Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-11
ASTI."MoRMONY REASONING q.

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belong to Christian churches. They
are devcut religionists. The News
certainly would not favor admitting
them into priesthood meeting, on
the ground that they were Christians,
that they believed in redemption
through the Savior, that their lives
were above reproach and had been
for years. The NEWS would answer:
Very well, but you do not believe in
our Prophet. You could not con-.
scientiously take the obligations that a
Mormon has to take TO belong to our
institution, and hence You have no
right 10 voice in its control In the
same way Americans say that white
Mormons are good men, while their
lives are honest lives, while there is
complaint against them as peaceable
citizens, there Is no hardship in deny
ing them a part in the government Of
his country because they are not OF
it."
The foregoing mess OF sophistcy
and nonsense is taken from the only
paper which makes this kind Of
pabulum a staple. The notion it
contains has been presented again
and again yet is almost too weak 10
bear the breath OF q passing notice.
Certainly the DEseRET NEWS would
not favor admitting to a priesthood
meeting members Of the various
Christian churches because they
We're Christians. But the objection
would not be on the ground that
they had not taken certain ''ohliga-
tons" a priesthood meeting
would be composed Of persons hold
ing the Priesthood. Persons not OF
that class would not be admitted,
and uuiess they were without COM
mon sense or common proprie;y,
they would rot ask 10 bee admitted.
\ Mormon" would not expect
TO intrude into n eonclave Of
Catholic, Efiscopaiian, Preshyter-
ian, Methodist or other sectarisn
ministers, no matter what position
ne might hold in his own Church.
A church meeting OF any denomi-
nation not open to the general pub
lie, wouli he exclusive OF all but
church members. The question Of
their Christian character OF
irrep-oachable lives would not
enter into the matter at all. There
is no reason why the 'sAIorGlun"
Church should forH an exception
TO this universal rule.
But what has this TO do with the
denial OF the franchise to '.gsod
men'' Of ''honest lives against
whom there is mo complaint rs
''peaceable citizens" simply be-
cause they belong to the Mormon"
Church? What relation has one Of
these propositions to the other?
There may be fanatics in the
Mormon Church. There are
some in all churches. But there is
no fanatic anywhere who is equal
70 these anti-"MormOn" bigots.
Their hatred Of everything ''Mor-
mon" not only makes them savage
and untruthful but idiotic and nom
sensical.
Because n Catholic or Methodist
Of good character and deveut faith
would not be admitted to s:AIor-
NOM Priesthood meeting, therefore
a Mormon" Of honest life, goo.
man and a peacea5le citizen, ought
not to exercise the elective fran
chise and there is emo hardship in
denying it to him. That is Tribune
logic. II has been reiterated Tor
some years rs profound reasoning
and acute argument
II no better excuse than this eau
be offered FOR the iufamy ccntem-
plated in the bills which the LIB
erals Of this Territory have framed
and fos.ered and now urge on their
passage, they ought TO be gathered
in bundles and burned, and their
ashes east into the nearest cesspool. |
Give the writer OF such rubbish !
some bromide, tie a wet cloth around
his brow and put him to bed or send |
him to Provo!