| Show TRIBUNE LOGIC UPSET the salt lake tribune has said many times that the mormons cormons are aliens and should bo be franchised disfranchised dis here is its language by birth by training by natural instincts they are aliens under the government of the united states what whai does this mean the ordinary charge is that the mormons cormons are shrewd yankees who started a scheme for money and power it is true that most of the men who have attained eminence as Morn cormons mormons ions were born in the united states how can a man born in the united states of parents who were citizens be aliens by birth the abune explains the mormon church as constituted is not an amerlia americal Amer icah h institution it is not governed ty by american rul rules les ar or laws ar or by the spirit that controls the republic of the united states if t h his Is is true of the mormons cormons it must be nral e equally ly true of every other sect fou founded ed u upon pon the bible as the revealed word and will of god the tribune says the foreigner is not permitted to vote when he arrives in this country until he has remained a certain length of time and has made an absolute renunciation of his allegiance to every government can the abune name any mormon naturalized in the united states who has not made such renua renunciation clation 1 I but the tribune says pays the mormon does not renounce his bis church neither says ays I 1 does Catholic the every oath olic in the world is sworn to obey the church rather than the government under which he lives the catholics claim church members in the united states that would give at least two million voters according to the tribunes position faion every one of them should be dis 1 franchised if such an un american thing were done the man who pays the editor to write against the mormons cormons would no longer be a voter the tribune says in case of a collision between the government and the mormon kingdom the authority of the united states would be nothing to the mormon in comparison with the authority of the priests to whom lie has given his bis fealty had this been beed said of the catholia Cat holica it would have been true because the catholics have sworn an balb to ocy ot ey the voice of the pope first and the pope believes he be is temporal aa a well as spiritual al mormons cormons believe that god will make the change from iman man made to divine government and that they will have nothing more to do with it than to enter in as the people of god after the change is made they do not contemplate auy any resie resistance tance god in his own way and time is to shake the governments of the earth to pieces and setup disown his own but that belief runs in some form through all christian sects they all believe in a kingdom of god and a new jerusalem on earth in one form or other I 1 in which god to is to be eu preme will the tribune iconoclast disfranchise them all no ho he will not even admit the logical outcome of his own on n false faise premises discs it follows therefore that he is not governed by reason but by hate bate in order to make a showing show ing for his case against the mormons cormons lie he says about once a week that it id was their hostility to the government that caused the cormons mormons to be driven from state to state and dually to be flung out upon the wilderness to make homes beyond civilization there the editor kiss has made another careless statement the mor mons were not driven 1 beyond civilization because they carried civilization with them they were driven beyond i popular chrisitan ity they were d driven iven until so called ministers of the gospel could no longer incite to follow through fear of and ana snakes lits but the ministers and their mobs had no thought of the power of the mormon priesthood As asa a rule they did not know enough to grasp it a thought as large as the i elation of the cormons mormons tx the government what then was the secret of their hate and the cormons mormons were 11 lu la their eyes reyes the idea of a lovegod live god who could reveal himself to men in this cantu century ry was I 1 a most aamna damnable ble heresy 11 to christians f who bell believed eved that god bad neither body parts nor pa pae slone and that even what there was of him had been virtually dead ever since john closed his work of revelations on patmos 1 lonely isle but that was not all the mormons cormons believed that angela came and conversed with them dingels an and that peter james and john haa had come and established among them the christian Cli ristian religion as it was in the days of jesus in the eyes of the average christian of the back woods sixty years ago all this was blasphemy and should be wiped out even by the hand of violence violen the mobs that drove and robbed and murdered the mormons cormons were christians Chris dans of the same general type rough brutal ignorant and fanatical as those who murdered hypatia tore her body in pieces scraped her bones and carried them as tokens of the triumph of christianity over paganism added to the dreadful heresies her esies of the mormons cormons was the fad fact that they were industrious and frugal and where ever they settled they became prosperous but prosperity in a land where a roar rez r back hog three dogs a pound of head tobacco and earna corna dodgers for a week were considered about all that a good christian l 4 ought to possess posse esin in this vale of tears was also an unpardonable sin hence the oivi were scowled upon then talked d about then prayed against then preached against and finally mobbed murdered robbed and driven not because anybody thought of their relation to the government but because they were Ic ion Adels dels to the so called ch christians rl brians around them the only thing in addition to this that gave them trouble was their own apostates apostate ameo men who because they could not get all they anticipated set about destroying the chur church uh in kirtland Kirt Jand the trouble came largely from apostates in missouri anil and illinois apostates aided the christian mobs in utah disappointed apostates are the eager supporters still of the anti mor mon priests when the lymons mormons came to utah rul the they brought I 1 lei civilization with them and though from 1851 on they were more or lesa legs harassed by who brou brought glit the old prejudice against them its as heretics they made so much pro gross grew that even such men as colfax and bowles in 1835 fairly gushed in t leir praises of what the mormons cormons had done yet all the he country knew that polygamy had bad wen men for many years a tenet of the mormon faith congress knew it when it created the territory anti and fillmore knew it when he made brigham young governor pierce knew it when he all knew what the mormon priesthood was or all thought they knew yet pow powerful arrul as it was the nation gave the mormons cormons rights and privileges that the anti mormon tribune ring of place ard am i spoils hunters have been striving for twenty years to get away from them it if it was safe to let jet the mormons cormons vote from 1850 to 1870 when there were very few voters in utah who were not Mor mons it if there was no danger to the nation in their priesthood then how comes it that today when the abune claims gentiles in utah the danger of this mormon priesthood towards the government is so threatening that nothing but the disfranchisement ois of all mormon voters of utah will save the nation when the whole matter is thus carefully examined it becomes as clear as a may morning on the wasatch crags that the fight against the mormons cormons is is not because or of any real or supposed bup posed danger that they will ever even be a menace to the government but lacause the old hatred of their heresies her esies still burns in the Vi evangelical angelical breast and i seeks to do now by political intrigue what fifty years ago it was able to do dc by inciting mobs to riot theft and murder the salt lake tribune is the organ ol of that evangelical hate bate backed by politicians who see fat positions and and by adventurers who we see possible spoils in utah such is the real status of the case as seen by one pair of unprejudiced and eyes the anti mormon papers seek to break dows dowa the force of my work in behalf of truth and justice by charging me with being hired 11 with being bei ug I 1 paid to write as I 1 do i 1 think it is 18 about time to settle that question and as the NEWS and herald do not seem disposed to say anything concerning the matter I 1 will take the initiative myself so far from being hired by any person or cc corporation or church or party so far front franj being paid by any person or corporation or church or party for my letters in salt bait lake papers in behalf of ef american principles fair play and the rights of the mormons cormons Mor mons the truth is that for the months and the labor I 1 gave to the investigation of the whole subject for the articles I 1 have furnished to home papers I 1 have never receive rece iveA 1 1 a dollar or any other sum why do I 1 do it I 1 do not know that 1 I understand why for years I 1 fought for the rights of the paying money out getting nothing and knowing that I 1 should get nothing people would tell me I 1 was a d d fool to spend my time for a lot of lousy In jutis 11 in salt lake the gut ter snipe of the tribune and others of his bis ilk call me still worse names and will now probably designate me as a d d idiot because I 1 tell the truth for noth nothing I 1 ng when they can get good salaries for lying the anti mormon papers here charge me with being poor and in want that is a much blacker mark against them than me why must I 1 do this work for nothing because such men are these soulless editors have been for years creating a wrong against an honest innocent people it if there bad been no scoundrels in utah all these thee years there would have been vo co need of my work but is 18 it a crime to be poor the greatest noblest best men and women of this world have been poor at the same time many of the dregs and precipitates of humanity have been poor the editorial curs cure that bark at my heels are poor I 1 will even venture to assert that there is not a man of them all who is not in debt to tal tailors lors shoemakers and boarding hot houses taps neither poverty nor riches makes men great it is what men do with their riches it is in what men do to prevent the accumulation of riches that counts them up or down judged thus the possession of millions would not raise my def retainers detainers deta amers iners above the gutter of their own base natures CHARLES ELLIS |
