Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER GOVERNOR MURRAYS REMOVAL THE WORLDS inconsistency IN ACCEPTING SAM JONES THEOLOGY AND REJECTING THAT OF THE MORMONS CHICAGO march 1886 editor deseret news it was currently reported in chicago during the past week that the resignation of governor murray of bf utah had been accepted but news concern concerning inz utah is generally invested with so much mystery or to put the case plainly with so much falsehood that tile the average citizen has come to regard it as a white elephant advertisement regarding the rumored resignation a writer in the chicago tribune says of the president for accepting this resignation at the same time he has brought disappointment uncertainty and discouragement to the gentile population who must remain in the midst of a community of mormon democrats governed by democratic officials it will be remembered that in one of those luminous or rattier v voluminous olum inous state documents tor for which mr murray was famous that the statement is made that there were no democrats among the mormons cormons Mor mons how are these contradictory statements to be reconciled besides are not the gentiles of salt lake as safe among mormon democrats and governed by democratic officials as we the gentiles of chicago are among social democrats and irish democrats and governed by democratic officials surely a chicago gentile is as good as a salt lake gentile in an editorial on the same subject the tribune says it is deplorable that at the present juncture of aff affair air the president should sho call for the resignation of governor murray Is it not very deplorable that tile the president preside nt should not allow the country to be made a laughing stock of and his administration to oe brought into contempt by the action of such fixtures as the late Gover governor ot utah was what with his bis proclamations his veto vetoes es and ills his state papers his interviews suggestions aud and stump stamp speeches no 8 south american general was ever more BOMBASTIC autocratic AND ABSOLUTE reviewing his doings calmly and dispassionately here in the east they appear like a chapter from some bluebeard g romance of the quixotic order the tribune further says at the close ot of the legislature gov murray was universally hated by the mormons cormons land and as generally applauded by the gentiles and it is a matter of regret that just at this time mr cleveland should see fit to displace him from office 11 this sentence contains a gross untruth mr air murray was noc hated by the mormons cormons Mor mons he was held in too much contempt to be hated but for the sake of the government he was commiserated personally he was so loathsome and so despicable that he be was far below hate hate is a healthy emot emotion toil and only entertained for perverted reason but abhorrence is entertained for pigmy and puny tor Torque ue madas in it is sa a pity that a few men mea of intellect and of education do not devote some time to the study of this utah question and present it in its true light before the people we have had politicians and preachers talking on this burthey but they a are e so unreliable aud and so superficial that it is useless to waste time on them the rev joseph cook has said a great deal about a theocracy in utah and the danger to america it is only ollya la few days ago since he lectured on rell religion lon in schools and here is what he says let us remember that democracy is never sate safe unless it is a theocracy the public conscience cannot well be kept in a bound state under Ani universal versal suffrage anle unless as the common schools teach moral morality ity the existence of god the responsibility of man to ft a moral governor the immortality of the soul and that there is a judgment to come the chief corner stone ot our political prosperity is the good morals ot of the masses of men if a citizen of utah ware we re to utter this sentence from the tabernacle pui pid pit in salt lake it would be telegraphed all over the country as evidence nee ot of mormon treason and mormon exclusiveness there is a class of persons who pride themselves on their ideas of toleration fairplay fair play and common sense and who like to 10 talk about utah and to point out in a paternal way the folly of atah utah citizens in aa adhering aaldering to a system not in harmony with the age these persons too profess belief in god B now let us have A PLAIN TALK about the matter if there Is tiny any quest question loi today to day engrossing public attention which can viand stand common sense it is this very mormon question your common sense min man always q goes back to the prophet t joseph smith and asks how about his visions and revelations the same comm common sense man has been to hear the rev kev samuel jones Jone sand and applauds the following statement fro from in that gentleman here it is in his own words worda from the tribune report Is there lurl lurking aug in your heart an idol or a sin god will help you put pat it oat ou it you want it out small can take away the th deao or drink prayed it a solid bour for or A to mist me ho demou of W aith awo bow dmd wept that devil out of his soul and he has never felt fell the slightest desire for whisky s LP raibe the lord loid 11 it if god cm can put that thai enemy out he can put pat any enemy out your common sense god believing man sees nothing strange in goil god colim coming down and rais raising a red nosed ragged tailed drunkard drunkard out oi of the mud and making a man of him but when lie he is told that an innocent you youth of 15 who is perplexed between a host of jarring jarrin g sects retires to a forest and prays to god for light and receives it then this common sense man mam thinks his common sense is outraged where is the common sense man that would not do as joseph smith did under the circumstances and who pan can deny but that god would look with more favor on a young man earnestly seeking the road and desirous desi ious of pointing it out to he would on a swearing Dg blaspheming drunkard wallowing in a mud puddle thou though h com commons mon sense cannot deny tile the force of this yet he has ANOTHER TACK and he says why your I 1 mormon god I 1 is an al ti mere personified deity whom you call father and to whom you attribute your pre carnal existence all right mr common sense let us follow the rev jones in his sermon and see how bow he looks at this part of the question here is what he says in his own words CHILDREN OF A KING the first thought of the text is now are we the sons of bod 11 squarely put it is if the princely character of C ristian christian men I 1 am the child ot a king aking the noblest blood of all the world courses in my veins I 1 am the son of alie lord almighty if you can ever gt a man to see that he will behave himself it is worth a good deal to a man to have had a good father and mother I 1 have thought many a time you said that fellow is not well bred and not halt half raised ibish 1 wish you had ad seen my father it if yo you u racked d out yourselves by the side of them you yon would got get left applause it will be seen that this doctrine was applauded this very doctrine has been taught by the prophet joseph smith 50 years ars ago and it is believed in by his disciples and they are persecuted for believing what is applauded in chicago mr jones says if you can get a man to see that he be is a son of the lord almighty he will behave himself 11 every Alor mormon sees it knows it and is sure of it and that is why he behaves himself now mr common sense what do you say sav to this your alleged christians aie not entirely wron z but bat they are at sea they have had truth once but they lost it occasionally they grasp a ray of light now and again and thus it is that utterances like those quoted come out you con condemn denin mormonism because you have never investigated vesti gated for yourself you pride yourself on your deference to public opinion while it is your duty to help set public opinion right and not be a slave to a false public opinion mr common sense is not satisfied he retreats behind ANOTHER OF HIS strongholds STRONG HOLDS and fires out poly polygamy amy and a existence as two of tile the most absurd theories that could be believed in he says why all barbarous races practice polygamy poly gamy consequently it is productive of barbarism he might as well have said all barbarous races eat food so eating produces barbarism but in going to savage races for precedent the man of common sense weakens his case blair allison Alli sou kames kaines burke campbell and many other writers who have investigated the source of the sublime the beautiful beautia al and the esthetic go to the savage for first principles all these writers maintain that taste in an intellectual sense is an innate faculty of tle alie human animal and that the rude drawing of the ute indian is hut but the foundation for the of art in the royal academy in london it is true there is a long distance be beleen teen the rough picture of one indian scalping another as drawn by the savage and that painting by maclise MacL lse which represents the fall of napoleon Ka at waterloo abut but the distance is no longer than that between the polygamy of central africa and that of sutah besides every community or reli reff aion irion has the privilege of deciding for itself between polygamy and prostitution and the same might be said ot of it which mr blaine said of prohibition in whisk whisky that it was merely ly subject to local police regulations there is still THE PRE PEE incarnation THEORY for mr common sense to fall back upon ile he cant believe in a spirit existence previous to our fles fleshly tily one and yet ut ue bal believes ieves in a spirit existence after death how can he believe in mr jones divine paternity unless through this mormon doctrine he might accept the teaching of fourier and say that the soul entered the body during the libe teething period inc in children hildien even then he would have to fall back upon the divine paternity theory how does he account for the biblical doctrine and the word was made flesh 11 well he thinks this inist ini lit be metaphorical it is no such thing thin greek scholars know that logos meant wore more than mere utterance in the platonic greek it means the word with tile the idea but let us quote what one of the greatest greek philologists of modern times has said of the logos this writer is the famous jord alon M on baddo lie he f from rom whom mr ar beecher borrowed his bis evolution theories ue he say y si the interpretation accorded efte mh 0 was usually that it comprehended both the ideas and the sounds used to express them that is logos meant a si nili cant sound it wat was also alao used to denote ideas idea and that combination of ideas called reason which of necessity preceded speech the made a distinction betwixt logos endia thetos and logos that is operations in the mind and those enunciated by speech in the bible logos is translated vei bum and st john ia it made to say hay the word was god here heie loos lo 10 yos is if endia thetos or existing in the mind mina of god according to which creation was established this reason leason is the second person of the christian trinity who created the visible world and corresponds to platos theos dendo urgos second person of his bis trinity plato knew the trinity doctrine and did not reveal it except to the initiated in fact he has god and the holy ghost isuke tou ton kosmos eusebius Ruse blus inter pacts loof logos as reason and quotes ame fins Ii usand and wonders where toe barbarian st got his sublime theology ry he d did id not know the jews had this 1000 Y years ears before 11 now what is st bt johns word made flesh I 1 but joseph smiths hs incarnated ed spirit joseph is ib right I 1 and theology theolog ly erudition philosophy and common sense will sustain him and he will triumph in in the end in spite of hell and all its myrmidons preachers carpet cai pet phiys know nothings republicans etc JUNIUS JUMUS |