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gradually to bear upon the whole people" said MISS


Tichenor.
"Then you do not believe that Mormonism can DO de
ttroyed by enforcing the laws as they standf
"No; the laws are good enough but public opinion IN
the Territory won't uphold tner enioroo
ment People In the East have no Tue"
OF the intensely bitter feeling among hormoua
toward the United States Government From their In
fancy they are taught to our
is sacred duty. Now with such feeling as tna'
abroad in the Community laws are OF little avail NO
law live without general aquiesence ID us justice
"But how will religion and education change all thisf
"By first rcgenerating the people; .neIe
must be new birth morally ana htei
lectually. You must remember tnat hiol"o"-
ism growth You may fire of cannon, and say
prsstoi Di.appear' but it won't disappear great
many Eastern peope seem to think that Mormons are
horde of aw-breakers without any coherent power,
who will fee before the strong arm Of the law greater
mistake was never made. They are a great compsc-
body welded together by n religious falth winch they
hold as firmly as we hold Christianity"
"YOu believe then that education VIII weaken inc
systemp
That has been my experience a teacher was the
only Gentle in town OF 1900 inhabitants had
seyentyeight scholars in my sc.ool all OF whom %
Mormons could see the trInmes o t h
old faith falling of as their eyes we're Oueneu ore Ts
knowledge superstition M apa gnOa and the
the twin curses Oh "o nrn Tnsnonsihe for
these You could not conceive Of the depth OF iGno,
some children who the President OF lac oInleu
States their frst answer John Taylor ana lneiI
second George Washington And yet these chluIeh uu
been regular attendants in Mormon school All iacIs
come tn Them in a garbcd or distorted form
DO Won consider the moral results OF the system 10
be az II is generally represented IN the East 4
AS sVateIn yes but the killing and numbering are
not az com Eastern people think Inc rank ana
file OF the Mormobs good and honest according 10
their light They held down IN a bondage rom
winch many OF them would gladly escape, but when
thew cannot break IL il the leaders VINO are guilty III
is they whom | would like to see punished-not the
people," ...o .,
Do YOU believe that the system IA growing weakerf
yes there are many elements OF weakness Ihere Is
the cosnopotan influence OF the railroad aud tho s"hse
quent ndu1 OF Gentiles. And then there are I'M, lne
churches and the schools. The Mormon leaders rear
education more than the Government ct Washington
With the latter they tempOnIe ana trtat
against the former they can do nothing III IS
too subtle for them 10 reach. The great need
of the Territory is good schools, in which history ana
civilization and pure morality. hold them shall Dc
taught My opinion the whole subject rs. thdt very
little can he doue with the present generation ihe
leaders for their ends, will continue 10 pima the
ewes the people. But the children who are To COM
pose the next generation he reached, and OnRht 10
be reached. No DOUBT Congress may do something 10
discourse e prose ,tug but that 10 ali 10 can 40 WIN
out shedding much Innocent blood. The CHRISTIAN
church and education must do the rest