Show antl ANTI POLYGAMY UNDER the above heading beading we find the annexed editorial in the flint michigan democrat and commend it to the attention of the pious people who cannot rest in their beds at night might while any mormon is ik permitted to te have more than one wife we publish in full in another column the address adopted by the abe antt anti polygamy my convention in cleveland we have no sympathy with mormonism because as aa a religion we believe belleve bel hel levelt it false perhaps not more false than a dozen doen others that have humbugged humbugger hum bugged the world from mabom and we do not believe in it because we are of the ogo rio vgo ulufa 10 still jf ir it a man is fool enough to want more and he can find a woman fool enough to marry him why we are not fool enough to trot around and prevent them but when people meet together in a convention and call it lasciviousness moral amoral corruption ru t profligacy gle gie cle lechery chery etc t is extremely hard on solomon and david avid and vario various uso other patriarchs it may be that mormonism la Is all wro ngwe dare say it we have never been near enough to it to tell accurately but it must be r remembered that from frona the tho time 0 the Old Testament to the present this wife disputed point it stands on record that a good many good men have had more than one wife and we w dont heem to think any the worse of them time beems beema to have gloss ed over their little failing fai fal linga or wiped them out altogether the righteously indignant anti polygamists lata say bay ane world cries out against such in the name of humanity home and commod common decency demands a hait halh in their rapid lechery of and lawbreaking law breaking then the worlds voice la is power fully sully weak but if it does it must not be forgotten hie bhe world cried out against buddhism christianity the reformation puritanism quakerism and the voice of the world Is ia not infallible it must not be ta taken ken as a guide it opposes all ail innovations innovation and innovation ind ini ovation for good more than innovation for evil greases 11 right to crush arnah out mormonism niam it it can congress has the right rf of might the power of the majority anu anci if the majority of the people of this country do not want cormons mormons la in the country they may ngay crush them out if hey they bey can but hut buethe the more a lie Is trampled upon the better it flourishes if mormonism is a lie and an evil as we think it is let it severely alone do not advent advert advertise fee it by op posing it and it will die from lack of opposition tion eul bul there is a theme the good people assembled at cleveland could have touched upon that would have admitted of practical work and effort and that would need no aid ald from con Cou Cong grees grebs nees reea people rather make a crusade crus zide tide against some somo real or supposed evil rood good way off than fight with sin at their own doors good church going christians much rather contribute coppers on sunday and organize to cleties societies and ho hold hoid id fairs for the he conversion of the black heathen on the other side of the globe than go out on their own streets and among their own neighbors and do deeds of charity and make conversions I 1 it i la s much esler esier for the average minister to sit hit in his warm and cosy study and write a sermon on the wickedness and waywardness way ward ot the brown contented and happy in it Is for him to tramp out in the snow enow and seek out the houseless and poor the sick and thet dying of his own city we will guarantee that every minister in flint preaches twenty missionary sermons for every vi vial biche siche he makes to our jall jali to talk taik with and benefit the wretches confined therein it is so BO much easier for the good christian woman roman woman to wrap herself up in her beal beai skin bacque and get into her sleigh elelah and be driven to some bome pleasant guild or she bhe can spend a pleasant afternoon in lii making poor poon clothes for the heathen and talking worse woree gossip about her neighbors it is so much easier to do this thia than it Is to take a basket of food on ones arm and to trudge over to that miserable hut hat the home of squalor and want and it Is ia so 00 much easier for a lot of good men to get together in a beautiful city like cleveland and talk about and pass resolutions on the great moral lechery and lasciviousness that exists way off beyond the mississippi than it is ia to go right night to 10 their own front doors and organize a crusade against the lechery and lasciviousness that are sra to be found there ther it is so much easier to pick the mole from alt lakas lakes poor eye than to clear the beams irom cleveland 14 clouded vision it may be that we are still generate yet for our own part we rather see a man acknowledge hia hig prostitutes and call them wives than enjoy them under the cover of darkness and turn up his nose at them the next day as is ia the custom in our free aud moral land if every minister who feels moved by th the spirit to preach against Mormon mormonism isna would just change a word and thunder against the prostitution that flourishes nourishes even as a green bay tree within the shadow of that may even flout itself lefore before his very eyes within the bau ban sanctity eau c tl ty of 0 th the e Byna synagogue gogu e he won would id be hammering the nail squarely on the head and if instead of holding up his hla hands in holy horror borror at the poor creatures who eke out a miserable existence from thair degradation ra he would geb geh right down among his hia flock fiock and talk to the men thereof and tell them that without theli their patronage and encouragement the evil would not exist he would be driving the truth nearer home than it is usually driven and we would suggest to our an tJ polygamist friends the and anu for the next convention whereas we are assembled here for the purpose of denouncing polygamy yet it appears appearing g that we ourselves are not wholly who lly ily 13 free from evil be it resolved Be solved that we devotee our energies to the suppression of the vice so common as to bo be known the world over as aa the social evil and which flourishes unchecked uncheck eds almost unchallenged in ia every city town and hamlet in the country and we call upon the rathe rathers red rid brothers and sons bons who support it to turn from it and lend us their aid in 19 crushing crashing it out there Js Is no need of going to china or japan or even to salt lake for sin there thern is plenty right about home we should not be surprised if some could bp be unearthed right here in flint if our good people would just hustle around a bit |