Show MINISTERS R S we honor a sincere honest rhan man abate whatever e r ho he maybe may be and wherever we may find him and however much we may differ from christian ministers in points of belief and doctrine we still recognize that they have a clear right to their own opinions furthermore we are and always shall be willing and glad to defend them in their proper sphere and just privilege of preaching their professed principles when and where they choose and generally so long as they adhere scrupulously to the cardinal teachings of the able bible and practice what they advocate thus hus proving their thor earnestness eatn and Ini sense of propriety we hall shall take plea pleasure in paying sectarian preachers all the differential respect and cou courtesy rt esai which candid sincerity ever deserves even though it bo be in error but we have been apprised of a scheme concocted by A 4 few designing signing di political tricksters trick for the express purpose of involving hese reverend christian gentlemen in a course olfaction of action which would erious seriously ly I 1 compromise the integrity of their motives and lay them open to the charge of neglecting their pro liter up a disreputable cute coterie rie of inari and aud we deem it our duty under the circumstances to warn the clergy of the local christian churches of the devised traps traps which are spread for fortham them rhe scheme which we refer to is shadowed aha dowed forth in the true intent t of a secret petition which lias has been framed by a set of local federal officials for the ostensible purpose A t U urging 6 president cleveland to crush mormonism but which is in reality merely designed to prop up and perpetuate in power the official individuals who origin origins cited at edthe the document now the christian hristian 3 ministers of ogden have been or will be asked to sign this memorial to the president which is nothing more nor less it is said than a prayer begging the executive E to retain indefinitely the present federal officers in their positions in utah on the plea that their removal would peri feri bously interfere with the present anti AI ormon ciu crusade sade we can almost forgive the christian clergy for their rather inordinate zeal in striving to push the latter day faints saints to the wall because the christian ministers are supported in comparative luxury and idleness lenese id by ajl their salaria and aud their services might become no longer necessary in utah in the event that the 1 I mormon Nf ormon church should entirely prevail here so it becomes a matter of private interest with these there reverend exponents of christianity in our midst that in order tb atthe that they y mayeola hola their sin sin secures in in peace the mormons cormons Mor mons should bo be kept at bay as much as possible but the more weighty and arg urgent ent reason why we especially think it would be very ver y indiscreet for the christian ministers to sign the hereinbefore mentioned petition is that it would be a great insult and prejudice to the Demo democratic crati e party those who sign this memorial virtually say 0 to o the president that they distrust the members of the chief magistrates magist rated own party who might be selected to replace local republican federal officials by that very chief magistrate himself this we conceive to be not only exceeding ly bad taste but also an una warrantable semi semi rel bious ministerial erial interference ln 1 ter ference with purely part partisan izan politics the cunning auti A lormon officials who arc are engineering this scheme will doubtless try to play upon the ethical prejudices of the local christian pastors and rectors by suge suggesting e biting that the purpose of the memorial is to ensure the speedy su suppression of polygamy PO but surely the christian jan preachers preach cra who profess to follow the illustrious example odthe of the gentle meek and lowly savior cannot consistently aid and abet in the cruel and unhallowed methods of suppressing plural marriage which the anti Mormon officers and newspapers use and recommend no intelligent tell igent christian divine who lives here any length of time can fail fai to perceive perce ivo that harlotry is is 4 a thousand times worse than polygamy in fact all christians know that many of gods chosen men in an chent times were not condemned by the almighty for honestly wedding loving and honorl honoring ng and protect protects ing more than one wife and yet the local agitators h have av publicly ly commended and we have no reason to believe that they do not now less openly commend that restitution prostitution should be permitted to replace plu ral marriage can the christian clergymen cam camilly idly sanction such a measure as thia is V why of coimo courie not but nevertheless by signing the petition to retain those in n office who do approve of this system of supplanting polygamy our local christian pastors would unwarily perhaps but tacitly endorse the proposed substitution 0 of har harlotry lotry for plural marriage Alore moreover over the official anti A mormon lormon method now in in v vogue ogue of tearing fathers from the bosoms I 1 of their cherished consorts and precious little ones one merely because they have more than one wife as gods servant solomon had is at least cruel and utterly alien to td the christ like magnanimity nani mity and tender mercy which all christian ministers profess and should exemplify hence they can not consistently and honestly endorse support and maintain the ho rabid officials who are so extraordinarily zealous in id in prosecutions only that they may pocket a greater number of fees but by asking president cleveland tore tain in office these men engaged in thi thie inhuman traffic in human mis mis ery the christian divines would in the future become to a great degree responsible for the tears of tempo harily widowed wives and orphaned children if the christian clergy believe that polygamy is very wrong and sinful they also know that the mormons Mor mons are quite as sincere in the opinion that it is a righteous holy institution and all history proves that neither pen pell fiery tortures nor even decapitation can eradicate or crush out an idea honestly accepted and believed therefore if the tile christian pastors feel it their duty to make war on an plural marriage and hope to succeed they should use the christ like methods of per persuasion sua and enlightenment but there ther are art however certain loathsome social evils in our midst which even christian clergymen must acano acknowledge wl far transcend in vileness the alleged one of plural marriage and find it might be e well for these volunteer chr christian tian religious moral luova renova tors of utah to commence with the worst evil monsters first |