Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-03-29

ct this unhappy subject aud the consideration
ct on, plan fo, Doe peaceful adjustment ai It,, !
hex sou TO keep the Mormon elder quit,
lstiaJ, from the Mormon layman tie ISL
altogether different Tie feels, like Guiteau.
that Doe has his mission 20 command lie
could uD hra follower lie would not ,uh.
nn 10 that or second 1fhu had no one to
.lmmlul allo control. DTS mission would
and. lie would sink ont OF sight, become
Iuak agent. nn othsr seeker anything. like
uuirau, with h, dozen different enterprise,
But in d.,ut,,inr the Mormon elder, bishop,
leader. or whatever name, must also cntrc1t
jou goo bclic,r of him, q, ofa layman, that
puygany J.. no, with him an object, only
means. one Ut a hundred ancient steps ON the
stairway 60 heaven And say also that
poygsuy !, not increasing, NOS likely To, under
ordinary treatment And with the plan pro.
pose 1t will fade away entirely in only few
Year, more
OF course know that just here good
many heD relomrr,. member, of congress
mayI,e, will jump mp, bring the lis, down em
phalioally, aud declare that they have no
rights that they. by their indccencies. have
'ottcited all deceu, rights; and all that rubbish
and Fourth IT July folly. But th, j, serious
subject, and appeal to the thoughtful people
ofthe county who for thirty years have sought
IL, solution To think Of it for once seriously.
In the FIRST place. the Mormons have rights,
great rights. II is pretty Arabian saying
that 4 man who had planted tree and dug
we'll IN descr, had done more than an army
with banners. Ifyou will turn to any book Of
statistics and see what these people have done
out there in a country that to this day but for
| them had remained largely a desert, YOU will
coneede that they have earned right 10 great
respect. Such thing as an idle Mormon
man, woman, OF child-ncyer was seen. |
| challenge you to put your hands on a Mormon
| thief, Mormon swindler Of any kind, man.
woman, OF child. Nay, II | know the Nor.
I mons At all and with them and their work all
the time before me for so many years why
should not know them with my spirit Of
| inquiry and observation / take the respon-
sibility Of saying that they are the most en-
,irely honest people, as a people, and the most
moral and aw.ahiding people, when the law
does not conflict with the teachings Of the
elders: in all this world. OF coutse, am
speaking now OF the people, no, Of the leaders,
whose industry is expended in debating, lead
ing, OF rather misleading the people
The proposition to buy out the Mormons
and let them move on is absurd and small II
sounds too much like the prayers ordered by
that early governor of Wisconsin. This pro.
clamation Of the western governor was to the
effect that prayers should be offered up by the
people Of that state that the grasshoppers then
devouring the substance of Wisconsin, should
be made by the Lord to move on-nto some
other state
The proposition is hardly debatable, even
setting aside all sentiment, and absurdly
claiming RICH, 10 send an army AM kill
them, as has been often proposed.
No; tina, was tried longer ago than mos, o
us remember now. And it is safe to say that
il silly Joe Smith and his wiser and better
brother Hiram had been left to die natural
deaths, we would now hear less Of Nauvoo and
this second colony tina, possessed it than We dc
Of the forgotten French gentleman who
founded his Utopia there Truly, the blood
4 Of these men has been and is on the heads o
+ these United States.
Judging them from what has been, it is hui
reasonable 10 believe that every prophet,
bishop, OF elder would be cannonized, made Z
saint, and like Joe Smith, be handed up tc
even a higher Immortality than Guiteau eve,
aspired to.
tell you you nigh, GU, TO pieces even
Mormon leader Tomorrow, and yet the da,
after a thousand and more would come for
ward from gu, the four corners Of the earll
seeking martyrdom. Human nature has no
changed much. venture to say that falls,
prophets will rise up to lead the ignorant o
the earh as long as ignorance is upon III,
earth.
You would destroy the leaders; woulc
destroy the ignorance. No: the fact is, her,
IS fire burning in the heart of our whea
field. Wisely managed it can be easily pu
out. But by too much clustering and to,
much blowing this fire will spread all around
SO when you hear man get up in a higl
place and propose an army and violence tS
deal with these infammable crank" at tn,
head Of these ignorant hut correct and indus
( trous people whom they have misead, why
. beware Of him. He has - contracts ans
commissions behind him. lie is even
more false man than The fanatic elder-n
hnilely worse, too.
And even il You should send an army Their
! and destroy these people, elders and ALL wha
5 then 2 suppose you put every man, womal
a and child TO the sword nov in Ulah-and O
4 course the proposition is as absurd and tn
performance Of it is impossible what then
) Why, in Wales, England, Idaho, anywhere
everywhere, just IS when Joe Smith and tn,
Others were killed, you would find a thoussn,
; converts spring up among the ignorant an,
peculiar to take the place OF every one yo,
= kill
, When Brigham Young was arrested and pu
on Trial for his life was sent from London I,
, report. ! sai down there ia Sal Lake Chy
{ where | found George Alfred Townsend
! Grace Greenwood and some other almos
equally celebrated for their close ohseryanc,
, and analysis Of things, and watched these PEG
: pie closely, had great opportunities to d,
} % from my previous long Acquaintance viii
Brigham Young as well as my intimate rela
tons with George l.. Moods, then the abl'
governor 81 Utah, who seemed determined OF
{ hanging my old friend Brigham. The COVER
{ nor and had heen judges Of adjoinin,
) counties IN Oregon, had al~ays been The bes
Of irends. as We are sIill, and nov We foun,
ourselves night here in the heau and u III
head Of this problem, apd he determined 4
. tear A slut 4, the rcats