Show AX AN ACT TO nn arry AM 77 11 11 q 9 M I 1 T 1 f The house Honse committed I 1 0 ru lu it te on territories tories of which that portent ious lous statesman Mr shelby shelbi M cullom is chairman has adopted an ail amazing method obtaining useful information f thinking it worth while to have some little knowledge of the facts in relation to the mormon matrimonial system before proceeding to reconstruct it mr cullors Cul Cu lloma lomb committee caught a ai federal revenue assessor named Tag gartand proceeded to catechism catechise cate chise him said taggart is not a MUn mormon loa hoa hela heia he ia not a polygamist he has been a resident of utah less than a R year he despises the bously and alid every otner way and the cormons mormons Mor mons by his own showing as cor bially despise him sueh such is the witness upon whose thil to willing but entirely unsubstantiated statements concerning a people among whom he has lived as aa a tax gatherer a few months a committee of wise vise congressmen propose to predicate a most important act of legislation when some conceited englishman examines america through the window of a railway and abd toes goes oes home to write an exhaustive trea treatise tJoe on america and the americans sensible people laugh at him and treat hib hia book bookas as worthless but when an egotistical revenue officer who has lived a few months mor mons comes zealous mr r cullom catches him pumps out of him sundry guesse guesses sr 5 and conjectures concerning mormon sand band parades thomass the mass mabs of unmitigated trash as valuable and trustworthy information SUCK such as would warrant a serious act of leg legislation i the englishman in hib his book would cite mr colloms Cul proceeding as proof of the utterly superficial charac charae character ter ten of everything even of congressional legislation in america and as regards congressional legislation the englishman would n not noe ot be far wrong mr colloms cui Cul witness is a person of amazing versatility lre lie he ire is by occupation a revenue assessor by profession he is probably a bankrupt lawyer who has turned office seeke seeker but withal he hd is a physiologist a arid a doctor of divinity he takes the strong physiological si st ground that the albig almighty av himself has provided for the extinguishment of polygamy through the operation of uia ria dat tural u ral rai laws one would naturally ask what then is the need that congress should make any artificial law to extinguish it if seventy finein nive five in every one hundred chil chii children dieh bo born rn in polygamy are males it must be self evi dent that is foredoomed dore fore doomed to early extinction for want of the most essential element of its existence the whole surplus of old maids malda in allnet all ail new england Engla fid would be lie insufficient if this reve neve revenue rlue officers statement statements be tru artie etOi 40 continue polygamy in utah into the iw next generation but this revenue officer would pass mr colloms Cul bill for the good effects it would have in sending adrift upon society 1 a vast number of mormon ex wives vives and their young children thousands of women with but one or two children apiece would talie take themselves out odthe of the territory aa as soon as they could get out As most of these thousands have no friends who would receive and provide for them they would go to replenish the almshouses alms houses and brothels in the large cities they they would be a hundred per er cent better off than they are arenow now mr colloms Cul revenue officer thinks instead of living ili in a state where at fit least they can respect themselves and enjoy the colorable status of virtuous women they would be bo reduced by mr cullors cui Cu lloma lomb bill to the condition of social outcasts mothers yet neither wives nor widows pariahs paria hs at whom the finger of scorn would point and to who whom m no lice door but that of the brothel and pr prison ison lson would apen such is the dismal alternative which aich mr colloms Cul bill off offers drs to the women of utah such is the better condition of which a brainless revenue officer prates and which pharisees phanis pharis ees stand ready to applaud what wonder that the women of utah should declare for poly Voly polygamy gamy rather than buch euch a fate fato mr col Coi colloms lomb W witness it has no doubt that if the question were submitted to the women of utah they would vote against agrain st mr colloms Cul bill it would be infamous to doubt it suppose the proposition were submitted to the wives of chicago that their marriage relations should be bb declared null and void and that they should take the their ir children and go forth to struggle against the prejudices of mural hypocrites and the temptations of sin bin can any sane baue mant mani doubt what their ch choice would be sa i f i 0 f i i j T the e proposition to is al rea ready d done elmr nimr cul cal should becomer bee bec omea omaia lawr it mould po i of bf thel the character it is possible ta el it would be buch such a law tile tiie very name of virtue by consig consigning thousands of bomento wo mento lived bf shame and infamy Chi chicago cago caga ins |