| Show i THE MORMON DILEMMA p j T J A 11 1 if fl 1 despite DeSpi teall all ail s of religion to humility it afis ls in ln human nat nature to feel ai at least occasionally a quiet aquiat internal satisfaction in contemplating those sinners whom we consider eo so very bad that we can esteem ourselves certainly bekter better than th they eyare are perhaps no s 11 all nil portion of every mana mans religion consists in the pious piou resolution to Compound jor for sins were inclined to by damning dagnin those weve wove we ve no mind to I 1 and when one is in that humor it is very convenient to have a sort of storehouse of admitted historical wretches from among whom one can select a fit subject to maul and butet buffet instead of getting into quarrels by pitching into on ones s own living ra rs among thee thessi moral conveniences phill phillp philip JI XI bf has al always ways been one 0 t the t emmi effi most moat ost osh useful u e f 1 it is true that prescott had thad bad towards whitewashing ishino him i but motleys Mot leys gaudy kludy phantasmagoria plin on republic had restored ed the original black any onedis pos ed to relieve hi his ll liberat berat fl and philanthropic 6 df f reuh moral i a I 1 bile co could uld safely p our it all out on ow the husband of bloody mary 11 the monarch whom those benighted spaniards call phiiip phllip philip teW e ise lse this sombre gentleman had his utah in almost inaccessible mountains near itla ins most exposed maritime frontier lived several beveral hundred thousand moors bis subjects b but ut believing elfed ing in religion and practicing a plurality plura plurality liti of wives nes wes a moab moat shocking lak iak offender offence in the he eyes of a vi ruler whose weakness was as only for a plurality of mistresses stresses mi these those moora moors were remarkably industrious fjug aland and orderly jn n these qualities they pill strikingly skip ay resembled our own cormons mormons Mor mons ew whether hether polygamy has any aby tendency to foster these useful virtues we do not pretend to decide possibly a fl plurality of moth mothers ersi ers I in n ned ad jaw leaves t the tho lie ilo husband no resource but to to drown his dome domestic stio cares in hard epry neither mormonism permitting the solace of bard dr drink inki the virtuous philip determined noi to armit any such lis his flag he accordingly arit worried his moors into rebellion and expelled them from hla his dominions most mosi bf of ug us have been beeri taught that in all this philip did a very vary cruel and bens wend veryl very thing when the lie lle chang changes edArd esard arg rung on decrepit did spain 11 we always hear bear odthe of ahe fhe expulsion of the moors as one of althe the causes of the sudden decadence of that once prosperous and powerful realm very sage bage counsel is given the dead alion allon monarch arch a mild policy eloquent missionaries with the influence of the surrounding cly ilza liza HOA he is told would uld bradum gradually ly have aai abi assimilated pall pail abed thebe these moslem tb thir thin neighbors and moved for A 4 A blost most useful ner her population on our radical rulers etena peem disposed ta deal deai with our catir moors Moora after the fas fashion lilon of the wiseacre wise acre monarch Spain despain dC df we do d not propose to discuss of their policy oc of pains penalties and calling out of dropps possibly ros Eos sibly the whole question of df polygamy be effectually dispo disposed sed of 0 by laap ignoring all wives of a mormon excel except afa first I 1 ads just juse eai fai ai it disposes of thes the tha six bix lk sweethearts whom a washington letter wr ter not long ago accused a Congress manof having havink provided for ai as government female clerks lenks C butia our rulers fleter rieter det ere mine on a mormon war puritanism should at least teil tell us how to behaved hereafter towards the philip II 11 alewe are wre doreca to recant t all nil that english 4 liter ilter literature has been baen writing of him hirn far farj three cen turie past pai and ana regard him as ha a pre precocious oelo choin iii lri the wild klengel glens giens ot granada gave the twe lesson which sheridan as U to repeat in the mountains of utah As in duty hound our ichok Is and colleges will have to 0 o reform their textbooks text texa books hooks aud and praise p the virtues of the christian statesman p spa spain D who with his 0 own wu P niece for his queen yeti ye llad had such sueh such sueh a horror of his bis moorish subjects polygamy that he d devastated one of his fairest provinces province p to extinguish it missouri republican I 1 I 1 j 1 |
