Show ON O lOmIO Som time so had hadu hadan u an 1 item staling that 1 worth wont knowing users bout about than moet in et people and that an Al Amorn church With 1000 members I worth some study tudy This aen m to have baye been too toe much for the editor ot of the nit Pr who Iho replies without polygamy I Is Isa a tame tam Utterly wanting In those virile which growth and is II doomed and nd the mom moment t its III knell kell wu was sounded marked tile the tura turning ll point ot of Mormon turn tm toward decay anti and death Millions of property properly and the of its 1111 sincere tou followers may make its Ita decline I a lingering O one but its III fate Ilk like the women It ft has hae degraded is Ie sealed IedA A stronger proof or of the Ih pertinence of I the lb of HArpers could bardy be adduced Th The para paragraph MIra graph quoted so tar far aa 5 it II represents a popular Impression demonstrates tho ho dense ignorance concerning the Amer Amerlean Amerteen teen lean Church commonly called Mor loon Inon Tho Those who h Instigated the bitter eru cru lade against the Church In Utah yrs years ago took It far ter granted that polygamy end w were synonymous term and b by their that Idea Ida currency It was IS a cunnIng plan Ily Dr Its III adoption public u llo sympathy Was Wae pined gaIned for Cor a crusade a church the p guise of at an anat at attack tack on an unpOpular practice Al AI Alleged concern for tor the purity of more wae Wa node made an excuse for the an n attack on the American of 01 religious liberty Under no other pro pre pretext text could the crusade ade against the thi Church Church have I en n carried on In the same lame way the were wert made mad the ob objects of In this country Some years year when all kinds of lIe stone about t r alleged secret evil evildoIngs doIngs were weN In order to In dam against them theWl hut Dut the scheme echeM did not work erk who ho fathered it Il have long ago found that thai polygamy and are re not net synonymous terms lerms They now see that that the Church Is stronger and more popular with wHit that practIce abandoned than ever Vor The They have found that an all their plans plana have haye been In vain that In fact they have aided In rou nt an Interest In the doctrines of oC the Church In WM where the Elders but for the agitation might not have bave secured a bearing Josephs broth Ten reft had hIl Intentions but an over overruling overruling ruling Power turned the evil 1 Into good goodAU goodAll AU All tit this is II well known here her but Inether In ether places the false faiN Impre impressIon eton still obtains that the end nd of polygamy was wa the finish of the Church tOng tho those who un still hoW to 10 Is the edItor ot of the Troy Pr hI 11 may not know or he may not care to ti existed for years rs and grew g w vigorously before the on plural marriage was B given lIin Otherwise he would see the consistency of the proposition that the Church dose dOlI not on that doe doc doctrine trine rise for Its lis existence and develop To his hll charts oMra that Is the stronghold or of It Is suf luf to I ia ar In refutation Ut It If be will scan the lb columns of the dally daily prose he will ft that the Mormons Mormon do not figure In the revolting Iton stories which almost dally daily are displayed un no under nodee dee der some IOme web such headlines as UI Two 18 Women Claim him or fits lily DIg hurt Woman Sold Said to have 1181 Found 1 In It The Tb h heroes of the romances romance indicated by such cop lions are not al 1 II a ruts rule of the Church Charob But a as already said laid then I dens denn concerning It would be better though If editors would conies their upon that subject and seek enlightenment It If called upon to volunteer an opinion That would be no But Dut to write In ignorance upon any subject and JId to to I hide that thet In words and aAd lib credIt on no man and nd least of all on An editor of a popular Ian lar journal |