Show A WEAK DEFENSE so FAR FAB as we have been able to ascertain there has been no defense of the he recent effort on the part of the ogden municipal corporation through its liberal city council to seize certain property in that town belonging to the latter day saints the nearest approach to it in a public way has bae appeared in the ogden union onion a small paper published there it is not a defense however being more I 1 in a the nature of an attempted apology it is in substance that the parties whom it is proposed to deprive of their property need not at this stage make an outcry and talk about robbery and stealing they should according to the paper we have mentioned merely await quietly and supinely the action of the courts this is not defending the position it almost amounts to an admission of the fact that the corporation has no right to or claim upon the property in controversy indeed it la is under the circumstances that it can have any such claim such being the case the very best beat aspect of this affair places it in the light of vexatious litigation wb which I 1 ch is contrary to the spirit and letter of all constitutional law an effort is being made to extenuate this highhanded high handed outrage among the people abroad or rather to create a prejudice that will cause i folks at a distance to view it itlene leni eagy As evidence of this we here introduce a dispatch sent oyer over the wires from ogden after the action of the city council of that place in which mayor keisel took the initiative the mormons cormons are somewhat excited over a movement I 1 inaugurated M u ted in our new liberal ca city ty agur council u ncik tending to wrest the so called tabernacle square one of the finest blocks in the town from the grup grasp of the church which has been holding it at present there ep are on that block the old adobe tabernacle the third ward meetinghouse meeting hauae and the foundation of a new taber tabernacle naele work on which was abandoned as the funds were required for lobbying in washington to intelligent people the foregoing will tell its legitimate tale it exhibits the fact that the tabernacle square is one ok of the finest blocks in ogden that it has been devoted to religious purposes by the latter day saints is seen by the character of the buildings erected upon it and another in course of construction the excellence of the site has aroused amused the cupidity of the more active politicians of the liberal party who have concluded to make an effort to wrest it from the proprietors in any part of the civilized world such an attempt to appropriate the property of a religious community used for religious observances would be denounced as a gross intolerant and inexcusable outrage those who are not willing to so characterize it on tp the ground that the latter day saints are the intended victims vie tims show the illiberality and contracted character of their souls there is neither magnanimity nani mity nor justice in them this effort on the part of the corporation through its liberal council not only contemplates the seizure of land many years since set apart for the erection of religious edifices I 1 but would include as well the seizure and desecration of the buildings of i that nature already on the ground villainy in that direction and a disregard of the rights of others could scarcely go further the concluding portion of the dispatch was intended by creating prejudice to take the curse off the proposed transaction in the minds of people outside of this territory we unhesitatingly characterize the statement it embodies regarding the use of the funds subscribed for the building of the new tabernacle to be an unmitigated falsehood structures of this kind are erected by donations made by those belonging to the community which assembles within them for worship this being the case their construction const ruction is gradual according to the ability of the donors who supply the requisite means luem that any of the funds bestowed by the people for the erection of that building have been devoted to a purpose other than that which was w as contemplated is utterly without foundation the statement was a contemptible untruth offered with the intention of palliating pallia ting a piece of unadulterated villainy it is a somei somewhat hat healthy sign that there is no conspicuous endeavor from any quarter to defend what we designate a shameful act it is not however as sound as it should be there ought to be a universal unqualified denunciation of this scheme without reference to sect or party religious political or otherwise |