Show MAi iSil liberalism A specimen of liberalism was published a few days flays since in a paper issued in mcw cw york it claims to bethe be the organ of the national liberal league and ia ii misnamed mis named theofan the man the man claims tobe to be the advocate of free thought and the fullest men centalla menta talla laud ud religious liberty yet I at abc a man feet it it would secularize not only y utah but the wh whole olo nation it would annihilate every system of theology th la a says the trouble with formon ihn is not its polygamy i I bual its theocracy it pretends to believe that if mormonism pre vails to any extent in this country our re republican p publican govern government went will soon bo be at an end that the state will soon be absorbed d by the church government this statement is utterly untrue the american republic has no truer friends nor more loyal y supporters than are found among the 11 mormon I ormon part of tho the community J Y hero here or elsewhere this has been tested and proved to bo be true many time times and ind it will be verified again as time will attest theman the ifan davs says every mormon I ia a an n alien aten not only that but u an alien in practical rebellion against the government of the united states and any republican form of government whatever in making the above bo ve statements the man jias has proved itself to bo be cither either lamentable ignorant or wilfully malicious thousands ot of the mormons cormons Mor mons arc are born eborn american americans and are the sons and daughters of native born bom citizens of the united states the sires or grand sirca of many of them fought in the revolutionary war and spilled their blood on the battle fields io to purchase and to EC se cure to the unmanly man thomen tal freedom it enjoys today to day and to effect religious freedom free though t and tre rec a exercise ocrel of religious JI rites rite of f which that journal has pretended heretofore to ba bo the strenuous advocate and what it still claims for itself but ignores and denies to other citizens of this great republic th man says the liberals have been rather inclined to be favorable to the mormons cormons Mor mons as victims of persecution but if mor mon monism ism should prevail als would very soon become victims in their turn for those alleged reasons this champion of universal un iveral mental liberty and free thought is constrained to acho echo the cry of the radical ca aute t ra lor for the suppression of mormonism tho the man says there can call be no toleration for those whose creed is such that they the Li liberals bertils of course cannot tolerate and because the lil cral league cannot tolerate the af df lle 11 cormons mormons Mor mons it must be suppressed and its advocates and adherents proscribed what logic I what a champion of free thought I the league A says through tv its organ mormonism is a theocracy the and any form of theocracy means that uncle sams republican house must be burned kownover down dow nover over his childrens he heads ads this sweeping liberalism strikes at every religious community in the ration nation where then ie is i its liberty its religious ous toleration in fact the man says plainly theocracy ricy whether in the form of catholicism calvinism mormonism or is the deadly enemy of the republic and must be opposed to the uttermost upon the fundamental fand principles of tho the league secularization NV we hive usually found aitto be tho C caso who shout loyalty and liberty the most lustily arc are the most tyronical tyr anical in their dealings with those who differ from them in in their opinions on religious subjects so it is with the liberal league it would destroy the liberty of conscience I ve for of the ri republic fou fought ht annihilate religion n utterly and per force if it could reduce the whole nation and the whole world to secularization the organ oran of the league further says instead therefore of pottering lottering pott ering with polygamy the cormons mormons Mor mons might according to tho the lawa laws of nations and of republican self preservation be declared aliens and incapable of any anil civile p political properly Y rights ats until ahey record a solemn dec declaration a ration of ba based ed upon a complete renunciation of the mormon hierarchy just as our newly made citizens renounce reno unco all authority etc ab absolutely tely and forever by solemn oath and this ia is liberalism as exposed po by its national organ the liberals would deprive thousands of natural born citizens of the united states of their inalienable rights as such and notwithstanding their fathers founded tb the republic the league would treat them as aliens unless they will renounce their faith and by solemn oath renounce their religion no matter how sincere or firm their convictions nor how much they have bare suffered to maintain it berebko heretofore for i c if thi s is liberalism if such are the doctrines of the league just give ua a specimen of by wai way of contrast I but the Mor mormons lor mons of utah are solicitous neither for the favor nor toleration of the man the mormons cormons Mor mons and mormonism are both vigorous they live on healthy diet and therefore they must continue to thrive but we ive would advise the manly man afan ly liberal beag eluo t to study more attentively the golden rulette eighth and ninth commandment of the decalogue and the first and second verses of the twenty third chapter of exodus in the good old book and make those injunctions some of the rules of their conduct in their dealings with their fellow citizens on the subject of religious legious freedom and universal mental liberty |