Show HONEST OPINIONS A CarpetBaggers Views on the Situation POLYGAMY AGAINST DIVORCE The long Headed Views of Cardinal GIbbor Some Very Intemtnjr Statistics To the Editor of THE HERALD I am a carpetbagger have not been in Utah two months beard some little of the cv ils of plural marriages from my brothers who formerly resided her also from my wife who made negotiations I few years ago to come to this territory and make an expose of Mormonism but on account of sickness failed to do so I have not seen anything of the family life of Mormoni but in business circles I have thus far found tho Saints to be straight and not more clannish than other sects or budi s I am no advocate for poligami The Bible never sanctions plurality of marriages mar-riages itmerelj tolerates them The law of the land says it is a crime and I must obey that law The only way to reform a law is to obey the existing statutes no matter whether one believ cs in them or not rime authorities at Washington say sudi must or nmest not be done1 mmmli hare to obey to be a citizen Whilot wild mg obedience I must strive to amend these laws bo as t make them less galling My disobedience to present laws renders stein competent to fiame new laws Polygamy is not the worst of social cvJs Cardinal G bbon in the North im < vim fleetest writes as follows We are filled with righteous at Moimonism we brand it as a national disgrace and justlv demand its supjjus sirn Whm g Because forsooth tliu Mormons Mor-mons ire poli cajiiats Do w e forget that there are two species of poljB miy smml tancous mind bareessivei Mormons practice without legal recognition the first spades while among us the second species is in ilulpcd in and with the sanction of law bi thousands m whose nostrils Mormoiusm is a stem h and an abomm ition The Christian press sail iulpit of the laud denounce the Mormo as in adulterous generation but too often deal very tenderly with Christian polygamists Wbj Ib Christian pnlifami less odious m the eyes of Cud than Mormon polyam f Aiconjj us Its true the one ib looked upon as mole re tlmcdmmhle th in the other i 11 wo know that the Mormons as a class cue for their wives and children while Christian i oli ga mists but too often leave wretched wives to starve slave or sin and leave nils rablo children a public charge O clivouid and much m lined Christian says the olijii moss dweller by Salt Lake pluck first the beam fiom thine own eye and then shplt thou see to pluck the mote from the eye of thy much married but uudivorcul Mormon Mor-mon brother Of two evils choose the lesser ai dhow M > mt d-how I am inclined to believe that p H g 11113 is preferable to divorce as practiced in this countlv today I think Utah can show as clean a bIll if not cleaner for immunity from crime as any of the western states 1 would like to sec statistics on this lmie having special reference to Utah Itisiaj hot bo very flattering to our national pride to be told that ci ime is steadily ou the m crease The state of Massachusetts comprising com-prising within its aiea culchaid 13 > MIOU could some three or four years ago boast of G divorces out of every U mainagCH l > tone t-one live m me small manuf ic uring town m the east where ossip ittcns and he will be informed that there is scarcely a female above JO years of ace who has not had m acquaintance directly or indirectly with that healer of woes divorce The ratios of divorce to marriage m the United Stoics are sometimes as high as 1 to 10 1 to J or even little more foi single years Contrast Con-trast this with Presbv ter an Scotl md tB divorces to 1000 marriages not quite I to 100 marriages but even in that ountry divorces are increasing The Scots uezt to the lews and Athenians according to numbers have made a deeper imjin SM ou the world history than anv other nation In all countries the marriage rate is tie ci casing even m England the rats has decreased from IT per 1 000 for Site vi irs 1SI4 h3 to U 1 for Isba whilst the divorce rate in European countries as web as in our favored land is steadily im roasin I have yet to read of a nation eithi in aucientor modern histori Papa Oi Chris thin where polygamy has been onehilf such a source of corruption ij tlivo 10 henei mv desire to see the statitses at Clinic in Uuh eoiipmd wih other sues i 3 FiufK EVILYI |