Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-11-11


Correspondence Of til. Chicago Evening Josrnall
SALT LAKE, Utah, Oct. 81, so.
Thefe 10 a rumpus in the Camp Of Is.
rael, and the Saints" are troubled. But
it BODIES well for the dawning freedom Of
thought and Of conscience among this de.
luded and fanatical people. The editors
and proprietors Of the Utah Magazine,
have just been accommodated from the
"Church OF Jesus Christ CT Latter>Day
Saints, for attempting free expression Of
thought on purely secular matters. The
Saints are directed by Brigham Young
mot to patronize or read the said maga-
zine" Now the "head and front" of the
offending of said editors, is this, and moth.
ing more, to-wit: The church authority
which is Brigham Young 1.-THE Proph-
ct, Seer and Revelator has always dis.
couraged the opening and developing Of
the mineral resources of Utah Territory,
and has thus signfied his sovereign will
to bis obedient Saints. The editors Of
magazine have taken different view. and
have dared to advocate the de, elopment
of the mineral wealth The same church
authority, in the plentitude Of his benev-
olence, insists upon the reduction of the
price of labor in this Territory. The ed.
itors of the magazine have dared to ex-
press a different opinion Whereupon
the prophet is filed with wrath that
any of hi. subjects should presume to
have an opinion adverse to his not only
upon church matters, but on matters
wholly temporal
On the 23d inst. these editors were ar
raigned before the High Council for
apostasy and heresy, and were tried
and expelled from tho "Church of Jesus
Christ Of Latter Day Saints"
He who desires to see an absolute sa>
very Of soul and body, fully equal to that
of the dark ages under the reign Of the
most beastly Of Popes let him come to
Zion" A few incidents of the trial of
these editors before the High Council"
will give some idea of the tvrannous bias
phemy of this High Councii under the
dictation of the Prophet After the charge
of apostasy had been preferred by elder
O. Cannon, on the ground of articles in
the magazine, containing views on .faan
cial questions differing with those of
Brigham Young, as well as on account of
on expressed belief that members of the
Church had not only right to think but
to cypress their ideas on such subjects
the question was puo by the editors to
Elder Cannon, one of the Council wheth'
err it was apostasy to differ honestly with
Brigham Young? TO which he replied
lit is apostasy to differ honestly with
Brigham Young A man may be honest
even in bel"
ID, H. Wells, also one of the Council
said, in relation to the above question,
"You might as well ask the question
whether man had isht to differ hon.
estly with the Almighty +
Eli b. Kelsey, one Of the Council, was
Instantly cut off from the Church, simply
for voting against the expulsion of the
editors. Now to understand the full
force in this community, of an expulsion
from the church, and of the order to the
Saints not to patronzie or to read the
prescribed magazine, you must know
that this people have been taught to be-
lieve and do believe, that Brigham Young
is the vicegearent of God on earth, and is
inlallible in all temporal as well as spir-
itual things.
These editors feel themselves in dams
ger of personal violence and even assas-
sination by the pious and fanatical Saints,
for to take their lives would not be she'd
ding 'innocent blood, according to Nor.
monism The prescription of the Utah
Magazine will be strictly observed by
ninety-nine in every hundred of the
Saints, and hence it will probably ruin
the proprietors financially. Whilst We
Gentiles rejoice at the little spasmodc ef-
| forts of those editors for free thought,
yet we have not much sympathy for them,
for they still believe in mormonism-in
the divinity of Joseph Smith s Bible, and
in poligamy, and advocate them in their
magazine. One Of them has four so.
called wives, and hence is in the "meshes
| of the whoreuom of Babylon
1t is to be hoped that the strong arm
of the Government will this winter do
something to suppress this twin relic of
burbarism,' and free this ignorant and
stupid people from their MANAGES
JoHN SouIBoB.
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