Show NOT A PARALLEL WE have insisted that there h has as been nothing yet set up in the hape of a defense in favor of the attempt of the ogden liberal city council to take away from the latter day saints portions of their property held sacred by them every attempt to bolster the outrageous scheme has been in the lature of halting and flimsy apol ogles gieb so 80 it continues as aa will be observed by the fb following Howing manist fest absurdity from an anti mor imor stion newspaper the mormon papers are busy pointing out the wide difference lP the arsenal hill lot jump g 9 in this city and the way the church imrch is trying to hold tabernacle ft aare in ogden As usual the fforence arence simmers down to the ws U thing one was done by gens tiles and the other by mormons cormons Mor mons auld a of course the former are wrong fad gd the latter are right there has aba ve altogether too much of this aind d it is refreshing to know that t th were is one of the chief municipalities polities pali ties in the territory where it has celd wed to operate the mathebat mathe matr mat y rule that things which are nual to the same thing are equal to each h other seems to be left out of the w mormon school books it in order to show the false and at uund baited character of the attempted parallel embodied in the foregoing it may be well to restate re state the relative positions of the parties to the respective transactions referred to what the mormons cormons Mor mons did regarding the ogden property is briefly as follows those who pioneered and first settled this part of the country redeeming it from the condition of a wilderness being latter day saints popularly known as mormons cormons Mor mons f set apart a parcel of ground in what is now known as the city of ogden for religious purposes the intention was to erect upon it buildings building I 1 in n which the people could assemble for divine worship this design was soon carried out by the erection of a tabernacle sub of a religious meeting house and still later of the foundation for another tabernacle on a larger and more imposing scale than the first the land has never been in any other hands nor used for any other purpose than that described this being the cue case the religious worshippers wor shippers who took the steps defined were entitled to the land in question under the operations of the townsite act for this reason the city under that statute released its claim to the property again another parcel of land is held in trust for a ladles ladies relief society on this ground is a meeting hall in which the members of that association assemble also a granary the latter structure is used for the storing of grain against a time of scarcity the cereals thus stored are intended in time of need for the use of the poor the society is strictly benevolent and charitable the members of it as stated a few days since iu in these columns devote themselves without remuneration to succoring the poor feeding and clothing them and taking care of the and helpless these instances of appropriating land show what the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons did in that connection A liberal or gentile mayor and city council were recently elected at ogden I 1 by methods that to some extent we have reason to believe were fraudulent almost immediately after their official installation they amov moved ed for the construction of an ordinance by the attorney of th that a t c ity city so framed as to cause the property above mentioned to revert to the municipal corporation now follows the transaction that the paper from which we quote attempts to parallel with what has been described above salt ewt lake city corporation under the townsite act reserved a piece of ground on what was formerly known as arsenal hill it never relinquished its title to any party whatsoever the ground in question having been platted and intended for public uses for the benefit of the entire inhabitants A party of land jumpers gentiles without the slightest claim whatever seized these grounds and forthwith proceeded to erect fences and tents thereon they also stationed on the spot men hired for the purpose of holding the land which belonged to the whole of the people of this city the corporation as was its bounden duty in the interests of the people through its duly authorized officers the mayor and council cormons mormons Mor mons ejected the intruders after the latter had been on the ground a few days in doing so they were protecting no special class clas but the entire community without any distinction let the reader if he can by any possible process known to the rules of reason or logic parallel th these transactions which the journal we have alluded to has characterized respectively as mormon and gentile proceedings let any maible person say if there be any credit to which side that 1 credit belongs and if there be any denunciation upon whose heads it should fall yet here is a journal laying claim to respectability saying it is refreshing to know that there is one of the chief municipalities ogden in the territory where such things ingo as the attempted seizure of the property of a religious people used exclusively for religious purposes can be made this amounts to an endorsement of what we regard as an unmitigated attempt to steal as well as 48 desecrate that which the proposed victims look upon as sacred the journal in question might just as well have said as we view it it is refreshing to know that there is one of the chief municipalities in the te territory where the proposed though often denied pro gramme of the spoliation of the mormon people has begun at what appears to be a an n ex excellent ce I 1 lent opportunity our is most unfortunate in the matter of making parallels |