Show fIG HriNO A alie i ligion of the day justify itself intellectuality of alm age and to tho calmer review of future centuries by its own independent and intrau sic worth wo hope to see tho issue met upon thia fair ground and at the samo time we anta tho it ranting canting hypocrisy of preachers and legislators who con done the mighty social transgressions of all the world except ns giving as their reason that all tha of fences except choso of which we ara accused arc merely sporadic could tho helfright of the pharisees Pharis ees go further while tho united states congress is in convulsions every session owing to the practice of patriarchal marriage by a few people in utah there is no law operative to punish adultery of columbia where congress has jurisdiction and a washington daily paper says two abandoned white infants were packed up joiy the police off monday night last the frequency of euch occurrences of lato led a reporter into an investigation which revealed somo interesting facts in reference to foundlings he discovered that during the year 1883 alie police and health authorities of washington picked up abandoned infants the number for 1884 will bo far greater do not those unfortunate children who were strangled to death by inhuman parents thrown into sewers or died from neglect and were deposited in ash barrels or were deposited on somo isolated and dismal field to bo devoured by animator birds tho mormon people should feel no surprise at the mannelin man nerin which laws are made and applied to regulate social relations when such an appalling state of affairs can exist in tho national capital and excite no word of legislative corn ment the people in distant utah may well expect to suffer from tho enactment and partial application of ostensibly reforming statutes but while it is true that we can take no legal defence from accuses tlona in tho fact that other people commit sins and go it in none the less true that these discriminations crimi nations show to the whole world the persecuting insincerity practiced toward the cormons mormons in their time of unpopularity and apparent helplessness and they prove too that air opponents care hot s 10 correct bad morals as to 1 punish the adherents of one particular ta bloed booed religion if any human agency can perpetuate our cause it is this secular power exerted against a body of religious worshippers wor shippers while this continues tho mormon people stand as all other successful reformers have stood this aid growing out of inordinate ciori gives no indication or being immediately withdrawn while the social and financial life of washington and other cities odthe nation grows worse year by year and continues to be excused be causetta cau seita evil 13 mercay mer cly sporadic the people of utah may find tho pressure against them constantly increasing if it continue to grow and intensify the day may chaie when the old anti semitic cry will be paraphrased by the tongues of unholy into ho ia a mormon exterminate him of one thing wo are well satisfied though men may be destroyed by such means the animating spirit of the church cannot be annihilated but the hour for such a crusade we hope will never arrive the church has already received sanctification and nourishment from the bloo dof our leaders lea derd and the destruction of our bomea and blessed shrines and we trust now to aeo this religion ledwith ted with no adventitious aids for ourselves we can be content without persecution in our way we would like to live peacefully and happily neither harming pur fellow man nor receiving injury at his but if wo arc unfit for martyrs we are still lesa fit for re cantera and should the edict ever be falsify your belief or be swept away we ascribe to ourselves no unusual fidelity in saying that we would cling to our sacred religion but all tho circumstances and facts surrounding the utah question lead up to one definite conclusion taken together they prove that the mormon church ia being singled out for assault that its prosecutors are unwilling to bo fudged by the statutory and moral laws which they prescribe and that the animosity against the people of utah is growing moro intense and unreasonable history will call this persecution and in future times tho taen who aro now most in their to the cormons mormons will be accounted the unconscious cause of v certain measure of tho success which thai destined to achieve ach iove the sword arc alike to annihilator ft religious belief either true or false and the experience of the past naturally indicates that some different plau should now be adopted the moral culture of the abeare the keenest and powerful weapons with which to assail religion or superstition A and an appeal io physical 1 force and extraordinary an unworthy lack of confidence in ity the constant call for the use of carnal weapons in dealing with the utah question to prove ono thing clearly certain opponents are determined to place us in a false position they desire to show us in an attitude of rebellion against the government sauce wo do not take that stand they hope to establish chereek 0 f 4 v treason against n us in the hope that we may be annihilated under a rush of popular clamor and misapprehension we think that they 1 will fail 1 f 3 S |