| Show THAT SUGGEST suggestion ign THERE IS genuine irany ln in the su suggestion made elsewhere la in this issue by a massachusetts correspondent that tile the mormons cormons Mor Ifor mons establish nunneries nunn eries and or orphanages pliana mes after the capner of the catholics throughout this r nation I 1 and claim the exemption from taxation and protection under the law accorded to those popular institutions it does look h a little strange to a man up a ree tree 11 that communistic and freelove free love or aim at t the double purpose 0 of f overturn overturning im I 1 civil govern ment and family relations should be al lovyed alloyed to flourish in ip various parts of tile the union undisturbed and nunneries nunn eries and monasteries filled with men and women who abjure marriage and live unnatural lives ilves to exist and enjoy complete immunity no not t only from persecution and taxation but irom from official oui cial clai and public scrutiny while the efforts of a whole nation on the plea of morality are centered upon preventing the latte latter r day saints from honorably marrying acknowledging and supporting wives and rearing children who are taught from their in fancy to honor god and live pure lives to r evere revere the constitution of our country maintain that form of civil government which its ita founders instituted and struggle 1 f for or equal rights 1 to all persons anat such should be the cae cage is not due to the fact that we are called lat ter day saints and the others catholics or s something om ethin else or because the persecutors persecutor of the people who inhabit these valleys imagine that they are guilty of any such suan sins siv as are charged to them but bat rather because the latter are the special people of god among whom a power is manifested that is not found with others a power which the people of the world instinctively dread and which satan prompts them to oppose with all their might As ion lon long iong as satan has power powei over the hearts of men that opposition will continue it is not to be avoided by resorting to any subterfuge nor do the saints propose to resort to any to avoid it they look for fon deliverance to a higher source than the arm of flesh or even bunian government and the expected deliverance is suie sule |
