Show I CYNIC COMES FROM DOG I 1 We find In Public Opinion copied from the Conservative of Nebraska City an 1 article from the pen of Frank S Billings I lings His object of which seems to be to prove that polygamy IH not as bad in Its results as monogamy and to establish I estab-lish that the rule among monogamists as statesmen Christians etc Is the practice of licentiousness Further J there Is covert scofllng at marriage and I the assertion that marriage was first 1 j Instituted In order to limit the number I 1 of children produced and that the at I 1 i Kempt I to make It a religious sacrament I was an Invention of the ecclesiastics I that they might benefit by the fees I Of course the frothings of a blackguard 1 I black-guard of that kind would not be worth I noticing except that there Is n large I class of people who want to believe l I that all the world is vile and more I because a large class of decent people do not comprehend that polygamy In I Utah goes far bey6nd the Immediate relations of men and women It breeds I In men an obliviousness to duty We I have a sample In the plea of B II Koberts There was n law forbidding I polygamy and prescribing a punishment i for It when he took his first plural I I wife He knew II but he did not care He went to the penitentiary 1or It and when he emerged from that Institution Ito I-to celebrate his defiance he took a J third wife Elected to Congress he insists In-sists that he should be seated because I he was duly elected and he Justifies the defiance of the laws on the ground of t his moral obligations to thoso involved I in-volved l with him though he and they all the time knew their relations were contrary alike to the laws of the coun I I try and of civilization And bright and strong as he Is he cannot understand why Congress and the Nation recoil before his plea In substance he says I I am n good citizen the only difference differ-ence between us Is that I propose louse lo-use my own best judgment a to what laws 1 will obey and what I will deride de-ride In Utah polygamy has always j been the cement which has held solid sway between the claim of the dominant domi-nant church here that It was n law to Itself This writer In the Conservative Is but one o a class of men who hind access ac-cess to the press of the country and seem to hold It as smart Journalism to deride the decencies of life and the natural nat-ural obligations of society bordcr rufllnnlsm a little smoothed down anIs an-Is harmless among decent people save when they discuss questions which they only know the surface of and do cance not understand their deeper signifi |