| Show MORMON acquisitions THE change of abode of a few people in the southern states who migrate to colorado and other points in the west ought not to disturb the press or the public to any appreciable extent and yet every now and again inflammable articles appear in the public journals about the departure of families for new homes in the direction of the setting sun but this is because the emigrants are said to be mormons cormons Mor mons that of course makes a difference if a mormon attempts what other folks can do without comment it forms the subject of newspaper articles that are copied all over the country the atlanta constitution for instance published the following and it has been extensively repeated as something to excite the public and as evidence that utah should not become a state fifteen mormon disciples in ill charke charge of two of the missionaries who have been working lu in georgia pawed passed through atlanta early yesterday morning they came in by the late central train and left by thelast tennessee for the north their destination is salt lake city at chattanooga they were joined b by y others from georgia and alabama it looks as if mormonism niam found a fruitful field in some parts parte of the south the converts are of course ignorant people who are promised good homes and work if gey they embrace the faith here is another of the same kind oxford alabama tomorrow mornin morning rev bev hiram harrison and i his fanity family consisting of son and seven daughters will leave for ogden utah the entire family are mormon converts and the conver 1 slon sion of elder harrison to that faith shows the wonderful influence the mormon elders obtain over the country pe people ople of this section harrison was one of the leading hardshell baptist preachers of this sec tion when the mormon elders first appeared here several years ago for awhile he denounced them from the pulpit and in private but finally he accepted their teachings and himself and family became enthusiastic mormons cormons and advocates of polygamy harrison has been preach ing mormonism for two years now and has been made an elder when he be reaches utah he will be given five wives asa as a reward for his faithful service to the church in alabama and still another one 0 Tell tennesse chattanooga nesse and hundred and fifty men women anu this city to w children passed through night from georgia and alabama bound for utah in charge of three mormon elders they go to join 10 the mormon church the party and ea of composed an ignorant tute class of people who claim t they ho homes aau have been promised plenty of work they are to be w lowed by another deputation of w tomorrow night commenting on this a western journal says almost every southern pa pap fb e r contains similar accounts of ID e work of mormon missionaries mua aming the unsophisticated backwoods bev pie le of that section of the union wey they are also industriously employed in in europe particularly those parts of england where pa boj poj V erty and illiteracy afford an inviting field for their plausible and decap tive methods all this demon staw conclusively that the mormon w church was never more zealous its nefarious work than it is ia today of shows also that the statements bishop sharp are without foundation in fact why should anybody be startled f StAr tied the le at the migration mi gration of people from comparatively barren soil of boull mou tain regions in georgia and baill TO bessee to the richer lands in colo coio rado and utah of course sension people know that the anonsen 10 about rewards to missionaries 1 five wives and other such sev bev sat s ional is merely the padding UP P jail fill with which reporters ake their communications and m of them interesting to a certain class clao minds fehlo the mormon e migrants emigrants v the southern states have in anxo there instances settled in colorado ea is not even a claim or a v VW biclon that they go there to 0 of the nation or of aw late any law u of state what has their change abode to do with any quest lo which has haa disturbed the country ca 7 what has haa it to do with u that prominent utah gentte 10 have said when interviewed in the os east what has hae it to do with B subject of fitness or unfit vao for the responsibilities of statehood State bM or nothing at all in any shape obar form fonn it ought to be understood by ev journalist pretending to be floor on living questions that no mon has ever claimed aba thai elders of this church have abo to preach the gospel abroad or rob believers have ceased to gather g their co religionists to utah A other points of congregation r afe that this preaching and gathering we te perfectly lawful that they do imply the inculcation nor practice of any principle that is forbidden by the law A mormon missionary has as bod a right to promulgate the doc ines he is sent to preach as a Ileth methodist odist or baptist and he is not by the church to preach anything but those tenets which A are at within the lines of the laws of the nation to which he is sent he 16 forbidden by the church to viola ue their laws or to inculcate their elation tio lation A mormon nl convert has as much right to leave europe or the bothern thern oo states or the northern states tt es to make his home in utah or a colorado or arizona or elsewhere as a 4 catholic or a presbyterian or an del has haa if not why not the mormons cormons Mor mons make no secret the fact that they are endeavor jf e and intend to preach faith re otance Qt ance baptism the gathering art nd other principles of their faith galust the practice of which there 16 no law human or divine to every on and people where there is I 1 berty to do so this does not con allet with anything that has haa been yi by advocates of statehood for atah and writers who pretend that ab does simply expose their own aora saim ance ce the trouble is ia what we have had w complain Dom plain of for many years hors for the press on the mor abon question do not understand it at all U and they do not seem to de 6 to understand it they only bash to say something against this to is very pitiable and in tny 14 instances very contemptible F af u writers for the public will not int t ate common sense to say noth of f leirness feir ness would suggest that OY y keep silent on the subject |
