Show THE PURITANS AND THE MORMONS A WRITER WHITER in the portland Port lahd maine argus algua takes vp up the popular topic of professor eliot and the I cormons mormons Mor mons and addressing himself to the pa parallel between the puritans and the latter day saints saint makes a very pointed contrast contract following is part of the article on the sub subject jec mr president eliote truthful remark that mormons cormons went to utah in search of religious libei ty as the puritans P ur itans went to new England has offended certain block heads who think themselves much better than they are and other people much worse than they are I 1 said the tiame ame thing in the argus algua a long time ago and was abused for saying it the puritans went to massachusetts for the purpose of wor worshiping god in the way which they believed to be right and the mormons cormons went to utah for a alike like purpose to that extent the act of the one as as as the ac acl of the other in addition to persecutions which made life a burden the mormons cormons were mobbed their property was destroyed their leader was assassinated before their eyes they were forced to flee for their lives across the waste wasie sand desert to utah and many perished by the way the puritans suffered no such lions it was more than years from the puritan settlement of massachusetts to the mormon settlement of utah in all of which time the world as a whole had been growing better hence it was but natural that the mormons cormons should be better men and women than the puritans puritan they were better when ewhen the puritans landed the indians treated them well in return for which kindness the puritans deceived the Ind lanc swindled them sent small pox x among them made war upon them r the e quakers oi of pennsylvania and the mormons cormons of utah treated the indians indian well and had little trouble with them the puritans were what we call n cantankerous ll 11 they were sour sullen and ill conditioned leifer say nay no than yes yea leifer give giro pain than pleasure 6 the thought they were going to heaven gave theta thein less of joy that the thought that everybody else was going to hell they maintained ao ertain kind of virtue which in the eves of a right thinking god was joreg worse than other peoples people lis vices they maintained maina ined a certain kind of malignant morality because of their devilish desire to punish somebody the mormons cormons were as good as the average men of their time and infinitely better than the puritans ot of years before the baltimore Maryland American ban bag this brief paragraph on the furore over the matter president allots sadden championship of is creating surprised discussion without entering into the merits of the case it may be remarked in passing that university presidents mi might ht for the present profitably leave the 71 mor r konsin utah and devote their crusading energies to the turks at home |