| Show APPALLING PAUPERISM AND ABASEMENT IT is distasteful to us to refer to the statements of the chief anti mormon organ published in this city to do so occasionally however serves to throw some important element of the local and to some extent national situation into refreshing prominence for this reason we quote the following from the issue of july 16 of the sheet referred to in its ita wisdom the government of the united states relieved Leli believed eved it owed it to its ita own people to under the law take from the mormon power property unjustly obtained from its people and used to pervert and defeat the laws bf the government of the united states and turn it over for the education of the children of the parents who have been robbed by bv the church the property in question was not u unjustly dj estly obtained having been donated by members of the church for benevolent purposes including the support of the poor for this reason there has been practically no pauperism among the saints in the ordinary acceptation of the term there has been no application of the means of the church to pervert or defeat the laws of the bouti country try those who donated the means have not been robbed of it by the church but suppose it should be admitted that such has been the case in what position would it place the gentiles of this community should the proposal carry to devote the es cheated property of the latter day saints to the use and benefit of the common schools there is in utah especially in salt lake city and ogden a large and increasing gentile proportion of population it is made a matter of constant boast that that element is P welling numerically with more rapidity than are the cormons mormons Mor mons in the particular towns named these two cities would necessarily receive a large share of the confiscated property for educational purposes consequently the gentile children in utah would according to the logic of the anti mormon organ be largely indebted for their education to a fund which that paper says was obtained from those who donated it by a process of robbery and seized from those who thus procured e it by a similar method we hope there is no person on the earth professing to be a latter day saint who would willingly suffer himself or his children to be placed in a situation so utterly base and humiliating as would be the case with the gentiles and their children in utah in the evert event of the hard earnings of the mormons cormons being devoted to a public school fund yet vet here is a public journal and probably many of the people whose views it claims to represent ready and eager for the consummation of this fearful self de gradation perhaps it may be well after all that such a climax of self abasement should be reached if it shull shall be and the non mormon children of utah be educated by a process of theft with means which has been earned by the saints then whatever success in life to is attained by the gentile beneficiaries through the educational facilities thus furnished can only be truthfully attributed so far a aa the confiscated property shall go to the poor peeled and abused cormons mormons Mor mons sll that will be the situation there is no evading it let every gentile hug the fact to his bosom that wishes to but when the full force of it comes home to some of them we imagine they will recoil from it otherwise they are unworthy the name of men the edmunds bill in relation to the disposal of the confiscated property of the church now pending in congress does not provide wat anat it shall lie used for the educational benfit ben fit of the children of the people who earned the means and to whom it belongs it proposes to use it for the edu education cadon of the children of the n 11 mormon population as well and the latter have no proprietary rights in the premises but must accept should the scheme carry a charitat chari the hands of the original donors although it reaches them indirectly the fact that the fund is seized under color of law against the protest of its real proprietors only makes the paup position of a certain class of the beneficiaries all then thedore th enore nore contemptible people who would descend to such a depth of abject dependency ought to corti continue nue to shout about the spirit of american independence and thus c assume a virtue though they bave ave it not |
