Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-25
A DANGEROUS NOTE TO SOUND.

lnat there Is feeling OF desperation
among many of the Mormon people all
know, but heretofore this feeling has
found expression chiefly in sermons OF
exhortation to the faithful and in articles
in the various church papers to show that
the present prosecutions against those
violating the laws against polygamy and
unlawful cohabitation are illegal and in
violation of the Constitution Along with
these articles have been promises that
sooner or later the Lord would put forth
His hand to protect His people.
But last night this feeling of desperation
took a new form and one far more pro-
nounced than any heretofore. It was
given expression to in letter to the
Ne,es, one of those letters that are termed
Expressions from the People," and
was in this language:
1t surely should require no argument
to convince a Latter-day Saint, that it is
our Imperative duty to protect ourselves
and our families the best we can, euen If
ape haue to use physical as apeN as legal
means to do so, LET THE CONSE-
QUENCE BE WHAT 1T MAY.
That communication is signed "Young
Mormon" but the note which it sounds
is one that is ever sounded before the
trumpet calls ITO arms! to arms!" A
"Young Mormon" who is more than
likely an old Mormon in hiding, invites
the Mormons to an armed conflict with
the United States ii the worst comes to
the worst, and that worst will be reached
when the people of Utah realize that the
Government intends to suppress polyga-
my. The Government has reached its
determination to-day, and now let the
people Of Utah come to realization of
that fact, and the sooner it comes the
better it will be for all parties.
If the people of Utah choose to
follow the advice of this "Young
Mormon" this man who would plunge
them into a bloody conflict from which
there would be but one result, let them
make their choice. If they choose to in
vite the conflict to which "Young Nor
mon' would lead them, let the blood and
death which will follow be upon their
own heads. They would find that their
God would desert them SO quickly and
abandon them to their fate, that they
would find themselves without God or
man to help them.
Such expressions as this OF q "Young |
Mormon" should sh ow to the people of |
Utah that it is time to reflect and con-
slider upon what they are doing and where
they are going. Would to God that some !
man OF sense and moderation would rise
up amongst them and tell them of their
madness and warn them of their danger. |
They have almost reached that stage |
in the kingdom of the blind when the
one-eyed are kings. There must be
some men in the Mormon church who see
the evil consequence of such vicious talk
as this of young Mormon" and that
it is fast bordering upon treason and re-
bellion, and why do they speak as men
if not as Mormons against its further
use? Is the manhood SO crushed out of
them that they dare not cry out against
what they must know will be the cause
Of their destruction if continued. E?
Let "Goung Mormon and all who
think or sympathize with him remember
that if they sound the clarion note of war
it may re-echo throughout the land, and
in response thereto there will come the
tread OF armed hosts. Let such a sound
be hushed, and let all who love their
country and their kind, cry out again st it
and condemn those who would raise it.
Ihestateof the public mind throughout the I
Unlted States and throughout Utah is in
40 tit condition to listen calmly to the
sounding Of such dangerous notes as
hose uttered by "Young Mormon" in
asst nights Mews.