, 1882-01-21

No President has written a message
for long, long time without telling Us
what curse Normonism vas to the ma
t'on, and that it demanded instant suppress
sion In soms unmentioned manner. All
men OF this generation can remember DO
time when society WAS not battling man
fully against this evil and when the GOV.
ernment was just upon the point of doing
so. But perhaps never before was su-
eiety so exercised over the Matter and the
government 50 seemingly determined TO
at least put check to its heIlish work, as
at the present time. 1t is battled by all
respectable men in all ways in all states.
and it looks barely possible that this new
warfare may be the beginning of the end
pf one Of the fOules. evils that ever blot
ted national reputation Call slavery an
evil and it is white rose ia palace gar
den to bramble on the common in CON-
parison with this devil inspired religion
I'll, Hon. Josiah Quincy has much to say
on the Mormon question in the last Ia
dependent, and in his introduction to the
subject he uses the following language
1t is by no means improbable that some fu-
turs textbook, for the use Of generations Yet
unborn, will contain question something
like this: What historical American Of the
nineteenth century has enerted the most
powerful influence upon the destinies OF his
corntrymeh, And it Is by no means impoasi-
bic that the answer to the interrogatory may
be thus written Joseph Smith, the Mormon
prophet. And the reply, absurd as it is,
doubtless, seems To most men now living may
be an obvious commonplace to their descend
ants. History deals in surprises and para
doxes quite as startling asthis. Tn" man who
established religion in this age of free debate,
who WAS and is to-day accepted by hundreds
of thousands as a direct emisS;try from the
Most Hish-such a rare human being is no, %
be disposed nf by palting his memory with I'M
savory epithets. Fanatic, imposter, charlatan
he may have been but these hard names fur
nish no solution to the problem he presents u
Penalties aud imp0sters are living ant
dying eveay day, and their memory is buried
with them bu. the wonderful influence which
this founder Of a religion eXerted and still ey-
erts throws him into relief before u not as
rogue to be criminated, but as Il phenn,nenon
To be explained The most vital questions
Americans are asking each other II day have Ia
DO with this IN n and what he has left us.
This halfway prophecy concerning
josef Smith, from the pen of one of the
greatest students of men aud mans his
tory of the age, may well astound AL
But 10 nan who reasons can f:l to see
that the writer has good reasons to ven
ture to the statement, even as marketable
prophecy. True, hot-headed and bigoted
American citizens who believe the nation
a match against all enemies from the
devil to Chill, will snear at the idea Of
handful of Mormons making of Joseph
Smith Mahnmmed Stranger things
have happened. One thing is sure; he
fore the United States of America can
claim rightly the title Of the first nation of
the world, Mormonism, with all its old
and new revelations" must be wiped
out. Historys pages whereon its life has
been written must be frightened at last
with the story of its utter destruction.
God curse does just as surely rest upon
the nation that harbors such vile and
odious institution in her limits as 1t rests
upon the worthless heads of Mormon
saints, who brutallze their womankiGd-
History is a dice box; God shakes it a
events roll oat. We will see