The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-16
UNLIKE,


UNLIKE.
J The New York Evening Post in
qures why there should be objectloD
10 engraving the likeness Of Brigham
( Young on the silver service to be pre-
/ scented to the buttleship Utah. adding:
Arc we not wiping out all histori-
cal issues of the past and torgivins
everybody for everything? With
Robert E. Lee in Statuary Hall In his
Confederate uniform. why cavil at
Brigham Youngs honoring a bat
tleship? Lee was an admirable
character and wonderful general :;
Brigham Young was an amaz-
ing conqueror of the desert and re-
markable captain OF industry"
/ such a comparison as this is dis
tasteful to countless Americans, as
well as to discriminating students of
American history. The eases of the
two men are not parallel; there is no
basis for parity of reasoning as to
them The only ground for likening
Young to General Lee that has been
suggested is that both "detied the Gov.
crnment of the United states"
Lee, unwilling to waive his allegiance
10 Virginia. became the commander of
the Confederate forces. which of course
did defy the United States. Yet this
defiance was only such as one consti-
tutonal government can offer to ar
other Lees army cost the Union
thousands of lives, but the blood that
was poured out was the blood of aren
lighting in battle. the blood of foemsn
fighting in the open.
Young, on the other hand, as the
representative of religious sec. ana
not as the representative of any law
full government or authority. openly
dehed the United States and its
laws. BY his orders, hundreds OIL
people We're brutally murdered, tor
no other reasons than that they
were not of the Mormon faith
and wished to live in Utah with
the knowledge and consent of Young,
one hundred and forty persons who
were travelling through Utah were en-
trapped, made to dlsafm by the
treachery of Mormons, and then foully
slaughtered, Only the children under
seven years of age We're spared All
the nstigation of Young, William r.
Parrish a would-be apostate, was muir
dered, Rosmos Anderson, who wished
to marry his step daughter against the
wishes of the ward bishop. had his
throat cut by the ecclesiastical cxecu-
toners, so that his blood might run
into his freshly made grave This
with the approval of Young, VINO de-
clared apostasy practically II capital
crime TO be atoned for only by having
the blood OF the offender spilled upon
the ground thus setting ap the doc
triue of Blood Atonement.'
Brigham Young established a horrible
hierarchy 1t did not last, but when
it existed life, liberty, and property
were unsafe in Utah, liable at any
moment to be destroyed by this I'M
perious pricst-butchcr. The United
States was the object of Youns's rtd,-
cule and defiance, lie hated tho rest
of the nation outside of Utah with q
hate that burned red hot until he died
In all his life General Lee was an |
exemplary character, carrying no en-
mites, shedding no blood, revering re-
ligion, respecting men of other faiths. |
When the war ended. he advised his
people to walk in the way Of peace
camod their troubled SOUS, an; gaze
in himself an unsurpassed example Of |
obedience TO authority and submission |
20 the Government against which he
had fought. Ills personal character
was as luminous and unspot,ed rs the
character OF Young was
smirched and dark.
objection against Young is due 10
Tho fact that he !nstigatcd The murder !,
OF scores of American citizens Who
We're innocent of wrong. Young,s .
memory is obnoxious TO the people OF
the United states, because he was a
religious fanatic, an apostle OF the
torch and the sword, who encouraged
and built UP practices that were re-
pugnalt to the religious belief OF a
majority of his fellow Americans. |,
The unseen hands OF men, women ana I
children bptchcred in a frenzy q;
fanatical zeal Will restrain any at I
tempt 10 award to brigham Young a
place OF honor in the history ot M,