Show A BARBAROUS SENTIMENT the shreveport louisiana times gave utterance to an anti imo mor r 1 moia sentiment worthy of the infernal regions the brain from which it emanated and the hand that penned it belong to one who would have felt at home in the dark ages ewhen when differences of opinion were met by the sword and the faggot as the most potent arguments tor for the production and preservation of unity of ef view this journalistic barbarian in alluding to the presence of mormon elders in the south announced that they should be met with a coat of tar far and feathers it not with shot shotguns uns 01 I 1 whether the writer ot of that precious elous piece of sentimental diabolism knows it or not the average mormon marmon el eder is as high above him and his ilk en an the plane of humanity morality and religion as the heavens are above the earth if any one in the ithe community 0 of f latter day saints were to advocate such buch brutal brutality ltv toward the ministers of any iny religion coming among them he be woula be tabooed amon by in and disgraced in the eyes of his bis co c religionists who are strong advocates in word and deed of toleration there are other journals in different parts of the country which we regret to say are in line wita the inhuman idea expressed by the times they are anarchists advocating the abolition of law and order and supplement supplementing them with mob violence which every patriot and true citizen should frown down in place of encouraging it to is to be hoped that the writers writer of such inflammatory sentiments express themselves unthinking lyas that would to some extent mitigate the weight of their criminality although it is a sorry reflection upon their judgment Judg meat it may be that some of them take it for or granted that they should advocate the abuse by personal maltreatment lot of the elders almost to the extent of murdering them because they are unpopular they accept the popular verdict as correct without investigation vesti gation and therefore belong t the cit category egory ot of those whom Solomon 1 places upon the list of fools from this standa standpoint boint ha had d they lived in the days of el christ and been running a newspaper they would have incited the rabble to bring about the crucifix crucifixion of the lord and tw mobbing of peter james and john and others of the ancient worthies because the populace were against them the probability that they would have acted this ignoble part is rendered all the more likely when it is understood that the lord and his apostles advocated the doctrines of faith in goaland botand the atonement of the son repentance of sins and baptism for the remission of them followed by the laying on of the hands bands of those hold ar aag d ivine divine authority for tl the ie imparting to baptized believers of the holy ghost t the elders who go to the south and to every land on earth to which they can find access preach the same principles and administer similar ordinances and thus taus can only be entitled to persecution in the shape of acob violence on the same abound it is such journalistic utterances birtich inflame the rabble against the elders without a spark of just canoe and that lead to violence and murder marder in the southern section of the country to the tha extent mat they inspire and thus lead up to suca lawless deeds there at to their authors a degree of the damning guilt involved how much more consistent it would be for journals and clergymen who are opposed in their views to the religion of ef the latter laiter day saints if they said daid anything on the subject at all to take the ground that if the mormon elders commit any breach of the laws mey should be legally aka same as any other claus of citizens i lit if this were done then the missionaries go unmolested i as a more law abiding abadir X class of men are not to be ifould it therease there ther eAre are any half halfway way fair minded gour journals nals bad and clergymen among those who take a determined stand against the ithe they could by toe the application of an infallible principle be able to see the cruelty and incongruity of their position ia advocating the application of vio viole leRee aee on the ground of religious difference of opinion that principle is this it is always possible that the persecuted may be right but tile the persecutor never can be because persecution is intrinsically wrong it people will restrain an impulse t to 0 persecute the mormon people until they investigate not see seeking icing information wom the enemies of the saints faints in nine cases out ot ten tea they will ilhan 4 an th their r po 8 0 0 ald log ing they 1 11 aa bu bull k 4 ig p era gionett t tru rut |