Show JUDGE ARTICLE wash I 1 aug 26 U udder ader the caption of fair play for the moi alm mons tomor tomorrows rowa national democrat will print a three column article by judge carleton an eminent indiana lawyer and for seven years a member of the utah commission the writer says that most of the publications about the mur mor mons are utterly unreliable and characterized by the acrimony of apostate rancor others a are re highly sensational and often illustrated lust rated with monstrous pictures picture their object is to meet the popular taste fort for the he marvelous judge carlt cark ton says saya his task of presenting the true light is a difficult and ungracious one I 1 for says he many persons prefer to believe a lie about a people whom it is the fashion to despise he aff affirms irnis that for honesty sobriety industry neighborly kindness peace aud and good order the mormons cormons are equal if not superior to any community on this continent over 95 per beut of the saloon keepers and gamb gamblers fets of utah are non mormons cormons while over 75 per cent of the population is cormor he asserts that over sever eighths of the the heinous and felonious Ol offenses Tenses are committed by anti mormons cormons Mor mons he further fu rt her says say e the gentiles profess not to believe in mormon reform that no good can come out of nazareth and that many antl anti M strange as it would seem would resent any well considered intention of ero orm among the people as thereby they would lose a club by which they expect to manipulate the political affairs of utah 11 the article which is scho scholarly larli throughout abounds in striking and original thought and cannot to attract widespread attention judge carleton closes with this sei tence shall we in this enlightened country invoke legal coercion over the consciences of men in the matter of religion and resort to the thumb screw and rack politic icil prescript prescription lon and disfranchisement as modes modeo of religious instruction i and pe persuasion herald |