Show FRIENDLY AND sympathetic WORDS FROM ONE WHO LOOKS AT THE CRUSADE IN ITS TRUE LIGHT HAMPTON lowa iowa i march 20 1886 editor deseret news new I 1 recently met mr almy bagi bagley cy il of utah and in conversation with him expressed my abhorrence of the infamous edmunds bill from my conversation with mr B I 1 infer that the 11 cormons mormons Mor mons are not aware of the feeling of indignation existing all ov ovar r the country at the injustice of sectarian persecution e and hate it is the same sp spirit i rit of intolerance that led to the loss of five millions of lives in thea crusades the same spirit that caused the murders of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in europe the same spirit that led the puritans to hang the inoffensive and peaceable quakers the spirit that ever has anda ever will breed hatred and discord dib cord I 1 every man who believes that every other man should have all the righta and liberties he claims for himself hiros elfi must condemn the treatment of a peo 1 pie who have gone away from civilize i tion to escape persecution and have converted the mountain wilds and the dry desert into f fruitful ruita ul fields and beautiful homes who have claimed as their rightful heritage an unused part of th tb earth the rightful heritage of all men meni every man who believes that ev everyn other roan man should worship as ma many n gods as he pleases in a manner t to please himself I 1 or decline to worship at all if hels he is s so 0 minded must condemn the unwarranted interference with the religious liberty of the people of utah by bathe the descendants of those who left europe europa to seek a land IN in which they could worship god accord ing to the dictates of their own con consolla solli ence those who con coude derna ioa the sac spite and displayed toi to ward wal tho th i cormons mormons Mor mons do 40 fat not beleva that polygamy is the best condition of marriage roar nase but they do believe anat it is the business of the parties consenting thereto and of no if other christians do not want tobe contaminated by association with the mor mons I 1 let them remain at home or go ao and subdue a country as wild as utah was when settled by the mormons cormons Mor mons let them endure the hardships then and there endured and make a garden of the desert and the mormons cormons Mor mons will never follow them to enjoy the fruits of their labor while breeding hatred aud and misery by mi misrepresentation representation and all kinds of true the mormons cormons Mor mons send missionaries all over the world to teach what they deem the truth when other sects do this they claim great credit yet they heap all ali manner of iniquity upon the mormon elders who are doing what iliev ahey believe to be gods service they claim the right to go eo there and convert the mormons cormons Mor mons nay to im tripod them disfranchise them disinherit erit their c ildren children for them and make them disown the mothers of the disinherited children and the civilized y world looks on with indifference or cheers on the merciless persecution with applause 41 yours for human liberty jos U C FERRIS farris |