Show MORMONS NOT HATERS A speculating on the Mormon vote vote in the ensuing elec elec- elections elections elections express great a admiration for tor this people and points out that that whatever faults they may have been charged with deficiency of manliness has never been one of them It adds This people have bae ever been good friends and aDd a od brave haters baters I I This remark is 18 evidently Intended to be complimentary but in the latter latte r part it is nevertheless likely to be mis mis- misleading misleading misleading leading and calls caUs for tor a few tew words by byway by byway byway way of comment It is a fact that th e Mormon pe people from the beginning g have bave endeavored to be true to their tbell friends as al to themselves and their God Their history proves that they are Im- Im Imbued Imbued Im Imbued with that spirit spirU of ot unselfishness which is II essential to friendship and ana which in emergencies has led to sacrifices sacrifices sacrifices for tor the benefit of others without which the great work done by the Saints Sainte would have bave been utterly impossible impossible Ii sible ble I It t is the very essence of ot Mor- Mor monism Mor-monism monism which monism which b is nothing but pure to Christianity to be true trae In that regard for fellowmen which binds the human family together and ultimately will result in perfect union and harmony It follows that the Saints Paints cannot be haters whether brave or other other- otherwise wise Hatred is il a passion as foreign to the true profession of Mormonism as to the early followers of Him who proclaimed the doctrine of that love which is to universal enough to embrace even eveD enemies It cannot be denied that the Saints sometimes have passed parsed through trying ordeals ao and 1 found themselves in po positions positions t- t where it would have been but natural to othera to hate bate But this people have bave ever endeavored to view themselves and their fate tate as resting not in the hands handa of men bu but t of ot a Superior power and as to those thole who may have bave misunderstood their motives and perhaps Imagined themselves in duty bound to follow a policy of aggressive opposition nothing but the kindliest t feelings ever have been en- en entertained en entertained on the be part of the Mormons They have been able to maintain these feelings because they have bave always felt that the da day would come when their work would be better understood and I cease cases The Mormons Mormon then theD I at the present time can oan hate nobody There is II no cause for tor it Still there is a hatred which I is Just and right by Divine precedence It truth is perverted and honor trampled In the dust due It if human buman weaknesses are appealed to and corruption for selfish ends every true Saint who understands the principles of his religion may be counted on as a brave not not In Indeed eed of ot the persons or parties maybe to whom such Buch proceedings may be due but of the practice In religion always has been the glory of Mormonism and this necessarily carries with it ita ita ita a demand for tor purity in everything else elle Including morals and politics for tor torman forman forman man is but a unit and from one OBe source both pure and impure water cannot flow The Mormons are a Church The members as al such euch have different vew aw views and preferences in 10 matters snot t pertaining to wor worship but bot it t la is certain that each will use uee his rights s its as a citi cUi- citizen citizen zen with full tuU consciousness of ot the fact that the exercise thereof like Uke all other earthly responsibility transactions brings with It before the Supreme Judge of all mankind |