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Show jj jl im 1M niiw IIUMI III HT1 I I I I Tl T I II ! ' " HiOnlllfl" I j'fha Republican Orator Ex- ! , presses His ievs. l ! Zl: Hso:U3 Thoir Past Zlum: y, ajd Gives j is Iaterprttation to cl.e C riat Hoiiion I-robieui. But ho.v a:..ut tic ; eop'e o.' Utai:? o'iia reK-!'.-ii.;e to Hum, my siiriiise vas as great as witu reieivnce o t.ie country. 1 soo;-:-.- to si : 1-r-.: .; id. -:ic ., v ii toe lowns of Briuha:n, Logan, I'r iVo, :al t.he City Mat Ggoen.) n.eie wtte r.too j opn- pitstm at my eeoiiil lilt ding at O' en. and tor ai'-piet ai'-piet lil.lon, tMiiiiii.-ia.-ni ai.o (jbit k ap-t.i; ap-t.i; l, ens. on that i.u-.iviice c.iiinoi be .-clpass. d in Nev Luciano city, i no long ami bitter light between tne Mormons aiai gentiles n.ive injured the .en uoiy gieatn . Anclloit is now ...iing u.aiie to induce the peo dy to m-.i..e m-.i..e on ullleielit lines. This is ieatlli.g ip to a bitter contest. Some oi H e .en.iUs who have been eiigiled so .oiig in the coiilesl of i lie past refuse .o oeiicve that the Moinn ns aie slii-ere slii-ere in llu ir tlaim .hat iney h.ivt ..oantlone I jmivgauiy, and vv i 1 Hence- it.ith obey tne laws. Many good men j in u. e teiiitory think that t e Mm inoiis should be :akeii at ther wold ami given j a fair trial. 1 mixed as little ..s possi-1 ble in tnese local ipiartels. More than j tliice-iourt1 1 of tne i i-ople in L'tan to-Uay aie Mormons. With their iastiiistorj or leiigious belief 1 have no synij;ithy. No .oubl thedevelop- uieut tt that uninviting countiy is laigelydueto Mormon pluck and en- rrtiV. boine day some wise man will be aide o exinain the why ami tne wnereiore ui Hie various religious svstems which oiive appealed in this v.olltl of ours, an.t may oe able to snow philosophically philosophi-cally now and why they took root and .loiuished. 1 cannot do it. 1 do know is a rule that heieiolore persecutions .iave always ended in an increased. ,rowih ot the persecuted. Tne ashen ( ol the martyrs nave been the sect! of all j the chuiciies and without regard to j heir tit .tli. me blo i.i ot a piopiiet nas often been the only thing winch nas made the saeredness of his calling I sure. The moment a man suiters per-: per-: .-ecu Lion for his belief the masses think ne must be right or he would succumb and avoid his punishment. So, 1 presume, pre-sume, it will ever be. The. future lovvtii and prosperity of Utah is of epial m left si to Moiuion ami Gentile. Tne inllux of people into tiiat lerritoly Worn tlie tast would be large if its real merits were once understood, and if it I could be decided that the government lis to be run on the punciples of .ove, charity and kindness. There can be "l.Ule doubi that the Moimon rule has been one l conclusiveness and prejudice. preju-dice. It nas taiicii a ioug wliilj for the .lor.n.iiS io learn that loJ.O.U people cannot nnin.ie or ooiiiiuate 0l,uou.UUtl. I'ue.) i.uve no liottut ueen tatigui that ,.ney owe a higher allegiance to their ciiuic.i Hiaii t. llieir counliy. .vin-iious .vin-iious of Christians lor liiteeu centui ies .eie taught and believed tne same .niiig. to lie.stroy tins noi ion has cost ii.e vorid rivers of ItUUKili blood. A ncic iiaiitiiai of men can m-vei" estab-i.sii estab-i.sii that doctrine, in tnis world again, i lie w oilo as a w uole moves forward , .tot baCKAVaid. i to m th.s lane lorwani ovtiiin.eiils will j erniit people to nolo aiiui lei.g oaS lioliona loev jiiease, out ill eJoi'Ji i t ihem complete submission .o an civil au'iieriiics ii mailt rs wnic ..eitatn to civil government. Ques-lons Ques-lons oi civil politics'w Hi never again i ,;C lelt to l. e oecisioii ol pojie. bishop, j ipos.le or ii lesi, siinniy uecause mat one ol the things that the world has .titgrown. iicii litis is once ful-y ful-y comprehended ti.e Moimous will ac-tet ac-tet me situation, no doubt, as other ,.i gioits societies have don-.-. The .vloruions havj h 'ivtol'ore held uoctiines repugnaiiL tj the rest of ihe civ.li.ed vvoiot and leading to practices ill V -ol.tl.on ot ti.e civil laws ol all civilized civi-lized na.ious. ihey have no doubt oee.ii .iriner.uiL in many of their prae-UCi prae-UCi s. It will be i.ar.i vvoik lor them to cnange their views. Whither tin y no .tor not, one thing is cicailv s..own by tne expel icnce oi l ast ats. li is ihis I chat lir.'V w ill never be led to abandon .neir felled s a their te..cnt rs resort to oic same intolerance and unkiinluess compl. dned ol by the gentiles ;is being ciia.a. t. risiic oi the M rmoiis. It is ..atuial lor all people to IhiiiK th. in-s in-s lvts rigiu aim every one else wrong, i'ue Mormons act as it they knew they were light. No uoubt many of li.eiu teally lii.nk that they Know Midi to be ne tact. tiie balance of the world aie ,tist as certain that tne Mormons know iioli.ing d the kind. Such a beliei mutual mu-tual v leans to niton ranee. The pi.c-tical pi.c-tical question is how best to treat such a genuine belief, even though it lie all a dt l.isioii. un. s impulse is io crusn it out by t. e strong arm of tin law and uar h liieasuies. Ti.e history of the ,.tn 1 1 is mat ihe crnsning business seldom sel-dom il evti" wins. Ti e great bulK of these people are sincere, devout, earnest earn-est people. Piayer and piety s em to abound among them. In w rldly matters mat-ters they aie ununited to be frugal, in-it.a-1 lous and holiest. They have inane .t dry and barren waste r.c.i in fields of gia n, glass loois and In. its. Then -religion may have been bad; their husbandry has l ei n good. The Anglo-Saxons, ihe Genlih s, are soon to outnumber ihem in Utah. The marc;: j of 'human events has already decreed that. Would it not be well if Mormon J and Gentile could unite on some plan ' ihat would let the had in each svstein j ..rop out and simply preserve the good ! in both? A peopie which has sulinted ; an arid waste, which has created a won- j deiful country where nature seemed to j have (b cided m favor of a desert, surely ; ought to be able to subdue and govern1 themselves, i predict that such in the j end will be t he outgi owl h ol 1 he pre-- , lent inUTiniugling "1 tlid'erent. kinds of: civihzati -n Commerce and business' (have often work-d wonders where big-' ctrv and intolerance have 1 d ed. Love I of humanity, kindness of heart , comfort com-fort a tile houses slid good crops enable people tit live as neighbors w ho have few rel gious notions in common. That sue!) niav be the solution of a problem w h cli has vexed many of our ablest and bv.st s:a e men is the earin st hope i oi tine vv ho wishes for noihing in Utah except that ner peopie may be good. ; j nappv and prosperous, j " R. G. !1oi:i;. S iinl lins 1 rtislrate.l. j Chicago, August 5. Special. A j in iiictant' but none the i less starling recit: I of almost! inciedii le fraud was elicited today j lroin one of the victims. Not the ie:ist i interesting feature is tne fact that the ' chief psrsonage is a typical Washing-j ton c'aim agent, whose operations have been s extensively curtaLcd of late by the Siin Franc sco K.t am in ti ' i ievly ' establishett bureau of claims. The al-! rest of Luring II. L-iouns and his com- , j pulsory return to Chicago lot' trial : for a number of eaibe.eeiio-i ts com- ; ! milied here has broken up one of the most cunningly devised p ans to fleece ' i.eisons who nold claims ag'ainst tiie United States. Loom is him Ins scheme already under way and in a few months would have drawn untold thousands fioni unsuspecting people w no coutid- . ed their claims to Ids "agency.-' He j was itrrested in Washington on July I i!iiibni it requisition issued by Gov. j Filer, of Illinois comformably io the liinduig of two indictment agciinst him ! by the Cook counts grand jury. W. j ) li. Doiig'lass, the greatest sufferer by i Jjoomis' rascality, said to-day: "I do; ! not wish to say an thing against L!,'ii- j is on account of his family, lie came jheiea year and a half a;.o and I had. so it was given out, 1 SlO.OOO.Ot). |