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Show Physician Heal Tityset.k. It will be a great matter if judge McKean Mc-Kean and the Gentile juries of Utah put down polygamy without any out- : break on the part of the "faithful." At the same time it will be well for the courts of law to deal on terms of equally rigid justice with forms of vice only loo prevalent throughout iho whole of this continent, which arc : morally as indeicn.-ilile as polygamy, and physically and politically as injurious inju-rious atid degrading to individuals and the community. Polygamy is.no doubt, bad cnoiiL'h, nud no one who wi-hes well to America or to the race can but rejoice in the prospect of its being put down; but the system of divorce pre- , valent :imontr our neighbor nnd ihe Ke.-ti:lliM)t thai knows not hnw to blush are equally indications of something some-thing wtou?, and equally degrading and di.-houurit):,' to manhood and womanhood, while Ihey have not even ! a shadow of advantages that are sometimes some-times so earnestly but mistakenly urged in favor of this "peculiar institution," as they were in favor of another now hapniiy iaf-sed forever awav. Toronto (1U: |