Show I I A CANDID SJ VIII Wilt th the who cannot boar that differs cUrter with their views vIes of morality end religion and who iio want wanto to o have any an Mormon h d If It he ho h dares lares to 10 reply to attacks on his hili belief bellet carry tirry their bigotry so M as tn to indict the Now Nv York Sun Hun for tor teaching amy That brilliant paper lilt p r on March 1 It t published tho Iho following minnie It lion Ion repudiating the Iho statements 1111 arguments It contains According to 10 o the Iho of oe the IM who are arraigning for tor simply reo re P false till statements and reasoning on the tho sama subject the tho Hun hits has made iamb Itself II by b space SIMCO to this candid 04 lid III letter Jetter which U Is pointed lI enough fr tor rell lion Ion In To the th of lC the tho Ten Tn years eais ago when the question of ot the admission of a n Mormon to the tho he Unite States Slates Senate win under discussion I wrote a 11 letter to 10 the Sun endeavoring to 10 point out tho Iho very great dangers arising from rom a public consideration o othe ot of the moral character or otherwise o ot of polygamy The recent discussion of ot the question at Washington only confirms my views In the tho first place It raises rallies the very ver dangerous question of state rights Ii lit In Inthe the second place It throws thrown open a n wide door dOOf for an art Inquisitorial Inquiry as 1111 to the tho Christian view of ot polygamy The Tho crime of bigamy I 1 believe Is punish punishable punIshable able by tho the law of ot every state lit ate In the Union and I am nm not aware that In any state the legal rights of ot a n second wife bo be recognized unless a divorce had taken place Even Eon In Utah the Iho first wife Ite Is ii the tho only wife recognized by law But Jut when shea the tha question of ot po poll ll gamy Is l discussed from tram the viewpoint of ot the tho sacred Scriptures Scripture tho the scholar r has halt banto hasto to 10 face the fact that while the Hebrew law undoubtedly sanctioned tho the earlier Christian father others almost without exception interpret I 1 Timothy III ill 2 The husband of or ono wife vie ns as Implying that polygamy pol was tolerated In the tire early Church ChurchIn In addition to this the great tier Ger German man mart Martin Maitin Luther al oh allowed allowed lowed polygamy and so 80 did John Mil Mu Milten ten the Puritan Christian poet Con Concubinage was hs legalized cd In the Christian church up tip to the time of ot AugustIne of ot Hippo Indeed Augustine reckons the matter nailer as one ouo of ot Iho dubious nod oud points which could not easily bo be determined The rile primitive modes of oC marriage ns os expressed by Latin words In manum and lUtI were vero tolerated In Inthe Christian th the church h forti for tor it IL long period In III British Inin where hero the govern government meat ment of England l proclaims proclaim Itself Chris Christian tian tiati each ench religious community Is ul ti lowed to have its own laws of or mar riago and anti divorce Hut tho the Constitution tion tiun of ot the United States Sia INI does not even proclaim Itself Christian Tho The United States Staten government now exercises exorcizes au no authority over a 1 very considerable num nuin number ber bor of ot In III Asia Shall wo refu refuse o state rights or 01 oven Independent dent government to the tho Philippines whon some pome of ot Its provinces populated by hy legalize polygamy In the United States there thero are u n million anti and andu u Li half of at hebrews Hebrew who while they con confer fer m to the usages u gel of or society nod to 10 thin Iho laws of the tho state In which they live hold haiti the same views with regard to marriage and divorce as liS were pro promulgated by b the th Jewish lawgiver Mows Moses MO I We to 10 bo bl n a free freo people but we are nto always allow Ing morel moral issues Is uel to 10 tol tobe l be e raised to 10 the tho great rut detriment of ot morality whether It bo lie the question of ot slavery or of or stAte prohibition the the black man mait enfranchise enfranchisement bent ment of ot the Chinaman or the Sunday saloon The Declaration of ot Independence dence proclaimed nil tacit men tree free at lit u II time millions of ot human beings were werl held In u 1 condition of ot slavery B Iery such UK tie never neer existed In any Moslem or heathen land 11 slavery slaver which allowed a 1 father to sell his hils own on offspring Thc people of Utah have ho 0 elected R a 1 member of ot their community to serve erro In III the th Ih senate and Immediately n a die of ot the Iho most unseemly charac character tel ter l is IA raised ns as to ta the rendition condItion of ot this 14 married life Now Noll suppose It become the th rule of ot the Renate to 10 ills dIa CUPA the Iho conditions nf of the thc married life lito I of ot every vel distinguished dl senator Has lIu HasIm haslie Im lie been heen legally Han he been divorced pl and BO so forth What hiat the end en be beI I regent regard this whole discussion ns liS n it blunder mind It can only bear benr fruit tom for evil ovll In comuso of ot time timeA A New ew York March 10 |