Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-15
ENEMIES or TIE NATION.

F.
"And we are indeed glad to see that
the church organ is beginning to see
the light upon this subject. Still better
would it be, II ii would recognize this
truth in respect to the treatment that
has been accorded to the entire Nor
mon people, and particularly toward
their erring leaders, by the American
nation"
This quotation is, of course, from the
Salt Lake Tribune
We are not about to deviatc from our
rule not TO engage in discussion with
an opponent that is a stranger to both
truth and reason. ana that. besides, Is
actuated by the worst possible motives,
but the lines quoted prompt 81 reitera-
ton of the statement often made In
these columns that we--spenking for
The Latter-day Saints-nevcr had any
feelings but those of loyalty ana al
lection for the American Nation. me
American government and American
institutions. The Church has seen It's
founders and other leading men bufcn-
cred on American soil; 1t has seen wofn-
en- outraged and children murdered; II
has been driven from place to place.
in vain appealing to governors ana pres
idcnts for protection, or redress; it has
suffered persecution in many forms, but
the Latter-day Saints have always UNI
derstOod that the lawless mobs did
neither constitute nor represent. the
American Nation. 1t Is true that at
times officials have prostituted their
Office and sided with the mob, and such
officials have been criticized and de-
nounccd for their disgraccful delIli-
aucncy. but the Latter-day Saints have
never lost sight of the fact that even
such officials did not represent the Ma
ton. or the government,
The mobs that murdered the Prophet
and Patriarch and drove the Saints
from the states; The anti
"Mormons" In Utah who have con-
tinued persecution in the spirit of those
mobs. and who have endeavorcd to the
utmost to array the government of
the United states against the Church
they arc not the Nation. They do not
represent the Nation, nor the govern
ment. They have for their center a
clique Of bigoted, INSCRIPTIONS office
seekers who for their own selfish ends
are willing to sacrifice the principles OF
freedom upon which American nsti-
trtions rest, as well as the material
interests of the Community and the
state in. which they operate, Their
status in the American Nation is that
Of brigands
The American Nation Is all right 1t
was founded by the Almighty and Civ
en- u mission in the world, to dissent
mate the principles of individual rights
against the tyranny of despots both &C.
clesiastical and secular. In the main IL
has been true to this mission 1t has
sounded the silver trumpet of jubilee
from the mountain tops, and as Il con-
sequence we are witnessing the awalt-
ening of slumhering nations every
where. American institutions are all
right. Like the wings OF the eagle that
were given to the woman in the Apo
calyptic vision, they have afforded pro-
lection against the wrath of the drag
on, and under this aeSis the Church
has been fostcred By divine care md
grown to become influential as n wit
ness Of truth and righteousness. This
the Saints know, The American Ma
ton, therefore. has no children more
loyal and grateful than the Latter day
Saints. That Is why they condemn anti
"Mormonism," whether IN its old form
or new. as they would condemn anti
Catholicism, or anti-Semitism. Such