| Show A COMMIT COMMITTEE IrRE OF investigation new west commission is the name of an organization which has for its purported object the promotion of christian education in utah and ad dicent states and territories itis it is composed of professedly pious people egiedy in and around chicago ily by toe the payment rent of one hundred any ono one can become a life member the commission has bas a number of schools in the territories utah being its prig principal epal field of labor and mormonism its pome object of attack it is hoped that by training trai rift the young in the dogmas of modern so called christianity their minds willibe willbe perverted ted from the faith of the gospel as taught by the latter day saints in ila the sixth annual report of the secretary the commission shows a little good sense which contrasts so strongly ay with other movements as as to exhibit exhibit very clearly its own inconsistency it is embodied in the latter parts ot of the following adopted by the council resolved lie solved that we recognize with respects respect a loyal and intelligent minority la in utah and that we protest in advance against torti admission of utah as a state st at anytime any time without the consent of that loyal minority t resolved Se solved that president james B angell L L D dof of michigan the rev president william M brooks of iowa and aud JohnG john G jennings esq of ohio be a committee to appoint a commission of live five to proceed to utah and make a careful and thorough avob ol 01 its character its temper and its pur purpose ose and especially to examine th the condition of christian schools and ascertain their fitness as instruments for the overthrow of that gigantic evil and make due report to t the e churches at their discretion and to this council that the secrets secretary be e instructed D ted to communicate to baal 0 o a arth i ren of the presbyterian baptise t and episcopal churches our action in appointing IL a commission to look into the mormon question and make report to the churches and the country and to request them to appoint similar simbar commissions for the same pur purpose post and to suggest 1 the propriety of operation cooperation co by all such commissions the first resolution in view of the second Is very soupir stupid and unreasonable the commis commission of inquiry should in common sense precede the protest a against statehood by 3 y tile the appointment ament of this committee the commission virtually admits its ignorance of the very question guestion it assumes to decide upon without knowing anything definite about mormonism its its purpose the commission protests protest against against it and against we he political liberties of those whir believe in it and recognizes recognises s and sustains its ene spies mies and at the same time the she commission lends its support to the un american and unjust measure of deny ing political rights bights to the very i large majority of 71 until it shu suit the whims of a hostile minority if there chete is t christian or wise 7 or r f oft fair or patriotic in this we weiL cefai fait I 1 to perceive it TAO new west commission by its resolutions incorporated in its latest report confesses that for six years it has been making vigorous war upon something that it knows nothing about and it very naively intimates in the same connect iA icK lost the presbyterian B baptist aist pala ai chu churches have e ue pur par suing the ha SAI same me carse course with equal AU the bad naz names pea which the new west commission has hosped heaped i upon haye been uttered estered without understanding it all the money that nas been spent pent in trying to breakdown break down its influence has been expended against unknown ani am and aid anex system how do the managers of the he know uia ua they mey have not been all this time fighting against god and abusing and 44 assailing the truth troth of heaven I 1 I 1 speaking of the urgent u ent need of 0 push tog log the work of tle the commission jq the territories the present report says the evils that ordinary ordina ordin arl v infest rude frontier populations are aggravated in k all this region by the prevalence of mormonism this system of organized superstition and misrule is arrayed in deadly enmity against the social docta order which prevails pie vails throughout chiw co tte try between mormonism and the christian civilization of america there is no possibility of agreement the one or the other must be exterminated this is only a small asdall sample of new west comm commission folly how bow do its promoters loters know that mormonism is aro superstition or at enmity with social order when they ther do stat understand anything about it and even it if there Is no BO possibility of agreement between mormonism and that spurious sort of Christla christianity vity championed by the new west commission why should eith either ertry try to exterminate the other there Is no possibility of agreement between cal va vani presbyterianism and tree iree will baptist doctrine but must one or theother the other therefore be exterminated mormonism has existed for over half a century in this free country where catholicism presbyterianism methodism and scores of other isms iams have worked in their own way lor for weir their own ends and there has been no extermination or 01 oae or the other 0 true there have been several pious efforts to exterminate 11 on the part of so called christian sects by murdering ur dering robbing and mobbing the Vor cormons mormons Mor mons I 1 and lape inthe same spirit the new wept commission would lend its ald aid tu to the wolfish a adventurers whid arre are noti now plotting against utah by og ig their endeavors end avo ra to eteve prevent t net sast statehood V 0 and d oppress her people people e butchis but this kind indo 01 of nation nadon does not seem to exterminate and grows rows and io in the lan language gusie ot of the report v mormonism presents to the p people pie of this country a roost complicated and difficult practical ical question and there ig need of thorough investigation of the whole subject by intelligent ani ana patriotic men yes that tho thorough investigation n of th tilt whole subject is the one thing needful before any further aftem attempts apts at extermination are inaugurated or any mure moire endorsements of those who plot for its overthrow are expressed or any additional accusations and expletives ives are hurled against it either by commission reports or otherwise why was not the subject investigated before instead if after the tremendous efforts hitherto failure ol of the new west commission and other active anti mormon agencies but what kind of an investigation may we expect judging from the methods usually pursued in rezard to mormonism the gentler gentlemen fien selected for the work are the following the rev W H ward D DD D of new jersey the ron hon N ison dingley degley of maine the ron hon franklin frankli n fairbanks of vermont wm win H vanamber Wan amber esq of pennsylvania the rev kev E P goodwin D D of illinois it these men come to utah and make up their report from the representations of anti anil cormons mormons Mor mons of whal real value will it be to the commission or anybody elief else the teachers employed by the commission and who work against the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 for daily bread and butter will repeat the stories that have beef been told to travelers till their isa ra akness kuess and staleness smell to heaven and the political adventurers who are plotting to gain control of the territory will stuff them as they do congressmen and anti mormon books with their horrible and bloodcurdling blood curdling fabrications will be put into their hands and the hirelings of the pulpit will turn up the whites of their eyes and sanctimoniously vouch for the truth of the monstrous stories and so the committee of investigation will easily learn all about mormonism without taking the trouble to look for the shining truth which the adage says is to lobe be found at the bottom of a well investigation is what the mor her mons have aaker for from the beginning to church and state to priest and people to jew and gentile to christian anti and pa pagan aa we have cried aloud investigate but to do this fairly prejudice must be set aside to com mense with will the committee to do this Is not the proposition at tile the beginning mormonism is an evil to be exterminated and will not the very object of the inquiry be to find out oat how it cau can be best assailed instead of what it really is and how much truth it contains let the men chosen for this work proceed as they would to dive into the depths of astron oiny I 1 ceolo geology ff I 1 philosophy or any scientific subject to learn W any thing of mormonism it mastbe must be studied in its ts own light not by the colored tints or r the deep shadows cast upon it by it its s deadly enemies if they will come h here ere with that desire every opportunity eunity y will be afforded them to get at the facts and learn the principles of t this is great rest re religious ig ous s system stem which is t the e problem em of th the age the puzzle of the wise and the s stumbling ling block and rock of offence offense of all 11 who ho blindly rush forward for its overthrow welcome welcom to all investigators who w will ill really ine investigate ves digate 1 |
