Show THE NEW YORK YOEK SUN ON THE MORMONS according to tile the old doctrines of the republican party slavery and polygamy were the twin relics relies of barbarism and as the special mission of that party was to inaugurate a political millennium it of course followed that this brace of iniquities was to be utterly annihilated the first part of this work has been accomplished slavery Is an extinct institution hut but its twin brother polygamy flourishes spreads and multiplies why does the republican party hesitate to grapple tills this evil according to their original pro gramme it claims the honor of having rescued the slaves from the horrors of servitude and why should it not now inaugurate the work of plucking the brands from the tire fire orein in the realms of BRIG HAM YOUNG there is ts an excellent opportunity for a political raid on the tile harems hares of utah for the tile saints who inhabit that saline locality have recently niven given abundant cause for such a measure in atle first place they have not paid a dollar r revenue evenue tax since the beginning of the war and they emphatically declare that they do na not intend to secondly Second fy they uley persistently refuse to allow american emigrants not of mormon faith to settle in their region or to work the noid gold goldmints oid old mines that are alleged to be quite rich in some parts of that territory thirdly they nave havo an unpleasant fashion of putting ous ius ua persons out of tile tiie way by indans means of their destroying angels which is not altogether in corrance cor wor dance with american notions of right for vor instance a case has just been reported wise rein a six per persons bons once mormons cormons Mor mons nd endeavoring to escape were murdered in a kanyon about fifty miles from salt lake city by be tie saints in tile the disguise of indians there ne n e other indictments against the mormons cormons Mor mons all additional to the great sin of polygamy but it is s 1 not necessary to recapitulate them As president lincoln montgomery blair biair when lie he wanted him to leave the cabinet their time as come and they should receive formal notice norice that polygamy is a doomed institution this nation has commenced the work rk of self and irwill it will nonstop until the major evils at least are effectually weeded out atas it aspires ires to be the great leader in the file of nations and this it cannot be so long as others call can show its flag protects great moral evils polygamy must alow follow slavery to its grave v e and tile the thu teu sooner it is burled buried the sooner the d dark rk stains that have so long rested upon the escutcheon of this country will be obliterated therefore let tae republican party now turn the vials of its wrath upon this sole hole remaining relic of barbarism ll 11 let it assert the doctrine that there is an irrepressible conflict between monogamy and polygamy oly loly gamy by this means the party will escape the popular verdict which now impends ver it that it has outlived its usefulness the tile foregoing short leading article from the tile N Y sun san is published in denso because apart from anything 0 in the shape of arguments there are statements contained in it reflecting 0 apon the whole of the tile citizens of this territory herrl tory which we cannot permit to cassun noticed however honest the tile editor may be n ills his belief of the statements made hey are none the less untrue and the animus almus that gives birth to such malignant falsehoods is none the less reprehensible hen sible sibie in saying that they have not paid a dollar of revenue tax since tile tiie beginning t of the tile war lie he commits himself by endorsing a most flagrant untruth in his editorial capacity we have the authority of the U S offic officials lais in this territory within tile the purview of whose duty the collecting of the revenue tax lies for saying that it is promptly and cheerfully paid throughout the territory that monthly reports are furnished famished to the department at washington and that tile the amount collected has been regularly disposed of under instructions received from the department if we had made no inquiries as 3 to the tile provisions of the re venue law having been fully honored by our citizens individually we know the statement made in the sun to be false in every word for nor forwe we have paid the tax and so has very every employee in our office tile the truth or falsia falsity y of this wholesale charge could have been easily ascertained by reference to washington but it does not suit tile the purposes of those who wilo apropo gate it to do go so it serves their object better to adopt any groundless charge against the mormons cormons Mor mons and publish it to the world as true the mass of tile the people can all ali be the better stirred up to choler against us the next statement that they emphatically declare they do not intend to is sufficiently refuted by the refutation of the first they never have and do not lot now low persistently refuse to allow ahie AlIe american amerlean rican emigrants not of mormon faith falth to settle in their region or to work tile the gold mines that are alleged to be quite rich in some parts of that territory the territory has been overrun by american emigrants who have prospected the mountains kenyons kan gulches gul leys and valleys north and south east cast and west without let or hindrance to their hearts content and troops in the pay of the government have beeh been furnished animals rations and prolonged prolong ged leave of absence for the same purpose but the gold mines quit quite rich in some parts have yet to be discovered after all the efforts of amenie amerlean american nn emigrants and government troops to find them instead of refusing to allow emigrants to settle in our region the country has been and is free and open to all many very many have come i searched and prospected and departed for other regions where their labors were likely to be more productive of of r desired results and many are settled in this territory today to day who wilo are not of the mormon faith the murder of th esix persons we have llave dealt with in another column co lunin but these are only trumped up pretexts in conjunction with other indictments equally as reliable for covering a bitter policy and vindictive course towards the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons oils I 1 with a semblance afi of justifiability asti flab lity poly polygamy anly the tile other ahw twin relic of which we will have more to say at all an early date is tile the ostensible object of attack and they are not slow to declare that there is an irrepressible conflict between monogamy 0 and polygamy but the irrepressible conflict is not between those two institutions but between light ligh tand and darkness truth and error tile the government of god and the government of satan upon the tile earth and if polygamy on aywas was not L nor ever had llad been an in institution I 1 ution of tile tiie kingdom of god tile the gi conflict would have been equally as irrepressible it was so before polygamy was revealed by tile tiie lord and would have continued although 44 hough it had llad never been reve revealed tv but to talk of self purification and to take far off utah as the point where that purification is to become dominy domin donlin y antly active with the tile leprosy of foulest corruption Z growing rankling and festering throughout the tile nation uncontrolled and uncontrollable in every city outrages modesty and puts consistency to shame was the editor blind or was lie he ignorant of the state of society in new york when lie he spoke of having the major evils at least weeded out pointing to utah and passed over the lewing following fol foi 40 picture of crime in his ills own city published in the tile very number from which we have clipped the leader that heads li ads this article the tile report of the metropolitan police department for the quarter ending july gist shows an alarming prevalence of crime in the city at the present me time the aggregate number of arrests for the past three months foots up twenty thousand four hundred and sixty seven an increase of seven thousand eight hundred and seventy five over the preceding quarter this is a fearful ratio of increase preceding an and it Is difficult to count account for it satisfactorily either the police force is decreasing very rapidly in efficiency or else lawlessness i it t approaching very nearly a mania the high standard which the police lias has uni uniformly maintained of late lute years precludes the solution n of the mystery on oil the first mentioned ground and so we are obliged to believe that crime Is literally stalking abroad has the worst enemy of the mormons cormons Mor mons 81 I 1 in his most malignant efforts of mendacity ever entered a pretended record against chely theia as black and terrible as the above published as the actual state of society in the metropolis of the east in the very number of the very paper which talks of plucking the tile brands from the tile fire in the realms of brigham young we say advisedly and be bei i yond the possibility of truthful contradiction tra tm that any single n umber number of any leading new york paper contains the record of more crimes than the records of all the courts of tile tiie ter territory call can show in a year tile the sad and corrupted state of mankind lead those in authority to adopt many and various measures to check or control growing depravity clience in this christian nation in which professors boast so loudly of their purity pharisaic hypocrisy and lift their sanctimonious timon timo lous ious voices in affected horror at the presumed immorality of the ai mor mons we find corruption and prostitution legalized and the authorities of a city honestly declaring by their acts that they are impotent in the work of cc self seif purification and must needs adopt ordinances to if possible control a fearful evil which they admit themselves incapable of in tile the least de deree degree 7 ree removing witness the following 10 extract from the new haven register Kegl stero of june prostitution has been bean legalized at nashville and the result is s thought to have been benefi beneti beneficial claf to th the e soi tol soldiers diers the prostitutes pay sa a month ra license and pay 2 for examination every ten tea days this money Is appropriated to hospital treatment of the sick and diseased ones who have good medical care during the last ten months the receipts from license and examination fees were 5 and the expenditures in hospital were with these pictures of society with the social evil a fearful fact which flourishes spreads and multiplies is it not astonishing that men should talk of the tile sooner polygamy is buried the sooner the dark stains that have so long rested upon the tile escutcheon of this country will be removed we wish it distinctly and und plainly understood that we do not and ean run not for one moment be supposed to institute a comparison between polygamy and the tile horrible condition of society thus revealed as a contrast between two evils if polygamy must follow slavery to its gravely gravell grave then would the only means pass from among men which if properly understood and righteously employed would save the them M from tile the degradation of being compelled to admit the existence of such a fearfully dominant evil as tile the social sin reveals this however is only assertion we reserve the tile argument for another opportunity but until a better state of society than our own ean can be shown to us as the result of the tiie workings of institutions elsewhere we will hold to that doomed institution which is incorporated in our faith revealed by god as a means of regeneration and presents in its practical workings a picture of moral purity such as cannot be seen elsewhere in tile tiie world |