| Show DISTURB disturbing ING worshiping assemblies IT Is becoming quite a common event in the local current history of theme theae extraordinary times imes t for a band b ad of U S deputy marshals to make a descent upon some settlement on occasions when the people are congregated for public worship the object is to seize mor mons of more or less extended family relations who may bave been attracted to the congregations of their religionists coreligionists co in order to I 1 pay devotions to the almighty that such may be dragged before commissioners and judges and finally thrust into prison the crime of which such men are guilty is the sin of caring for their families and declining to adopt the ordinary way of turning turn lne them out upon the street and upon the mercy of the world these are strange doings in a free country and in the nineteenth century fortu fortunately abely the harvest of victims obtained by this special process has net been abundant but this has been no fault of the officers the sortie upon the bountiful meeting house bouse is still fresh upon the minds of the local public and now the town of ganab kanab furnishes another instance of the same kind deputy armtrong 0 having made AL a similar incursion I 1 into that and secluded burg on the occasion of a stake con ference recently heid in that settlement he devoted himself assiduo assiduously tisa to the study of the peculiarities of the worshipers worship ersi but his bis researches failed to result it III the identification of pera per sons he be was anxious to take under his bis official wing doubtless the good people of kanab had learned that while praying it was a good thing not to nd neglect to also watch in many of its features the assaults assaul td made upon the liberties of the saints carry the mind back to the dark ages when tyranny and intolerance ran hi high h the truth of the repetition of this phase does not appear to strike the oppressors pres sors with any great degree of force but bat it does have that effect most powerfully upon its victims |
