Show justifying WP WE are pleased to see a general call from prominent newspapers for the suppression of ef the lawless and brutal white caps of indiana governor gray will receive popular support in his bis efforts to bring to justice the cowardly villains who have perpetrated the outrages that have been common of late avate in certain portions of his state it will be remembered that a band of those night marauders recently whipped nearly to death two men and a woman said to be mormons cormons Mor mons cutting out one mans eye from its socket it remained to a very pious cabied journal published in chicago and called the christ christian n cynosure tol to apologize tor for this cruel deed it speaks of this as but a single case where their brutality bad adiv justification the justification was that the men were two mormon missionaries 1 I and the christian cynosure indulges in a sneer at governor grays expense by the intimation concerning his hia effort to clean out the white cas cap lodge I 1 that perhaps the mormons cormons ha had influence with the democratic party this religious journal is published oy by the rue national ua ristian association and it is as vehemently opposed to masonry as to mormonism but bat we have not bot seen in its columns any encouragement coura gement of anti masonic fanatics to use violence for the suppression of masonic lodges lo dess its venom is not so much excited by these secret societies to which it devotes so much of its attention as by a rel rellous gous body whose principles and spirit it does not understand but whose missionaries I 1 it would deliver over to the tender mercies of murderous mob we are happy in the belief that there are few editors in this wicked world who would aftem attempt t to justify the outrages in indiana lecause because the victims were said to be mormons cormons Mor mons and we think that if the pious writers for the christian Uh ristian cynosure desire any support for maeir sentiment in the next world they will nave have to sees seek lor for it in the remotest depths of the lowest the christian cynosure also approves of the confiscation of mormon to church property but it mourns over one defect in the process it says the mormons cormons Mor mons will have to render an account for these properties and pay the income over to the court tor for the support of the school land fand which shows hows that the pious editor know what be hela is writing about but mourns that they may yet havethe have the consolation of knowing that the land fund comes thus back into their owa hands aud and it seems to be a wretched detect defect in the law that it does so what a pity that the christian Chris iian cynosure people make the law and execute it as well they would soon make ducks and drakes of the Mor Mormon 1 church property what matters that the members of that church have voluntarily donated the funds held for its use and benefit they hold bold a different from shy endorsed by the national christian association and its organ and therefore are fit subjects tor for spoliation and plunder the cynosure says of utah there is not a more beautiful al country in the world and none would be more profitable if it could be de yes if the very christian souls who lust for the products of mormon industry could succeed in driving out the people who made it possible tor for the white race to live in this region they think no BO doubt they could make it profitable but they need not count on a repetition of former scenes in history nell religious fanatics will utah th in any such manner auner ni the hormone Mormon 0 sare are here hereto to stay aud and no one will find it permanently ble to undertake to drive them out the loss of the church ci property which the cynosure is gone one would not materially affect the situation nor tend to de utah in the least degree dee ree but the property is not gone yet nor is there any kikeli hoods hooda of an opening for religious or other spoilers to make a crusade uvon utah profitable for fora a people suffering the sore affliction which ihei pious enemies imagine tl ey are enduring the cormons mormons Mor mons are doing remarkably mar kably well they do not betso set so much store upon 11 faiq the caw aynn swe sure imagine C i i rs ra siv aiu aut set upon richer aud they will take joyfully loy tully the spoiling of their goods should it become necessary rath rather er than sacrifice their faith or demor de mor mon monize izell any portion of their territory applauding the confiscation of the property of a church is in perfect harmony and sweet accord with wit th the justification of monocracy against its I 1 missionaries |