| Show ENEMIES OF UTAH AT WORK thim THE ed editor aitor of the new york meal AMU and express ought according to his profession to be the most lamb like individual in the united states judging from his professions of piety he fishes out fresh quotations from the bible at intervals and places them as fotoes over the head of his paper this peculiarity has been frequently commented upon by the press of tide the country the statements in relation to it being in most instances far from complimentary the reason for these adverse criticisms has been that the contents of the ndel and express do not always agree with the christian sentiments embodied in the scriptural quotations chis disparity in the quality of its contenti i has been strikingly illustrated by a series of anti ant mormon thormon articles that is now in course of publication in the mail atau and express columns in reading the articles the reader to is instinctively directed mentally to the kind of christianity which pre prevailed in the middle ages when the unorthodox were sawed and stretched according to the taste or humor of the ploua pious souls of those times who took such heroic means of producing conversions or death these articles contain the old and mouldy bouldy anti aati mormon fabrications that have been refuted times without number this being the case it would be a work of supererogation to go over the field and demolish thear again the incongruities that are exhibited when deductions are drawn from the false promises premises are strikingly absurd here to is an instance in point the writer says polygamy is not an essential part of mormonism further on he be says in substance that if utah be admitted to the union while the cormons mormons Mor mons are in the ma bority the present manifesto would no doubt be reversed by a new revelation the articles throughout favor disfranchisement of the latter day saints bemuse because of their religious belief and it to is a most extraordinary position for edly intelligent men to take in this free country that people should be robbed of their political rights not on account of anything they are now doing but on account of what it is supposed they may do under a future condition it sometimes occurs that men accused of offenses are taken hold of by mobs and summarily executed and this proceeding is followed by an inquiry into the guilt or innocence of theun the unfortunate deceased it sometimes happens that no proof exists of his guilt such men as the writer of the mail and latran anti serial goes ahead of that burlesque on good order and justice they adjudge the mormons cormons Mor mons guilty before the offense is committed and would politically assassinate them on en an anticipatory hypothesis to show still further the infernal character of the al crusade against the majority of the people of utah we have but to quote the last expression of the particular article under consideration here it is therefore we say resistance r 1 tance mormon monster to the death I 1 I 1 the italics are not ours they belong to the nau mail and express brede it will be seen that the pretended lamb is nothing less INE than a ravenous wolf to be consistent he should discard the scriptural fotoes with which he has been accustomed to embellish his paper and make selections from the sayings of the russian nihilists nihilisms lists and the published renunciations enunciations of american anarchists ts doubtless some of our readers are am aware of the fact that there have sprung into being simultaneously quite a variety of anti mormon serial articles we have bave pro probably bably used the word variety somewhat improperly as all the articles have the same purport and intent although variously con strutted ted they have appeared in a number of newspapers all at once this fact suggests subsidizing for an object this idea is strengthened by the fact that all the articles without exception of this character that we have seen smell strongly of the salt lake fabrication and conspiracy shop they consist of old anti mormon soup heated up with the steam of intensified official hunger the decoction is soured with age and embittered by the gall of religious intolerance |
