Show DOES DESTRUCTION PRESERVE The bill against Mormon polygamy now pending in the House of Jlepre sentatives should pass The family is the foundation of the republic and Congress should defend it by all the authority it can command = Chicago TdtgramI The bill which the Telegram thinks should become law is one that would disrupt hundreds of families in Utah reduce honored wives loathe condition of harlots or mistresses InScotts Guy Mannering he describes the mournful departure of the small tribe of gypsies which had long made their home near the Castle of Ellangowan and not I until the huts in which they had lived had been pulled down would they consent to leave the estate After the departure of the main body of her trib Meg Merriles reets the Lord of Ellen gowan near his castle and thus addresses ad-dresses him Ride your ways Laird of Ellan gowanl I This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths see If the fire in your ain parlor burn the blither for that Ye have riven the I shack off seven cotter houses look if your ain roof tree stand the faster e ride your way Ellangowan Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs look that your brew cradle at home be the fairer spread up So say we to the Tekgram and aU who wish to see that piece of infamy known as the new Edmunds bill become law Suppose it does and the families of the Mormons are broken up by it will the Gentile families of New England and in the rest of the nation be any more secure se-cure for it Suppose the fair name f wife be stripped from the browsof Murmou plural wives and umiatreasl j be stamped there in its stead would tint ennoble wifehood among the ladies ot the east or here in Utah f I Suppose the fire on the hearths of the polygamous homes be put out would the fird on the monogamous heirti 4Utn the blither for thatIn ahor t how will the destruction ef the Mormon homes in Utah tend to the security of the home elsewhere That the family is the foundation of the Republic is true that Congress should defend it by all the authority it can command is also true but In what way the destruction of Mormon homes is going to defend the family institu tion is a point we fail to grasp Of course we are aware what thoughtless bigoted enemies of Utahs people would say and the argument they would use They would say Mormon polygamy Is i destructive of the sanctity of the home therefore U Morrn9n pblygamy be rapedout by tM strong arm of the law the family Institution will I ba pie served But the conclusion Incorrect because the premises are wrong Suppose Sup-pose we say thai two and four are eight and therefor that two and four and four are twelve would the conclusion conclu-sion be correct 7 Certainly not for our premises were not right two and four are not eight and starting with lalst ± premises our conclusion must be an error The family institution in Utah is held just as sacred as in any part of the world especially by the Mormons as their doctrines teach that it is to the purity of home and its perpetuity per-petuity that man must look for a fullness full-ness of joy both in this life and in the life to come Then let Congress and everybody else sceto It thatthey leave I Mormon families alone |