IS POLYGAMY THE CAUSE NOTHING that hag hat in this territory for a long time has given so much joy to the emali small clique ot of Marmon eaters from whom emanate the sensational stories of utah depravity that occasionally startle the american public as aa the assault and robbery at the savings bank in this city on tuesday the wild do de light of those christian creatures is occasioned by the fact that the offenders are connect connected edwIth with pro prominent mid mormon families it is so BO rare that an occasion of this kind occurs that they take unrestrained advantage of it they are intoxicated with exuberant hilarity they point at the outrage as conclusive of tendencies of polygamy they claim that the two guilty men are polygamous offspring brought up without the influences of homme home or the care of tender pa parent rentz and intimate that robbery and ind assault and all an kinds of crime are the natural outgrowths out growths of polygamous Qua relations icons and an teachings people who gho use their own reasoning receive those these augments and ge te duct dictions ions fons with graat r at doubt and the tile wisp wise and byll wil elect reject thomm thom as aa inconsistent spid audij JJ orical but nut thera am are p great many people who do nat exercise personal judgment ru I 1 to any great at otel etel extent and t flav pe yell yeli t to 0 e enough bukh to offer a afew few fow reflections for their benefit first let the facts be under understood atoo d on tuesday afternoon july loth the abs Ass assistant latant cashier of zions ziona savings bank mr B H So hettler was struck on the forehead with an iron rod in the handa banda of david P rich who gathered up all the loose coin ooin he could huni hurri hurriedly edly seize geize and de camped he was assisted by a companion known as adolphus smith the particulars of the assault and robbery appeared frat first in this paper the same bame night both the robbers were captured smith in the room of his sweetheart and bich elch in a house hoube of IR ili repute most moat of the in money on ey not quite was recovered rich luch is the son of a leading fM mormon ormon 21 the other is an adopted son bon of another prominent mormon neither of them is what Js is commonly denominated a 99 polygamous child richs mother is the first wife of mat hla father smith was born in switzerland ze lost his parents in childhood and was adolte adopted d into a mormon family here he was a wild boy bay left this city and went to california and wab was not improved by his associations there which were certainly not polygamous but suppose that the faeta would bear can ean out the imputation supposing that both of these misguided young men were really polygamous sons does it follow that their crima crime is traceable to their birth conditions if so BO by the same rule of reasoning all the crimes committed in mono camous communities Is ia chargeable to monogamy this thia is ia the finst first ca cale case C e of bank robbery committed by a person of mormon parentage if polygamy Is the root of the evil growth in his hia heart what Is ia the source and origin of the tendencies to crime in the christian world are the bank robberies and assaults on cashiers in the great cities of tho the east outgrowths growths out of polygamy cerp corp not are they the fruits of monogamy there la IS a thousand fold more rea ren son to come to that conclusion than for the deduction draw nin the case of rich and smith compare the two conditions in mon monogamous amona communities baniog berles and assaults are so frequent as t iw things the tele teje graph raph fi brings news of such occur j bences among people who scafe scoff nt polygamy almost everyday this case is the hist of the kind bind known toh tob to history letory and only one of the culprits is really of 69 mormon parent age the very novelty of th the c thing haa uns made so bo much excitement and caused so much comment which Is the more reasonable to say aay that this crime is the direct result of polygamy or that a wayward child of a polygamous family has been emen led astray and has copied after the pattern of monogamous society neither of these conclusions would probably be arrived at by logical and just perso persona nos not but bat if one of them is ehe ese ea entla sentia Is ia not the latter jatter the more rational of the twain A cM mormon ormon boy has contracted bad habit habl to and influenced by drink has committed a grave crime there fore polygamy is the cause a of hank bank robbery and drunkenness drunken ness who ever heard such logic before beford weil wells well but his father la Is a mormon apostle 21 2 1 just so and am are the th therena ereno reino sons dons of christinn christian clergymen archbishops arch bishops reverends D Vs oa and preachers ot mora moza morality lity who go to the bad are there any religious religions ties in christendom the tea teachers cherip and representatives of which have no bad sons no children who will not listen to the advice and follow the loadings of exemplary Ti arants just juat look for A ni ulment at the legitimate consequence of the thelnia mons reasoning of these mormon eaters if this crime la Is the result of polygamy then all the multifarious ra crimes of christendom which are so GO numerous awful and fiendish as to horrify the bens sens sensitive lUve boul soul at their mere more mention are the result of monogamy its a poor rule ruie that only works one way wa and sneers and shaune bharne shameful ful fui epithets hurled at the father of the man now in prison are characteristic of th those these oso ose who use them but would not be tolerated anywhere else on the race face of thia althis this broad earth an aged gentleman en who has been helpless in body for many months whose life hab haa been GO honest and fair and above rp except on the oile olie one question which pretended moralists mora lists llata but corrupt scoundrel scoundrels use BJ as a convenient excuse excuse for thair their scurrility that people of all ail creeds spa of it with eotis blamed and defamed rith with flen fiendish digh dish tile tiie ness because becaas a a wild son bon has hag disgrace disgraced etoel QU oan 1 AV anything thang be nor p viii weal I 1 temp tible la Is there any 0 o of me meanness anneas to which 7 doas as aa have done dona this thit elu clu ench sueh des 6 As asi a matter of fact 99 parents are required b by y their r to teach their children ev sa that is recognized as moral ak and religious in the if they do not pursue en la Is contrary to their rehab religion att erday revelations and d ditto of leading men in the with instructions h as to the d ish ibb parents in thib this regard tit tie absence in strictly Mon ormon nods itt and villages of the crimes yi to mon in christendom lg that our youth are so instruct tra that they profit by parental dl ei 01 h ings ingo it Is ia only to be exhem 4 some will desalee counsel s1 sa M into evil ways and in tiva thoa where the customs an and tica gentiles have been tn inh is not remarkable that boyi boys A who have been taught bettee bettke astray and do wicked wickedly lyT lyk charge chargo this to the pared parea creed that continually 1 i them to the contrary I 1 very essence of incz and injustice and coul donly I 1 from an antiM antl anti Mornion Mormon bom bor in this case ease tho ings and spirit and influx n young mans father have ic to lead him in thie teiei rectitude hla nis course hu spite of not in training ing this morning vhf from him the annexed coaz ede ebe tIon whIch we commend lf ubal ueal of just people SALT lar lae ahr city olty 13 va to whom it may conca concern this is to certify that th tit culty in which I 1 now find fad ra caused by disobeying ethewin eels bels and good advice given m my v p parents are ants I 1 desire it tinee and do affirm beita beim and mans mens man that no teaching I 1 ample ol of my parents or of 14 tin era 0 of the church to which L long has ever given me hon hou do wrong or to follow the bad which have hava blinded me torm torn to reu rea times so BO that I 1 laid myself hi such as that in vt rt have now fallen I 1 solemnly other young men toshun 0 o shun the 6 lations which have overal nug 0 U Z Q wh have opportunity in future futa nd to do better myself and bei sei gli example if god shall shail gly gi strength hut but to do ali ajl I 1 awaken the bame same feeling of afi 1 uon tion in othera othena ot m 7 I 1 again repeat totes ropes t that none mot noi tot of teaching and example arns arne to geu gee given I 1 1 nao nae n e by b y ra my 7 bra isA 1 who had a right night to to mum vui imi cm in life DP the truth of the forego foregoing ingUL lib to many the contrary la twi wet none those who publish against the parental inglam young manya man home vassi nassi 1 their cowardly sl slanders anderas wl ant exhibit themselves in t tt character there are now nom decent dictionary which J justice as tice to their degraded mi abt able poltroonery and tm tid upon tuel thel the glee that they BUBS 0 cause one mormon has committed a crime is soft and suggestive ot of the such occurrences as to show I 1 verse vense of what they try to ed at and to stamp them thera as any respect whatever we suggest for the cona eon con of those who w may bave buve ex extent teng tent deceived by the atari malignant suggestions of W principled persons the fact faatu I 1 anti antl mormon monogamy mono gamu gamo ments of utah while one tenth of the popular nish about nine tenths i criminals the denizens off ofir and prison sand that it Is i thing for tho khe offspring oft ott of ous ons parents to sink doffe is of and are peculiarly the commit conceit con coit monogamous civilized bocea inference needs no dolbt pola the argument which tie the assal assailants lants of our bost bast people to make proves a greal great M much it la Is a boomerang v vhal ought ough tto to have sense adv add EW they ault decency eu to discharge