| Show OUR MORMON POLICY A paper published in salt lake city has recently expressed the opinion that the united states government gove ought to have sent an army corps to utah by the first train that passed ovar over the traci fic railroad with a view of stamping out polygamy and thinks that if this had bad been done utah would now be a prosperous ana peace able member of the american union we have no doubt of this papers air earnest desire to see the utah question properly settled nor of its intense opposition to polygamy but there is very grave reason to doubt the editors common sense if he thinks that questions of religious belief and that is anat mormonism is can be settled by bullets ballets and bayonets he needs to take a course of historical readings under the guidance of some judicious and philosophical professor avd and yet the spirit of that utterance breathes in very much of what is said now on OB this subject and animates to a degree which one day we shall greatly regret our congressional legislation with reference to the mormons cormons Mor mons we wish that a change might be effected in this matter we maybe may be able to win the mormons cormons Mor mons ic is tolerably certain that we shall not be able to drive thea kindness and conciliation are needed far more than harsh and rigorous laws the great difficulty that is encountered in the settlement of the mormon problem is that of ignorance the mormons cormons do not really know us and we do dot not really know them there nere is no sympathy between them and us and comparatively little communication we have always felt that they were strangers to our commonwealth a people remote from our ways of thought t and our manner of life singular in their ideas and habit sand obnoxious in ila their customs though alvid living within our national territory they th ey have ever been to us a strange and alien race these feelings on our part they have reciprocated they call us gentiles and un lin believers and look upon us very much as aa the chinese looka foreigners thus there has rubw groo between us and them a wall tion which it has been very hard ft pass over A 8 spirit P iri t of antagonism att goll b sometimes partaking of the araugo eal bitterness has been cultivated howo now by us aad now by every effort has been made by them to keep apart from us and keep us away from them the tone of recent lega legislation bation has hag wen been such as to aggravate this bitter bitte raw neM and to make mormon e exclusiveness x c luelee and intolerance more and more fierce A large portion vf the newspapers of the country both secular and religious have done ta their part to make bad matters worse by la in A dulling in the ill considered and unchristian style of ariti writing 0 of f which we gave a sample above uan and d so while mormon missionaries have been active abroad and mormon emigrants have been flo flocking dking in hundreds aad aaa thou thousands bands to salt lake city we our t selves in our desire to abolish too tho manifest evils of mormonism and to prevent that contamination which ftp existence among us threatens have been doing all we could by clous cious laws and aad the exhibition of an aj unkind and ungenerous spi ritto defeat Z our own purposes to intensify and to concentrate the energy of mormon w sista si stance oce it is time to begin a different poll policy that barrier of ignorance and aff dr trust which has separated the mons from the rest ofine nation m mm come down if mormonism ism is to I 1 overcome it will be by ze he power of better civilization a purer ma moral and a better religion reliction but in ardi that these ameliorating influences an a enter ater utah and permeate homes and ana make themselves felt mormon hearts and lives this chan wall ot of exclusiveness and caspi a I 1 must be leveled mormons cormons will ne net v be disposed to accept of burbe ourbe our beffa ideas if we offer them at the point poin a bayonet our religion and our moi ing alit aliby cannot be shot at them from cayia non nob the longer we continue the p arr ent policy of hostile criticism bof b denunciation and of harsh legis legislate latil thel the longer will mormonism be tj tight sealed against the entrance of w abl ever benefits we may have to of them the more completely and ho hot lessly will they be alienated from t general life of the nation it may monism be a plague spot and certa cerrata tata inal ly we would riot biot deny the dangers danger li hereof in the existence of such a co coo i manity in the very midst of our pa pie the more malignant will its po lowi for evil become and the more will tend to perpetuate and hi itself in answer to such a cour i our part A convention of the people in U ul from which we belie believe abe ge benj population very largely held ai albl has recently lecent ly drawn up R p a CO cor aution for a state government w wl it is p proposed to present to con gong with a view to t ad admix to the union no document drawn senator edmunds himself could conald i bomp completely lately dethrone dethe ohe polygamy this mormon constitution hats has d bigamy and polygamy are a dpn ap deZI declared ared to be incompatible with publican form of government alej bidden and declared ean anyone any one fo found find in the practice of ef ti is on conviction to be vi ansted ted suitable pei pe al allies ties or r title fine a and alp ilp imp onca ent and it is 8 f a provi ra ahat this section shall b be im imon abely 0 operative 9 without the aid special legislation on to give it ft effew effect proviso enacts that that p pr clause shall not be altered orame oral without the consent of the con booe the united states althous although 10 amendments to the abe constitution 1 be made by the usual pr of securing the concurrent tion of two legislatures followed popular n another 0 becu of this constitution a abolishes bo lishes ion e of f church aud and state and tai the domination of the a state te by yo church baurch while another provi desI free worship ape according to the dif c pi of conscience land and abrogates abrogast all i housand ions and property tests for r he office for voting or for te tes n court of justice il 1 I 1 all this looks very well tat an only weapon left to the anti moi party is that of denunciation 1 are trying try ing to deceive us they framed a constitution cons which coal 4 every provision which t toe M most i puritan would care to a dont really mean it they are I 1 dr wool over our eyes there is a cm cat I 1 meal no sooner are they aft adlitte the union than the mask will be 0 a A v ay and their real intents an aad poses will stand out in all til l ness when it is too late for afi jd 0 anything to help ourselves biej mons are tricksters trick and and now they are imposing benj offering us this constitution const Avitto only covers another of their aal nu pieces of deceit we need no we do not care to defend X at the same time Mormon sr treated with justice charl charity ceney there is material in V good state and good cit material mated 1 I 1 duft be worked I 1 1 those embryo citizens edu edack trained we plead therefore theredo the refo sympathy w with i th dav I 1 mormon doctrines ged denem for f friendliness liness add towards the mormon selves we plead for a pom pol cil dilation lation to replace that WOT W N in vogue we plead for OK foresto forts to carry to utah son scan permanent there MC school and every melus means and of moral and intel with which we wb are tamp lam 0 not bellove that it I 1 is 0 save utah we do believe that I 1 impossible to save it by the ed hands laws I 1 or by united states V qa pg becan treat cormons Morino cs in a fiti stian ristian fashion without subscribing atthe the sentiments of joseph smith io haven register |
