The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-02

cstY OF purpose assailcd and their work
was pbstructcd In almost every possible
manner by Mormons who were in author
] ltN or prominent in church affairs. CD
| Missionary teachers wcrc sometimes ter
| rorized and threatened with violence, and
| the children attending the mission or
the Christian Saba tn school, were way
laid and assaulted. So general was this
spirit Of hostility that II proved the spirit
and animus OF the people to be anything
but friendly. What the youth heard at
home. they carried cut abroad. CD in
the entire history Of Utah there has been
an unjust discrimination between citizens.
on the cleavage line of the church, In
every community. without exception. this
line was sharply drawn and carried with
II the distinction which today. in some
countries, Is found in the names
,heathen. and christian, an inyidious
distinction in Utah which has no justlflca
tion. Note in Citizens article how fire.
qucnuy he uses the term Gentle The
use OF this term has no better fonnda-
ton than that of tho Oriental who calls
the missionary foreign devil" The
one is as devoid of charity as the other.
GD lnasmuch Mormons have predom~
mated so largely in every community.
worked hardship for the Gentle
Al the very best his lot was one OF "tol-
%ration. not brotherhood % The
heaviest curse fell upon those Mormons
who were converted 10 Protestant Chris |
uanity. and joined Il Christian church. !
There was no forgiveness for that sin, |
tcrfcrcd with. work was refused them.
until, FOR self preservation, they were
compelled 10 move away, The apostafc
had hard lot. especially in thc years
OF fanaticiSm, under Brigham Young |
C6) Exceptions may be found To G), for !
sometimes n Gentle has been successful |
in business. or has held office in a Nor
mon town: but the exception proves tho |
rule, Tor such Gentle has always been
tolerant as 10 the customs and prac-
ticcs which have brought the Mormon |
people into conflict with society and the |
state. and in no case has hc ever been
an active. aggressive Christian.
The foregoing six remarks lead us to
Fact 5. The Mormons are finding the
truth Of the old adaSe. Curses like !
chickens. come home to roost." In the
days when they held undsputcd sway.
men feared for their lives and women
spent anxious hours If their husbands or
fathers. being apostates. were way from
home after dark They were days when
all who were not OF the faith were made
To feel that their room was moro ae-
ccptablc than their company. unless they
would take the broad. not-to- be -misun
dcrStood hint that IT would be far bet
tor" for them II they would join the
because they expected positive benefits
by doing so, bur 10 escape evils tina
lurlled in secret and worked in tho dark.
Now that tie Mormous are falling back
into The minority. and the state is pass
ing inevitably into the control Of non
Mornons, they arc so fatuously blind AS
10 lrN 10 continue INC OLD luuUlSitOrtJI
spirit and dominate the now generation
as they tyranni2cd over the old, and the
result iS-ihc American party
Let us acknowledge that there is u
change working In Utah. and If tho bet
ter and more intelligent could have their
way. thcrc would he radical change in
the spirit OF the church, and of society |
would displacc Churchanity. |
and fellowship would bid "tocra ton be
conc.
Fact .. The primary objection TO the
Mormon church Is not prophet. nor a
creed. but i condition OF the people for
which that church. through its chief men
is responsible. Tho boast is frequently
made by them. that their church is like
the German army in the pcrfcCtncss OF
us organization. That is true. but that
Is what makes the church un-AmGriCan
II is ruled absolutely, and those I'm au-
thority. under the prclensr OF speaking
FOR God. arc oheycd unique estionngly.
So u is in Germany. II Is rulc.i by
an emperor, and the people arc controlled
in little. ordinary affairs OF daily life by
the police: cntailing condition which
would bc nsuifcrablc In America unless
II were In some parts OF Utah
To criticize the emperor is lcse ma
iestc and means heavy fine and per-
laps imprisonment To criticize the {
president OF the Mormon church is apos- {
,aSy, aud CoDSignS ono TO the buffctircs
Of Satan for II thousand years.
Fact ~. Returning again TO Citizens
article. VIC rcquotc with appreciation this
sentiment from Frondc: when nations
'an grow to maturity in a single Gcncr-
alton. when the child can arise from
his first grammar lesson a matrrcd '
then individual men may ,
,lcar themselves by single effort from I
which arc embedded in the
heart Of their age. The sentiment is |
individual.
Mormons ought To welcome discussion. I