The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-28

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be permitted to acquire title to lands This
will mean final bankruptcy, not only for the
masses but for the rich in the organization.-l
Tribune, September IS, 1856.
Since the abandonment of the practice
in which few Mormons had actually been
guilty of ''the enormity of disobeyipg the
laws" the Acknowledgement organ has de-
clared that there should be no cessation in
the legislative crusade against the Nor
mons, since the latter were not obeying the
law on principle.
The organ denies that this would be to
punish man for his belief, to disfranchise
and outlaw him for being Mormon, be-
cause:
When man through his belief takes upon |
his soul the most solemn obligations to i'm |
plicity obey the counsels of another man whom !
he looks upon as COPS vicegerent on earth,
that obligation carries with it his fealty.
Since no Mormon "takes upon his soul"
any such obligation, and since, if he did,
there is no way by which he could be
forced to respect it, the treachery and
malice Of the man who first sets up such a
charge Of lack of fealty-and upon his mere
assertion Of it demands the disfranchise-
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without trial, irrespective of the life they
live or the professions they make-are
clearly betrayed by the very cowardice and
unfairness of the thing he urges
He declares that in urging the disfran-
chisement of the Mormon people, he does
not s'charge that the Mormons are not good
people; that in their daily lives they are
not as correct as any one; we say that their
allegiance, their highest fealty, has been
given 10 something else beside the gov
eminent of the United StateS.n
But the Mormons themselves say that
this man lies in charging that they are dis
loyal, and ask to be permitted by their
daily life to prove this. The fanatic
says: Not SO; disfranchise them to begin
with; they are as good as other people in
most respects, but they believe that some
time or other GoD will reign on this earth,
and hence their allegiance cannot be said
to be with any earthly kingdom
MACAULAY has left no excuse for the ia
natiC or the ignoramus that pretends people
should be punished because their belief is
l alleged to unfit them for the exercise of
ordinary rights and privileges He says:
The true distinct on is perfectly obvious. To
punish a man because Re has committed q
crime, or because he is believed, though I'M
justly, to have committed crime, is not perse-
3 cution. To punish man, because we infer
from the nature of some doctrine which lie
holds, or from the conduct CT other persons,
who hold the same doctrines with him. that he
, will commit crime, is persecution and is, in
every case, foolish and wicked .
BuS 10 argue that because a man is Catholic,
haD rio nj
: sovereign, and that because he thinks it right
d he will attempt to do it, and then, TO found on
this conclusion law for Furnishing him as If he
Y had done il, is plain persecution.
Man, in Short, is so inconsistent creature that
it is impossible to reason from bis belief to his
conduct, or from one part of his belief to an
= other.
OF the ten thousand elergy men of the church
of England, there is scarcely one who would not
p say that man who should leave his country
: and IF ends to preach the Gospel among savages,
O and who should after laboring individually
O without any hope of reward, terminate his life
by martyrdom, wou deserve the warme5t ad-
miration Yet we doubt whether ten OF the ten
THOUSAND ever thought of going on such an ex-
: petition. Why should we suppose that con
l. scentouS motives, feeble as they are constantly
u found TO be in good cause should be omnipo
tent for evil Yet it pas e; for an argument tt
10 say that Jew will take no interest in The
- prosperity of the country in which he lives, tina
ne will not care how bad its laws and policy
> may be, how heavily it may be taxed, how Otter
Is 1t may be conquered and given up TO spoil, be
N cause G has promised that, by some unknown
Is means. and at some undetermined time. re.
he haps ten thousand years hence the Jews shall
hit migrate to Palestine. Is not this the most pro
of found ignorance of human nature? Do NO
know that what is remote and indefinite affect
80 men far less than what Is near and certain
III The argument, too, applies to Christians a
Ill st 'ongly rs 20 Jews. The Christian believes q
well as the Jew, that at some future period tn
IT. present order of things will come to an ent
re Nay, many Christians believe that the Messia
Il will establish q kingdom on earth. and reig
Ia vsibly over all its inhabitants Whether thi
- doctrine be orthodox or not. we shall not her
VI inquire. The number Of people who hold it
very much greater than the number of Jews r
er- siding in England. 1t is preached frol
st the pulpits both of the Scottish and of the En-
is lish church. Noblemen and members of pari
he ment have written in defense of it. Nov
no wherein does the doctrine differ, as far as i
-. political tendency is concerned, from the do
- trine of the Jews? If Jew is unfit to egisa
III for us because he believes that he or his reno
Id descendants will be removed to Palestine ca
Oh we safely open the house of commons to a IF
he monarchy man. W expects that before tn
he generation shall pass away, all the kingdoms
N the earth will be swallowed up in one divi,
.ad empire?
nd That is a complete answer to the conte
N. tion that the Mormons should be stripped
all their civil and political rights because the
m believe in the final establishment of IL
me "Kingdom of GoD."
M And it is amusing to read from a ma
are who recently ran for the highest Office
bv the gift of the people of this territor
NO. these words
est Hence, honest Americans who do not wa
INC offices themselves, who do not want trouble
- come to any class of people in this territory,
'eo sst as matter OF reasonable and patriotic pr
me caution that no one but Americans ought
SO have the ballot in this country.
ley BY which is meant, of course, that I'll
viii Mormons should be disfranchised, becau:
&C they voted against the man who says the
ing are unfit to vote or own land, or to have
It'll jury trial in this country Because the
be have voted against the political party tn
OPP constantly advocates their disfranchis
the ment and robbery, this fanatic declar
eir them aliens, who are bound together
lille awful obligations"
AXE #
the If THE weather clerk has not yet be
eir told that we have had en- ough of this sc
of thing, he may accept this as Official no
ex- ication of the fact.
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