The Dillon tribune., 1885-02-07
MORMON MISSIONARIES.

MORMON MISSIONARIES.
The Deseyet Nevs, organ Of the Nor
mons, or Latter Day Sinners, does not ad'
mire the TRIBUNE's warning note regard
ing the presence in Montana of secret
Mormon miscreants or missionaries, and
the News has a horror for the medicine
proposed for these pestiferous creatures.
The Salt Lake sheet, the receptacle OF ev-
crv conceivable apology for the beastly
crime of polygamy, proceeds to read us
long rigmarole on civil and religious toler-
alton, connecting the same with Mormon
missionary work. The claim that Nor
mon missionaries, in spreading and preach
ing their polygamous infamies, are entitled
to protection is quickly disposed of. These
missionaries invade communities to preach
and practice polygamy-a felonious crime
under United States laws, under States
laws and under Territorial laws. Violators
of law may be entitled to the protection OF
the law they violate, but they certainly are
not entitled to federation at the hands Of
an outraged people. Mormon missiona-
ries, in a constructive sense of the term,
are outlaws, and as such they have no
rights, civil or religious, that aw-abiding
citizens are bound to respect. The News
plea for federation is extremely thin, and its
assumption that Mormon missionaries are
propagators Of religion is still thinner. We
quote from the Mormon church organ
edited BY sanctimonious old po|ygamist
named Penrose who is wanted by u. S.
court to answer for the commission Of the
crime of polygamy:-
"And these editors presume to express the senti-
ments of the people of those parts toward the Nor
mors And those whom they propose to treat to
cold lead are missionaries, laboring without hire
or hope Of earthly reward, to propagate the religion
of the Bible And those editors probably pretend
to be Christians!'
The excerpt is meaningless Mormon,
and to Gentle or Christian it is anabig-
uous and partly unintelligible. Mormon
missionaries do not propagate the religion
of the Bible or any other religion. These
missionaries propagate, or endeavor to
propagate, "Old Briggs" beastly doctrine of
polygamy. People who practice polygamy
are criminals in the eyes Of the laws Of the
land, and they are without the pale of ev-
erv Christian church. Mormon mission
aries are selected and sent out because they
are way up and learned in the polygamy
business and not because they teach relig-
ion. The average Mormon missionary
knows no more about true Christian relig-
ion than an ordinary jackass does about the
Greek language. Polygamy is not relig-
ion. It is an offense against the Christian
religion and a crime under statute law.
This being true accounts for the treatment
of these Mormon miscreant missionaries
in all civilized countries on the face of the
earth. In different countries different
means are rcsorted to to get rid ofthese row.
ing vagabonds, whom the News tells us
travel without any visible means of sup
port, and whose whole vile stock in trade
is simply and solely old Brigham Young's
latter-day dogma Of polygamy. In the
countries of Europe these missionaries are
banished and absolutely prohibited from
preaching their doctrine, which is sacrile-
gious, destitute of decency, and unlawful.
In the States of the Union these mission
aries are mildly treated with rotten eggs,
coats Of tar and feathers, and in aggravated
cases repeating rifles accelerate their pas
sage to eternity. In Arizona cold lead is
the medicine proposed for removing Nor
mon missionaries. Cold lead administer
ed in forty-fve calibre doses, we are told on
Arizona authority, puts quietus On a Nor
mon missionary just as quick and slick as
rolling off log. Cold lead is abundant in
Montana. We dig it out of the ground at
tritling cost. What is effective removing
medicine in Arizona ought to be equally
effective in Montana. Mormon missiona-
ries have not yet openly and boldly pro-
claimed themselves in Montana. Wei hope
they never will. If Montana is mapped
out for Mormon missionary work it would
be we'll for the dingy Deseret News, their
organ, TO publish the Arizona Montana
recipe for exterminating Mormon mission
aries.
ANOTHER IDAHO TRAGEDY.