The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-03-07
The Tories of the Conflict.


Committee to announce dates and places for the
convention of the year the tocsin of
While the hierarchy itself was an invisible force,
from every place of ambuscade the allies rushed forth
and it demonstrated in the gathering that the
buge call of the Capital News (Which says it has
not been bought by the Deseret News) was worth
hundred men.
The assault of the Jack Mormon on the committee
gathered from far and the guests of the city,
was an inhospitable one. But orders from the
prophet make of the amenities that often
smooth the rough edges of contact They are i'm
pacable.
In 1877 John Doyle Lee said in notable confess
ion:
By the world at large I called criminal
and have been sentenced to be shot for deeds COM
mitted by myself and others twenty years ago. |
have obeyed the orders of my church. | have acted
[ commanded to do by my superiors My
sins, if any, are the result of doing what was com
manded to do by those who were my superiors in
authority in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints.
What had John Doyle Lee done that rested so
heavily on his conscience and moved him to shift
the burden of responsibility? The church had
ordered him. chief of the Danites to slaughter 120
men, women and children emigrants moving west
ward in search of homes, and he had obeyed. The
church said to John Doyle Lee "k all who
talk"
That was in the year 1857. Mormonism and its
allies still obeying the orders of the church in all
things and its orders to destroy the move
ment against polygamy that was given new activity
when the Democratic committee of the state
bled to issue the call for the conventions of the
Democratic party.
When he perpetrated the massacre of Gentiles a
half century ago, John Doyle Lee, by command
of the church, enlisted the services of the Indians of
the neighboring camps making them his allies in the
plot of blood, the hierarchy cunningy assuming that
the crime could be placed at their door when the
government sought reprsal.
Those Indians were the first Jack Mormons They
too, obeyed the orders of the church, actuated by
greed for plumber and scaps that has been trans
mtted unimpaired to the Jack Mormon generation
of today The new creation would slaughter prin-
ciple and bury it in its blood and bear away the
reward of apostasy to the American people in the
form of political spoils.
The order of half century ago, "kl all who
can talk" has been modified to convey the
command, suppress all who talk and it was
obeyed to the possible limit when the Indians of
Ada county rushed from ambuscade the
pecting strangers in their midst and lnaugurated
their pow WOW in the fanced security of the guest
chamber. When justice seeks reprisal, the church
will place the blame at the door of its allies, as it
did fifty years ago. Yet justice, blndly groping may
again find its John Doyle Lee and visit upon him
the vicarious atonement that pays the penalty OF
illicit conspiracy.
1t should be understood by all of those people OF
Idaho who give their influence and their ballots to the
cause of morality, home purity and good citizen
ship that the Mormon hierarchy has opened active