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Show BISHOP SPALDING DEFENDS MORMONS Head of Episcopal Church in Utah bicusses Polygamy in Now York. Special to TI.e Tribune. TTBIW YORK. Jan. Jl. Aften ten rears ,.r lervtoa amonc the Mprmons, where his predeeessors In the Episcopalian oburch fminded the finft lion-MoVmon school and the first hospital of anv kind, th.e ftt. Rev. S. Spalding, biahop of t 't jiii, discussed the Mormon from the standpoint of ins creed, his buainess affiliations af-filiations and hla peculiar sensibilities before be-fore a laiqe audience in Grace church last night. Bishop Bpeldlng declared thai t'ne women of Morraondom went Into polygamy polyg-amy more readll) than the men. that all the women who went into il did s 'with their eyes wide open," luiowlnK fulh What they were .It-ln and lived happll) in their domestic relationship ao that u was not worth wasting sympathy on them and thai charges that Mormon Mor-mon missions rlea were really agents for a "species of sublimated white eia-erv." eia-erv." as t;hiirce at Carnegie hall last week-, aie without the silghteel foundation. foun-dation. "The people of the east are all wrong." raid Bishop Spalding "In supposing sup-posing that the Mormon polygamy was a concession to the ufl of mankind. Il was a sacred tenet of a religious faith, yo practiced ami so believed In, The problem In Utah la In consequence one to be dealt tv 1 1 ii 111 sympathy and tin rough the spreading of llghl and knowledge, anti not through bitter assaulta "The charges that young ulrls are now. Or have ever beep Imported from ICngland to become plural wlvea la a 1 1 ue Blander. Il has been fully ine:,. llgated and all in ve.st h:a tors agree ibal t liove young women who 'nave l inc plural wives since die Mormon agree- metil to cease pOlygamOUS ma i rhiur s are the'meelvefl the daughters of plural wives, and they pre but Uvlng their mothers relglons ICeoh tne Knew fullv what she was doing." Bishop Spsldtng expressed ihe belief thai other churches than the Mormon church were B great deal to blame for holding In restrain! Its llrsl group of followers. 'if im churches In the period pe-riod or rertnatlonV he said "had been doincr t'nelr duty there would have been no turniug lo the Mormon prophet for llgl 1. "Many splendid people have become converts to the Mormon religion ;tnd inajiv whom I am proud to call mv friends. They face the hh-m bathetic situation in the world toda Could von take --tioiic: ground agalnsl .' faith if to at cue vigorously agalnsl it would besmirch the life of your own mother? I couldn't. Nor can WS BSk the Mormons Mor-mons to. t don I want to ireaie Mormon Mor-mon apostates In Utah. I want to creati Insurgents men who working within their own ranks will lead towards ;i belter bel-ter way" |