Show A MORMON SCHEME Brother Long Gives Away a Great Big Snap The New York Herald of the 15th has the following special from St Louis Joseph Long a Bishop of the Mormon Mor-mon Church whose home is at Bear Lake 1 T was sojourning at a hotel in this city today lI Long in addition to being a laborer in the Lords vineyard is somewhat of a statesman He has served several terms in the Idaho Legislature Legis-lature has been sheriff of his county assessor of taxes and school superintendent superintend-ent He is a native of England but has been in this country twentyfive years Bishop Long is not an admirer of the United States Government He says there is more liberty in Russia than Utah and that the Jews were never persecuted per-secuted in any country to the extent that the Mormons are persecuted now by the United States Government In the course of a very lengthy interview the Bishop gave very free vent to his hatred of the authorities at Washington He was asked Do you think the people of Utah have a right to practice polygamy when it is a criminal offense i everywhere else in the United States I I do I believe in home rule I believe the people of Utah have a right to make their own laws and have a right to practice all the tenets of their church We have a revealed religion and under certain circumstances polygamy is an obligation But it is not polygamy so much that the Government is driving at I wants to plunder us I CAPTURING POLITICAL STRENGTH Continuing he said The Mormons are not politically ambitious they policaly ambiious only want to regulate their own affairs I we wanted a State we could have it What is to prevent us from capturing Nevada 1 There are not more than 16000 voters in j 1 the sovereign State of Nevada which nearly 5000 are Mormons now of I lIormons What is to prevent the Mormons from dumnin 8000 citizens into Nevada tTi < and takin possession of the g State in a ar government of the year Nothing X And by th this thing way is just now I seriously sidered If we had three electoral Con on the political market vote poltIal we miht friends and plenty of them in Washjn r have ton With two United States 1Vahinr to fight our battles senator fght tes and a fUllIU Congressman in fulfedred in addition addIton to our i Mh Delegate we might get a more hearing Then too respectful fluence enough to we might have n fuence enot get Utah admitted and later Idaho There is admited prevent the Mormons I they take t it to t their heads to engage in practical ike it in 1 from controlling Nevada and Utah politics uil holding the balance of Power in nail and Arizona Idm Well why dont you do that DEFYING TIE GOvERNMENT Perhaps we will t Where are John Taylor and < lieorgo Q Cannon now Teona They are where the sleuthhounds the Government cannot find them That of is a pretty specimen of justice for you There is President Taylor and George < ll j Cannon two as good men as over breathed the air of this country Yet they are driven from their homes they are refugees They are hunted arotinl like a pair of wild animals because they are faithful to their people faithful to t their church and wont submit to tin rules laid down for them by a few fanatics who can neither understand neihcr nor Jor appreciate them And let me tell tel yen sir that twothirds of the Mormon people peo-ple of Utah know where President Tay lor and Apostle Cannon are hiding an J notwithstanding that a price has Leon set on them by the Government there n I t no man woman or child in Utah bw enough to reveal their hiding place Ii the Government officials had any bcnv they would know that the more the persecute us the closer we will stick wi together t to-gether President Taylor is dearer to us than the Pope is to Catholics and tliero II is no cardinal in the Roman Church as well beloved as Apostle Cannon is by the Mormons The Government might just as well call off their dogs They will never get Taylor or Cannon as long as they intend to humiliate them 3 prisonment humiate with mi 1 4 Who is the head of the Church in Taylors absence Taylor is the head and he is not absent ab-sent He is in Utah and doesnt have to leave his own people to be protected Is there no disposition to submit tithe ti-the law Not a bit The Mormons have rights under the constitution and they will continue con-tinue to assert those rights no mater how many Edmundses may spring up in Congress i |