| Show THE powen POWER of or THE ABUSED tue THE power of the press for good or evil ia is so great that it ia Is difficult to properly estimate its full fuli influence it has done an immense work in making mankind acquainted with principles piea plea of truth of which they were ignorant and it has been the principal means meana of increasing the liberal spirit of which the age boasts but in the tha hands of corrupt mii mil mon it has also been productive of a vast amount of evil the libidinous publications which are scattered broadcast in varl vari ous large cities anti and sent from the civilized world have probably done more to corrupt the generation destroy respect for virtue incite and inflame the minds of the young soung to deeds of shame and crime than all other agencies of evil combined it is pitiable to eee gee men of capability disgrace their manhood and labor to do denlo desio ald and corrupt their race mery to make a litte money for thac that ia Is the main maln object in issuing the obscene or indecent publications to which we refer and it is almost incredible to right abbt minded people that others who assume mame editorial functions should continually and persistently write and print column after column of the most glaring falsehoods which if told in private life would subject their thir authors to es from all respectable society and yet these untruths un truths are copied day after day and week after weekly week by other papers that would gould feel disgraced by giving them publicity as ag original matter in every election campaign personal abuse abuso is freely poured upon political ica lea I 1 opponents and the lower strata of par bizan papers do not hesitate to color warp and twist everything they can against their nut antagonists in n such a shape as to make it C a fals fais falsehood 1601 to all intents and purposes but it is against the work of god that this spirit of de and falsehood works with unceasing persistency it ift is not apolitical campaign but it is a continual warfare that is being waged and tb the e worst phaes chafes of political contests are displayed by those that conceive they have a mission to labor for our destra destruction C there is no credit in in fighting with antagonists that resort to every species of meanness and falsehood to bolster up the cause they defend and injure that to which they are opposed they are too vile too contemptible too corrupt for any truth loving honest and honorable ho man to come in contact with even as antagonist contention is their life and if they only could get a fight with anything decent it would give the them a status such as they could not obtain in any other way we have been jed to these remarks by some recent notices in our exchanges concerning mormonism we can appreciate and respect an antagonist that will honestly and honorably oppose the tho we hold by fair argument but we e cannot ankot annot do ot other e r than despise the men who will sit down and manufacture lieh ijes lies e out of whole cloth cioth to injure au an innocent people among those opposed to the principles of the gospel gosp el are individuals of each kind and the course of some of the latter is so contemptible that their master from beneath must be ashamed of the dirty manner in which they do hla hia work the most trivial circumstance is eagerly taken and tortured out of shape until its form color and texture are BO so changed that nothing of the original is eft oft thus the fact of a gentlemen fooling in with a young dog and being bit by itin it in a few hours ia is magi magl magnified nned fled into an attempted assassination with three men and aud pa a bloodthirsty blood thirsty knife as his assailants what dangerous danger ous oua fellows these assassins must be and what wonderful heroes has the winter of developed in salt lake city when three armed men are alleged to have attacked one without doing more than grazing the skin akin and five are said to have attacked a boy with similar results as was declared with regard to a easa casa of cowhiding if people ata at a distance were to take time and analyze such statements they would see tho the absurdity of them but when skillfully concocted conco eteL falsehoods are published they cannot so well determine their incredibility the virginia nev speaks of A a western paper it ia alleged to have had a reporter at the tho mass mee mec mectile meeting til of the ladies of this city held on the uit and that this reporter made a remark i in answer to aque a que ton put by one 0 n e of the speakers neither statement contains a a syllable of truth but they are of a character with everything coming from the same sou source ree one paper only not published ax i thia city was represented by a reporter at it that meeting the new york herald whose report we noticed a day or two since yet ye t such statements as those we have havo referred I 1 to are eagerly copied by a number of papers that seem to think it would be aser amerious fous blunder to publish anything no matter how truo true that might tell in favor of the people of utah it 1 is lamentable to see the power and influence which the press preas unquestionably estion wields so debased and directed to such auch degrading purposes for it ia Is degrading to falsify corrupt land and culini ate we do not view it wt with h any particular feelings of alarm so far as the people of ul utah uh are concerned the they adewell are well weli accustomed to buch such things and are satisfied that the future will do them justice but its influence among the people who patronize and accept it is fraught with serious evil the expression of the ladies of utah on the tho cullom and cragin bills is a fact that cannot be ignored nor will detraction and wad aspersion alter its tha character it is the outspoken sentiment of free intelligent truth loving women who appreciate the principles of truth that I 1 1 have been revealed to ift the restoration of 0 f the gospel C yet there aro are enemies to truth liberty and righteousness who as fast ft as ond ono false assertion is disproved will employ every thaley faculty divinely bestowed upon them for nobler purposes to concoct and circulate others equally uy as false pathway aw is one ono of igno miny 14 and their end en wilt wa I 1 bo be in shamo gh gmo amo and contempt can con tempt so the tho now york herald of th tho 0 uit contains a long letter from its special correspondent in this city giving a very full fall and fair account of the ladles ladies mass meeting held in iii this city upon which the same rame paper offers the following editorial comments com monts headed homr n IK ix COUNCIL Cou loir in another place in this days jyerald will be found a long but most readable rea duble and instructive article on the present state of things in utah Cu lloma bill now before congress seems to have frightened the saints malo male and female out of their propriety tho the letter ia is chiefly occupied with a report of a mass amass meeting of the tiie women of salt bat lake city tho the meeting was held in la the old oid tabernacle it wa ww perhaps one of the grandest female assemblages in all history the audience was non nou jascu line and tho the speakers one and all were female we refer our readers to the speeches and to the resolutions and wo we venture to say that whatever may bo bb tho the individual readers opinion of the merits or demerits merits do of mormon institutions it will not be denied that mormon women have ilare both brains and tongues some of the speeches give evidence that in general knowledge in logic and in rhetoric tho the so sol called degraded ladies of ini iri aro are quite equal to the womans comans rights women of the east list in these days when women threaten to become tyrant tyrants 9 it is ii refreshing to read such earnest eanie Bt in inetor eavor favor of the rights of men after reading this re porta a havo a c corner in tot hd on that there is a spirit in salt lake valley which no legislation can crush erush it may be nm necessary q tor lor the mormons cormons to fight they will fight if they are forced to it it may mav le be necessary for them to emigrate they will emigrate if they are forced to it it ift may bo be necessary tor lor them theal to leave this country and even this continent bub but after they have fought and after the they havo have emigrated and after they havo have left this continent they will live and they may prosper r As they su survived the tho th e first exodus tho the presumption is they thov will survive ft a second whether we adinaro or whether we pity or whether wo ive condemn it maat moat now be remitted that the tha inevitable cou is at t hand the TEE mas mrs mee bee meetings tila of the 1 indies ladies dias oatt a h are calling callin forth comments am from many of our co temporaries some of are very favorable in the liev liea I new kew tev tea to york k journal of commerce appeared a lengthy report of the meeting inthis in this city on the uit upon that report tho new york evening express atthe uit says under the head of IS POLYGAMY A ni the tournai journal of commerce con confesses fOsses that it ibb has been very favorably impressed wita the speeches in favor of or polygamy made by the mormon women in a recent ine int meeting eting in the salt lake utah tabernacle january the women spoke in 1 layen layer 47 r of polygamy 1 hor eor for pure english ingenious though fallacious lacious argument sand saud sand deemin seemingly wiy gly frana frank honest heartfelt expressions ot of opinion the editor thinks th they eyare are fully up to the mark of the best efforts of mrs mott Moti Mrs stanton mrs anthony or any other of tho the lemnie female suffrage women who are ara trying to stir nj up public sentiment this side of the rocky mountains while in respect of good temper and the absence of bitter personal allusions the tabernacle gathor gat herbig irs ins wui will certainly carry off the palm I 1 if three thousand women in utah ax 4 assim a good average degree of intelli intelligence gence gonce and 6 education can see no harm in enmor monism and believe polygamy to td ba bo one ong ot of those institutions that are the only re to 1 liable safeguard of female virtue and innocence and the only safe we protection against the fearful sin of prostitution and its attendant evils now prevalent abro abroad adit adIf in the language of the resolutions the editor enquires what is there so very different lucrio in dhe the mental constitutions of hundreds of thousands of women in other parts of the coun try that they may not bring themselves to accept that platform plat piat orm lorm too in the tho fall fullness hess orthe ortho of the exposition given by sister harriet harriot cook young one of brighams Brig hams hama wives as follows every woman in utah may have hava hen her husband the husband dofher of her hec choice liere here wo we are taught not to destroy our children but preserve thom them for they reared neared in tho too path of virtue and trained to ri righteousness constitute our true glory it no wish to accurso our sisters who are not of our faith that I 1 grefer refer to these thin things as but we are tire dealing mth with facts aa as they exist wherever monogamy reigns adultery yi prostitution restitution free love and Ret foot icide direr dired directly y or indirectly are its concomitants itis it is not n ot enough to say that the virtuous and h high agh minded frown upon these evils wo we be alove they do but vat frown frowning rim rig docs not curo tedro them it do doe not euen cheek check their rapid growth either the ceic edy edv is too weak or the tho disease is too strong the uhe women komeh of gr utah comprehend this and they see antl in th principle of a plurality of wives the tho only safeguard against adultery prostitution free love iove loveana anz and the reckless waste life practiced throughout tho the land I 1 in massachusetts where the women outnumber the men by some the jour aal nal mischievously hints it would i not be a bad idea to give polygamy a i air lair trial goc gor that matter in indeed eed we are told that a clergyman of boston hes lips lately published a book sustaining polygamy on scriptural and moral grounds taking substantially the same view of it that the mormon wo men do Thero the tho journal adds adesi powerfully urged appealing directly to the instincts and apparent seif self interest of the surplus maids of massachusetts a 8 stranger thing might occur than that they should lend it their countenance and support rt and a movement bo be started so strong PC of impulse and persistent of baal ing thao thic great numbers of men not particularly averse to polygamy but antho on the contrary rather liking it if the women will haxe have ilae liae it will sustain it also and so eState th of af macs maes achu sebb hetts notts might become bacomo a second 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