Show A PLEA FOR FOB A MORE HUMANE POLICY WE publish today to day an exceptionally f fine ine article from the new haves haven register A more truthful i description of the general attitude toward the lat ter day saints could scarcely be given the manner in which they are treated is utterly devoid of sympathy being and denunciatory and therefore mistaken the Be register gister is right in attributing the harsh position of the press and the country generally toward the saints to ignorance yet no special pains are taken to td penetrate the thick wall of misinformation which has been built between the nation and this abused and maltreated mal treated community this is largely because the slanders that have teen been industriously circulated concerning the saints have been accepted as co correct they have thus been been prejudged the popular mind beins being satisfied no effort is made to pursue the subject further resting upon a partial verdict predicated upon one sided testimony the chief guilt of this lamentable situation lies at the doors of ambitious political cons conspirators i gators located in this territory who ph have ave by a course 1 of tha foulest misrepresentation flood ed the countey count y with falsehood conceio diug the mormons cormons Mor mons that under cover of the popular sentiment thus manufactured they might conduct their velarious nel arious schemes with im unity this appeared to them to be necessary in order to forward their ulterior purposes if they had bad set their anti republican schemes afoot against a people of good repute with the nalon lon the country would have snowed them hem under t while the country and aad jeche govern ment may not be entitled af unqualified censure because of me usually harsh and unsympathetic manner of treating the Mormon pA lethey are doubtless not entirely free fre e efrom I 1 blame it is always wrong to adopt a policy of that character without first ascertaining whether it is justifiable if it is ever open to justification by obtaining correct information which the people most interested are the most capable of furnishing but those who put pat the misrepresentation in circulation are the really guilty ones upon this point tom paine enunciated a forcible truism when he be said A continual circulation of lies among those who are not much in the way of hearing them contradicted in time passes for truth the crime lies not in the believer but in the inventor there are no people of modern times against whom a larger quantity of infamous lies have been invented and circulated than the latter day saints having been flooded upon the country and the world at large to contradict them among people where they gained currency has been an impossible feat indeed it has not been undertaken except in a limited degree hence the fabrications have in time been accepted as truth doubtless this web of falsehood is largely the cause of the widespread ig adrance in relation to the saints and as tile the register Regise tr holds this lack of information or leads to the harsh result of a cruel and mistaken policy the cure lies in an effort to obtain correct information from reliable sources the inauguration of a more sympathetic policy and the consequence w will ill undoubtedly be a kindly response if the rest of the nation take the position that this community should change their views and beliefs let them bring on the intellectual and moral agencies necessary to produce the transformation if they possess them thein in greater quantity and superior quality but they must not as theft the register egister says fire them at the mormons cormons Mor mons from the mouth of a cannon neither should they be thrust at thiem in the shape of such cruel measures as the edmunds tuck er law the latter day saints have been vil lifted and abused because it was claimed they did n not ot conform to certain political as deft of the country they have been repeatedly told that if this were slone done al all would oe be well aud everybody would be satisfied the constitution framed and adopted by the late con COB bention appears to meet every point which had been demanded by those imbued with the anti mormon spirit now the mormons cormons Mor mons are denounced by the same class for doing what their censors asked them to do and still the harsh unchristian and unreasonable spirit continues to be exhibited every consistent and fair minded person who has given tue tu e question any consideration cont will agree with us and the register that a change of ef the mode in vogue of treating the mormons Mur Mor mona mons I 1 should be sum summarily mrily inaugurated augu rated and one of a more humane kiddle and consistent character instituted forthwith |