Show the following article from the sew york tva rac vincel vincey more candor and J 1 correct reasoning I 1 than is usually u s balry manifested fe s ted by journalists when they treat upon wat that p prolific rolfe subject for prolific fie fic pens mormonism I A ay vb the cincinnati gazette gazelle has hag unearthed a abill bill by james al askley ashley of ohio I 1 chairman of the house committee on territories which proposes to extend the boundaries of the states and territories which surround utah so as toab to ab sord utah and wipe out the mor mons as a distinctive community against this proceeding g the gazette protests it is shown that for twenty t three bree years the mormons cormons have made thel the irown rown laws have bave created their own atlon have made a wilderness generally attractive unattractive to american emigrants to blossom as the rose have built up and bound together a people numbering today briore bhore than the population of any of the surrounding rounding sur Bur territories and larger than most of the adjacent states while by all accounts the moral state of the mormon community Is in all respects excepting one far above that of amyot any or the states or Terri territories toles which if mr ashley cashis has his way are each to take a bite out of utah swallowing bogli bochter ter and people this one exception is the prevalence of polygamy the morality or fm immorality morall of which is is clearly constructive since its existence in utah is shown to be iio iro violation of human law and its existence anywhere is not in opposition to divine law indeed with the mormons cormons polygamy is religion they found th thir ir social relations upon the divine law which at least permitted it as no reader of the scriptures pretends to deny and anil they claim that their withdrawal to the far west to found a community of their own was precisely from the same mp mo tive which induced the pilgrims to land laud upon plymouth bock rock to wit that they might enjoy their own religious convictions eions in their own way and without persecution or molestation history wiil will certainly draw a parallel between the polygamists and the puritans and credit the polygamists with minding their own business the persecuted have bave not become the persecutors what the plymouth colony pilgrims did to roger boger williams the utah polygamists ieta have not done to any atly of their own community or to their neighbors that they have made themselves a strong respectable and prosperous people is evidence in their favor that their peculiar views respecting domestic relations are not necessarily opposed to social success and to the highest degree of individual and general morality when a new class ef communists with peculiar notions with regard to sexual intercourse settled at oneida in this state there was the same desire to persecute on the part of their neighbors that radicalism radic c proposes now against the mor mons but when these neighbors saw that ilie ille the communists were people of in teg rily of thrift and above all that tte the they y were prosperous they did not hes I 1 irate at e to permit their own sons and daughters to work for and associate with these people if the new raid against mormonism is purely upon moral grounds and if the mormons cormons are to be obliterated because they are wicked they may well retort by offsetting their polygamy against the poeticism BO so alarmingly prevalent in new england and show that their efforts to increase population are possibly quite as moral as the general endeavor in some states to limit it A comparison between the plurality of wives in one section and the t preva prevalence leuce of prostitutes prostitute a in other sections the readiness with which people may marry there and the forced celeba cy here might present contrasts calling forno for no more legislation in the one case thau than t in the other which brings us to the main point ithe odthe 0 whole matter which is clearly this that government especially what I 1 constitutes or calls itself government konow 1 bd I nowadays now a days is not called upon to run the moral machine machino of the country mere morals moral sare are matters beyond legislation we hava have seen to what pass the party which claimed pre prep preeminently eminently to be rounded founded upon moral ideas has brought the country we see ee the kind of men whom this party persists in forcing into prominence corruption is no longer a crime but is the very means by which the leaders leadens in the moral party are ad v yanc yane alced ed in position bobbt ry is the rule and integrity the exception nearly all the of radicalism in the last eight years have been effected un berthe der the cover of these moral ideas the country is sick of this cant As for the morality or immorality of mormon ism ills itts pretty certain that any radl radi ci 10 against poly gain is ionly a cow cov cr radical rat Kat licaL rascality in radicalism would do weli well to ifft the morals of ithe country r and even of th the e marm mormons cormons ons ong r alane v i ij T li |