| Show REASONING T are men in this city who belong to christian churches they are devout religionists the NEWS certainly would not favor admitting them into a priesthood meeting on the ground that they were christians that they believed in redemption through the savior that their lives were above reproach and had been for yeats years the NEWS would answer very well but yo you do not believe in our prophet you could not conscientiously take the dobli obligations na that a mormon has houg to take to be belong on to our institution and hence LO you 11 have ave no right to a voice in its co control I 1 tn in the gameway same way americans say that while mormons cormons are good men while their lives liven are honest lives while there is complaint against them as peaceable citizens there its is no hardship in dethy denying them a part tn in the government of this country because they a are 7 not of f it il 1 the foregoing mess of sophistry and nonsense is taken from the only paper which makes this kind of pabulum a staple the notion it contains has been presented again and aid again yet is almost too weak to bear the breath ot of a passi ng notice certainly the deseret NEWS would not favor admitting to a priesthood meeting members of the various christian churches because they were christians but the objection would not be on the ground that they had not taken certain obligations A priesthood meeting would be composed of persons holding the priesthood persons not of that claw class would not be admitted and unless they were without common sense or common propriety they would not ask to be admitted A mormon would not expect to intrude into a conclave of catholic episcopalian presbyterian an methodist or other sectarian ministers no matter what position he might hold in his own church A church meeting of any denomination not open to the general pub lie lic would tie he exclusive ot of all but church members the question of their christian character or irreproachable lives would not enter into the matter at all there is no reason why the mormon church should form an exception to this universal rule but what has this to do with the denial of to good men inen of lives against whom there is no complaint as peaceable citizens simply because they belong to the I mormon f church what relation has one of these propositions to the other there may be fanatics in the mormon church there are some in all churches but there is no fanatic anywhere who is equal to these antii I 1 mormon nil bigots their hatred of everything mormon not only makes them savage and untruthful but idiotic and nonsensical because Beca a catholic or methodist of good character and devout faith would not be admitted to a imer mormon bonyi priesthood meeting therefore a 44 mormon of honest life a cooj t man anti and a peaceable citizen ought not to exercise the elective franchise and there is 1130 1 no hardship in denying it to him that is tribune logic it has been reiterated for some years as profound reasoning ani acute argument if no better excuse than this can be offered for the infamy contemplated in the bills which the alib liberals of this territory have framed and fostered folit ered and now urge on oil their passage they wight to be gathered in bundles and burned anti and their ashes cast into the nearest cesspool give the writer of such rubbish efte bromide tie a wet cloth around his brow and put him to bed or send him to provo |
