeared in the NEWS commenting upon the recent massacre at rock springs the tragedy was N as used by us for the purpose of pointing a moral if not adorning a tale pointed predictions made by joseph smith in relation to a reign of blood and lawlessness that would overtake this nation it if it persisted in wickedness rejected the message sa sage e of the gospel revealed by the almighty in this generation and oppressed and anti prosecuted the saints were named in the same connection the wyoming incident was in the news article mentioned as showing the character of coming tro troubles u bles bies rhese these comments disturbed th the equanimity of a writer in a local evening who impatiently exclaimed give us a rest the petulant scribe evidently imagines himself somebody and that th there re should be a uni universal versa A ac acknowledge knowle d 9 meat ment of his concentrated wisdom b by other people sinking their individuality and speaking from his standpoint instead of their own it that b be e the species of rest he be demand demands he will ao so far as the news is concerned never attain to a condition of imperturbability the same paper now alluded to was a short time since clamorous for the government not to relax its raid upon the saints because such a breathing stell steil spell would be attributed to the inter interference erf ere of af god in their behalf and it was necessary that that kind ot faith should be crushed out of them it appears to hate the very idea of deity and the bare mention of divine providence appears to throw it into a condition 0 appears of unrest the NEWS has his its standpoint from which it views natters batters nat and things and it will continue to maintain it it no matter how much discomfort it may cause the ungodly our has its unspiritual and earthy standard and it can occupy the seat of the mocker and exhibit petulance at other peoples opinions yet the NEWS will not call lor tor it to furnish a rest the peace of this journal being undisturbed by such narrow and intolerant mani fe stations but a few words more about the tendency of the nation to organized lawlessness it is a constant theme ot intelligent journalists it Is reviewed with apprehension by all peaceably inclined thoughtful people it is not necessary to dwell upon the contentious attitude of labor toward capital and dice vice versa nor to do more than make the bare statement that secret organizations among each class to enable able it to take every possible advantage of the other are rapidly increasing until they form a network net work covering the entire country neither isit is it necessary togo to go beyond the bare assertion that secret combinations more sinister ler still are swelling in id proportions and becoming intensified in the malevolent character of the purposes which inspire them that these organizations little it i ally any regard for lor the right so ion lon long iong as they can attain any object of which they are lu in pursuit Is lein feln being constantly demonstrated st numerous violent bloody and destructive outbreaks in which they have been the leading factors are matters of recent history who is able to see a solution to the labor fuestion hu estion or a diminution of the growing discontent of i gre are only ouli beginning to feel the tern terr nole ioie power P ower they ey are capable of using in inan an 0 organized caisa calsa capacity city 9 there is apparent ly ilk lit no terminal point to the extension 0 of t these ese combinations which are aside from f rom organize e A government governa ent they are established is under the pretext of providing protection for classes liable to bs be the victims of others but it bas has already been demonstrated that they are the most dan dangerous nerous rous elements that could possibly threat threaten eru ert the whole social structure and are liable to ie traus transformed formed into engines of oppression producing prod acing lawlessness and blood shed they are capable of becoming i 1 devastating anali and uncontrollable neon whirlwind wl d spreading reading spreading desolation on evort every hand band ha sy if f they keep on increasing in number and influence it may be concluded with safety that it will not be a great while before the government of the nation would in the event of a great labor crish crisis be utterly powerless powe riess to maintain peace lord Beacons neld with his wonderful f at farsightedness foresaw the horrible climax of the phenomenal developments threatening the social structure of the whole world peculiar to these times he spoke of the secret organizations izat ions lons that were forming and 1 I rowing in bulk and influence as a power that thai was surey surely sapping the foundations of 0 exi exl existing stin order and would sooner or later b become acome so formidable that no government however great would find fina its resources resource 9 sufficiently potential to cope with it many thinkers are looking forward with foreboding 0 to a similar consummation how can intelligent 11 latter day saints look upon the situation and prospects from any other point of trint view than that assumed by the e NEWS they hold hoid that god has spoken from heaven in this generation and offered to establish a better and purer condition in this nation and all others the consequence of a rejection of the messa message e and the oppression of those who have accepted it were to oe te la to course of time follow followed sd by just suck such organizations as are now threaten lc iq the very exl exi existence tence of society and ultimately a carnival of blood and jand carnage the I 1 wicked slaying the wicked until the remnant that shod ahod be left would be willing to acca accept t of a government defan defined by frite trite intelligence tig ig wen gen received from the source bite opte of I 1 li it the th go gospel has been spurned its advocates slain and its adherents mobbed and persecuted being driven from pillar to post and now toward them is is inaugurated a lawless crusade ex t post ost facto statutes against them bara bare been een formulated and enacted iliyof of attainder are aimed at them the rush ing process being employed by th ov ern eminent ment its credited agents i emorece U these alleged laws which are in direct violation of the constitution ution with a ferocious cruelty that is disgraceful where the tbt law is defective rulings are made to cover coven co verttie vertlie the ground grotins gro tInd so as to allow no do I 1 person who comes under the banot ban ot tie the crusade to escape men of principle P ae and purity of character are sent to prison frison 1 while the moral leper Is allowed to sta stalk k abroad unmolested the courts of utah are so far as their attitude toward the gei mormon lormon people Is concerned but little better than judicial mobs for th they eyare are constituted and operated to convict and while this spectacle of merciless oppression is presented the nation rubs its ita hands bands in glee ga ee and urges on with exultant shouts houts the political dogs clogs of var war then when the tb e elements cleme ts that threaten destruction are rapidly increasing and the signs of the times denote a I coming day of disaster as surely as the sun dial denotes the ip approach of noon why should n not 0 t the NEWS assume that a dat day da I 1 of 13 18 advancing and that for lawlessness applied lawlessness will be given why should not the hand of ad god be recognized la in all ail this whether our be willingto willing to admit that deity has anything thin to do with the attadi of his fits creation and creatures ot of not the facts of the situation cannot be truthfully controvert ed 11 can attribute it to anything it chooser chooses and so wili will we debut hut but its writer sheab with that petulance which would indicate that he has some ides that it Is possible that mormonism is correct after all anyway tig tit news will not give him a rest inthe matter of the hand band of 01 god in human affairs the tact fact that I 1 the fool hath said in his heart then there Is no god Is nothing to us |
