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Show klloMOTION OF POLYGAMY Jlplsa factdr for good or for IttKd or evil is measured by . ;Bduccd on society, whether " iW ',c next generation. Even ftJaEbo classed ns selfish, the MHRCtcr will not be changed, which guide the wise and JMfWl bo far. different from iilde the vicious, whoso nc-r;fy5 nc-r;fy5 abnormality of passion rfifflBic instinct of sclf-prescr-nfct.Set Is Hellish, and will cause Bon to avoid those things gjfcMCh to become a part of Is rjr perhaps the hurt that elimination of his kind. lJB(ntnKly a product of clvll--nBj'.the workings of a general if Vie fag-ends of society are Alj)BM maelstrom of sure dc- mMfml name for what reason immk actions that aro hurt-MMft hurt-MMft and in some ways man "5ep worse off than the anl--TMpito creation In his look-Milfaro look-Milfaro for the succeeding "SlHilhc dcslructivcncss of the "UP'l as no Parallel nor jjBtht- other of animal crc- PHVt animal, with all of his rTnjst suffer from his im- i!Ktinorc punishments from the laws of nature than any other animal. ani-mal. Where intelligence siiould guide, passion rules and the sequence Is seen everywhere and In the prison, the gallows, gal-lows, the madhouse, the morgue with the suicide corpse. , , Polygamy is a vice and not a virtue, and cannot he a cure for any evil; anil It is even an increascr of vice for the next generation. The polygamist is far more apt to add lo the fag-ends of society so-ciety than otherwise, as any student who follows tho history of some of the polygamous families of Morinondom can soon verify. It would seem that. In many instances, that a product had resulted, which In general, the vices must find a productive soil for its seeds of depravity and destructions. While the high priesthood of tho Mormon Mor-mon church Is notoriously polygamous, and contagiously infective and inoculative inocula-tive among the "Tribe of Latter-Day Saints of tho Most High Polygamy, no word mora need be. said about its well-known well-known self-propagation; but it Is worth while to take a view of some or the agents nnd promoters that arc aiding and keeping strong the kingdom of the Mel-chlscdec Mel-chlscdec passions In thcao mountains and valleys of Israel." The promotion of one vico or evil Is much like another, for thcro Is a relation In the "spirituality" that begets them. Smoot's graft at Provo. described In detail de-tail by "Uncle Jesse" Knight, was only an Incident that pointed him out as qualified to take a seat alongside the Utah representative of the sugar trust, and become an apostle, and finally be the representative of the Interests of polygamy polyg-amy at Washington In tho United States senate "Lord Bcresford Hope," alias Lord Berta Cavendish, who swooped down upon "Zlon" once upon a time, was a polygamlBt, yet ho did not seem to advance ad-vance his polygamy as a creed: In fact, he acted like a Mormon missionary In some respects, for ho did not tell of his other alliances, but his passion for pelf was such as to show that there was good stock In him. too. to bo the making of an apostle. "Hope's" plans did not have the divine smack that Is prerogative of tho Mormon high priests or tho prophet, but his heralds announced his coming. A lord of the manor born with a hoard of money was coming to do some high stunts In high finance, and as these lords do love sport, a few tlsh had to be spied out for the honk and fly of the noble scion, Jt Is said that the shark Is accompanied ac-companied by pilot fish to guide him to his prey or to keep him from danger. This pilot fish is a kind of a jack-Mormon among the fish, it seems. Lord Hope had his sport, hooking and skinning a wlelder of the scalpel, and then some. The polygamist Is a sport also, but Hope did not seem to commit any polygamy In "Zlon." He seemed to brr worn out with the heavy burden of his financial Interests and tho taking care of the many callers who had an ax to grind Of course, he was classed as a high-grade criminal, and like polygamlsts. he had uid to null off his stunt, tho soil being prepared for him by benevolent and kind aforethought. Hope's operations did not profoundly affect, society, but. no one will seriously approve him nor ills agencies or agents, and the effect was tho loss of some money to a few and somo lessons les-sons to the moral senso to those Immediately Imme-diately concerned. Now compare tho cf-fects cf-fects of polygamy nnd Its promoters upon society, the state, the government! Are tho effccLs not lasting and hurtful to the generations yet to come? Is not the wholo federal machinery of Utah used to protect or promoto the Interests In-terests of polygamlsts, thereby promoting promot-ing polygamy? When Smoot and Spry supervised the launching of tho battleship battle-ship Utnh. It seems that tho ceremony was converted by Smoot Into a kind of a polygamous memorial scrvlco; but this was to bo expected of men raised In polygamy and drawing so much of character char-acter from the sensual nurture of the system. But thoro are some GcntJlcs who aid In the promoting of polygamy. You cannot can-not well condone a crime without encouraging en-couraging more of the same kind. There Is an Indifference to tho law which Is baneful to society, for the laws arc tho set guide posts to human action In any community. Daniel Webster said: "We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen, but we confidently con-fidently trust, and our expectations of tho duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of gencrnl knowledge, and good and virtuous vir-tuous sentiments, tho political fabric may bo secure, as well against open violence and overthrow as nsalnst thnt slow but sure undermining of licentiousness." licentious-ness." Now thcro aro several kinds of licentiousness licen-tiousness such as graft, vcnnl politicians, who exploit the taxpayers of a city or state through tho various departments or through connivance with contractors, ihc ovcr-rlding of the law or ordinances, the usurpation of powor for tho benefit of a crowd as against tho general welfare wel-fare of the community those arc some forms of licentiousness, and where such , license outers Into the functions of government, gov-ernment, tho true purpose of that government govern-ment will be defeated- It Is well known that the Mormon power has nhvays taken full license with the laws whenever an opportunity has offered, and conditions In the past and In the present give the high priests much opportunity for their several Kinus ot licentiousness. Lechery Is the form of licentiousness that Is tho controlling power amour the Melchlscdecs and Is always tho active factor with the Mormon priesthood In their political oporatlons, and all of their aids, or pilot fish, in these political operations aro promoters of this form of licentiousness- As tho vices aro related, graft. embezzlements and peculation would bo concurrent evils with polygamous polyga-mous politics. A lay Mormon may not bo a very active ac-tive aid to polygamy, and may be way down deep opposed to the system and then, of course, on the IiIrIi road to apostasy: nnd an apostate Mormon who hns accumulated all of tho vices of tho cult nnd Is a bad example to right living liv-ing and n hurt to society may be a promoter pro-moter of some of the forms of polygamy, and really ono of the fag-ends of humanity hu-manity In tho process of clfmlnatlvc evolution. evo-lution. Gentiles who give letters of recommendation recom-mendation or Introduction to tho missionary mis-sionary elders arc promoting error If not polygamy. If a Gentile official gives such letters to the missionaries. It Is to bo regarded re-garded as an eplstlo to spread the gospel of polygamy; and the writer would stand In high record with the Melchlscdcc in o rums as n useful and valuable tool of the propeht. The selection of polygamlsts for the highest positions In the Mormon church is to bo expected, but the adoration and promotion of nny polygamist by n Gentile Gen-tile Is a flagrant aiding of criminal licentiousness. li-centiousness. All lecherous men aro apt to bo promoters of polygamy, whether within the Mormon church or not. It Is only necessary lo point out some of their political factors at tho present time. One of the principal newspaper exponents of polygamy Is said to bo an adulterous and outcast Baptist preacher; and the organ of tho federal bunch Is accredited with such virile stock H3 to contaminate all with whom they coino Into contact. Polygamy Is the producer of mote lechery lech-ery that, in time must full under the process of ellmlnatlve evolution, but the process Is as slow as the advanco of the race, and the cvl bred into men must afflict society for a long lime. Polygamy and Its promoters have no spiritual lead what Ihcy Interpret as spirituality Is only a perverted or abnormal abnor-mal passion. Whon some polygamist gets what ho calls tho "spirit of the Lord Into himself," it. Is only theNslgn of pcrtnbrd animal passion, and Is apt to culminate In adding to his harem for torrostrl.il use and glory. Some of tho ol'd "daddy" po-lygainlstH po-lygainlstH used to call themselves "Lions of the Lord." and their rantlngs In the "boweries" hud the same kind of spirituality spiritu-ality that Is heard evory spring In the croaking of frogs, the bellowing of bulls and the drumming of partridges, only tho Melchlscdecs had no closed session In the polygamous gospel. Man Is mnn when ho is a moral being, subjecting his appetites and desires to reason. No man Is perfect, but when man fails In this matter ho must suffer for his weakness, even entailing suffering suffer-ing upon his posterity, and even to extinction. ex-tinction. Resist or perish, or rather obey laws, for the laws of nature take advantage ad-vantage of every mistake and never forgive. for-give. "Ignorance Is tho mother of crime" Then Is It not time for those who are consorting with the polygamous powers to do sonic Intelligent thinking for their own sakes and for the general good of posterity? OLIVER SISYMOUR. |