| Show THE TRUE STATE OF THE TRE OASE THE washington star hab has a leading article on the lithe speck of war in utah in which the situation is clearly and honestly defined and the cause of the fuss fusa and tumult about mormon insurrection plainly pointed out in regard to the case of the executors the star says judge boreman seems to be carrying things with a pretty high hand and it is thought by many who have no sympathy with the mormons cormons Mor mons that his action in this matter was illegal and altogether unjustifiable 11 this is a very generally expressed opinion in other places besides washington and salt bait lake and the unfitness unfit ness of boreman for the judicial bench is acknowledged even by those who are delighted to know that through his blundering and malignity three mormon have been bentt bent to jail jall the star quotes freely from the deseret NEWS to show who are thereal the real objects of mormon displeasure and that we have no quarrel with decent people tho tha government on this point the star remarks while the mormons cormons will wll 1 get little sympathy in their attempts to sustain their peculiar institution of polygamy it la is doubtless true as they assert that the crusade against them in sait bait lake city by certain gentiles official and otherwise has a selfish purpose there is no doubt that a ring of speculators are at work there to egg on a collision between the united states government men mon t and the mormons cormons in the hope that the latter will be driven from their possessions in utah and that they can gobble them up easily in dealing with the mormon problem care should be taken by the government not to play into the hands of this thia greedy gang of speculators that is the truth in a nutshell tho tha would never have had any difficulty in regard to the mormon question or the mormon people if it had not been for he the puritans and speculators the former want to make their guage of morals a national standard and use the knife and the rack to cut down or stretch up every one to th the e measure of their markin gAnd the latter want to make money by the presence of troops and the handling of contracts the up of liti lations and prosecutions which means fees for the legal and judicial members of the ring or by a pressure of sufficient magnitude to drive the mormons cormons Mor mons to desperation resulting either in ha a collision with a power considered sufficient lelent to erush crush them with ea gaseor esse ease or their exodus ta t a more peaceful location the outcome of which would mean possession of mormon improvements the star says wisely care should be taken by the government not to play into the hands of this greedy gang of speculators to which we will add nor to be influenced by the hypocritical puritans of the times who have the same spirit as their ancestors and would hang or imprison a mormon as quickly aa their progenitors used to burn or drown a witch there is odie ofie one thirl thing g that the rascally crew ot of adventurers libel li bellers Ierg lerg blackmailers legal robbers pious liars llara and social wolves will not have the satisfaction of doing they will not possess the property which the latter day saints have accumulated by years of toil toll and with which they have beautified a desolate wilderness it a conflict should be brought about through their falsehood and deviltry not many of the dastardly villains would be left to enjoy anything and if we understand the feelings of the masses there would be mighty little left on the surface of the ground for any auy of them to enjoy hooner sooner than leave it for these human hyenas to gloat over aa as a prey let the torch and the blast consume and scatter it until the smoking 9 chos nione alono tell the place of the sac Bac sacrifice and mark the tho scenes of the brief redemption om of a desert Mormon iam lam haa survived the sword the bullet the dungeon and the flame does not depend earthly wealth or the favor of men and will flourish and prevail when the beasts of prey who are howling for its destruction have gone down to 10 death and ignominy and are buried in the depths of the sea of I 1 oblivion |
