Show MORE OF sori it must be loing to ien t bolls lolls land reasonable thinking iiii net N of 0 tile earth that so BO much attention is given by the ilie greatest nation under tile heavens to a more mere handful of its people tile ono one three gyrt 0 if its ita subjects the vast amount of public money that Is being dally consumed to teed feed arid and support port in idle luxury no and bigoted men under the guise guide tit of ex orating ahe law Is ig commencing to be understood wen ilen are beginning sinning bo to see that linge speculative farco farce that has been ens caia ted aed on lie he public stage for or the lie last quarter ol of a century is s not so BO much tor for the moral that it was waa supposed to convey as for the recel receipt ptA that it was taking in and the employment it was fur to speculative carpet badgers consequently wo we mill men of honest convictions daring to mako inako themselves known through the public press said and foster tho the cause cams of 0 the despised mor rno raon li pet herple ale art an eastern gentlemen who laid been to utah and meen been arid and investigated vesti gated the tha mormon hormon problem for himself writes write to a boston paper and mays bay sa I 1 bare claimed it is true that the attacks tau its oo on fain gin are themselves a travesty of principles of reason candor and boneata bo neaty anti and this same i see reflected in the th debates of 0 congress on utah affairs I 1 do not think polygamy defensible on any but tho the weakest ground it is i a transitional not tho the ultimate form of marriage mormonism beina being a theocracy Is at war with republicanism lican I 1 ism sin and in III many of its dogmas and teachings traverses known truths of science but truth and virtue should confront error err orand and iniquity arid and the actions of a great government like this geould be characterized by the highest lorm form ol of justice arid and tile ilio present antl anti polygamy bill is an outrage and will ill accomplish bothin nothing no a tavo av 0 1 it t 1 bo u to increase in creage irritation aal and 1 U 1 l standing tta and make tire taints saints more it unit than ever before congress line laa undoubtedly ft a right to alt ail in the matter its it condemnation lies lie lit fit its failure to combine courage mid sagacity in its action its iti legislation on an the twin relic liau has been mere make believe it lind hall ft a haunting sense of tire right course to bo be pursued but cowered under tire haughty blare of the mob of priests anti gentry look at it A prosperous prospero community zif of two hundred thousand souls outstripping its neighbors in tho the development of agriculture trade and industry self belf made mada arid and dependent independent denied adais slon mon in into to the un union ion because of ti 0 pr practice n of polygamy in a which it be believed I 1 ieves as a a unit both aith viale mate and fei female feindle nale while uny tiny state stale by the vote of ft a majority of its citizens the mate citizens citi rens only has lite ilio right to regulate its own domestic institutions tut ions Inc including lading that ot of marriage I 1 As matters stand there is not the shadow of art an excuse for keeping in a state elate ol of territorial vassalage the b beat I 1 method of 0 battling with florinea mormon theocracy und and that la is real evil la is in bringing U rutih tah into the tha closest possible po wible sible relation with our republican system of government whose spirit aided by general era enlightenment will provo prove itself more potent than any acts act ot special V a legli legislation le tion but what are w we clr doing P but legislating for utah as a mere property and treating hr citizens as am chattels under that claim of tile the congress to make any rules land regulations for or the government ot of the territories reappoint we appoint over her a governor with an absolute veto power powe r and allin fill in the tame same vit way lyall all the other high eat and important offices we dissolved tire tho legislature a nina ud ordered a pew ew election under the alio super of 0 a committee com mitlee of 0 strangers ive five in number aiho vho before trial determined alin lin should vote the anti polygamy bill dis franchised and covered tha ilia whole of a tamia mans past lilo lifo still and while a believer in polygamy is disqualified for a juror juror tile the man mail who does not believe in it t having but one wile wife but bat any nuin her ber of le qualified to sit git in ill judgment on the accused and again I 1 polygamy Is in confounded with bigamy briganty bi ganty the he latter hatter implying deception anti and abandonment biair don ment nl whereas the former arnier does not and ns as great a fallacy is contained in the twin relic idea though nobody would seem beem to be con conscious alons of 0 st it but who with the least reflective pow erwill dare to place polygamy grany and anil african elavery in ift caone saone category iva it not causes similar to theme HIMO that revoked provoked the tha colonies to rebellion against areat britain the mormont will riot alvo up polygamy it T y when it stops sto stops PS T the be revelation batio 11 is in well authenticated to the them th the christian union I 1 ni on henry ward Be echers paper suggests that tho the united states has hai at least tire right to choose its own company anti utah may therefore tay stay out of the union kind indeed considering tho the source of the sug ue the Mor inona might not fril feel really hurt if left severely alone said J seph smith a 1 I want to be resurrects ati with t h this people A whether hether w we e to lu heaven or descend to hell bell it if wo go to hell bell we will turn the devil out and wake make a belve 11 it where this people are there Is i good society go clety wlm carca where we are so 10 thol the society is good butwill government leave them alone I 1 the rev joseph cook thinks tills this cancer will have tobe to le cut irom from the boda body politic as wilts was slavery by a deep pro onried phinie of the sabre talmage thinks tit the e only curo cure is ij cannon riannon inus niu ketry N surely thel their words have meaning when wo we consider how that bill w was wi fairly behaved through congress by bv the strong pressure from evangelical quarters aad then the gentlemen having lii ivin tho the bit bil in charge on the tha floor of tho the cenate and oi 01 the florist frankly observed that they meant mean t to try the mildest oi of birst I 1 bo be assured the cormons mormons wi vill 11 remain a territory forever or leave tile united unitta states or even die before for making their religion I 1 i christian sect hect will ever nalie make converts among them their next stop la is into the domain danum of irea free rational ration il thought let every liber nl at minded man and be un oil ilia side ide of jd atice to me it seems mews as if the mormon people ought to acceptor accept or reject tit the ocl T the lie wall man with but one wife should say may tile rights that are too good for my poly gani tot lat brother tire are too good for mu me the right you deny to him you deny to me in e no ho matter how the tha law ina dictionary de clintis polygamy your god or your corl con sc w will 11 not approve of your swear ing boz 1 I rim not a polygamist for any r chiso fh iso under the nin blin ilant baue upon the hight high t ground it t i S time alia dibuo were drawn ili ilotti sharp arid and clear bo be faithful to your our convict convictions ioni whatever ill be and yuu you will have haio ri enila and ill alio world too still be prot jedby ted by it and on iro lotfe it the truths in una fitt icle tire invulnerable the thrift industry ry anil and morals of the ilia Mo Nor nion people no how low mm li it willell try to disown ilia fact fic taru ara arthy tile example of tho the howling ule hile blather elites who are making such a bug boar of 11 Mornion iBin I 1 perec tion neier yet ut settled bellied biffi the ilie sit its planted to rob lob a demoted p ut or their tae free ill ofle offerings oll cring rings will ill not destroy the faith that ali it prompts d then to give of their sustenance tho of tile tho P I 1 E fand faill 8 ill not stay tile gadle ing of israel for a greater poi r haa declared dac lared that they shall fly like doves to their windows laud who CLI can 11 stay his purpose 7 tile tho mormons cormons Mor mons lire fire be cuspud ot of converting the illiterate abtil poor of tire tho earth I 1 just think of it I 1 I 1 terrible is ia it not wait that the tha this great nation decided to extinguish the worthy object of the P 1 E rund fund A prominent senator en lator once said baid and very truly too ithe the more successful wo ie are in proving that mormonism receives its ila recruits cruita re from froin tho the most deg degraded raider class the more we Q strengthen ltd its coniing to divinity i for we vve find its subjects lime undergone a 0 great transformation for the lite mormon people are arc more sincere since re than ilia th average christian Cli ristian find fully as more than thirty years ago when polygamy wits nan unknown to this land lanil 0 if tho diee anti and tho the home of the brave president taylor the tha twila martyr of these latter days daya maid bald if men and nn tiong eions of 0 be being ng governed liy by their unruly passions covetous desires deu irea and ambitious motives were governed by tire tho pure principles of 0 philanthropy virtue piety justice arid and conot arid and were under the alio guidance of a fatherly find intelligent I 1 tell ell igent bead and directed by it tint I 1 at wisdom which governs the universo regulates tho the motions of the tha planets third would ha be no need of so BO many armies and navies police regulations etc I 1 11 was vas established years art and years yeara before the tha principle of cit celestial marriana marriage was revealed from rom heaven the persecutions mA makings bings dr ivings and killings in olibo ilia i S ouri apol illinois illinoia cannot bo be consistently attributed to the polygamy hueR huband ild cry of these days but it is the same powers that aro in conflict today to dayed day ond that ever have been struggle for sir prelacy right and wrong truth and error goil god and man tile outcome will result iii fit victory for tho the former unto hoin day and night a P persecuted and much ill timed people cry I 1 marriage la Is honorably honorable in all said baid a disciple discipio ol of righteous hundreds hundred of years yeara ago but marriage is daily becoming less lesa fashionable and tle them orld is ia trying to make a virtue of necessity but that condition of thing which ile celibacy will ill be found fruitful ot of anything but bat virtue it ib is ii not only not good for man or woman boman to be ba alone it Is ia an injury A loss loaa the tha mormon I 1 people do not or never have contended that tit at mart maneage aage will ft ill save all nho lie enter it but without marriage neither mari man nor woman can in full sense bo be tins allin ity Is tile soul of it a righteous man better to be the plural wife of 0 a noble man than the noble wife of a an n in ilif lif a ferent man or than to live tingle to usher immortal souls bouts into existence under a due sense bense of 0 responsibility la Is the aim of celestial marriage marriage tor for eternity ill ia designed to root out passion anil and whim hin and to perpetuate tile family tie find annj relationship in ill the worlds oilda to come tile the divine sealing of 0 man to woman v oman by the eternal priesthood of jalio ah implies fidelity in each other oilier to the principles plea ot of their religion and there is ia no noco court uit not even that of death that can call dissolve tile lie relation though the highest hiti heat exaltation comes through I 1 the law of celestial marriage its observance brings the deepest tion holy writ records corila re the lie fact that tile loril lord hath bath chosen it becu peculiar lar people unto himself above all the nations nii tiona that a are rl upon ilia earth eaith and vert eerily y I 1 tle ite Mor mormon moul crople are pecullar |