Show DO HOT NOT FEAR one of the brightest of the exchanger thai that come to the odden HERALD is the portland sally news but like many others of our co temporaries it is terribly at sea cherf ft it attempts to treat upon any topic anent the mormons whether this th is is caused by ignorance as to facts or a wilful blindness we are una unable ble to say however we arc area ais disposer to credit the e fault to the former suppose supposed d cause in a recent issue in discussing the present immigration laws the new gives vent to the following assistant kasi stant secretary S cretaro re fuses ruses to tor interpose any obstacle to the landing of mormon immigrants on the ground that there is ne no warrant of n law for it he ile says that if it be fa found und that the mormon immigrants are ae of a class proscribed by b th the e immigration 1 I 1 m laws be dealt do a it with accordine according as beine being such a class without regard toabe to the fact faett that hat they are ire mormons cormons Mor mons when it is arne borne in mind min d that one of the tenets of the mormon church is to impose an obligation on the neophyte to avenge the blood of the prophet joseph on this nation and j fl tn tv hi chit hit t the fi e law not to be to exclude uch aai an element of disloyalty can the new broye its assertion that one of 0 the tenets ofine mormon church is to impose an dobli gabiou hii on 1 the neophyte to avenge the blood odthe of the prophet joseph on this nati nation bu it cannot it has b been een wrongly informed we believe and i should hasten to remove the false impression the assertion will nake if not do this we dball be le the an con elusion that like the tle salt lake tribune it is buffering ln the pang of remorse 1 and of 01 a guilty conscience that justice was was not satie s fied and that realizing that the blood of 0 athe the martyred marfy red prophet still crytz aloud for vengeance i it lt is endea to invoke afie aid of the ab powers that be to crush an organization u which reveres that pro it fears will have recourse to the unlawful mirth methode ode of ila unholy persecutors and ind avenger L shameful crime which ever tiac bince e its commission commis commission Aion has been a blot upon the tha fair i fame of bf a ii vaunted free coun country fri Forty P aay four year pasted since the tile dark deed which cut short the earthly c career ar eer of one of the test the nineteenth century was wa N sUone nr dofie in all those years not oneff the perpetrator perpetrators of that foul action hai has been brought to justice dide 1 most if not all of those who pw participated ar iu in that scene of earn age have long ere this Acy edthe call it of that great judee judge who ai vr p j amse en ustice equally coall to all bo be they th ey heathen or christian and are now beyond the jurisdiction of earthly courts whose judge judges the best of them are prone to err come wilfully others blind lyas we think the portland news does the mormons Mor mons have no desire to avenge the blood of pf tale prophet 16 joseph on this nation athey they have made no attempting attempt in the nasr batand and not the future they aro the adherents oan of a faith which inspires the bame feelings feeling sas as those which caused the redeemer when he be suffered sult ered the keenest pangs to which man maii can be subjected to cry cry out father ather forgive them for they know not what they do the mormons cormons Mor mons therefore under the di vine influences of their holy religion have nothing to avenge they have passed through tn tri alsand op pres siona that have beelie been it would seem beyond human endurance endur anco yet they leave all thing in the hand of god knowing knowin thai that he be ai as yi r the he mj great Ai arbiter biter will finall finally y fluke wake all llight right and that too a tion aa As industrious honorable citizens the mormons bave have no equals in utah there is a larger per cent of property owners to the aggregate population be found elsewhere they render strict obedience to every c constitutional aw law and will oppose unflinchingly every attempt to degrade athi the f s glorious country from its iti poll po position among the nations as its the land of the free and the home of the brave to the hots hot bed of religious intolerance and fanatical na ungodly oppression this they will vill do only by lawful and honorable methods therefore the portland news must not worry itself and whenever in the future it attempts to enlighten its reu readers derson on the mormon question we hope that the same amount of good sense and sound judgment will abound in its elucidation on that subject as is found in in its treatment of roost most other great question questions |