Show HOW TO SUPPRESS MOH MONISM A great number ownien of men have at tempted to make political capital and rise to power ami eminence by opposing tile mormon gormon people and mormonism but few indeed ifancy if any have many al fail y have grappled earnestly with the problem pio blem they have trice tried to subdue and stamp out the obnoxious ays teni 11 but butth their cir eff efforts lorts have been fit futile tile their labors have b been en in wi n tile many fail ill in the past others are trying and antl some think they avill succeed this time some have thought the tle time had hardly arrived some think tho tile system i has been left too long on V that it is too firmly and too deeply looted rooted in the faith and feelings of the tile mormon Mo people ever to be bt eradicated or broken up ill there me are other again who think there never ha has been a more propitious time than the present to lance the rotten cancer and crush it out of existence j pious pharisees Pharis ees in their pulpits leavo li avo elongated their countenances e screwed up their mouths months to the most extreme point of 11 hypocrisy hypocrisy turned their eyes towards heaven then upon their sympathetic congregation gre re whom they have lave horrified avith the raw head licad and bloody bons boiles about the cormons mormons Mor Morn mons ions who live among the hills of utah mid then called unon upon them to contribute liberally of their money to help t to christianize and regenerate these degen degenerate erato people and end this method lias has failed of its purpose the tile system still live ii es and is in a it flourishing condition n from abroad and natural increase at home are ire swelling its rai ranks aks ai and A will continue to do so to the end of the chapter the fork c deals a terrible blow at the would be bc cx ex giugni lier of the twin belica I in an article replete with sarcasm and home the on the way to suppress mormonism Beli believing eying it will ft ill be inter esting to our readers we will reproduce it kliore ia is one effective affective way to solve jha problem and put down dov n lp V Samy my let lit us throw away all ill sen A alasin and consider tho tile matter dively pi vely moral suasion has failed file laws against polygamy polygamy are ire a dead letter the mac machinery lincey of the corris cannot be 10 put into motion against po lyga mists in in blab I tah because there tho preponderance of pt public illic Penti sentiment ment is dinst the prosecutions why lave have all af plans lor for suppressing mormon itin failed simply because mormonism is is a religion sp tem IN wo re believe that it is a false s system stein of re lilois and joseph smith a false prophet by the way the name of smith m i not an all one for a prophet indeed lt lit rants ranks with josh osh 11 I lie ocono odthe chinese deities lesul 11 aa men nair have lave had ilia the courage of beir opinions before nott now even in ho ifo of false reli religion ion and they saono io to the death in obedience to tb alio of a false relations leli gions teacher the Mor cormons mons have resisted resi steil all ill attacks upon of claiming for it a divine ori crisi fai n and by calling upon truo true believers to defend it as they would st for their soils ral salvation act ua be pl iliin aln the J lie of the maid has his show n ingv 11 to odes of destroying a religious iou s system ono is by the low slow action of time and civilization sapping the grounds rounds of belief in the minds of the believers anelio the second by tho the summary ap of military force educe be believers in in the system to gh insignificant minority in tha the corn coin it if we are not prepared to time to dispose of cormons mormons Mor mons intact bo be prepared to resort to forte iccie is is no ri middle liddle courso that promises if Monnon ism is is to bo be put donn down at once we must laise raise an army of at least ast men nen fully appointed in 01 every respect IV we e must take possess ion of every le point in in utah r and mild the tile adjoining territories it in which there are cormons mormons Mor mons martial lift laxy must le be and rigidly ch forced 31 mormon ormon families must bo be broken ui ill mormon churches mut be closed clofed or destroyed private religious Ille meeting eting of mor mons must be prohibited who lio are disobedient must be cormons mormons Mor mons alio insist on fo following floring the rit rites es of their church li must be killed or imprisoned ted no xo quarter and tind no mercy must b bo liou shown to uld old or youn young who will not submit to tb ahe e i ulc rule of of conscience jai laid id down by tho the military commander of the dt strict t we ave must be prepared to 10 bollt follow bw out thin thil to tile end the dragon nades were successful ia in ahping stamping am ping ill francc A system of repressions as bold and la 14 ay well w ell conce conceived iveL cruel and unrelenting would bo in 11 di cating mormon ism in america are wo ive prepared fur for the dragon fiade which H fluid would make itah a desert and kill and diF disperse perse thousands odix of people who now have homes or are cp the necessary hawx A and let carnage and destruction begin if we weare are not noblet let the tile idle demand for the tile immediate imilie diate suppression sur of the tile twin relic of barbarism canse tho tile bitterest bitter cat persecution has been tried the roost most unrelenting z cruelty lias has been resorted to the red hands of the assassins ria asins havo lave been dyed in the tile blood of ii innocence inocene and many ninny other crimes too horrid to name have bavo been commit the vain attempt to compel tile mormons cormons Mor mons to deny their faith and forsa forsaken ket ho lie principles of their holy religion today to day no iio people aro ire legs less concerned or borrow less trouble about the future of their cause or what man all can call do 10 against ab them than the mormons cormons Mor mons themselves they pursue tho even tenor of their way undisturbed di disturbed about the matter there arc are more im important t things says an exchange which ought to engage the attention L cofou of our r public men moi than tho the social arrangements arr alim of a handful of men and women in ono of the territories wo we concur |