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Show The St. Louis Republican heads an article " Melancholy Mormon ism." If what the mayor of its city said recently in his late annual ml-dreBs ml-dreBs to the city council is true we might be inclined to retort, wicked St. Louis, but we do not care to disturb dis-turb the pious equaniamity of an old fogy, and simply copy the mayor's statement, without fulling into the : moralizing temptation : At no former time in thn city's history have licentiousness and debauchery run riot to tho tame extent that thoy do now, and while under the former law all vhm-sible vhm-sible restriciona were thrown around tho votaries of riich vices, arre-Iini miniv in their downward cour-p, now there is no obstacle thrown in ilieir way, and thty are pormiUfd the free use of iho city, as if lh-y were privpegd and distinguished persondges at'ove the common rcstraiDts of soeietv. and their palaces nf shame aro protected by law. Well may Mormon- be "melancholy" "melan-choly" when such cxhiblions are made by the christian civilization of the 19th century. i |