Show VOICES FROM THE PEOPLE A few remarks on the mormon and the irish questions EDITOR arnald A stranger reading the current articles of the gentile press on mormonism niam with the and the remedies proposed would be led to believe that not only the constitution but the union was in actual danger and that the people of the country were in a state of abject terror and ready to endorse any remedy proposed for the extirpation of mormons cormons Mor mons and P mormonism even to the extreme of inaugurating a second st Bartholo mews night now let us see chatis in it how ilow can a people numbering all told about in this and the s surrounding r states and territories handicapped as they are upset or bring into danger the tile law and constitution ution of such a vest vast country and actually threaten its safety f t y it is almost too ridiculous to treat the matter seriously or in any other light than as a big hoax on the peo 9 pie of tins this country all this fuss made over the question is for political sesto make political capital or to throw the scent off the real danger which threatens the pros of the country and that is the irish element the mormons cormons Mor mons being of little or no weight in the political scale it costa costs nothing to abuse them but adds to the moral weight of certain politicians who act on the thearin prin of hit him hard he has no friend they may also hope to make wake a market of their moral support or silence when the men question comes before the country but the irish party is quite a different thing the irish americana icons form a large percentage of the voters of the country and con arol the vote of several large constituencies and therefore must be treated with forbearance if not respect to abuse them would be like stirring up a nest of hornets hor nete the consequence is is that they are allowed to carry out their policy without interference this policy as openly declared by their leaders ia is if possible to force this country into a war with England with a view to forward the irish cause also to make this country a base baseom of operations to carry on a desultory war against england by the most contemptible temp tible and cowardly means including c au ing assassination n and destrie tion of public and private pro pr verty and then falling back on their american nationality abc fact is their allegiance ie is due to ireland i iu a nationality within a nationality which is ia one of the charges brought against the mormons cormons Mor mons without a shadow of fact to support it the latter are charged with setting up a hierarchy in place of the government what would the irish do if a question quest on should arise on which the they would have to decide as to their allegiance to the pope or the united cited states let the press in chicago or new york abuse the pope and the virgin mary and call in question the doctrine of the immaculate conception and see how th they le would be treated in comp comparison i with wiz the tho press of utah who wh abuse atu e the mormon leaders and everything the cormons mormons Mor mons hold in reyer ence I 1 think harpers macarine Maga May sine arine had bad a taste of the consequences of making some unfavorable remarks about the irish you must place the latter in the same petition position and give them the entire control of a state or territory before bet ore you 1 1 can draw a comparison but I think the climate ol 01 that state or territory i i would be pretty sultry for those who did not sympathize with wit ireland or who afteu attempted apted to interfere with the exclusive educational system which would be at once set up lip its only the want of power that keeli this party within bounds let us look nt at their policy lately j having for ite wi oba object act to 9 get et up a difficulty with En england giand the irish 1 american party were the first and foremost in in opposing the tile intro introduce duc tion of what they call irish pau pera pers I 1 want to know what most of them were themselves when they came here but for political reasone reasons they deny other irish pau pers the benefit of coming to a country where many of their countrymen have done ao so well in this case the british government disappointed them by the manner iu in which they met the matter so they failed in getting up a row then tomes tonies the odonnell affair in the first instance bending sending over a lawyer from this country to plead his cause was a direct insult to the british government and the members of the english bar and was more likely to pre prejudice judice than to serve the cause of the man with whom they professedly sympathized but whom hoin they thoy would take the risk of sacrificing to their political hate next the he request which they induced the t american government to send to procure procuro a respite re rai te was casting reflections on oil the fairness ess of ODon nelle nells trial this fixed the rope around his neck but again they failed in establishing a row r As to the claim of ODon nells citizenship it was too thin they tily did not daro to give hia his american antecedents although g one of them I 1 leaked aked e out lately in the statement that he fie had been separated not di voiced from his wife wira in th this 3 country and had bad induced a simple e young irish girl to accompany him film to 0 o the cupe cape us as hia his sister ou a promise I 1 e of marriage cleres jit ree a specimen of the morality of edthe the hero as in I 1 the th girl is a held up as a a model of virtue virtue because beC aue he she refused to per I 1 jure herself to save him heres another specimen of the moral dobli i equity of his irish frienda fru ads gut the irish party is u strong and I 1 worthy conciliating and the politicians would brewi treat the mormons cormons Mor mons thu tha same samelie if it would pay them or indeed tile heathen Ol allinee linee lor for that matter asit As it esthe is the cry is alawa away Y with him crucify him I 1 would liko like to add a few remarks about irish grievances o 0 1 bi but this is im afraid alaez already idy tolja too long perhaps I 1 ma may y some soule other time onn WHO KNOWS |