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Show IT IS ORrMTNTALS THAT GO. It aeoma that tho Mormons aro rapidly rapid-ly moving to Canaxla. That is qne of the easiest ways out of a bad situation that wo have over experienced. But our svm-pathy svm-pathy is with Canada Philadelphia In-auirer. In-auirer. : We find but one error in this brief-comment brief-comment of our highty esteemed contemporary. con-temporary. It is known here upon the ground that they aro polygamists who aro moving to Canada not sincere Mormons. Mor-mons. Men who insist upon marrying new wives are placing themselves in an attitude of defiance against the Woodruff manifesto; and therefore they arc not good Mormons Honest members of the church condemn these criminals, in speech, almost as severely severe-ly as do Gentiles. They have no sympathy sym-pathy for them in word: but tho great trouble 'is that they support them in deed. They pay cithos to lhe chief po-h'gamisr, po-h'gamisr, wno utilizes a part of the money thus obtained to establish foreign for-eign refuges for his favorito lawbreakers. lawbreak-ers. l.l is impossible for the president ; of tho Mormon t-.huroh to protect all of these .now lawbreakers iu Utah. He is under necessii3' oi providing principalities princi-palities in foreign lands, lo -which these criminals may floe, leaving the legal wife in Utah, and thus presenting the appearance, in either .country, of having hav-ing but one wife. When at home the polygamous scoundrel points to his legitimate le-gitimate family and hypocritically declares de-clares himself to be within the law. He goes back lo Canada aud parades his concubine as his legitimate wife, and there also poecs as a monogamist. So the Record will be able lo sec what kind of Mormons they are who arc moving mov-ing inlo the King'3 domain to the north aud in view of the circumstances our eonleniporaiy's expression of sympathy sym-pathy for our neighbor country was buildcd botter than the i'uquirerknew. That the situation here with respect to polygamy is bad, wc readily agree; bui! wc arc confident that it is even worse than -the 'Eastern pre6s can begin be-gin to imagine. Practice of this crime has been viciously renewed, aud the oni3r remedy for it i? to bring the whole matter under. Federal control. |