The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-01


1 1T has partaken of the follies. the
grimes, and the intolerance of tile vari=
| GUS ages of our era. It has sought to
| elevate mankind, in which, no doubt,
it has accomplished much, but mankind
has degraded it.. 1t has sought to
evolve saints from sinners, but, in the
effort, has itself been dragged from the
temple of universally into the slough
of sectarianism. The most heinious
crimes have received absolution. yea,
even encouragement, at the hands of
the priests of degenerate gospel. The
Great Master whose soul over
flowed with gentIeness. charity, toll
rance and love-. and whose life and
teachings were the very incarnation of
good will and peace will repudiate the
deeds of wrong and intolerance thu
have been enacted in His name.
Ministers of various forms of Chris
tian faith have come to Utah to preach
Christianity to the ,Mormons, to re-
claim them from sthe error. of their
ways. BUT, with few honorable ex-
cer,tions, they have not come in the
right spirit. They exemplify the cor.
ruptions of Christianity rather than
the purity of its apostolic stages. They
come in the spirit of the inquisitor, not
in the spirit of tie Sermon on the
Mount Their methods areAlnwise,
they are therefore un-ChHstian.
They antagonize and do not seek
to fraterrAze. Individuals among
them have been guilty OF gross
libels upon ibe Mormon people. It has
been the rule to denounce Mormon
leaders and principles with bitterness
that produces acrimony. The weak
kneed among the Latter day Saints, in
stead of being won over, have by such
methods been driven into an offensive
and defensive alliance with people
whom they knew to be grossly abused.
Sectarian ministers do not seem to
realize that there is an immense gap be-
tween lukewarm acceptance of Nor
monism and belief in the righteous
ness of prosecuting Mormons. But
there is, and good many who don't
see Mormonism, don't see the other
thing
In fine. some Christian ministers IN
Utah have been quite ready to lend
themselves to the base uses of an I'M
hallowed political party.
The effort of the Liberal party in
Utah is not to correct Mormon wrongs
it would not care straw for them, if
there were any. Its rank and file are
not of the stuff of which reformers are
made; they are rather those who need
reformation. But the Liberal desid-
eratum is the political captlre Of the
Territory. To this end, they are wag
ing the most Infamous and en-
shaving political warfare in the his
tory of our country. Whatever crimes
have been committed under the guise
of political necessity, 1t has remained
for the Liberals of this Territory t, cap
the climax by seeking success at the
sacrifice of the civil rights and liberties
of their opponents.
By persistent appeals of prejudice. by |
fslsehood. by taking advantage of our |
Territorial bondage and the ignorance |
Of distant Congress, they have Sc
cured the practical efslayemsnt of
arge community.
They are not satisfied. They have
secured ten times the amount of legis-
alton necessary to effect the extrpa,
ion OF repugnant practices of Nor
but they have not secured po-
itical control. and that Is why the cry !
s still onward.
1t is to their unholy, the unpatriotic
,forts of the Liberals, that the |
greater number of missionary preachers
nave SO unwisely yielded an enthusias- /
io support. They would convert Nor
mons by putting them IN the Peniten-
fary, by disfranehising them. by ma
igning their lives and knocking their
religion. That is, they, seem. to think
hey will, but they won't and they
len't. They forget Christ; they honor
Mohamet.
L