Show MISTAKES AND corrections lff iff has become very common to misrepresent the mormons cormons Mor mons some do it through malevolence and ind from flom m malignant ilg a motives ina lna many n y do it because informed inform cd or uninformed concerning them thein and they are consequently very liable to make mistakes when treating anthe subject of mormonism much very much that is reported concerning us comes from bitter unscrupulous and avowed enemies those who aro arc disposed to calumniate the latter day Sal sai saints hits fits give publicity to all manner of slanderous tales concerning them this is very true and we cannot help it still we ard aro are desirous that truth should be known and fairly state stated dand daud and for this purpose occasional notice is taken of articles which represent unfairly that the public igind may be disabused dis abused recently the register of central city colorado published a couple cf of articles concerning the mormons cormons Mor mons the nira first fira of which iterates certain slanderous statements which have had publicity lacity gi giyen given yen ven them in the outset by individuals visuals il dual who have been unscrupulous enough to say anything no m matter how untrue that they imagined would operate against us we give the editor credit for being misinformed for forto two reasons firstly because he las has evidently vl dently been misinformed with regard to mertain certain in ills his wis alluded to in the article and as a natural inference may be supposed to be on oh the statements which 1 ethere arether ar e made and secondly j bebau because se quip th e pother lii lil er article does us the justice of quoting ing from a leader in the NEWS and from a sermon published in its columns both the extracts expressing our bur own views on the question of plura plurality liti of w wives ives we will simply say by y way of information that settled in kirtland ohio moved from thence to missouri I 1 arid alia afterwards settled and built bulit up the city of nauvoo in la illinois and that they were driven from those places by mob violence urged on by men calling themselves ministers odthe of the gospel and by political intrigue the priests pr 1 i est who urged on the mob hated bated a religion which called upon men to preach the gospel gosia without purse pursa or scrip and aspiring political demagogues gogue when they could not secure the mormon vote thought they would prevo prevent fit their thoin political opponents from receiving it by stirring up the mob to drive them away we have never been beell is robbers and horse thieves 21 there are most likely evil disposed persons and individuals who are not hot honest in this as m in every other othen community but they aro dro are aro are hot held in fellowship by the latter day saints oar our religion teaches men to be honest honorable upright and god fearing and does doe snot not countenance evil of any kind when sll sil we came camel and located in utah there tele was waa no ito overland travel to prey proy u upon p n ine ind if there had been it is that the mormons cormons Mor mons are industrious it I 1 beyond a parallel and live by their industry net by preying upon n any ans community lor bior hor upon travel or traveler travelers of any kind so far from there being g any overla overia overland lid iid travel to prey upon when ihl thi this Terri territory tor Y was settled by the eatter latter ilay day saints the country was a 1 I wild and unbroken one oney where it was deemed impossible for white whito noen to locate in in any number it being believed believe d by those who were thought best able to know that the countr country where we now reside could not produce crops sufficient lelent to sustain even the most limited population there were no settlements in in california at that time and none further west than those which our people had made near the missouri river the gold discoveries of a little later were then undreamed of and there was nothing to show that in the short space of nineteen years such an immense traffic would cross the plains as now yearly passes over them nor that states and territories would spring up so rapidly on the pacific slope we have dealt kindly hospitably and f fairly hirly with the emigrant and the traveler and too often have our kindness and hospitality been abused but we did aid it and we continue to do it for it is a part of our religion to deal justly by all men regard to the mountain meadow i massacre to which allusion wh is duade i ia de we will simply say that the mor mons have been ever anxious to have that matter thoroughly and honestly investigated but those whose duty if was to do go so have for reasons best known to themselves declined to proceed in the tile matter vve iye sye think that they prefer allowing it to tio remain uninvestigated because it is the basis of an allegation against the mormons cormons Mor mons unproved it is true and strict 1 inquiry would the odium from the I 1 shoulders where it is now sought to be bo fastened they may deem it better policy on their part pait to g glye give kv e the cou countenance ll 11 of official elal elai sanction to that of which they are ignorant than thant to inquire and be q compelled belled to deny a false allegation against innocent men our moral and social status notwithstanding all that is said about us I 1 as sr I 1 at least y ast as high and many who are even prejudiced against us admit it is much hl higher than that of the other states and territories in the union 1 and arid we can tell all who are interested in the latter day saints that today to day with aalthe efforts of regenerators to introduce the corruptions corrupt ions and evils of so called callea civilization in our midst there esless is less drunken ess less brawling less jess corruption and less of thoe festering evils which sit like an incubus on the shoulders of the social body to be found in in this city and territory than are to be met with in any city on the continent or among any similar number oflus population I 1 our objects are to live to do good and to do good to live and this we intend continuing to do with the aid of the almighty no matter what may be said or done by those who are our enemies A GREAT CHANGE YET A SAD ONE the world is growing like an old man who be becoming coining dissipated rushes mare more deeply deerly into the vortex of folly and sin than more youthful ones do who have the apology of young blood hot passions and lack of experience to excuse their extravagance such a ohie ofie one whose grey locks are darkened with hair dye whose experience is smothered bred in su folly whose words that should he be full fuli of wisdom and counsel are sickening with their contemptible and silly aping of juvenile profligacy is the ithe best figure to which a world can be compared that after thousands of years experience experienc ep grows daily dally and hourly worse and leaps into A very abyss of madness degradation and wickedness the growth of youth 0 to o mali maii manhood hood is ii so imperceptibly to t those who daily see it that the c change is rarely noticed and it i is only enly when memory takes a backward backma rd step and sees tho the toddling child in tha the stalwart man of today to day that itis it is fully realized so the vast change that has come oi cr er the I 1 lu man race can only bo be realized realize d by a comparison on of the tho past with the present L let et any person of middle middie age run back to the days of their childhood comparing the world as it then was with the wa world orld orid as it now is and how vast the change will appear the age ago we live in is spoken of as a go a head age jt it is so called and it merits the title half a century ago steam was comparatively unknown and as a motive power had little mo more re than come into existence now steamships visit every clime cilmo and the iron horse snorts and pants and tears along on the slopes of the ati atlantic atlantia antio and pacific fie fic thunders through the old kingdoms of europe startles the dusky children of the far easl east and threatens soo soon nito fito to invade every sacred spot of ancient palestine PAlest lne lue then the tele telegraph graph was unknown alid unil undreamed of naw now it almost girdles tho the world and men chain the light lightning and make it their ser sen servant vant vaut put but if the world has progressed rapidly in i these and in many other things of inu much ch value and worth it has taken fearful and rapid strides towards general degre depredation dation the licentiousness of courts and the corruption of high places have taken tallen root among the great people aud nud thud and have thriven aa a evil plants do thrive the people have left with a bound the slow movement and tardy progress of their fathers but they have also left their horror of vlee vice their love of V virtue their value of human life their hatred of meanness and their detestation of evil practices like the old rolie roue whose experience only makes the ellor eilor enormity mity of his guilt greater the world with an experience exper leupe of ages to guide it Is simply lightening hight ening its own culp cuip culpability abill ty by the haste it is making 0 to exceed very every previous age in wickedness and guilt 1 wo we have no idea of preaching but of noting facts wha tha rapid growth of evil passions and their results are attracting attraction attract in r attention atten tion tien e everywhere ery ers where aad and in our out capacity as a public journalist it becomes a duty to reper refer to them th em i occasionally men live in a A never fever v er of eke oke excitement the mental powers powers tire are stimulated to an excessive degree debree of action mankind crave crabb madly for the th e possession of wealth and power to gratify gra citify ungoverned d passions and desires they meet vice at every corner bedizened bedizen ed and land garnished with gaudy trappings and they fraternize with it they seem like an express engine flying downan down an incline without a brake on rushing madly fo 0 o de destruction yet reckless of the future and caring only for the accomplishment of the present objects the rapid and serious change now in progress 0 is indicative of an important future not far off and what that future will wilt be it is not very difficult to deduce if the world had leaped ahead as if new life were infused into it in moral and social advancement as ag well as intellectual and scientific progress the result could not have havo been anything bl but ut gratifying to every friend of true progress but instead the mere perusal of moral and social retrocession daily recorded is sickening and ap paling there is no i evil known to or practiced by human h uman beings that does docs not km seem to be hight ened and intensified beyond the experience of any previous age greece when the effulgence of her glory was dimmed by the corruption of her people eop rome in the licentious days of her late emperors the court of E england during the gate gato times of the lecon locon second d charles and the last george and tile the noblesse nobles ge of france previous to the great revolution furnish parallels in miniature every L very page of heir their history reads a lesson to the world today to day their career of vice was followed by terrible evils and the deduction is only rational tation al and natural that with the samp same rame evils sown sawn broadcast over the earth springing up in a thousand forms and in an infinitude of place placed similar results equally w widespread wide ide spread pay be looked for and with the lightning progress in those things which if rightly applied and employed would shed blessings unnumbered on the human family but which abused only tend to intensify and expedite approaching evils it is not unreasonable to think that results are aro near at hand the news may be fairly expected to become regularly more exciting sensation will follow sensation crimes be forgotten in others of greater magnitude nine days wonders become novelties rarely known and the topics of yesterday scarcely remembered in others of deeper interest today to day butiu butin all this we may look calmly on being assured that the end however holeve r brought about will be worked out for the best interests of the good among the he t huma human n family |