Show THE LOCAL SITUATION from the standpoint of n x gentile with a trenchant pen lie he gives ives the antl anti 4 fanatics fand cormorants a proper SALT LAKE CITY jurie oth 1887 editor deseret news will you kindly allow a humble follower of the religion taught by thos paine and robert G Inger ingersoll toll to express his views upon tile the Morino till question and the manner in it N i treated by a couple of so called newspapers of this thia city and also by people who know no nothing lothine thine aboul it I 1 am vot affo a 1 eitner in thought pr practice but trust I 1 ant am a believer r litin and friend of lib liberty eity both civil bivil aad 1 have tried to bo a faithful bauden of tile the history of my illy poultry andl believe it should be beas aa it t was w by our oar courtl constitution ar a tor je febe of all ft A pig 0 wafe IV it 0 hauld reign au ff WARTO 8 mm fl NOt w ever be applied where a man could worship one god or many where the thoughts of no one should be questioned it should be a country where re a mans acts should only be called in question when they are of a nature that would do irjary to others I 1 read that la in the first settlement of this country there was a band of people calling themselves puritans itans who la in pursuit of i elisions religious liberty established a colony in the province of massachusetts stort in n a short time tho they seemed to 10 have forgotten the reason of their exile and commenced a system op of persecution which their descendants to tb this L is day have not failed to perpetuate for a long along time their like persecutions were directed towards infidels in general but as liberty of thought increased to such an extent that ap infidels availed noth ing they see seem in to have combined to annihilate mormonism onisia so far as I 1 am concerned I 1 have no faith in any religion but an abid abiding I 1 ng faith in the constitution of my country and what it guarantees to every one clue freedom ot thought and action and la in the name ot of liberty I 1 protest against the unholy the uncalled c for crusade against these law abiding liberty and constitution lov iov ing people which has been inaugurated by religious fanatics and which for worldly gain is aided by some of the so cabied news papers of this city the outrageous abuse heaped upon a peaceable inoffensive people oy by a couple of journals of this city is enough to disgust any sensible man whatever may be his religious convictions I 1 have good orthodox presbyterian authority for saying there was not a saloon or house bouse 0 of f prostitution in the city of salt lake until gentiles came here that thai it was not necessary to lock doors lit at night lor for fear of thieves but that this was the most moral peaceable aaB Kio I 1 law abiding city on this continent till these religious fa 1 katics and official cormorants arrived I 1 protest against this vile abuse this infernal religious persecution it it is either the work of idiotic fanatics or of villainous cormorants who think more of lucre than liberty they are unfit to either live or die they have not the slightest conception of charity the they know nothing about rell religious giol 1 or civil evily liberty let the most righteous of them cast the first stone or else close up it I 1 is s bout about a time the blue la laws ws of connecticut were abolished and religious perse persecution persecute cuti ddn had an end it is near time the hyenas who scribble so SG called editorials on the mormon question fox fot so called newspapers in this city would come off they disgust st every than man of sense who reads them they are arc a villainous insult to nine tenths of the of this territory ory and for the matter of that to everyone the mormons made a garden of eden aden out of this desert they were persecuted as no ito other people we were re lever evera g persecuted before beffre them they came here in sorrow and trouble enduring privation ions that if there is it a god he bifi will deal kindly with them for their martyrdom for as they thought his sake it seems they are still followed with a vindictiveness that is only equalled equal led by the abuse heaped upon thos paine who sal said d 1 the world is my countr to do good my religion let them ive give the country a rest it is weary EDWARD EVERETT |