Show THEY ARE IGNORANT w JT I 1 the cast who has been visiting bait lake city fora few days past was heard hid opinions in re ference to tho mormon question with much freedom while on alho on hi way from the capital lacity to ogden th ia morning owing to the prominence and admitted intelligence telli gence of visitor hia views were connul ered of considerable interest the most noteworthy part of hia conversation related to the nature of mormonism as ho understood it no amount of reason or could disabuse him of the idea that the cormons mormons were a set of knavish lustful hypocrites who only to believe thus and so in order to gratify their alleged passions and bad desires generally he could not be led to realize for a moment that the people of thia great intermountain inter mountain region really entertain a pot deeland abiding isaih in the grand religious principles which they are even now so heroically defending and which they have defended since the earliest inU to the present constancy and devotion even to the sacrifice of all their more fleeting worldly interests and often to the peril of their lives this gentleman like hundreds of others was beyond doubt sincere in his views respecting the cormons mormons ho was a skeptic himself he really be lieveld in nothing not wholly material nor mundane true deep unswerving and exalted faith in god and his gospel was incomprehensible to him in his intercourse among tho various classes of men in the sectarian world he had generally found that those who professed to be christians did not believe half of the doctrines of their respective cherches and from this fact drawn from a wide experience and close observation it is not wonderful that he should ignore the profound and sublime belief which of itself makes the cormons mormons the peers of any people in this world today to day it is a fatal mistake to ignore in this manner the sincerity and integrity of the cormons mormons Mor mons if it were not for the sterling character of their convictions if it were not for the fact that they do know that the almighty himself ia the author of their creed why alien they could not have stood without flinching one part of the opposition and oppression to which they have been exposed ever frince the prophet joseph began the great latter day work which is destined to regenerate all mankind eventually predence pretence Pre tence and hypocrisy will sometimes go a good way in fair weather when there are no obstacles te combat and surmount but all shams and frauds generally loose all their availability the very moment they are subjected to searching inquiry and formidable legal and social pressure but wo find in all the history of the mormon church that it has only flourished the more vigorously during the periods of its greatest criticism has only brought ita divine character home lo 10 the condic lions of the pure in has only added zeal to its members and legislatures and armies have alike leveled the batteries of their wrath against it in vain jn considering the so called mormon question without taking into consideration the devout and heroic sincerity of the cormons mormons themselves this great american nation haa blundered fatally As far as the cormons mormons are concerned there is not one particle of hypocrisy or dissimulation about their religion to them its principles are tangible and sacred they would not patiently bear every humiliation and every disadvantage and all sorts of abuse and mat treatment if thia was not the case and this being the case it must be self evident that nothing can daunt them an honest and braye man cherishes a hallowed belief and feels conscientiously bound to a line of conduct aliat is the use of trying to force him to accept other opinions and abandon tho practise of that which ho ia sure is right if individual nations or governments want to suppress the belief of such a man or crush out the peculiar institutions which he en grafts upon such a belief why the only safely successful method is by taking the life of that kanand even then dren to follow the footsteps of their martyred marty red sire and jafee wholesale extermination necessary those who ara attempting to deal with the mormon question and to suppress the religious observances of alio cormons mormons Mor mons are riot philosophers neither are they clear accurate thinkers or wise statesmen or they would take into confider aaion tho sincere convictions of the cormons mormons and leave them alone or as a final resort perhaps they might try extermination |