Arizona republican., 1890-09-19
LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE.

Mormons permit no questioning ot the orders of the church. An edict of the Car ol Russia is not so faithfully and quickly obeyed as a command from the central authorltieSe't Salt Lake. No Mormon can tell what way he will finally vote on any proposition until the circular letter is read by the bishop of the ward. Then all argument ceases and blind, unswearying and ignorant obedience takes it's place. At the last election in Apache county the order was given, "yote the straight Democratic ticket" and $40 Mormons (every one in the county) went to the polls on election day and each one of these slaves took from his pocket the Democratic ticket which had been given him on the sun day previous, and cast it Tor the party which at all times and in all places pandcrs to crime and pats the law breakers on the back.
 Such is the liberty of conscience which this organization tolerates,
 In Apache County last week q hand some and intelligent Mormon girl, true to the teachings of a loving heart, flew to the strong arms of her Gentle lover and was married. This was open rebel lion and loud was the howl of the Saints. The happy couple then went to New Mexico with the best wishes of the | Gentiles and the curses mot loud but deep" of the Mormons.
 What would have been the fate of | this young American had the Mormon control been unlimited, as was voiced by one of the patriarchs of the church the day after the wedding, He said, "He," speaking of the bridegroom, "should have been killed" This old sinner had lived in Utah when the mandate of the church was supreme when Porter Rockwell and Bill Hick- man were Brigham Young's destroying angels" and when these devils incar- nate waylaid and assassinated men and women who dared to protest in the mildest manner against any saying of | Young's.
 He with the rest of the Mormons were wishing at that time that the will of the church was supreme as in former days ] Not one man, woman or child belonging to the Saints call on this young lady Her womanhood rcyolts at the crime. against virtue which she had witnessed and she refused to submit to the order of the church to become the polygamoas wife of one of the leading Mormons il Apache county.
 Had this marriage been contemplated not many years ago, in Utah, the lover of this fair Mormon would have been taken to the church and mulilated iu such q disgusting and terrible manner as would make even an Apache shudder and this mutilation would have been the same as young Mormon suffered ir Utah, some years since, at the hands oi Apostle Erastus Snow, because he re- fused to surrender to the loathsOmt and lu~tiul embrace of this oit-time mar. ried and inhuman monster, Snow, his fond and loving sweetheart. And then to ierrorize his congregation this preacbei of the gospel hung up over his pulpit the parts taken from the young hero, and told the people in his sermon the follow. ing Sunday that such was the way the church compelled obedience to the will of it's leaders.
 And still Americans are found low enough to endorse an organization which commended such horrible deeds in the name of religion. Examples by tho dozen such as these can be found sci forth in the history of this crime-lovinl organization which prates on the house tops how much it loves liberty of con science.