Show the world still governed by intolerance prejudice and superstition the people of today to day felicitate themselves that thai the days of ignorance bl bigotry and superstition have passe passed dand Zd that now nov the people of civilized countries are living and acting in a glare of enlightenment delusive thought what whit do we see in the government of austria it rejects in advance a minister from this country because his wife is a jewess where among the annals of the old superstitions Is there anything more absurd and yet it seems ems right to the imperial wisdom of that august and ancient dynasty yet hov how frivolous how weak how bov darkened to reason and justice is such auch intolerance the ages are arc clotted with the blood of innocent men women and children growing butof out of just such bigotry as that A As s different religions have gained aacen dennies those e of dinn dimm different beliefs have been ostracised ostracized and put to cruel deaths but this boasted land of liberty has not escaped its superstitions our forefathers came here to worship god according to the dictates of their own consciences and when tiie life they stronger they bersee persecuted tei blameless quakers lu akers to prisons and death and burned witches they TOY declared 1 I it t to be gods will to do so then and later they said sall that the bible and god upheld slavery and all along to the present government and people have voluminously repeated that th united states was an asylum for the oppressed pressed 0 of all nations and yet today today Uni namen are tortured and alain slain with the utmost barbarity and when and where have hav e the murderers paid the forfeit ot of their crimes where are the parties that stand up and say that such guilt shall be punished for years a r 8 and years the public mind h has yb been e inflamed a against ga dinst the distant mormons cormons Mor mons finally a law was passed tu lit parti partially ally aily disfranchise them and crush out their religion the law was made severe against lewd lewt and lascivious colial tation mile n 11 intending to break up the plural families but it has that the law fair y v administered would bear down upon outside prostitution and it was ivas found gut out that while the gentiles of utah were prosecuting and making the air blue with curses against the mormons cormons Mor mons that they themselves were practicing in lewd and lascivious cohabitation in the basest shape making low dens of it and rolling in its rottenness lately some of them have been arrested for ghisone this one hundred fold worst violation of the law but the district attorney and judge of that territory to have released the prisoners at alleging I 1 ng the gauziest gauz iest reason ever uttered te red that the mormons cormons entrapped the them minto into it the acts of violation being too palpable plain and overwhelming wh elming nim mim to deny the offense itself it may be b that the attorney and judge j were participators participatory in the crime be that as it may does it not show a discrimination and injustice equal to the absurdity of Aus position grant that the mormon position Is a bad one does that excuse their persecutors in that which is worse Is the judge to be sustained who turns loose the worse violator and bankers with whetted malice to punish the least public clamor alamo and intensified goaded on prejudice he relies reiles upon to bear him out in that prostitution will wili the government see that the law is impartially administered to all alike or will it suffer the reverse and place itself in a position to be rebuked by bigoted and tyrannical austria la of the SP int hart bart mih |