| Show MR MB ON THE MORMON QUESTION MR PHIL ROBINSON the noted war correspondent and brilliant journalist journal st well known in utah is auppl supplying ying prominent london newspapers with articles on the mormon question these productions are singularities in their way they sparkle and fade with remarkable variableness alternating between clouds sunshine and forked lightning with slight sprinklings lings of rain like tears sued shea for the perpetration of some cruel sarcasm or unjustifiable bit oi of exquisite irony tn spots he holds up some of the re observances of the saints as objects to be riddled with ridicule while some of them are thrown out of all symmetry by 9 a process of distortion that is probably used unintentionally then he takes a shoot in an opposite direction and extols tile the heroism honesty and sterling integrity of the people with whose religion he plays at battle cock and shutt ledore darting to another corner of the question he dashes a gush ot of sympathy at a deop people le who h he e declares are abused and oppressed with the most abominable and inexcusable cruelty while he slashes with vigorous strokes of his trenchant pen the perpetrators petra tors of the wrongs to which the objects object of his solicitude are subjected the inharmonious constituents of the articles in ia ques question tiou exhibit the nature e of their producer being a non religionist he views subjects classified under that head through the yellow spectacles of infidelity were he to treat on observances I 1 in d that connection nearer home doubtless his bis comments would be tinted with the same hua which invariably colors the strictures of of the scoffer there is however e v e in I 1 his composition a vigorous v vein e I 1 a of sympathy for the suffering and from this humane tont lont of the human heart spring some strikingly pathetic passages naturally the thoughts of the journalist lead up to the causes of distress and cutting denunciations against the oppressor opp oppressor Fessor are the result thus ate at e literary productions the reflex of the constituents of those li whom they emanate these reflections have been induced by the perusal of one of the articles in question from the pen of mr Rob Robi nison lison in the columns of the pall fall mall mail gazette Tas sette we take the liberty to here reproduce its closing passage 66 but bat in spite of of all 11 this I 1 know the M cormons mormons armons too well to believe that the united states can crush them they are supported by the convictions of religion and loyalty and the consciousness of honest living the americans can if they choose massacre the indians whom destiny had bad confided to their care as a nation and not be brought to book they can shoot down in cold blood as they did I 1 the other doy the chinese at woran 0 k the public roads and not be puni I 1 d by the courts for their crimes they can if they like cut cui the throats of stab and pistol mormon men women and little children as they did at hauns mill but they will gain nothing bs ba it I 1 he be lieve mormonism to be beyond human power to extinguish it may die out of itself but it cannot be smothered to death not even by such iniquitous injustice such outrages on humanity as utah to the ako eternal disgrace of ox Ante america ricas is now witnessing |
