Show cs TEACHINGS AS TO VIOLENCE OCE oscr more a an n attempt has been ma made d e by our unscrupulous ious tons enemies bobring to bring about a collision between the people of utah and the tile government of the united states by means of the military and once again it has failed but the falsehoods that have been sent abroad by the press and the telegraph will be to some extent believed inthe in the world and the mormons cormons Mor mons will wih be viewed as a turbulent set while the truth lathat every thin thing Is as quiet and ut in utah as self control and good order can make society anywhere 1 during daring the satanic cry for martial law there dhere has not nut been the first indication of a riot and the only person injured is a mormon Mor moh night watchman who was shot ina lna in a dark lane by bya a US deputy marshal marsha 1 with whom he had previously bad some difficulty and yet in spite of this quiet quietness riess iless and the utter absence of any actual disturbance people at a distance have been peen made to 10 believe that the 1131 ormo sill church has been counselling co violence and that there is dangel danger hiru to life and property in consequence ericc and the tle murde murderous rous roas assault bya bym by a uen deu denelle den tile tiie on a Mor mormon is actually cited as an attempt at assassination udder udden orders from the priesthood 1 13 the people of this territory have had bad ample occasion to arouse them into retaliation against their persecutors and it they were not governed by higher principles than their accuse accusers rat ney would long ago nave have acted as other people would nave done and made mado it exceedingly uncomfortable for the crawling wretches who have played the spy the tho eavesdropper eaves dropper the informer and ithe ethe blood money vampire but they have patiently endured the indignities heaped upon them have submitted to ad all legal processes served tipon them and a great deal mat that has been illegal borne intrusion at unseemly I 1 times imes into their homes and bed cham bers the questioning of their wives and children upon their most i private acts ethe ithe the jibes and sneers and und of godless and licentious wretches whose lives art are a libel and whose toucin isa is a profanation and have hive seen without resistance respected arid godly men and women sent away to prison among malefactors on indictments and verdicts dicas lound by of whom by the basest of crimes and there has not beerman overt act e committed by them thern during these brov locations or any physical resistance resorted to this forbearance has been the consequence of bf self control under the poI pol positive tIve tiye counsel of their charca churca leaders which is uc according accordine cordin to church doctrine and discipline alne violence and retaliation tal tai lation are contrary to both patience endurance submission forbearance returning good for evil are taught in the standard written authorities of the charen and practically by tile the pres presiding laIng officers ot of the priesthood we dere tere here direct attention to a discourse delivered by president john taylor february 1st ast issa in the tabernacle in this city it was preached juit jint after the brethren illegally convicted and sentenced oy that scoundrel sumner howard b had a been sent to the detroit penitentiary and when the raid had been inaugurated here of spies and informers and public indignation was great dent Taylor said concerning arizona affairs 1 I found that such had been the outrages committed corm corn milled thao thac it was impossible almost for any man stand standing ingin in an honorable position to maintain his bis position unless he broke the law by resisting the officers and they thought it not prudent to do so and so do 1 it may suit others to violate the law to trample upon human rights and and desecrate the sacred temple ot of liberty and this js frequently f done by the arbiters and minions of the law in the name of justice but we profess to be governed by higher by nobler and more exalted principles and to move on a higher plane and if jesus could afford endure to these attacks of sin ners against himself we it we have nave the tha gospel that we profess to have ought tobe to be able to endure alitt a little leof of the same thin I 1 after speaking of the outrages perpetrated P pet iet let rated upon lne ine people here lie he coap continued ti I 1 well wh what would atwould you do would you resent these outrages and break the heads of the men eng engaged aged in them and spill their blood nol no I 1 avoid them as much as you can 0 andret and net out of the way as lucli muchas as you can what wont you vou submit to the dignity of the law well weil I 1 would if the law would only be a little dignified but when we see the ermine bedraggled in the mud and mire and every principle of justice violated it behooves men to take tako care of themselves as best they in may Y ouid would you resist law NO As I 1 said before I 1 I 1 can stand it if they cail can it Is for us t to 0 do what is right to seap fear god to observe his laws and keep his ills commandments and the lord will manage the rest but no breaking of heads no bloodshed no rendering evil lorevil fo for revil eril evil 11 that this good counsel was followed the history ot of the past ten months abundantly testifies the hounds bounds that have been tracking victims victim sot of a perverted law jaw have not been molested whenever the have had bad definite color of auth authority y they have been unobstructed in their searches and seizures which have often been unreasonable and sometimes without warrant sowell so well weil indeed was this advice adopted and practiced that on the of july following on the occasion of the anniversary of the entrance of the pioneers into salt lake valley the presidency of the church in a published address to the latter day saints said we have been very much pleased at the heroic conduct and the honorable course 0 of f our brethren and sisters who have had to endure the insults ins ilits and outrages perpetrated by the present crusaders the conduct of the saints saint under these trying circumstances G has s been eminently proper we do not believe there Is a body of people in the world outside of bf utah who would have abstained as they have done from violent resistance of the unjustifiable proceedings against them and their patience and has caused some of their retainers detainers defa deta iners to insinuate that this arose from froin cowardice the taunt came from the lips of cowards who knew that their security to libel the mormons cormons Mor mons lay in the very endurance of ot insult in accordance with good advice which they now seek to conceal while they howl for martial law A recent solitary case of violence which was purely a personal matter e r has his been made to do big duty 1 for 0 r our accusers A low lived creature had been the cause of an attack in an equally low lived paper upon the character of a young man of choleric tei tel temper who retaliated by striking his calumniator the assault was promptly punished punished la in the police court by bya a heavy ine nine fine and costs the person assailed happened to b be e a deputy marshai marshal and his assailant a mormon this was elou enough 0 ft to arouse arous ethe the vengeance of the whole e force of federal officials the daring man who touched the sacred dime ilme dignity of a deputy was further fined by the district court log with costs and imprisoned five days in a the penitentiary although this assault was in direct opposition to the counsel of the mormon leaders loaders it was represented by ane villains who ire are howling f for or military intervention as ins IDS instigated by the mormon church just the same with the present cause of public dis als cus cu siou aslou it is claimed that the tha young man who was shot by this same deputy marshal marshai was the dinst A 11 r of the trouble that he with ta f ott off er men waylaid the deputy on I 1 lis Is v u ay home and assaulted him and aad that the assailant was ahot shot and his companions fled fied therease there Ther eare are aro several ties in this tilts story stoic and the testimony of the wounded man when he an and d all around him believed he was dying flatly contradict this version given by the deputy wha did the shooting and aud yet el this story is given to the couii couil country try as t h 6 ugh it was proven truth and i the mormon church again is madere made responsible pon for the alleged attack anere are two explanations of the thie affray ff ray nay and neither has lyet reached tiie tile status of a demonstrated fact in there therel is que chingas cert certain alli aill a the sun and incontrovertible as the truth of jehovah ani an 4 thalis thatis that any violence was attempted ag against atals T thu the deputy by one man or or more etwas it was in direct violation of the general teachings and special instruct instructions ions ioas of uie the A lormon mormon church and ats ts leaders those general instructions are to be found iund in it standard stand aiu aiH works aud and some 01 of the special instructions are quoted in this article vengeance Is mine I 1 will repay aith alth saith the lord 11 is and has been a guide to the latter day saints retaliation Ee is foreign to the spirit of the principles they have received they are positively forbidden to shed blood aney are commanded to seek for redress of grievances only by legal and peaceable means any deviation from this course is contrary to revelation counsel and church policy those who represent otherwise eit elt either elther er know not what they are talking about or they willell willfully wil wll tully lully y misrepresent is represent for a vile and villio villainous I 1 purpose we fel fei naturally indignant over the continued indI indignities pIties which our people e have had liz to bear and we 91 have laye a ve protested against them in strong language we expect to d so still bal bac no words we haie haye at command can express the loathing and contempt we feel for the wretches who are striving to bring an armed force into this territory to provoke a collision and to foster strife and in order to further their hellish designs acc abc accuse us ethe the church of advising that violence whick it has positively forbidden and has been successful in preventing and notwithstanding the many provo provo that are continually thrust upon anthe the people bove we ve sayas say as our leaders havela have said sald id no 0 violence no breaking of heads no shedding ol 01 blood god rilles rules and in due time he lle will avenge ills his people of their adversaries |