Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
CORRESPONDENTS.
The Mormon Excitement.

o1kESNlLLE, MD, June %, 1877.
TO the MINING JOURNAL.
AS there seems to be such an excite
ment over the Mormons in your sec
ton of the State, would say that they
are very active in this CARROLL county
also but they have met with no success
Whdteoer.
All that is needed to obliterate the
Mormons is a proper showing of the
fallacies of their faith and the cruelties
of their practices and people of com
mon sense will let them severely
alone. They are seeking to introduce
religion of the Temple, while the
world is just beginning to disengage
it from the religion of the Church and
makes it more a matter of conscience
and life. Even Cardinal Gibbons, "
church authority, recently sermonized
at the Baltimore Cathedral on ''Con-
science"
Churchmen, through the church
mon advance with fear and trembling
and have acknowledged their argu-
ments hard to answer. In conse-
quence, chur3hmen in many parts of
the country have prosecuted the Nor
mon elders and sought to deny them
the rights of free speech and liberty in
religion to which they are entitled.
A II this is wrong. 1t argues i'll for
the church when its leaders accept the
sword for the pen
In the proposed mass meeting, there
fore, as demonstration against the
Mormons to be held at Buck Valley,
Fulton county, Pa. | hope passion
will be controlled by reason and the
Mormons not be given the apology to
pose as martyrs from any persecution
| they may receive.
If the press and the interested pub
lie will publish true and proper
expose OF the Mormons it will be amply
sufficient to counteract the influence
| of their not over-wise elders.
Ar0pos of the occasion, | will give
a few extracts from an article on Nor
monism by Judge C.. C. Goodwin, in
| the North American Regieeo of March,
| 1881:
G.-That such an institution has
been able to plant itself in the heart of
| the United States, to maintain itself
and to steadily increase in power is
one of the anomalies of the times.
Lioesey-lt shows simply what
handful of earnest men can accom-
plish in the midst of "a lackadaisical
people.
G.-To the ignorant masses in Utah
thousands from Europe are annually
added.
L.-Ignorant as they all are, simple
cork has been able to build them Tenn
Piles costing millions of dollars, and
send them forth in thousands for the
conversion Of the world. AS the Cloths
and Vandals overran Rome in all its
grandeur and effeminacy, will they so
overrun us.
G.-Whether committing atrocities,
or themselves perishing from exposure,
would say their prayers and sing their
| hymns in the very ecstacy of fanaticism
L.-How much will be accomplished
in prosecuting people of this class
G.-Nothlng can change old Nor
mons, men or women but, despite the
binding and benumbing influences of
the system, under which so many
hearts of women have broken, and are
breaking, there is among the young Il
growing restlessness, and increasing
sense of shame and wrong. The con
| ulllOuS are DtCOulluS dangerous anu
the leaders see it.
L.-Perhaps, then, as it is said of
the diplomats of politics, the Mormon
crusade is an employment to which
the elders are put to keep peace at
home. Some of the elders seem to
manifest considerable nonchalance and
take it easy in localities where they
have labored for months with no
adequate return in conversions. Geo.
M. White and the elders at West
minister, this county, report no con-
versions after many months of labor.
G.-Utah is not Turkey, nor one of
the Barbary States; the air is pure ;
the American flag is overhead, some
echoes of the boom of the power-press
are beginning to be heard.
Ives, | say, let US 90 to Utah
with the press. Let us get the cards
of every elder, with his home address :;
let us write such articles for our local
papers as will shame them in the eyes
of their friends aud relatives at home !;
let us flood their homes with these
productions let us show ''what fools
these mortals be-" and they will be
more than human if some effect will
not be produced.
FRANCIS B. LIVESEY.