| Show STILL THE CIRCULAR LE lenter LETTER As further contributions to the discussion of the rather mythical government manifesto against the mormons cormons Mor mons we clip the following this thia ia Is from the san Bern Born radino listes li steg stes what would we think of any foreign nation which addressed our government a letter requesting us to use our influence to keep americana americans at home because among them were some thieves forgers and other disreputable characters we WO would laugh at the weah weak weakness ness of that nation and tell them to look after their own af afla lairs irs the mot mons as a class are good citizens they are honest and industrious wherever they go they carry with tham thad prosperity they have built up the waste places of our country god tod deserve credit for it they are bigoted and fanatical almost equally with our pilgrim fathers and so long as their religion does not overstep the laws of the land deserve protection but when their fanaticism leads them to disregard our laws it is the duty of the government to punish them and this it should do and not appeal to other nations to prevent their coming i the annexed is from the butte miner at first sight this pompously heralded letter was recognized in its true character by all in the least acquainted with the mormon pio problem blem biem by them it was seen merely aa as a beutum brutum fulmen a sop to cerberus berua a harmless little piece of buncome thrown out from the head centre of wire pulling as a bait at once to quiet popular tumult and to i rivet IV et popular attention while said head centre bused busied I 1 itself in little irregularities buch auch aa as the recent stump speaking tour through maine of a cabinet officers officer in preparing for the next presidential election the attention though bestowed upon this letter not only throughout the united states but also aleo in england JEn den giand gland tea fea teaches chesus us that the matter hu hgo b beu bacu bocu vu taken au setie serie cuz cux dix eo 80 it may be i worth while to consider how ut utterly ter impracticable is the suggested course of withdrawing from the cormons mormons Mor mons the right of landing at any of the united states ports the idaho democrat has the following I 1 I 1 we are surprised to see the folly of bome come men whom we have been led to believe were great men even george washington and henry clay are said to have had their weak points daniel webster with his towering intellect intellects is said been weak as a boy in in some things but of all the exhibitions of weakness and folly ever made by men who occupied high positions eions we feel that the late action ta of the present cabinet on the mormon question is the greatest we were fairly stunned by the magnitude of the folly and we are still barely able to believe bellevo our senses as the wires continue to soend send evidence after evidence that the announcement made was genuine only think of this great nation sending letters to foreign powers to have them interfere with the immigration of certain classes to this country for fear forsooth they may think of committing crime against our laws after they arrive here how howls Is great britain or germany to know what those leaving their shores intend to do after coming to the united states As well might we strive to hold england responsible for the good behavior of the vast numbers of irish emigrants who land on our shores year after year as to take the stand recently taken in regard to the immigration of mormons cormons Mor mons few if any of the mormons cormons Mor mons are actually in practice of polygamy when they leavo leave the old country and how are they going to be punished for a crime crima they have not committed it is certainly a punishment to be restrained from going where one desires to go besides Bes Be sides idea how hov howar are etho otho tho Ate ear ean amshl companies who are common carriers going to ba made to refuse passengers who apply for against whom there is no criminal charge in fact the proposition is full of grave difficulties and its announcement limply shows the enormous length to which the ears of the present cabinet members have grown hayes had better veto the thing in its infancy |
