Show WHAT THEY PURPOSE DOING THE anti mormon efforts effort sto to destroy every vestige of local popular rule and by that means capture the territory promises to be determined and vigorous during the approaching ses sion of the campaign if such it may be designated promises on the pt pact of the crusaders to be unsurpassed in audacity cruelty and unscrupulousness in the onslaught the secret society known as the loyal of will take a prominent though more or less shaded part it will be a portion of their policy to mix a hypocritical pre of benevolence ne with demands for the most crushing anti mormon measures in the hope of thus deceiving the uninformed in regard to the situation Theys propose propose to admit that the 6 1 mormons cormons Mor mons are sincere and honest in their religious convictions that they believe joseph sinith baaith to be a prophet commissioned of god aud that their institutions have been established b by y divine revelation and commandment this being the case they intend to maintain that abat mere enforcement of the law will not cure what they denounce as evil and will advocate effective measures tor for the education and an d enlightenment lighten ment of the mormon people while the admission will be made tai that t the mormons cormons Mor mons as a body are ci citi ti zens the old ld fustian claptrap clap trap about te their r being hostile to the government will be reiterated the political solidity of the mor mons will be held up as the most dangerous aspect of the question and their unanimity will be b ascribed in the face of the that a secret ballot manipulated by the appointees of the government exists to the dictum of the priesthood in relation to how the the people vote the edmunds law of 1882 will be explained to be totally inadequate for the accomplishment of the end in view the crusaders will demand that the utah commission be abolished and that their powers be conferred upon the secretary of the territory clerk of the supreme court and the united states district attorney whose salaries should in their view be commensurately increased the majority of the provisions of the new edmunds bill will receive the endorsement dor of the crusaders while some lof of its clauses will meet with their objection oneff one of its objectionable features will be that by which the legal wife la is compelled to testify against the husband in cases of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation this provision will he characterized as unwise and cruel and destructive of the monogamous household the legal part of tho the family of a polygamist they will use the argument ent that has been advanced by the NEWS upon that point it is not to be presumed however that the plotters will express any denunciation of the local courts upon that question although they have in their antii mermon IMp I 1 practice adopted the compulsory pr process in relation to legal wives in advance of any legislation on the subject they have thus been unwise and cruel the crusaders will endorse the clause of the edmunds act which the marking of ballots and thus endorse a falsehood tor for effect no such thing as ballot marking being in existence in utah these political lambs will profess to be opposed to all cruel I 1 only suggests vengeance and does not breathe of charity or true reform and will in conformity with this christian spirit urge the enactment of a religious test oath franchising disfranchising dis the whole mormon people on account of their belief an increase of the penalty for unlawful cohabitation to five years the of women for that offense I 1 ense the annihilation of the freedom freedo in of the press and anck of free speech by making it a penal offense to advocate the doctrines of mormonism privately or publicly with tongue or pen more officials and higher salaries to grind the people A large app appropriation 0 ila for secret service a spotter spotter fund flud to scoop in the saints an and a commodious penitentiary in which to herd thiern B by this thia means the crusaders will holg hold that republican ideas sa save ve the mark cau can he established instead of what they call mock religious mummery 11 the purposes of the plotters disclose more concentrated diabolism and unmitigated though transparent hypocrisy than is usually witnessed in the iea of the most unscrupulous and fiendish of human combinations under the sacred guise of benevolence they seek to heap mountains of cruelty and oppression upon an unoffending people whom they acknowledge to be god fearing and conscientious W while hile urging that they be hounded crushed and trampled upon they claim the credit of performing an act of exquisite philanthropy the audacious effrontery of such professions is only equalled equal led bythe by the undiluted villainy of the de plot |