Mohave County miner., 1902-05-24

all the states, of this wonderfpl mon,
heht TO thrift and enterprise which
the common country has erected. Bu,
now ala you ever imagine that even
'nat great city and state we're too good
10 nave political association with the
people of Arizona? Cast out that beam
IN thine own eye, or study a situation
before you speak with such awful an.
thority.
with your letter was handed me
an alleged Statement and Annual
signed by the Rev. T. j. Morgan and
others, which was nothing more nor
less than TRADE against the Mormons
and the Mormon church, accom- panic d
by the unwarranted statement tba,
they were taking, or had taken politi.
cal control of certain named states
and territories of the west. The author
ana publishers of that creed know as
little about the Norm ons ia Arizona
as your board knows of our education
This letter has nothing to do with
doctrines, creeds or dogmas, but the
writer, who has lived for twenty years
as a neighbor to the Mormon people
and has known the hospitality of their
homes, and from close observations of
their lives, does not hesitate to saw
that they accepted in good faith the
church proclamation against the prac
tice of polygamy, and nowhere in this
broad land can there be found a more
honest, industrious and patriotic peo.
pie than they have proven themselves
to be. IL your city, or any ward ia it,
was as clean of vice as any Mormon
community in Arizona, you could well
leave the city to itself and reach out
Tar from your good offices aud advice.
No one has ever found the Mormons
busybodies in other peoples affairs or
spreading calumnious reports against
their neighbors. This is meant as no
defense of the Mormon people, but is
designed as a rebuke to this left hand
ed, unfair aud hidden political attack
on statehood for the territories.
"That | may not be misunderstood,
let me tell you that permit no one to
excel me in admiration, love aud es.
TEEN of the great work which the old
Pres sbyterian church has done for hu-
manity, by the examp pie which its good
mem bers have set to the contem plation
of wicked world It's blessings were
showered by good people, unselfishly
working for God and man; but not
through officious intermeddling with
political questions and social condi
tions of which they know nothing. Ig.
norance is the most charitable view
We can take of the actions against
which we file our protest. In conclu.
sion, my dear madam, permit me to
express my regret that you and your
associates should have seen fit to
charge that Arizona is not sufficiently
educated-not moral enough, not good
enough, TO be associated with New
York or other political divisions, as
state.
"Turn your eyes from your 'excep.
tioDar informants and close your ears
to their ignorant clamor that you may
hear and heed the words of the Great
Teacher: Two men went up into the |
mountain to pray; the one Pbarisee,
The other publican. The Pbarisee /
stood and prayed thus with himself:
God, thank Thee that / am not as
,ther men are, extortioners, unjust,
,dulterers, or even as this Publican; |
'ast twice in the week; give tithes of
III | possess. And the publican far off
would not lift up so much as his eyes
INTO heaven, but smote upon his
,reast, saying, Lord, be merciful unto
ne sinner. ] tell you this man went
lown to his grave justified rather than
he other; for everyone that exalted
himself shall be abased. and he that
lum bleth himself shall be exalted.
"Permit me in due modesty to com
mend this sentiment to the political
,ranch of the church of which your
,oard IL the first, aud / trust will be
he last representative.
With assurances of my high esteem,
beg to be your hum BILE servant.
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