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Show H dOr lilt. UTAH WAY. BIB The Dillon Tratetcr, In an editorial HB headed "The Utah Mormons," isj t: luHp Polygamy may be dssd In Utah, as the lfB dofomlcra of Hie Mormon claim, lint how HB coitM II Uit no havo A pontle Taylor ilc- UsaE olirlng llial the tnanlfcsio of lv-ld-nt Woodmir, ailtlilnic that mi moro tidy- HHf painou union nimv lo enteroil Into fur HHj the present, does not prevent a man from HI supportlnif mora than one womanT This B oulil sum to Indicate nhathasslwajrs HK tieen litd by tho.ii who looked doopsr HH than the mora surface inaniroiloa, (bit M, tlio alleged abandonment or i-olyjtamy HJH ' "ure lrel " w,n Ixilar B opinion from tho roit of tho fanntry B and lo Iniluonr politicians In fa Mir t or atatrlKKxi. That It has aiiecooded Ii HA shown In tlio mngratalailonsliiduleedln HH by President Caonon "over tho mlrsou HB louacbanno In publlo sentiment." How HB rnunh President I'llot ot Harvard has HB had to do with tlila miracle la not aald, HB but ha should not bo dsuled thu creillt or HB the dlacrodlt, as tho case may be, of lilt HB share. It will bo n nood thing lo sire IBKJ Mormon Utah o long probation. Intelligence and liumanlty may be I allro In Marraohustlls, ulillu rumor I and the census reports sllll Inform us, I but bow ootuea It that wo have thu I edltorof a re-epectsblo newapapei there ! misquoting remarks In order to argue thorn, and advtoitlng by Implication the violation of one of the plainest duties an honorable man can assume; Does tho lraitlcr writer think that President Woodtull's maolfostj pre. Tented, or prctsiilej or was lutsndel ' to-revent, "a man from supporting more than one woman," If that other woman or women happens I tu be bis wife or wives, and poailbly the mother or mothers of his cliIIJrohT If so, Ills Intellect must ho pitifully drratfoj, and hla trnio of humanity utterly depraved. Ho suspects that what bo calls thn "alleged abandon. raentof polygamy" was a mere pro text to win a hotter opinion from tb rest of the country; and lie Intimitis that that better opinion ivouU tliTi been woo, from him at least, If the men who had practiced polygamy In I, Utah had Immediately turned their plural wives and their children out of doors, cornol repudiated, drsplaed, and left to tbuf mtrclca of a world In which suoh Christian scribes as he are Kood enough to be considered reaped abU. The Mormons In Utah nro as far ' above the need of a better opinion from his class of thinkers os they are above his method of dealing with tho roraen I and children who have claims upon them for support. To the law and to it- spirit, even to It very letter, they yield sincere obedience. Hut iu law does not require nor can It con., -hat they shall wlthold aupport from the women they oovenanted to love and cherish, and the children born unto them In such alliances. The Traveler man's notions under the abandonment "' polygamy Jprove what his notions ot the practice of polygamy were. thinks It strange that tho men de not hall with pleasure the opportunity heirtlkuly to cast oQ and mercilessly to hurl down to eternal tirrow the women whose lovu they oncu had won. It Is enough to say to hint that such may ba the Itoiton way, but It la not the Utah way. As to "the congratulations (Indulged In by I'reildent Cannon 'over the u'raculous chango In public sentiment, senti-ment, '"they doubtltss sprang from a lerfeclly natural gratitude that the 1 Intelligence of the American people had at last come to reject as senseless drivel such emanations ni might be expected from writers of tho JYaictcr stripe; and nl tolliequsitlon of how much President l.llot had to do with this miracle, we are of opinion that the morothatdlstlrlgulshed iceutleman had to do with It tho more entitled ho la to a thus lu the "congratulations." |
