| Show MORMON conspiracies abnot ceranti absurdity istian many bow friends friend often soften won der how it is coq possible ible that the people in the east have such pervert perverted A erroneous conceptions of the latter day saints institutions and intentions this is no cause for astonishment t to those who are acquainted with the malignant misrepresentations circulated abroad by designing deceivers and impertinent im im pastora po stora generally however these missionaries of mendacity and emissaries of enmity overdraw their romantic reports so much that even outside papers who by no means sympathize with the cormons mormons Mor mons or then their belief find the dose too strong and reject it thus we read in the winnemucca nov silver state of june the telegraph reports that several months ago a gentleman was sent on a secret mission among anion the th cormons mormons Mor mons by the war an and TI interior departments to endeavor to learn the truth or falsity of the reports that the cormons mormons Mor mons arc are arranging for a revolt against the government this gentlemanly e emissary in ls 11 lias returned to the east and I although dougli like auditor french he docs does not report to the departments on whose authority au authority thorit y he was acting and which pay liis his epen expenses ses liis his observations and conclusions ho lie says in in a private letter toa wit friend that the time is not far distant when an army of one hundred thousand men will be re required for a campaign laign t that I bat will N ill spread read from utah to Wyo wyoming mingon on the tae north norih and to arizona and new mexico on the south the tile cormons mormons Mor mons whom he represents as the most disloyal element in the union are at the bottom of these anticipated troubles all their actions have beai gov arned by deep laid schemes to establish an empire of their own independent of the national union this scheme they are carrying out with an accuracy and comprehensiveness si si veness worthy of any anything thing that ever distinguished jesuitism they are not says this secret missionary concentrated in one locality but I have ave spread out over the widest possible territory therefore an invading bading army would have to distribute itself over a wide extent of ground all tl the I e region over which they have spread they are covering with a mesh like iiara warp of ranches and are weaving this with the woof of their rapidly mul multiplying implying brood poly polygamy amy is apart a part of their scheme that feind being the best instrument they could devise to speedily ily secure population to cover the land with their own progeny 11 mormon lormon women ho he says so far from finding their positions burdensome really glory in it and vie with each other to see which will bear the most children it is greatly to bo be regretted that the gentleman who as the tho trusted agent of the war and interior departments spent months in utah to learn the truth or falsity falsity of the rumors that the cormons mormons Mor Wor mons are arranging for an uprising ag against ainest the government go vern ment docs does not give misname his name to the public A man who thinks that an army of men will shortly be required to subjugate the cormons mormons Mor mons ought not to let liis his modesty restrain him from making himself known census bulletin no 24 issued I last as t december Y shows that utah contains inhabitants of whom are males of course a large proportion of these are children and quite a percentage are gentiles it is not pro probable bable that there are more than male adult formans mormons Mor for mons in utah yet the secret envoy of the government predicts that it will require an army of men to prevent them from establishing an empire of their own in the centre of the united states in ill the territories north and south of utah the mormon lormon A population does noti comprise one twentieth of the inhabitants Is ICs anybody who is at all conversant with the situa situation tion foolish enough to believe that the worm cormons mormons Mor mons ons whose V alfi ap leaders whatever the main body of them may be are shrewd intelligent men are going to revolt against the united states government and with thirty or at mast forty thousand men attempt to establish an ein empire Pire embracing territories in which not one twentieth odthe inhabitants even sympathize with the movement the idea that every mormon rancher in the remote settlements of idaho montana and new mexico will attempt to establish an inde pendent pendant jovern government ment on his farm and resist the laws ate territory in which M U jives fai mado f for or the latitude of boston j afi which the sensational t emissary is is ad wg resident but blit besof nsf the bocky rrb mountains people look upon it as wn being A limply ly ridiculous |
