Show CHICAGO AND mormonism the chicago correspondent of the ne nev york times says bays mistress keeping ii as is much in vogue with our rich men si al it is in paris it is the ton and it is done openly and boldly and the man of 0 wealth is thought none the worse for i it we might as well have mormonism and anil done with it as the state of society that exists among ua us we saw it estimated in one of the daily papers a short tim time a ngo ago that there were eis eig eight lit hundred hgo houses auses of prostitution in the city anaf and three thousand five hundred courte the estimate may seem large but whet we know that they are to be lound round lund in ss al parts of the city right in the centre near the tremont and sherman house where they have secured a lod gement ii IA business blocks we are quite confident that the number has not been over rated 11 the above gives a very fair idea of th ignorance which commonly prevail respecting the nature of what is called mormonism 11 this correspondent ol 01 0 the new york times says we might as well have mormonism and done with it as the state of society that ebisu among us he does not say what hi h thinks mormonism la Is but wo we can form forin some idea of his thoughts by th state of society which ho he deScribe describes 4 s existing in chicago eight hundri hundred houses of prostitution and three thousand five hundred courte zant there are thousands of persons ier jer sons throughout the country whose percept eions of morality are so perverted that they can not distinguish any difference between whoredom and honorable marriage their minds can not rise to the conception of any motive other than lust to prompt the intercourse of the sexes boxes hence they fail fall to perceive the distinction between our institutions and the profligacy and vice which flourish around them the effects of those debasing associations association sare are what we have to contend a against ainest the inot roost active opponents and denouncers noun cers of our system are familiar with whore whoredom doin dorn and prostitution these vices are praet practiced iced leed all around them they look upon them as necessary evils they would prefer to see houses of prostitution tit ution and courte numbered by hundreds and thousands here than to have such a state of society as we have Is not this strange A man and uncorrupted by the vices of the age would think it so were he to reflect upon the subject these men who would take our morals in charge and if they had the power would mould us into strict conformity with their views do not appear to perceive their own inconsistency they see no impropriety in loudly condemning our system of marriage which protects woman and makes her hir the dignified associate of man and the honored mother of his children while at the same time they maintain a studied silence respecting prostitution and its frightful train of evils if mormon mormonism ism prevailed in chicago what would he be the condition of the city would houses of prostitution and their wretched inmates exist there would drunkenness gambling whoredom murder and the luxuriant crop of vices I 1 that now flourish there thriftily ripen in its atmosphere let the records of the towns an and d cities where it does give the answer houses of prostitution prost do not exist Courte do not follow their accursed occupation LI life fe and property proper ty nrc arc sacred sacredly lyk secure virtue aud and 11 n d chastity and their kindred indred graces are encouraged protected and honored men are kind and true women confiding and happy children pure healthy and obedient these are the fruits which mormonism produces and which it will always produce wherever it has sway for Chi cagos sake bake we wish its people had Mormon hm igni 11 |