Show DONT of IT for fifteen years the christian minister was never heard of in utah with chiai of truth an editorial in sunday a salt ako tribune it u the fit begin n ins to the column of mendacious l mena under lie head of it had the gentile been willing to bear fair witness to the truth it would hivo stated thai the min aters of christ ali m territory on the etli of juno the pioneer of cf ifju Ju christ of litter addy ii looked down upon the expanse of americas adad further on we road that the christian are heard by the coro aind their number increasing an betro retro glance is ceat at the ancient times of early christianity and for the akeo the argument it is claim el thai the roman empire nearly becala christian iced while the as told by gibbon and buckle lecky and grago that christianity got pagan iced and that alio true faith aud pure doctrine of the savior became almost obliterated lite rated under the bubbis ot roan and byzantine but TO will not demand too much mccu ricy oatha or the with begird to past aam agm and foreign climes seeing it is little ambita ous and capable of making veracious oua tat ement concerning con leous in its licin iby our of fio liberal camp asks why did the cormons mormons to utah at all we will endeavor to refresh the cuaty memory of our colleague of the tripod it is partly on account of whit he euphemistically calls effective interference in the lands which the lit berday sainto hai bought paid for tilled and improved in new york ohio missouri and illinois from which they were driven two generations after the declaration of independence pen dence and in of the constitution ution of humanity and justice by devils in priestly robes judicial gowns and military uniforms they were driven as the sea in the middle ages afterwards iho huguenots Huguen in franca and the puritans in england why did for instance the latter embark on the frail bulk of the mayflower could not they have staid unharmed and unmolested in holland the refuge of religious toleration the asylum of the liberty of conscience no the tar of empire blazed westward and their impulse guided them to the wildernesses wilder nesses of plymouth there to establish communities where they could worship god according to the bent of their own hearts and the dictates of their own consciences they had a mission to fulfill and so had of the bittor dayn when they wearily but cheerily trudged through the wilderness to the of the of which the prophets of old had predicted great and glorious glo ritus and afy followed faithfully and in cheer without murmuring and and 99 crumbling out of arery hundred feel this day in having coan to cheso of the bains notwithstanding tho liy ing on biye acre patches on which the tribune editors edi oriental nation dwells with image cinn tion ballu these poor dupes who barely did not their hatire leomos in the eastern elates or he transatlantic for the thousand countries arable acres to be had for the taking in bansi Kan si lows nebraska etc ratified ati fied to water their they are perfectly land by hani by heaven as the tribune irreverently calls it provided they were left in peace and lity and in the undisturbed tranquil of that freedom of conscience enjoyment and pursuit of happiness foundation which the document of this nation claims for all men all its citizens in 10 the next breath we are told about the horrors of polygamy and the th e ballot boxes swamping of by olid doting the first could justifiable hardly have been a reason for the with which persecution the bigot llin ol devastated and zealous zealots of the happy homes of Nauvoo as the revelation on celestial marriage was not published publia hed till years after and ballot boxes swamping of the by solid be no more doting should by cormons mormons Mor mons objectionable than when bonu by republicans in iowa and kansa or by in alabama and south carolina next cornea a ludicrous about the rigmarole utah nc iho netherlands a chongo or dahomey chief and other from choice a onal dime novel theo wailing notes being only alight on the old key they arc not worth more than ing notice likewise apati would it be useless to waste much ink on the cal side hit at the dao who livo in caso an csc ansual ihben anybody but a fool can know an anybody bat anavo will acknowledge that tho very leader of alla people hare been the leaders liard work the most in industry aej most facing thrift the closing stadement sta lement of the in idous tissue of untruths un truths is f possible a greater perversion of the ruth than itie wt you would hare been boat r al you ly nod mental y religious alost iou morally had you nerce beard of joseph smita ac says the head quill driver of the tho fact asand the knows it too that abe ing tut jonty of those who heard of joseph arho beard tho of abo darkened bark ened to t in faith and obedience and followed its directions hayo not only been enriched in their aloro and i basket not only been improved in their intellects but have also been delivered from the bondage of the of man made creeds and to a higher of morality the Aror mona never retreated from any civilized mankind but from the cut throat ancen diaries and assassins who destroyed heir bomea and killed fathers and and sisters mormon ism can boldly stand up in the auie of yearning in the halls of and in alio llio pulpits of I n i lio I and wherever it meeta fair it will substantiate its cladma and wherever bigotry and malice prevail it will still conquer in silent triumph Iri if you expect that mor monism will and mull retreat before civilization you are mistaken don I think om |