Show ED editorials I 1 TO R ills LYING dispatches THE misrepresentations bonta contained ined in press pross dispatches have been commented upon verely severely ae in many of the public journals in political affairs it is often very difficult to pick out the truth from the mass of falsehood with which whip it is surrounded in telegrams forwarded by men who are aro tho the tools of the republican party if the wires were under the control of the democracy it is possible that they would not be any better but it is a deplorable plo rable fact that most of the dispatches that are sent to the papers all over the world are colored and tinted tint edwith with the views view and sand prejudices of radical parti while they should be entirely free from bias or opinion opinions relating only cold and naked facts and occurrences the idaho democrat under the heading of lying dispatches says bays eor por a series of years there has been a continual complaint nt of odthe the want of rell reil reliability abil ty in the associated press ress dispatches this matter ha hap been been complained of so often that one would think the parties who have control of the matter would cease sending such stuff over the lines during daring the war there might have been some excuse for claiming a disastrous route as a brilliant strategic movement it may have been necessary in order to keep up the courage of the nation to call defeat a grand victory but there can ba be no kind bind of excuse for continuing this wholesale lying but it beems seems to have become such a habit during the war that it has been continued ever since and especially ally BO so during political campaigns pa igns s to this we will add that for years there has been a systematic and wilful perversion of the truth in the press dispatches about utah and the mormons Mor mons chiefly in those forwarded from salt lake city and we wish our democratic friends frienda who find reabon reason to ln of the falsification of political to remember that a far worse woree perversion of the truth ia is customary with despatch erb era of news from this city concerning the mormons cormons Mor mons the telegrams tele telf grams to tho the coast papers in particular are utterly unreliable make a note of it A GENERAL JEWISH convention A GRAND convention of jews is arranged to be held next month in the city of paris it is likely to be one of the tho most important gatherings which has been heid held for many years in all probability it will be attended by representative hebrews from all parts of the world the once despised race can beast of eminent statesmen orators musicians sic ians scientists writers actors and men and women of remarkable talent and enormous wealth who sway a powerful influence in national us as well as local affairs A combined effort among the jews for the accomplishment of almost any design would be a formidable affair aal air mir and one that would be to difficult for any government to cope withe with 1 the objects of the convention convent lon ion are not yet declared dea lared but we hope some steps will be taken for the fuli full emancipation of the jews in iii all the civilized nations and that something will be done leading to the future occupation and redemption of the land of their forefathers prophecy points to this as one of the certain events of the latter times and all things seem propitious for the speedy fulfillment fulfilment of their sayings the times of the gentiles are nearly fulfilled and the beams of the millennial morning proclaim that the tho day of israel is at hand DENY DEXY THE FAITH OB OR FIGHT kie THE new york kAlail maili which keeps up its wild but feeble thrusts against tho the mormons Mor mons bays says there is just one thing which remains to be done before it is certain that the law as interpreted by the supreme court will be rigidly enforced in utah and that ii 13 for the to deolde decide not to peaceably abandon one feature of their their religion but to night fight that ia Is to say in fewer worde that if it the mormons cormons Mor mons do not fight the law will not be rigidly enforced in utah this thia 11 i rather a singular statement all the tho mormons cormons Mor mons have to do according to the vails mails way of putting it ia is to remain quiet and the law against a prominent feature of their religion aa as interpreted by the supreme court will not be rigidly enforced As we have no intention of fighting in the way anticipated by the bait mail that is against the government of the united states by force of arms we are in no danger of any trouble in the courts but the mail surely does not mea mean n this although it says bays so for it asks aks the following question and offers us the following advice which do not harmonize at all with the above assertion which shall it be a denial of the faith or a flight fight if if our mormon friends are eo so perplexed to know which horn of the dilemma to choose chooses that they can be influenced by friendly advice we wish them to abandon one feature of their religion to which we answer we see no need ot of doing Eel either ther and why should we if all we havo have to do for safety and immunity is to keep still the advice ot of the mail is aa as silly as it ift is bigoted and un american we are in no dilemma even according lo 10 its own showing and if we were the intimation that we must abandon a feature of our religions relf rell gion gions is simply infamous what right bas baa the republican party the administration through its organ or any other power person of paper to require a religious body to abandon a feature of its faith or be prepared to fight there are a great many things in the creeds of christendom with its multifarious divisions divi aiona which are as obnoxious to us as some features of our faith are to others but we have no desire to force them to abandon anything our only enly weapons are arguments we do not believe amy other kind are proper or expedient on either eide aide and ald it speaks very poorly for the position and the ability of christian societies as well as the dominant political party that they cannot put down by argument example and the tho influence of as they claim a 8 better creed an objectionable feature of the religion of a people so comparably insignificant but must resort to brute force in an effort to extinguish something which belonging to the domain of faith and morals should be reserved to the sphere of polemics for its attempted suppression but however this may be viewed it ia is certain that the military in power has no part in the dispute under athe the law as ar interpreted by the supreme court which the th uail mail talks so foolishly about lega irga process is the oni only v constitutional and allowable method of attacking this feature of our falth faith that seems to worry some pious souls so much therefore we need not either aban don it or take up arms arma we can suffer the consequences wha teve vei they may be patting putting our trust in god who is the author of our faith for the result to abandon our faith at the bidding of those who oppose it would be cowardly bac pac religious and shameful and to make us fight that we may maintain it is at present entirely unnecessary and would be disgraceful and damnable Inthe in the power or party that forced sueh such an Is laade sue yue upon us SHALL POLYGAMY BE auti puti IN UT ABEYANCE THE omaha herald has recently repeated several times the advice its clever chief editor offered to the mormons cormons Mor mons some time ago the purport of it may be best understood der stood from his own language it is aa as follows we would say to these people much wronged and persecuted as they have been in the lasu what you please but do not longer practice what the laws of jour your country judicially interpreted by its highest tribunals pronounce a crime you causno t afford resistance to the law by violence or attempted evasion 11 this thia counsel being offered in all sincerity ia Is worthy of respectful consideration the reasons offered by the he herald fuld why this should be adopted are ara given in ia au other othur article as follows follower athey they should banish polygamy I 1 into uto immediate abeyance and hold it there for two main reasons 1 it la Is at war with the public opinion and spirit of a christian age and country 2 the practice of it ia Is a crime under our laws lawa which have been judicially interpreted the nirm first of these propositions cont coRt contains ains no argument against the tho feature of our religious system which we are called upon to aban abano very christianity to which the tb herald refers was at one time irreconcilably at war with the public opinion and the spirit of the age and count country rys in which it ii originated it was also regarded as at enmity with the law laws its founder was condemned and slain so were his bis immediate disciples and followers no doubt friendly disbelievers beli bell everd ia in the system carl it and his apostles advocated 3 advised them to cease their practice of things opposed to the spirit and customs of the ageo age if it they had followed such well meant though feeble counsel where would chris chrls what there is left of it be cooday to dayt dayl every new now manifestation of divine truth has been at war with the spirit of the age and country in which it was every prophet sage and reformer who hag haa startled the world with a doctrine or an idea novel to his time hab haa had to meet the opposition of the people and particularly ot of the tx and representatives of orthodox orthodoxy vo to throw aside a part of a creed which we firmly believe to be of divine origin to forsake a posit position ion iun which we have been divinely commanded to as sameon the ground of the heralds farat proposition would be cowardly inconsistent and shameful banish a revealed law into immediate abey aboy abeyance ancell because we who believe in it are a small email minority minori tj it would be the course ofa set bet of poltroons unworthy the name of men and women much lesa less of followers of christ and the martyred marty red prophets bo so long as we arc are convinced that wo wa sure are in the right the numbers and power of those who are hostile to us should have no junu wha whatever upon our course noh nob was opposed by a world if he be had been blain by the multitude instead ot being saved raved in the ark it would have made no difference to the truth of his message galileo truckled truc kled to the bigots of his day against whose cast iron creed his principles were irreconcilably at war but posterity does not honor his weakness while it condemns bis his persecutors peter the apostle singing in the jail jull at philippi or bleeding on the cross at rome Rom ewas wab was a far better example for the latter day saints than peter the fearful denying his bis master in the hall at Jeru jerusalem balem if a man mau or a society should relinquish a principle r a practice on a the simple ground that it is obnoxious to the majority every sect party and organization but the one with the greatest number of disciples should be disorganized and religion and politics thought and action be governed and aud controlled by the domi creed progress would then be effectually arrested and the world would settle into inertia and stagnation such considerations as are set foith in theU the erald herald proposition number one should not and will not have any influence whatever with the people called mormons Mor mons the second proposition bears more apparent weight than the first itis it is that the practice of polygamy is judicially declared to be a crime or rather congress Con giess has made it a crime for any man in a territory to marry a wife while he has another wife living it is no crime under the laws to marry a wife and live with others carnally no crime to seduce women and cast them off no crime to beget children without a claim on the father for recognition or support the crime consists in marrying more women woman than onland one and making them wives instead of marrying one wife and keeping other women on the sly after the fashion of lawmakers law makers and others who raise the hue and cry against polygamy but this is the situation as we view it and it is of no use to think we can bee see it through any other ether eyes than our own god hail baa re healed to us a law commanding and regulating the practice of plu ral marriage Congre Con greb grea vs ha bak pasted a law lave declaring that which god has a crime what is 6 our duty ia in the Is 18 it not clearly to respect the this law of god gou and leave thoe tho e who have created a conflicting law to take what steps meem right to them why we abandon our position unless we become convinced that we are in errol congress cannot make right wrong governments cannot abolish a law of heaven if all the worm says polygamy is bigamy it would make no difference to the fact act we know it Is nov not so governments ern ments may seek to prevent the practice ol 01 plural marriage but if it is a divine system remain BO so all the same supposing the administration proceeds to enforce the law against polygamy what is our not to trample upon what we decla declare reisa relsa is a divine lawor law or to rush in haste to put it in abeyance if we have to suffer for the sake of right others othera have suffered before us we should not interfere with the rightful execution of the law but we would be a bet set of knaves or noodles if we were to hurry in a fright to banish banis hs an integral part of our religions religious system if it the government incited by hyp hypocrites and busy bodies who want to make the regulation of public morals according to their own standard a part of our national system proceeds with vigorous measures against the practice of poly polygamy amy all right so long as the rules or of judicial procedure are not violated in ili a religious crusade leb let the la w be vindicated lawfully prove guilt before inflicting punishment let the accused lt have as jall fair a trial at least as au an alleged thief or murderer why should popular prejudice be permitted to rule in courts where the defendant ia Is charged with polygamy more than if it be he were Indic indle indicted ted tea for burglary or any other offense against the law instead of putting this feature of our faith into immediate abeyance would it not be far lar more consistent to put up with the consequences and we would like to ask the herald what men are expected to do who have married two or more wives by mutual consent under the sanction of church covenants which all the parties p artiea hold sacred who hr har liv lived e d with them in jove jovo and ia is the father of their children who retains their affect affection lon ion and esteem esteena es teena teona and la Is held as their provider and mad protector he be put from rom him all but one wife brand with a vile name dame and admit thac thad their children are ba and all thia this to the demands de manlis manila of a corrupt and adulterous generation aided by ignorant and unthinking sec see laries filled with prejudice and Pharisee lam iam we would regard any man who would thus repudiate the wives who cling to him and the fruit of their union as a crin cringing g cowardly scoundrel he shou should id lii be of god and man and become the scorn beorn of angels and the derision of devils if thiis this la Is what the herald means bj by the banishment of polygamy by the ne one s 11 we can assure its editors that su buch such ch counsel will be not only rejected but detested if this is not implied what does the herald kerald or any other adviser of the same fame thing mean by our ceasing to practice what the law and public opinion denounce the future mar marr lago rIago relations that may be contracted acted actea will be individual affairs the thu way ia is plain if it a man who has a wife |