Show l THE GREEK THEORY On Monday last we proposed a new theory for the settlement of the Utah I problem which was to adopt the Utopian i plan of disposing of the useless Tins has met with general favor in the community com-munity and the arbiter of all in American Ameri-can affairs has suggested an amendment amend-ment to the method which is the theory of the Greek mothers who took their deformed de-formed children whether mental or physical and carried them to the hills and sung them to sleep and when they were in slumber wrapt the mothers stole away and left them to perish in the cold or be devoured by wild beasts It is avery a-very good suggestion and we cheerfully adopt it but think the Herod theory far better in every respect There is one tiling lacking in this theory and that is it does not take into consideration those whose mothers neglected their duty to their children but allowed them to come to maturity Had this been the case the Greek theory would never have been suggested sug-gested by those who now first think of it The remedy was not bad so far as it went Most decidedly it was not and it goes as far as there is any necessity Even the mothers of Greek gods could not all have the same Roman fortitude that Brutus had and to such as these the Utopian theory applies Then the world advances no matter what may be said against the theory and the Utopian plan had the benefit of eighteen centuries experience But we forget Those who suggest the Greek theory are anteChristian in all things Doubtless it was this theory of the Greeks that was referred to in the Epistle of the Presidency when that document spoke of the murderous and damning practices of foeticide and infanticide in-fanticide to introduce which in our midst attempts have been made The Legislature Legis-lature should enact a law legalizing the Greek theory but doubtless the Governor Gov-ernor would not sign such an act there being something organic about it Is it not a little too harsh to say that the theory might be severe on soma sooth ingsyrup reformers on some skulkers who came into camp when the heat and toil of the day were wellnigh passed especially when it is remembered what terrible blows he who wrote those lines struck for his country during the Rebellion Rebel-lion Of course some will be so ungenerous ungen-erous as to say that those blows were struck from the Sierras but they may say what they choose yet it was by those blows that the Rebellion was crushed In fact so effective ef-fective were they that he is still striking But who would ever think that he belonged be-longed to the skulkers who came into camp when the heat and toil of the day were wellnigh passed After all it was the great the good the true the beautiful Tribune which crushed the Re bellion wiped out the Mormons was the only true American suffered under Pontius Pon-tius Pilate was crucified was buried and rose on the third day and propounded the Greek theory |