Show ANTI MORMON COLD VICTUALS THERE la Is a journal published in chicago under the ostentatious title of yae the living church A recent article in its columns under the caption of the mormon question indicates that its editor is dead to consistency and in a state of regarding the truth of the subject referred to here is oue one of his blatant utterances sNo nothing soothing thing short of extermination of mormonism as an institution will reach and cure that hideous plague plagne spot in our land I 1 I 1 if the writer of that unqualified and rash statement were asked to describe or explain mormonism he would be utterly at sea for he is evidently unacquainted quain ted with anything connected with it except the sensational falsehoods of its enemies for chieh he has a swallow as large as a colorado river biver gorge A man who pronounces a j judgment of ex external nation against any person or thing without examining the merits of the subject is according to solomon unwise our readers can spell his proper title the ordinary way if they choose mormonism is a system which has truth for its base and superstructure it if the editor of the living church should be offered his choice between a contract to exterminate mormonism and one to drift a tunnel under the atlantic we would advise him to prefer the latter as infinitely the more easy of the two the living church writer has read lead an article on the subject on which he treated in the chicago tribune it has evidently tickled his bis anti mormon palate he gives it endorsement and of course that establishes its status the writer graspo grasps the solution of the question at one clutch he would stop mormon immigration from abroad nd tb thus us end the supply besides the suggestion being so eo old as to send out a stale effluvium it is in exceedingly illogical it is as sensible as boycotting jones jobes against his bis obtaining flour from brown browd while the latter to is getting continuous supplies from robinson the same mine writer speaks of the revenue of the church from the tithing donations of its members andtius and thus suggests another mouldy bouldy solution robbery here is the thievish suggestion wow if the sinews of war can be attacked or made useless for the purpose for which it is employed another remedy will be found effective in extirpating tir the evil 11 only think of a living church endorsing a scheme to rob a religious bodyl Ao however wever the facts are ahead of the stern proposition the process being now in operation the sublime height of dense ignorance to is reached in this paragraph still another remedy suggested is the disfranchisement dia of every mor mon who has practiced polygamy and been convicted under the edmunds law ap the asinine individual who penned the foregoing was not aware that the disfranchisement of the class to which he refers was accomplished before any conviction by the edmunds act passed nearly eight years ago the living church with the somo lent editor concludes by urging that its readers write to congressmen draw their attention to ea existing facts about mormonism and in cit them to pus pass special legislation with a view to having it wiped out we suggest that if people want existing facts on this subject they should steer clear of such a journalistic conduit for anti anop mormon 0 falsehood as the paper whose misstatements have suggested these comments |