| Show i THE ATTACK ON THE rocky mountain news newsom of jan alth contains the following pithy editorial on the long iong bag of blackguardism and b billingsgate Wings gate which the denver tribune Republican copied from the filthy salt lake tribune the correctly discriminates with senator teller between the wax war on polygamy and the attempt to rob a church very few comparatively of whose members are practical polygamists with customary cowardice the hy P pam copies ies a ribald attack on senator sena jor feller roca the salt lake tribune the suit salt lake tribune has haa done more by its bitter and relentless war upon the mormons cormons to bind those misguided rike people eople together and make them feel like martyrs on account of their reli C alous ious belief than any other cause that we know of it has branded them all as polygamists I 1 constantly while it knew that many of them neither believe nor practice plural marriages it has done nothing to convince the mor mons oy by kindly persuasion anerd nerd caslon that poleg amy must go 90 it has been actuated by the spirit of the spanish inquisition in all its utterances and its bitterness has simply had bad the effect of binding the mormons cormons together because they found fouad that division would mean destruction for them its malicious misrepresentation of the speech made by senator Tel teller leron on the edmunds bill the other day its is in the line ol of all its past conduct senator teller made no defense ot polygamy he is as sincerely anxious for its overthrow as any man that lives and he said so in his speech every one who knows him knows that this has always been his position but he has questioned the wisdom and fairness of the edmunds bill and he gave good reasons for the doubt that was in him that is the hardest measure ever passed by the senate in many xe respects 4 it runs counter to all our accepted theories ot of the true basis of free government la in addition to the provisions for the suppression by forcible means ot polygamy boly amy it takes the control of the mormon church out of the hands of the people who form that sect and places li ic in a board of thirteen trustees appointed and paid by the united states government it is in elect it if not jil a name the introduction 0 01 a receivership into religion gipti it I 1 is a union of 01 church and swe state that has always been repugnant to our otar form of government with equal right might appoint a board of trustees to administer the albair of the methodist church the Vat taha holic Uc church or athy other ta f the untied united states it is true that senator edmunds claims that the hoard he proposes PO ses to ar organise org anite anise shall only have bave oon vol irol of the property interests In wrests of the annau church but it must be clear to all observing men that the distinction in 14 this case cae is too one flue lorjust for I 1 application in practice the mormons cormons would certainly uly look upon this measure as legalized persecution andall and all history proves that persecution has a strengthened rather than weakened the religious reli lous sect at which it was aimed senator teller very properly we think questioned the wisdom of the means provided by the edmunds bill for the erad eradication leation of the crime of poly polygamy tad amy he held that thi the e government had not done lt duty in the past in dealing with this problem and he expressed grave doubts of the wisdom and tae he justice at 4 harshly punishing the mormons for the tae mistakes 0 of t the e government as aa well as for their own owa evil behavior many of the ablest t members of the senate agreed with him in this possibly he and they were mistaken but bat it does not follow that they must be corrupt because they had the courage to express views eit at variance W with th the will of the majority in the senate the salt lake tribune denounces senator teller as a jack mormon a and ad a mormon attorney because he dared ared to express the belief that gentler ler legislation 18 would prove more efficacious than senator edmunds drastic bill in the extirpation of pol polygamy my and I 1 the cowardly organ ot of ex senator HUI hill in this city endorses those false and idiotic charges by copying the article in question on its editorial page but if senator teller never does anything worse thau than that he will never forfeit the confidence of honest bonest inq gentgen gent men 1 |
