Show A WORD FOR THE MORMONS THE helena montana independent has baa a strong editorial on the rumpus kicked up over professor eliote sc ec called bad break in saying a few kind and encouraging words to the cormons mormons Mor mons sP and that paper proceeds to draw contra contrasts between the leitter latter day saints and the puritans which are not at all flattering natt ering to the latter we clip a tew few of the independents remarks and would reproduce the whole article but for fear of offending oft noling some folks who are over touchy on question it says the mormons cormons being a smaller body numerically every small try editor and demagogic politician has felt free to throw his stone at them been villi fled fied for a social peculiarity which practically prevails all over the world and when an impartial traveler like president eliot speaks of them without cursing them he is called to account as a traitor to christian civilization sa says 11 a 1 the san francisco ai argonaut it will be a good time to curse the mor mons when some of our new western stales have brought irrigation and high agriculture to the the perfection which they have attained in utah in the meantime it may perhaps be becoming in the descendants ants of the witch burners and western advocates of lynch law to rave le less les s frothily over the delusions of the followers of brigham young the doctrines of the latter latier day saints are not so shocking as those thos e of the anabaptists were there has never been a holy inquisition in the temple of mormon and on the whole there is nothing in the book of mormon so revolting revo liing as the teachings or which pascal convicted the jesuits this la is a world in which error springs up like a weed the way to deal with it is not to make laws against it and to put men in jail borad for adhering to the dictates of their conscience but to wait patiently until the light of reason penetrates the dark places and dissipates the fogs of delusion 0 but the most revolting feature of the crusade against the mormons cormons is its sham and audits its hypocrisy th the e united states at its wit wits a ent end to rel repress prem polygamy finally passed a bill which was generally general known as the illegal cohabitation act this as its name shows was designed to prohibit the illicit relations of the sexes under pain ot of felony every honest man knows that such a law could not prevail preva il in the states of the union without a perfect cyclone of scandal it A law which would do excellently for ufah I 1 would not do at all for the district of columbia it might not do for foe new york chicago boston or baltimore it might even cause trouble in san francisco |