Show A HARS NUT TO the editor of the sacramento record union usually so calm temperate and apparently so fair minded min lias has recently been startled propriety on oil tile mor question he appears to in bulge the like fear of ortho the mor mons that the tho jews ed of jesus it if we let the malono them alone they will come and take I away our place and nation now that the southern problem is about solved tho the record union thinks the country can find leisure to consider the mormon problem which it says has been such a source of irritation and harthus has thus tar refused to yield to any specific applied to it although it cannot endorse the little governor of idaho who w he is endeavoring deavo ring to work on oil the weak minded folks in the east and trying to make them believe the mor j i mons are endeavoring to acquire control of the pacific elope yet it cannot regard the growth of this people with favor it is not the growth of american people and L thus is serious enough it regards ali the mormon people as a foreign organization and ofa of a very undesirable character tho the record union seems to lose sight of the fact that on arriving in in this country one of the tint fira things that the foreign boru born mormon is t taught is to seek the earliest possible opportunity to declare his intention to become a citizen of the tile united states and this is the earnest deare are in nine cases out boiten often ol 01 our immigrants in and no one can call say fay and tell the truth that do not net make true loyal loya I citizens citizen the record unior says As ks to what it lias as been so often said aid of their industry and thrift jm in the firsty first place lace it lias has been exaggerated and an in the second place there is nothing not bint satisfactory in industry and thrift which are do devoted voted to tile establishment of ofa a gross ing superstition surely the writer of the above levei never has visited utah ho lie never can have seen for himself the industry and thrift of the cc mormon Mori tion people nor to what their energetic labors are really devoted if redeeming a desert subduing a wilderness amm t I and forcing it to blossom as the rose if building comfortable comfor tabI c houses and owning them cultivating farms and orchards which yield remunerative harvests to reward the toiler and otherwise devoting their energies to promote the cause of education and to t establish civilization midway between the two vast oceans the atlantic and pacific be a degrading superstition then wo plead guilty and to us it is a satisfaction it is also a source of sur surprise prize to all unprejudiced travelers who visit this territory for the purpose of informing themselves of our true status the record union thinks the I Mor mons aro arc men and women of a low order of intelligence and therefore fitted to become the tile dupes of the authorities of the church many other writers take just the opposite to that view they think generally geier ally that the mormons cormons Mor mons are a people of at least average good sense ellse intelligent shrewd sagacious t and honest they should surely therefore make ike good citizens of the united states As to the cant about slavery we are fully satisfied that there is as much freedom and liber ty enjoyed in utah as there wro is in any other territory or state on the pacific coast all persons arc are at liberty to come in and go out of the country ad libUt int and no one questions their right b to do so nor seeks to interfere with them in this matter indeed we often hear outsiders laugh as they tell us of the crude ideas their friends at a distance entertain of the mormon formon people The Record cannot seen single reason wh why americans should f look upon the mormons cormons Mor mons with favor or satisfaction but tho the business men of sacramento san kr francisco Fran cimo and other western cities do no sympathize with these views of the record they consider it to their interest to cultivate the acquaintance odthe of alie mormon people their trade is desirable and their on basli chis is acceptable that journal L has bits recently been crammed uth with so much fiction by its salt lake cor respondent that it to have got flit M acs and considers the continued presence presence of the tile people utah in in tiivi tah country on an eyesore eye sore and find a discredit to the tile bo boasted astel civilization of america but how to get rid of them is the puzzling question the record says it L ia hard to manage these people le because the spirit of the american amerlean P govern government ent is diameter diametrically icalla opposed to everything in the tile form of arbitrary interference with the freedom of the citizens then why not let them alone and leave them to the undisturbed enjoyment of their rights re religious legious ligi ous civil and political which arc are guaranteed to them in common with all other others by the constitution of our country when a whole commini community ty is opposed to a law it never can be enforced according to tile normal method in such a case says the pa record ecord it is necessary to choose between abandoning the he purpose aimed at by the law and going outside alie normal method for relief now the people of utah have never over refused obedience to any constitutional law lair odthe of the land but if an attempt is made to force them to comply with witha a law that is repugnant to community of people it certainly argues that there is something radically wrong with the law and any attempt to enforce obedience to it by abnormal methods is is certainly unconstitutional and unjust the record considers all that Con contreas greas lias has done by the way of legislation against the lie cormons mormons Mor IMor mons a 11 dead letter and all further attempts in that direction wll will produce similar res results it can only see one way to solve the mormon lormon problem that is by depriving utah of a territorial government and P placing jacim her under an all arbitrary one how docs does that agree with th the spirit espirit of the american Government which is opposed to arbitrary interference with the freedom of the citizen and w where here is the consistency of the rc cardl we gave it credit for being more just wid fair toward the people of utah and we had bad rights t that hat the record felt bound to respect ct a as american Anic rican citizens but it says this drastic treatment id is not proposed for nn an american community the Worm cormons mormons Mor mons oits arc are not americans socially or politically although some of them arc are the sons end daughters of revolutionary s circa i r es who fought for and conquered the right to worship the lord according to the dictates of their conscience scie liec the record writer may continue conti aue to indulge the idea that it is necessary to bring tile into subjection and to extirpate polygamy no matter at what cost but it may find out yet that it may cost too much to endeavor to force a jarge large community to act in violation of their honest reli religious poua cc convictions vict ions and as the te record says in its caption to the article wo we have been dealing with that the mormon problem is A hard nut to crack |