Show FRIENDLY WORDS FROM A NON MORMON CRANSTON R I 1 april 1886 editor deseret news the copies of th 1 s I 1 it p 1 NEWS which I 1 receive get well weli i eai iv luc r after I 1 read them I 1 pass thew bliem around among my friends and neighbors many of whom are surprised to find out that they dont know all about mormonism they thought the papers here printed thin the utah news as it is 9 but they find that there is one side of of the question that they knew nothing about this this raid of persecution is advertising more than elders can do and there are many honest peo people le who will be incited by it to look at tae the other side ind and find there are two sides to every story no one but a fool and a bigot will condemn on hearing iu one side ft A is hardon the men who have to endure the persecution heaped upon the mormons cormons Mor mons Is there no dav you vou can stop the ridd raid wh why dont you boycott all connected will with it I 1 dont see h how low Y youir 0 u r government can bel be made much w worse r le thanet than it la is if more than the usual number of af thieves are appointed to rule avei over you yon there may be hope of their falling out when they come to divide tile the spoil and when rogues fall out honest men stand a show your church beems to be the first church in the land the president in his message to congress always speaks of in fact he be does not so much as mention any other and now congress Is going to honor him by making makin in lim him the president or presiding elder of it it will then become the established church ot the united states I 1 cannot say that I 1 want to see a state church but if 11 we must have one yours will do as well as any of them it I 1 think k yau make a mistake in one thing a and that is you dont pa pay your elders anything for preaching 1 if if you were to give them a good fat salary alary all the preachers in tile the country would want wan to corn comein kin and be Ir mormon L elders r deri you akio know w the loudest call is where there e is the most money I 1 read the tirade delivered by the judge in sentencing clue S H B smith he says that mahomet claimed to have inspiration from the almighty and sought to establish himself by the sword but time proved him to be wrong could the judge not be induced to tell how time proved him to be wrong I 1 cant see how time pr proved oved him wrong or right he appeared in this worlds history years after christ and there are millions more than christians to day so if number E count he was right the judges evidently think that the preponderance of numbers decide such buell questions for they tell your people that there are fifty millions against you and you must be wrong numbers count when they are wanted but when they ar ars not wanted they do not especially when they are votes for delegate to congress respectfully CALVIN |