| Show T I 1 4 AND OF IT iff 1 A ia i a M F 1 ia I 1 N app a p 47 f 8 A arrora ra q quarte u a rt er of a century or nore more alfe alpa lt ry ati anti m Monnon ormun agitators agitator a here in utah have sent up tip a continual cry for legislation to fetter the opinions and crush the tho institutions of the latter day saints I 1 During ajl this tent complainer who could not venture to stand upon their own and trust fo 0 o the righteousness of bf their cause for success li have vi demanded the interference of cons press gress to help I 1 them put down alre aig igdon 2 n nih which I 1 ch they bated hated because of the 1 vigorous purity industry and humility lumi lity which it exacted from its devotees for twenty lve five years a coterie of most unhappy anti mor mona mons I 1 hap have intrigued for political power in iii tins this hekr territory tory for this period briod ifie they y have devoted themselves with unceasing activity to accomplish the division odthe of the in masses assi of the people and seize se 1 ize official offic fal emoluments which the P paucity an city of weir th air numbers and the dishonesty disho neaty af of pf their self evident motives didiot did alt I 1 entitle them to possess in their frantic efforts to attain this e end i ud cheso agit agitators acors havo slandered Ian dered the innocent reviled the pure ridle ridiculed dej the holy and prophesied the speedy distraction dist ruction of the Mor mormon moh orga rii tatlo n batall of their schemes continued to prove entirely abortive lf then thin in the chagrin and desperation of defeat tho the anait anti mormon gentl gentlemen emif sough sought other still moro more loathsome and disreputable diar weapons they clamored for brothels to seduce the young and now they ta taunt U h t tha the people by alleging 1 I 1 eg that some noble you youths have fallen falle n 4 into these snares of hell bell then they recommended the intro I 1 of extravagant an t dress they favored and everything 1 urlce 16 kayin awayan wayan I 1 evil or a vice which might tend to weaken the vigor and undermine the hardihood of the Morr mormon non people these polluting 9 tactics did some little individual harm but till the great fabric of the ible mormon ormon church proved in corr corruptible and indestructible then disappointment gave the viol lent anti Alor mons another fit of desperation their organs spread meretricious lies abroad to injure the people of utah and delude 6 the Anie american rican public an atrocious prejudice was thus established throughout the land in order t to 0 make their slanders attractive these papers gave their loiso poiso poisonous stories a strikingly sensational fonal character cliar acter and eyen accused the q mormon formon people of motives and rebellious instincts the r contagion of bf asper aspersion pion spread until it reached the balls halls of con coi grea the shameless audacity of the anti cormons mormons Mor mons increased pretending with pious hypocrisy to dedire the suppression of bf polygamy Y they asked the gaii national ional legiel legislature a to disfranchise those who were living in the relationship of plural marriage if this could be done thay they hoped to ape approach roach nearer to local official pap and political power which was is and continues to be thear only re real af object in carrying r ying on an anti A mormon lormon agitation under the pressure of a grossly misled public opinion con I 1 gresa reu passed the desired act and small portion of 0 our citizens were franchised dis Ilis but still the mor mon church stood the catastrophe as if bothi nothing ng had happened and tb the 0 anti polygamy politicians found no co comfort rAfort but buL again they demanded more repressive legislation with traitorous intent they advocated the subversion of the federal constitution titu I 1 in order to break dawn the ibe barriers to their anti mormon plan of conquest congest the edmunds enacts enactment ent follower 1 l and land a judge was found tame taine and cruel enough to enforce it spies were hired deputy marshals maralia ls employed and all the machinery of an alien alich inquisition put in inept operation not to stamp out the curse of prostitution which rion cormons mormons Mor mons had introduced not to abate the well known licentiousness which was wasa a conspicuous concomitant of monogamy mo but for ahe solo isole purpose of wrenching the husband of acknowledged honored protect cd ed and beloved wives away from his home and children and ati atma ng hira in dungeons if ho did not renounce bis his religion and help to td deini destroy oy ita its sa sacred cred lib power i juries have been drawn with an open partiality which no court of justice hadeler had ever before dared to exercise one conviction was secured under this method of trial the supreme tribunal of the nation has I 1 I 1 approved the verdict t thus us secured two or three score of alleged polygamists have been arrested ome some have been d driven riven from the land and but few more remain within reach of prosecution I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 the do utmost ass most has been done short of abdol absolutely enslaving V the aal aol e q peo pie and what of itt the imor mor inon church is still placidly BU su I 1 I 1 to every assault ita its ples plea are unshaken its members arc are not daunted its beneficent and proper p power is unimpaired mighty unscathed and triumphant it aill I 1 ata stands ads secure and cafe safe as the ark aik that heaven preserved from the deluge which overwhelmed the earth in noahs day the mor I 1 mons are ja a freeborn free born people loyally al ay struggling for nothing but their constitutional dional rights and lib artica on their own soil and with intrinsic justice and god therefore on I 1 their aide they are more potent than a combined world of error I 1 |
