| Show A VOICE FROM THE MOUNTAINS I A Writer Pays His Respects to the Ministers I Advises Them Not to Monkey Longer With the Corpse of Polygamy During the closing days ot last ncec the winds that blew up Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood canyon were charged with something some-thing like blsulphlde ot carbon I was at a lo > s 0 understand It until 1 rend of the Irritation among the mln Islora over the corpse of polygamy Why cannot they leave It burled J Or why will they thus publicly Dhow the to them recreant Mormons how by the eterclse of political power they can resurrect the defunct thing O I they mtut Insist that the Mormons are sill frartlslng polygamy why do they not challenge them to public dls oulon of life Institilitionand pove by the 1Ihl that 1 Is I n social Wine find In 1lllon ot the 1 of 01 1 Through the long and Using yenrx In vvilich the Pioneers were mnklnA the sucess that wax a glorllo1 as 1 now elvillication lit July lat lh leaders ot the men who made hat civilization I o polYgamasts The man uh1 1 status was dedicated oa Miia street at that unto and eulogIzed Us one If the Iet greatest and beat of mn use he most married of thrm Thar Pureems wan dul wholly to the religion faith of tile People who fOk1 upon urn Brigham Young as the only 1r8n In earth outhoI1 to apk anti act tn all naUer ahout restraint na the month of the heavenly Father It might be argued that polygamy I then as much the 1 of Uo W that It Ivan Ill vNIII that the tat Itrt J People Should I illck tit agriculture nrol leave raffiln J clone I 1 only howcr suggest tile Plt Hut this must be sail In candor I those mo had been as bad as Im metal 0 It a is the clergy would have Its btfleve they were not only then but are note they lIer kild have nort the success which we all Know they achieved W e cannot soy they r the mOt persistent unit laborious orkor on lh ronthicul and at llife game time the mool t vicious of mD mid women We know tint Industrials nl0 reps titles not follow the march of do gradd and degrading social cfmdl ton Vs NDnol epa the Irk ot the Mormons from Iholr lives and hold that they were honest and In I dtrlou8 above the general araga t11 tlmeeldisnmi Ana at the same tme olhunet immoral im-moral vile and beastlal In ther social Trial I ns W V must admit thin that thy Zrp ns honest In thwlr polygamy as In Ihelr Industry Thai being the case It follow that they are equally honest now la Ihlr cIintiniaed Late ot the women hom they as thy bell ved honl itly unit 1 religiously made their vvlv I m before Iho hurh an 1 ivhob annouried that Into deference In-to the law of the viholn land they would rwfnilt n more polyga I Tritium marriages That was what they promised I and all they promised If I the ministers know of pi lygamlc mar r1agem since tho manleto ot the Church they hv eu lut Ihey should pr Ihe eldercaln prenll wlh stead of growling against Imaginary I a Ifennes oUe fluta the on mn Vho were luPpoe flying In yaj llormon T Is wer sum 1lng Ihl polAam talnlng the polygomlc relation of husband hus-band to n plurality of wives before lh manifesto had subsequently turned those wives drift upon society socie-ty to take care of them selves and thlr I child would no hae not theme memo ministers bell them up as examples of tile degrading rtmtnn fgm grading Influenve I of Normonlisin I Certainly Then why should not th fact that they have cared for them nnd their children In placed to the credit ot Mormonlsm I belong to no lloronlm ready to do just It ce tall t-all The reeognlzd standing and character acter of the evangelical seels places them iooo serious complaint we will ray Hut ha ve they all the honesty and purity ot Ihi world He would be Iurly I I poor bigot who would make such a claim May not then tile Mormons b4n not be now as liave ben mny they nl nw 1 will I I of bed sincerely ly the door of th 1 0 It is I as are the best of their critics 1 ny conlcUon that perfection has and never exinted do not noW exist Inlcll nevr may never exist 8nlonG me In any church on earth But ad long n men and women honestly and earn Coolly the to do the will ot the Best a thy Be I and understand I they ret CR t I tied 10 the same freedom ot entle In1 rights if conscience In one church as another or outside of all churches 1 I me r free a goal then each m1 settle with 001 himself him-self If we are not free agnl then sel J there Is I n settlement Possible Mn we are more IUppl In the hands tan t-an Infinite and heartless manager at a horrible punch and Judy show 1 1 have been In polYlamlc houses unit have them seem I beautiful lives as this world contains nol because of the polygamic relation but because of the honesty and purity ot the heal ot the parents J Is I time the mini term gle those cold CIAILtS plygamll LIS a rt |
