Show DEFENSE OF UTAH not often does one of the cloth raise his hie voice in defense of utah the following is the answer of a gentleman named geo L snively to the attacks 0 of one named neal upon the mormons cormons the article is from the Chi chirstian istian standard and will be appreciated precia ted by mormons cormons generally it is my conviction there are foes inimical to church and state and this current restoration worthier brother neals trenchant blade than maimon ism that his mormon scare is alarming not there outside the valuable able standard space in which hu he exIl exploits oits it that it is no more dangerous than any one of various other forms of sectarianism familiar to tall all americans there are not more than a quarter of a MI million ilion normon mormon men women and children in the united states not one tenth ot these are zealots zealous zea lots there are more grafters drafters gr and anarchists than men mormons cormons in america and bacchus has fifty times as many devotees among them as joseph smith on Oni N utah brother neal will vi 11 learn that ool gamy is as obsolete as salem witchcraft there is less of it in theory than may be found in actual practice in ill the fashionable rounds of new york and pittsburg society no mormon youth hoever stalwart dare bring a second affinity across the threshold presided over byone by one of those rosy checked cheeked deep chelsted intellectual utah girls graduated into his home from one of the numerous seminaries of which the state is justly proud it is truthfully kaid the south is thankful for the elimination of slavery cry from her body politic with equal truth it may be said more southerners would welcome the return of slavery than there are mormons cormons who long for the restoration of polygamy gentile residents of the west will testify that the sanctity helpfulness and happiness of mormon homes are arc not excelled een cen on in the homes of orthodox jews so justly renowned in domestic folklore folk lore the mormon too is the implacable imola cable foe of the rum demon there is not a town in the land where he is in the majority that tolerates a saloon and its accompanying dens of iniquity the mormon uniformly champions good government at a recent municipal election held in salt lake city there were two tickets one was manned by mormons cormons Mor mons the other was called the Lib liberal cral arar ly every christian minister in the city supported ted the ahe former believing mormon administration would be purer and more conducive to the growth of the kingdom nedom ki they are proselytes prose lytes but not bitterly sectarian though they have good schools many of their youth attend gentile colleges one of our ablest preachers recently married mimed a beautiful intellectual mormon girl lately graduated from a presbyterian seminary she is s now a devout help helpful f u I 1 member ot one of the western congregations gat ions I 1 can testify she is a charm ing ng hostess her ap apostasy ostaY and marriage en kindled not the least resentment in her family or former social circles ir cles mormon chapels and tabernacles throughout are rapidly placed at the disposal of any preacher or lecturer on religious themes and mormons cormons will Compose much of his auditory in sturdy industry thrift morals and other tokens of good citizenship they do not seem to be excelled by any other section of our christian citizenry now this article is not intended as a mormonism I 1 wish tint that together with presbyterianism Methodist ism catholicism and all other iams isms it were abolished and together with them were resolved into that religious oneness for which the savior they try to honor prayed but we deci decilles ples are so democratic that we all cladma pseudo proprietary interest in our church papers and a sort of directorship director hip over their contributions and I 1 am protesting against brother neals tilting at harmless windmills through all of his and most of my precious space generously accorded us preachers by the standard editor men of brother neal s great stature are not justified in holding torches on the plains when the sun is risen and chesun of the knowledge of greater truths has surely risen over the plains of mormonism our doughty worriers are needed now on other firing awes drainage slid and sanitation are effective against malaria than quinine the malaria swamps of mormon polygamy and imperialism have been tapped and or dredged edged 1 I 1 th ane k e patient is convalescing he needs no more heroic treatment now than his denominational br ethern would I 1 stay the s of neal and other gideons 7 no but I 1 bould lime hac them hew and hack back and bring into sub submission thour king more dangerous foes to the church and our plea than the apostatizing children of the vanquished and vanished Nani shed Brig brigham harn young among them I 1 name intemperance graft greed absenteeism from church the undermining of faith in the bible the chicago school of theology homes the lowering of christian idealism and the apostolic standards of consecration and loyalty I 1 shall deplore the day when the spirit shall fail us but let our chieftains lead us here our battle lines are really imperiled those who can simply tarry by the stuff are more than equal to the tasks of dissipating Mor let not the attention and valor of our worrior wornor knights be dier diverted ted from actual and imminent dangers to our zion |