Show persecution ALWAYS WRONG an item recently circulated ina in a few eastern sad and southern papers was to the effect that two mormon P while lodging at the rest residence douce ot of a mrs porter i near centertown Center town ohio county ken kentucky tucky were visited at as midnight by a score of disguised regulators and given a coat coal of tar and feathers it is added that the aalt lake saints whose whom converts are mostly women were then told to leave the neighborhood within three dalp which they did the NEWS is in in a position to state that there are at present no utah elders of the names given in the item laboring in the district indicated or to 16 the southern states at all the story if there is any foundation for it whatever must most therefore refer to somebody else elm on the face of it the item looks look very overy much like the anecdotes formerly so frequently published about the mormons cormons for sensational sensation a I 1 purposes purpose but which gradually are dying out when it Is said for instance that the converts consist of mostly womengo bemen we men it to Is evident that some slur is intended on ahk th missionary work rather than a statement of a fact it is well known to all acquainted with mormon mis min efforts that these are as a rule directed towards the heads of families those being to a large degree re before the lord tor for the persons entrusted to their care tae result is that among mormons cormons the membership is generally more equal ly divided as to sex than among some other churches by force of habit however some newspaper correspondents when writing about mormon converts add mostly women 9 01 proving themselves utterly ignorant of the real facts should it prove true however that there is some foundation for the tar and feather story from kentucky and that missionaries no matter matler what religious body they belong to have bave been treated in this cruel way the NEW earnestly jolna joins every champion of religious sad and amerlean american liberty la in denouncing noun cing the proceeding as at outrage of persecution which aad VW awot vast narene I 1 tor the I 1 dross drose md aad a ue boman danse enst with his eay any follower the bigotry that fanned tor AW flames where buan beings were during the long dark auk ag age should bould find dad no place in the most moat country of the nineteenth century it is an anomaly to the shadows of a past night they belong and not to the glorious day of spiritual ligat opinions will differ on en religion flon on other subjects but if argument buot be met by argument and error overcome by the force of truth it can not im be overcome at as all it has been 1 I said that persecuted persons some timea have been wrong but the perse are always wrong no matter then what the circumstances an out fage of the kind spoken of can never 60 JUstified beju stifled it is a reflection and a blot not only upon the christianity bottge civilization of the section where it occurred |