Show DEFENDING THE MORMON WE fliri fini fin I the following in the mo treal canada herald of august the writer is very chivalrous inba in hi endeavors to defend the hormonal Mor monal from the vile attacks of their lite enen ies iee I 1 editor berald J in your paper of july 7 1891 1 I fouvy a potpourri pot pourri from chicago and salt rak lake tribunes that is full of errors errora yott should be more charitable than nei neighbors ebors for you have not been a party h to afe the anti mormon fight 1 let me tell you something about ss between 1832 and 1846 the mormon people were robbed of property that iu in 1850 W worth according to non mormon estimate ate many of their ma had been murdered many of women ravished lavished ravi shed the mobs that persecuted them were church members ledl christian minia ministers teral why was it polygamy did not at pil pear until 1853 the mormons cormons made va use of their strength politically until tho they gathered in utah they never made any attempt to institute a hierarchy r in n a their belief is that when god is i ead eady ly I 1 will do away with the governments theeart the earth hand and institute IN his own I 1 will be Meo theocratic cratic of course but bat cormons mormons will have nothing to do wit ditl save gave to serve as the accepted children god to represent dimmien him when he has i up his own rule the mormons cormons are I 1 afi resi resistant stants s they sent out an army 1857 to prevent a united states ara from rom coming into utah but they we befi I 1 instructed to kill no person and th they did not although they held the arm army tast bout about nine months this may a seem to 40 you you like rebellion but it was not B brig ham young was governor at taij th time appointed by the president andt ana the law gave him control 0 of tte an militia an army w wm was m sent against him on the representations of a few men whom brigham Brig hain had beaten on ding on a contract to carry the ov averiana ove rianA a malls mails those men made old man ft ba j tv sia i ta A feahan dan believe brigham in rebellion the latter ter kept the army out until the former I 1 wat t men to see what the real status was bd d as soon as they came the whole affair wm waw done for A there never has been a more loyal deop people le in the united states than the mor MO r mons in fact they believe that the lord I 1 the united states government ay inspired men as a preD preparation for his 0 wn government overn ment what hat now was the secret of the op position on to the mormons cormons Mor mons the fact that ley taught a more attractive gospel than e other sects and drew their converts olly holly from the evangelical churches ad to this the fact t that at when they were bobbed out of missouri the south not bering rin money for the heads of garrison iad d p billips and the Missour missourians ians a holding people called the mor monr n most of whom at that time were Jg E glanders landers id d d yankee abali S donisas donis ts and you have the whole thing before re you K t when the mormons cormons came here it was thought they would soon die out when lefew learned that they were stronger than ever the old hatred against them larose arose and then poly polygamy gainy was used as the file aub dab to kill them although that has etever ver been looked upon as a crime by a atay save an occasional person in utah r Os gentile men of utah were much in J coffed against the mormons cormons because the wa gnei were virtuous but they soon in merchantable creatures of 11 their own the gentile women who baye w ba re had most to say against POly polygamy gainy have not been fine grained the mor mons have never furnished the brothels of salt lake for years polygamy has bin een dead in utah w 04 if utah were made a state in three would be doubled years ears the population fad d the morrn mormon on vote vole would be over ix ame me but the people will not cume come ita hile it is it a i territory errit ory it is not pleasant alx lx that is favored in to live in a country a v iRtO olal broil roil do D not t come to utah until ats fi t is over ad at keeps utah a territory I 1 will I 1 5 ten tell you government sends her K SOM nn ally nally that money will not come f when jhen utah ceases to be a territory that goes into the hands of mormon w 0 will never get office in utah as M a state aho ho in fact should not hold office anywhere in addition the east v S lendt yes yer nearer annu chy ike here for missionary work that v boea I 1 into n to the hands of mormon haters baters K arho won would ld lose their income if the peo east knew that no mormon haseker haa ever k lileen lt leen converted by them in 25 years and M tf utah were a state these two parties hold bold the control of the anti mormon pol litreal I 1 party arty of utah and there you see wh k utah is kept out in education industry ko sobriety briety and lerenia virtue the mormons cormons are far head ahead of their opponents there is no are danger of polygamy or hierarchy jm fik utah than there is in montreal an and indeed far less danger of the latter than is in your catholic church let liias e urge you not to allow your yourself belf to be funded by U abe ie chicago tribune or any lather r paper as to the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 know abom e I 1 and send you herewith anub a pub It cation tion of my own that will show you i other side CHARLES ELLIS |