| Show A WORD OB OR TWO on the tile schemes to disfranchise and despoil hie the latter day saints EDITOR ill health has kept me at home hence I 1 have seen nothing of importance but what was published in the local papers with which I 1 presume you exe exchange bange iam I 1 am still in poor health but as another crusade is t trying rig I 1 to 0 b be e gotten up against those tho who 11 have made the country all that is daira ble in it I 1 trust you will grant me space to say a few words the great excitement which existed everywhere except among the cormons mormons Mor mons of utah a short time ago has scarcely died away on our cars ears and yet another crusade is souI sought lt to be inaugurated tho the mormons cormons Mor mons arc are admitted by their worst enemies the methodists to have bave honored the edmunds law b by polygamists vacating offices whiz which are filled by monogamists but this does not seem to if ml 11 the bill I 1 do not mean the edmunds bill but the bill of attainder number two t to ais disfranchise all mormons Mor mons B but U t the pretext pretext text oh how flimsy and inconsistent it is not polygamy ngamy they are after this time buethe priesthood whom they falsely claim to control monogamist officials they want all the cormons mormons Mor llor mons morns chased and their avowed enemies the crusaders to fill the vacancies this is not a new object in view but the same as designed in the pas passage age of the edmunds bill which design was frustrated by the very wise wise refusal of the president to se elect lect the Commis commission gion from among the anti mormon clique of utah they now ask congress Gong to enlarge the number of commissioners from the ranks of the crusaders had the original five been selected from these noisy sectarian office seekers although they would doubtless have claimed that the number was too small to give each brother a position there is no doubt they would have waited a little longer and said hold on brethren be patient we have all the big offices cowand we will soon have the ones still held by the it reminds one very forcibly of a couple of land jumping lawyers late of a town not a thousand miles from beaver who it was said actually looked wi wistfully a at t the fine flite dwellings and sell the splendid homes th they ey would have in le less les s than from two to five years but after according to circumstances putting up a job on one of their own nam ber and failing to fasten the murder on the cormons mormons Mor mons they dropped the subject and secured for themselves homes about two by six the r result CS alt of bad whisky so will these office seekers come to grief not perhaps through bad whisky no sir sir they stagger but not with wine they are drunken but not with strong drink but in their hearts with the blood of the saints now let us look for a few mo ments into their point of cormons mormons Mor mons zing being controlled oled by y the priesthood if the cormons mormons Mor mons as they claim have lave the priesthood of god they should bo be governed by it as a neg elect lect act to do this has been the crying sin in all ages when god has had a people on the earth seri scriptures Scrip p fur and history abundantly P prove rove this but iut I 1 have not space to argue the as to who has the true priest lioom iod I 1 merely wish to shaw show that their claim in this regard is nt not in in good f faith aith let us see whose bull Is s gored io in this regard and whose ami bull has been gored all the day long ong whose bull was gored when rev isaac mccoy I 1 led ed his I 1 little ittle flock and ind others who drove the saints from Jack jackson sola county missouri t when defenseless women and chil children i could be trailed across the bur burnt lit pr prairie airie by the blood from their bare feet what priesthood led when samuel bogart the methodist preacher led the mob who murdered apostle david W patten gideon carter and young Z 0 banion in caldwell county what about cashel woods presbyterian minister who drove the saints from carroll county and took two mormons Mor mons pr prisoners ners and made them ride astride the cannon he to had procured to exterminate the cormons mormons Mor mons with nav nay more what priesthood prevailed when some seventeen preachers more or less sat and influenced about fifteen or sixteen officers to sentence joseph smith and others to be shot on the public square of far west in presence of their families these things were not done in a corner nor are the veterans all dead who suffered the persecutions of a priest ridden generation there is not a priesthood on earth aside from the catholics in the oriental countries of europe who wield the priestly priestl influence with their flocks that yo jo these canting hypocrite hypocrites who prate so s much about bior mormon priesthood nor is there a class who would so soon shed the blood of the saints if they had bad them in their power I 1 judge the present and future by the pait past haw how different with the latter day saints I 1 they say come one co came all and worship god or da connly gonn ly allow all others the rights 0 of 0 r glorious constitution i on to do likewise TYLEE TYLER beaver U UT T july 22 |
