Show THE FOOLISH APPEAL A correspondent of the memphis anneal alval rebukes the editor of that paper for his inconsistency in advocating cating a in one breath the largest religions religious li liberty and the free exercise ther thereof cof to all denominations of professing christians and in the nest next breath urges the extermination of a sect meaning the latter day saints because it teaches doctrines not in ili a accord cord with its the appeals peculiar diews views on oil theo theology loy in its anaver the appeal says among other things it is in earnest P in its advocacy of the broadest J religious liberty but it has lins never gone so far as to embrace that of the salt rake saints indeed it does not appear to consider that the mormon religion lias has any laim to protection andr the constitution of the united states it says if under the constitution and that spirit of religious freedom which has bas attract edi edhe to admiration of the civilized world to our institutions tut ions polygamy cannot be molested indeed must be protected guiteau ought never to have been arrested as he lie was influenced in murdering president garfield by his religious b convictions the ap appeal peal knows or ought to know better than to believe that Gili was iv ts influenced by any 11 religious convictions to assassinate the tile president but we will not khop to discuss this point of the subject now we will look f for or a moment at tile results of the two practices in the first place everyone knows that murder is i strictly forbidden by the laws of both god and man that it ia is the highest crime known to the lawthan law that it is a capital offense ense for which there is is no forgive forgiveness nm for the murderer hath not eternal life abiding in hima it is a crime punishable with death in tile next place the act of killing puts an end to the earthly existence of the person lain slain that thereby he is prevented from propagating his species sand increasing his p brings desolation h to the hearth and home of the victim if he has bas any and in many any instances it plunges a whole natio nand some times time the civilized world into an abyss of sorrow and distress as exemplified in the case of tho the assassination m of president resident P garfield murder is abhorrent under any circumstances among all civilized people no warrant can bo be found for it under any law human or divine to the first fratricide it was said A vagabond thou bo be in the earth the victim of murder is prevented from fulfilling the fir first A tr reat ea t comman command d given to man f to multiply and replenish the earth but plural mar marriage ringe works no such destructive ends its tendency and purpose is to increase the species cles and to extend human life authority is found for it in tho the sacred volume which we have no doubt the appeal editor professes to revere examples E are found for it in the history of those men who I lived ved nearest to god in ancient t times acs patriarchs prophets and ciany any other inspired men andin and in that same holy book can be found laws for the regulation of those who lived in plural wedlock we said that plural marriage which appears to shock the nervous sensibility of the appeal instead of destroying or abridging human life increases it in f fact act it must needs be eo so 11 the tile great arbiter of human buman des destiny tiny said to his ilis friend abraham who was a polygamist in thy seed shall all tho tile nations of the earth be blessed lie ire also told him that his off spring should be as nu numerous berous as the stars or as the sands on the shore of the ocean and they arc are certainly to be found today to day in great numbers az adiong among t all nations now the appeal and every other good Cli christian ristian editor in duty bound will confess that abraham j vas as the friend of god and where god and that patriarch are the appeal appal man hopes bopes to be sometime therefore the appeal makes a very foolish k comparison when it attempts to class plural marria marriage with murder t the tile f former ormer i if s productive of life while the latter is destructive destruct ire of human es existence is while it i the duty of to make laws tor lor the of life it ais is strictly forbidden to make any law respecting alid establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof the tile appeal is horrified to learn that there arc are seventy mormon on iiii missionaries located jm ill different parts of the tile south that they are eminently bucce successful saul in gaii gaining V ing recruits it says they arc are more to be dreaded than famine pestilence lenco ind and di well it is ethen to presume that the appeal man will wi III give them a wide berth bertli although ho lie ia h surprised that the elders are allowed to continue their labors unmolested that journ alays such men as jeffer jefferson san adams hamilton amilton 11 and franklin with the history li astory of the world before them saw the absolute to necessity of giving ivin religious freedom and making makij the tire Gove government kliment purely secular in ili order to secure harmony and the greatest degree of blessing and even went so far ne to in leave ve god out of tile constitution and yet it is anxious to proscribe the cormons mormons Mor mons in ili their rights r to worship god as their con conscience cc dictates the mormon people know their privileges they do not and will not interfere with the religions or the institution of others but at it the same time they will ivill maintain and defend their own JUMPING ON ox railroad trains while they are in motion seems to be a prevalent rage with boys all over the country some sonic weeks ago we had bad to record the cac of a boy in willard box elder co utah getting tin injured in by attempt attempting inc to climb a passing train of the U A N R R now we learn from front an exchange that riston easton pa counts no less than twenty five luckless lads who nybo have been rendered permanent cripples by trying to jump on rail railroad trains in motion still it is little likely that the youth with too elastic extremities will heed beed the hint and learn the lesson it isa is a pity that the painful exper experience ienco of one rash youngster cannot be inoculated on others A to the tile N Y sun suit is responsible for the statement that on the pro prospect apcel the broadway of st petersburg burg a public show is in full blast where a group representing the tile murdered president garfield is fa exhibited the tile dead president is shown in effigy surrounded by clowns and all the claptrap of a vulgar sideshow side sides show liow As all public exhibitions exhibitions and advertisements rul in russia asia roust must obtain tile permission of the imperial go government vern the latter is responsible for this infraction on common decency and international tact tack MISCHIEF cr has been done lone by matches wo we mean neither love nor sparring matches mat elies not even spelling mat matches chess wo we have bave reference to these domestic necessities for lighting it appears that the new styles of this useful utensil the so called parlor matches arc are dan dangerous ferous at I least east the ci city council of knoxville tenn must have tho thought ight so when it prohibited their sale in charlotte S even all matches except the old fashioned lucia lucifero lu cifers ers are condemned ous A T OFFICE in grafton dakota was opened a safe tafe had been ordered which was to weigh three tons but it proved to be seven and the cost of transportation to grafton with driver drivers horses homes oxen broken wagons etc was so great that there was no money left in tile bankalter ban bank kafter after the safe and expenses wera paid and the prospective rothschild collapsed A 1500 ACRE farm in barry co mo is to be devoted to the breeding of mules |