| Show BEGINNING TO SEE IT IT is gratifying to observe thattie thai the press of the country is gradually beginning to acknowledge the inor enormity mity of the plundering process applied to the latter day saints and to see danger to other communities in the precedent it establishes some of those journals on whom the ight Is dawning upon this subject reiterate some of toe the views that have appeared in the NEWS on the same topic in connection with other ideas they bring to bear upon the theme of spoliation not a few of them are much more un nearing in their denunciations than we nave naive been the course of the NEWS having been somewhat conservative considering t lie ine extreme and unjustifiable measures in I 1 question before us now is a recent issue easue ot of the press of winsted conn conna which contains an the fis cation assault directed against the mormons cormons Mor mons from anica we quote i the day seems to be of especial peril to freedom and jus justice t ice in t this his land so many encroach encroachments ments up on individual rights are being made in the name of the brutal and irresponsible majority that we have not room or time lime for proper protest but let us call attention to toe the atrocious sets acts by anich the government is seeking to confiscate toe property of a of its most peaceful industrious and Ll thriving iriving people lor for no other reason than that their family life is not in all respects in conformity with the customs of a majorita majori tj tl of their fellow citizens we refer to the confiscation of the mormon associate property near the close of its last session congress passed an act empowering the government to wind up the affairs of tr iebler mon church and the emigrating m 1 r i ing fund company the act delg declared r e d tile the corporate existence of these institutions at an end and directed the attorney general to sell the property pay lawful and turn the balance over to he glie government of the united states gobea co be used for the support of common sc houlAn utah exempting buildings and grounds used exclusively tor lor church purposes also parsonage nages and cemeteries anis infernal infer aal act la is now ow koeing carried out oat the government is robbing the mo mond mona by judicial process and treating them as a conquered people rhoad institutions may inay be broken up whose property property quay nay be coffis confiscated abed and who shall in I 1 une a e conduct of their own affairs have I 1 no ao voice whatever the property perty in question is now in ii the dhe han hands igro s of the united states mar jual of the territory toe ne marshal having been appointed by the supreme court coart of the territory as receiver in ther words we government hab flab seized me lae property and handed it over to 0 o one of its officials who is empowered lo co dispose of it as though it were estate ot of a bankrupt debtor the luck ibbs ebs mormon may took look on in horror as ad I 1 its treasure tr melts away in the fingert jt I 1 but bat can hardly help hel V emif to resistance is treason ana treason is death luc have religious notions differing from those of the other sects and the utah chuoc of jesus christ is not an institution that chat we wish to uphold but the preen ont enc interference with the affairs of these diese people is none the less an out attack on liberty and the poll that comes of it is 18 a fat morsel to despotism that is already too well fed let bet methodists congregationalists aud other sectarians sect arians beware if it is a within the province of government to despoil one sect it is equally equall within its province to despoil aoa another er and majorities are fickle the gentile christian 8 may find themselves in a minority some dark morning at after a evolutionary storm has swept over this country and how will they enjoy their turn in the confiscation mill I 1 I 1 we would not be understood as denying the right of one sect of christians to pray another sect of bf christians out of house hoase and home it they when government as in the utah affair takes up the matter and makes us a party to it and uses the machinery ot of law and the power of the army to velpone help one kind of christians despoil another kind in this co country autry it is time for those of us who have none of this peculiar christian spirit to aen denounce dunce the he government and protest against such outrageous abuse of its powers in Jeru jerusalem salemi as aa we noted last week mohammedan soldiers prevent bec nectaria a christians from killing killi Dp and plan plundering derIng each other the soldiers are impartial in their contempt for the sects Con congress gressin in the same position far from being impartial 11 ands u S itself to the schemes scheme of the more powerful sectarians sect arians to destroy the weaker ones making the victims pay the cost of their own destruction the heathen should send missionaries to teach our government the propriety of conf laing itself to the simple duty of maintain ing finx peace between the christian sects ta utah 11 |
