Show condemning OUR readers have been mad lamillar millar ta with some ol of the details of mira abic tic outrages perpetrated recently west virginia upon john metz and hi SIDI ly the sole cause of the viole vi oleng land brutal persecution of these people penpit its bilat they had been baptized b by y i sion sio narres artes from utah and become m bers of the chorea churca of jesus clorist f v latter day saints the writer heard one of the breter who has done a good deal of mis miss aiona lonar work in the southern states say r bently that such occurrences occurrence wei quite colix common and ana many as striking in their barbarous leatores as that in which the metz family were the victims never reached public notice beyond the regions where they transpired the same elder said that such disgraceful treatment was not in its bestowal confined to members of the church but frequently extended to people who were not latter day saints and probably never would be the reason tor for the persecution of ef that class was generally because they had treated the elders hospitably or be irlender Irl ended them when in peril He had been lately in communication with a mas maa woo had for these causes been driven from place to place his property destroyed and his life threatened and his means of living swept away at last ae accounts counts he be was driven to the extremity of accepting a contra contract etto to carry therall the mail from one part of at the country to another semiweekly semi weekly at 60 cents a trip he and his bis family being thus compelled to eke out an existence for the time being on an income of a week the rule with newspapers when facts of this kind are mede public is to either pronounce faint condemnation against the lawless lawlessness nes 8 and cruelty exhibited in these affairs or condone with and apologize for the barbarous element which perpetrates the outrages occasionally a bold in nde pendent outspoken journal comes out flatly against the robbers and their inhuman deeds among amon this latter class is the martinsburg Marti Mart asburg insburg W A herald which under the head of brute force vs tha law speaks in this unmistakable manner of the inhumanity and lawlessness manifested towards john metz and others history and everyday every day prove that man has a barbarous origin and an animal tendency despite all the civilizing influences and teachings of time the constitutions of the union and ot at the states pr that no B person shall be deprive life liberty or gogerty property perty except excel t aff due aue process of go law I 1 avy and the I 1 judgment edg went 01 of a mans fil peters peers yet day after day life liberty and P property are taken by human frenzy ind and the despoiled have zo ao app appeal eal tat to law because sentiment is against them and the law being si a semi political and a semi human measure tears th the mad bened crowd and demonstrates the superiority of brute force to the law small scale revolutions there should ber be no crime or breach of the peace that could not be reached by the law if properly carried out yet many sections of the country ar are dominated by unlawful bands that re neither age ae nor person and take life with as much composure as they burn property I 1 in calhoun county W va lately the homes of a mormon and his friends were burned women and children made desolate and terror inspired into a whole neighborhood neighbor nood it if the mormon morman had committed auy any crime there was a legal procedure lor for hi hf punishment it he had not the men mea who burned lis bis property and made his life insecure were no better but far worse than the religious butchers that assailed every creed and sect through all the centuries of persecution and confiscation for inquisition was never so fanatical that it did not accord some form of trial and royal deer decree never so swee sweeping pine that thai it dij did not jollow follow at least a semblance of law we nave not much love for the mormon but the heresy of the akner is more damnable than the of the burned |