Show editorials ED now a story of A german in luck comes I 1 inline hithe bithe laclede mo Be publican in sub substance aa as follows soon boon after aftel the close of the war herman schubert a german located in livingston county on a small farm but from sickness and other causes he be fell into arrears his farm farmr was mortgaged and eventually it was offered for sale but on the eventful day when ibe farm was to be sold minian herman weilt went into the field nield to plou piou plough blas bias bi ras fas as he had been doing for oon several beveral days and here is the resul result t of his labor as related by the republican the land which he was sloughing ploughing hing had badat it an early earli period been becu occupied pied pled by a mormon family judging jud gingi froman from troman an object soon after atter exhumed by hermans plough the article in question was a pine box about two feet long by one foot deep which had been buried about thirty years since and when brought to the surface found almost decayed but the contents of the box forms the subject of interest somme borne articles of dress papers a mormon bible and a small tin tapers box ox containing 1700 in gold and in in silver were found the overjoyed man seized the box rushed kushed home entered the house where his patient frow was engaged at her usual duties and exclaimed mine got in hammill if it pees mine I 1 bays for te to farm right away the frow and kill kin dern soon took up the spirit of thereca the occasion and a scene of tumult ensued seldom witnessed the neighbors were quickly apprised of the germans good fortune and lost no time to visit him for the purpose of gratifying their curiosity or expressing congratulations their i one gentleman however horev er we are informed laid claim to the box basing his right on the fact that bia hla uncle once owned the farm whereon the valuable artze prize gas was wab was found the field in question had not been in cultivation for many years previous to herminla hermans taking possession of it it wid was doubtless owned by a mormon settler who dho addled from this vicinity at the time these heretics were cleaned out bythe missourians Missour ians OF another letter by mr 8 S B S packard in the new york globe the editor says appropriately it is a fresh honest candid liberal view of mormon life such as we do not often find so it is mr P spent an intelligently busy week in salt lake city interviewing prominent officials and non officials visiting several mormon families attending the tabernacle and day and sunday schools and a funeral service talking freely with men women teachers and scholars indeed going everywhere where he could see or hear aught to aid him in coming to an understand ing of the industrial social or political aspect of mormonism it was a week of much interest but less satisfactory in attained results than he could have wished yeb yet et he thinks the problem of mormonism and polygamy is a most pleasant one ond to study whether you arrive at any satisfactory results or not and he says you will not arrive rivest at any satisfactory results however long you may remain or however faithfully you may prosecute your inquiries qu iries that depends entirely upon the kind and amount of satisfaction you want but as the study of mor imor monism and polygamy is so exceedingly pleasant whether you yau dittin obtain satisfaction or not it does not so much matter which way the results go gat satisfaction is or no satisfaction i it is a charming business union pacific railroad and the rapid inundation of barbarians norm horn the east has presented a problem which the greatest human wisdom cannot solve then let human wisdom lay jay its hand upon its mouth and say nothing when men can do no more is the time to wait and let the almighty work says mr P the class of mormons cormons with which you are most likely to come in contact during a short stay are of a full average of intelligence and a little beyond a full average of shrewdness they have at their tongues end ready answers to all the objections you may raise to their system of religious lou iou or domestic polity the directness with which he luh rut mr sammy bowles is exceedingly re freshing insomuch that mr P says pays there would seem to be but a smal sma sms i 1 leg for mr bowles to stand lapon upon 11 we must quote liberally here mr hi bowles wl willibe 11 ll be glad to read no doubt probably no gentile whoa who ha has haa s written on mormonism has saidi harder harden or more bitter things against the leading saints tb than at L mr hir Bow lesIn his bis our new west and yet that book cabbe can be found dinall the principal book stores stoics and anil its charges which are very specific as weir will as very sweeping are met with a confidence and contempt which is truly refreshing in his account of the effect of polygamy upon women mr speaks of one poor sweet woman who in alluding to the institution said lord jesus has laid inid a beav heavy trial triai upon me but I 1 mean to be bear ir it lord ford hor for his hib aake bake and for the glory he will grant me in indis hib his kingdom I 1 was assured by that same poor sweet woman that she did made A remark of this kind to mr bowles but it was solely with reference to a recent bereavement the loss of a loved child of course I 1 dont know the truth of it I 1 have only the statement of a sweet woman against 4 a ain man who having a book to write and a theory to maintain must have his little facts at hand band when he needs them only to think of mr Bs gallantry in believing bel beli leing eing a poor sweet woman 11 for bookmaking book making or political effect why that is very small potatoe business mr B anait and it does not improve the flavor of your sensational little blittle facts now here mr P enters very sensibly upon a fertile source of entirely unjustifiable abuse provided abuse is ever justifiable and again comes down upon mr B with unrelieved and richly deserved heaviness A common complaint made mado by sensational scribble scribblers rs against mormon poly gallats Is that they ye scribble scribblers rs are not invited into private households and inducted at once into all the little matrimonial secrets esven mr bowled makes this complaint and yet in every instance where such courtesy is shown him lie he abuses it grossly by divulging the details of family affairs such as no gentleman would think of alluding to much less of writing down and printing in a book for circulation among american youths the disgustingly appetizing way in which he allude to family matters may be in the interest of a sensational subscription book but would scarcely find favor with a decent daily newspaper and should not with a decent public I 1 doubt if mr bowles himself would care to invite to his home in springfield for the second time a person who should so ad abuse his confidence the wonder with me is not that Mor mormons cormons monEt do not more frequently invite to their homes strangers whom they know to be inimical to their religion but that they invite them at all I 1 made n no 0 effort to gain access to polygamous families and yet I 1 was invited to such with all the cordiality and freedom as I 1 ever was to any house where I 1 had not a previous acquaintance I 1 know at least a dozen gentiles in salt lakeri fy who haye boarded for month band sand sand dand even vears yeara in polygamous families and who have the entree to other similar households as freely as they ever did in their home neighborhoods mr P like every other honorable and unprejudiced visitor was vas favorably impressed with the sobriety and good order prevalent here and he ho honestly records his bis views J T dont that my the theories orles ories however pure and convent conventional lopal shall stand in n the way of ofay any facts J propose al simply m to record what 1 I 8 beaud hear a and i i d heave the moral and philosophical up li cation tion fion to whom it may concern I 1 vill will say then that I 1 never bever saw law and never hever expect id epe bbs h a more orderly quiet law abiding moral community than that of salt lake city there is among mormon no drunkenness no profanity no licentiousness that is outwardly discernible there ia IS little or no use for lawyers or doctors as private differences are settled without going to law and each priest spriest Accordi according Dg to the order of Melches idec ia Is gifted with the power of the laying on of hands bands which does away with a avast vast deal deai dealoe of nonsense in the way of herb tea and bread pills the tithing system against which so 90 much is falsely said and written is i biot lot t made oppressive upon the people it is a religious duty which all acano acknowledge V to pay over one tenth of the ye yearly r earnings for the uses ubea of the church after detailing though not nob with absolute correctness the processes for the adjustment of personal difficulties in the church he says and all the service is rendered without a dollar of cost to plaintiff or defendent it being the lords work for which no pay can ever be exacted I 1 ani am a good deal of a fool but I 1 think I 1 h have avo ave sufficient discernment to see that the legal jurisprudence of our gentile be improved bya litt little Is leaven of christianity according to Brig brigham hsin hain even our methodist puff lists mi might with profit to them themselves selvis and honor to their profession cut a leit leaf out of this book of mormonism mr P thus deals with the influence of the president of the church A great grest deal is said about the absolutism of brigham M young youre g q 0 one can watch the workings of mormonism without feeling that he is the central power or of th the tha e system that tie 16 roles rales wisely must also alep be apparent An the respect and love that is felt for him by his people there q are ore is ig clothing gothing in his bis appearance utterance or acts that would mark afoa him for a man of buron g spirituality but everything every thing about abort him shows hini him to be a man of stron strong 9 common sense of this thib great influence mr Pi further observes 0 that it Is p possessed obsessed oas bas essed with modesty and used with discretion by brigham young I 1 fully believe the thel heat best evidence of this is the fact that noone no one has aught to say any against his personal character HIS hip people love and trust him with a reve neve reverence kence tence and fervor that is difficult to understand except through the fact that he is Js indeed their friend while all others speak of him with respect 11 mr P very shrewdly and aptly observes of the extravagant stories related of do domestic destio matters here for outside effect the more extravagant andun and unreasonable they are the more certain thih to be repeated and believed now mr P bisno Is no convert to the peculiar institutions of mormonism not at all indeed he expressly disclaims any such assumption and he says 1 I dont know enough of polygamy to speak fon fon for or against it 7 but in connection with many others who would like to see the end of it he believes that feminine extravagance and a new revelation will bring an early return to the unsatisfactory one wife system prevalent among the corrupt nations of the gentile world we can afford to wait and see but bat we WO will again express our high appreciation of the candor frankness and straightforward of mr packard in his hia correspondence respecting salt laka baka BO so far as his letters have come under our notice i THE WRONGS 11 of the women of utah are an unfailing subject for comment by newspaper correspondents and editors troubled with anti mormon tendencies and for mendacious lecturers of the anna dickinson school but if some of those who denounce mormonism understood what they write about the tone of their articles would be very different to assert that the women of utah are all without exception perfectly happy or that not a wrong exists is nonsensical alj alf for it IV is contrary to the nature and constitution of most women as well as most men to be perfectly happy but this continual talk about the wrongs of the women of utah is sheer nonsense for it is positively true that they enjoy more rights than the women omen of any other community in the world and it ia is only necessary to cite one oner or two facts to prove to all ail interest ed in the welfare of the sex that this is true it is a fact that the ladies of utah without exception have the dhanee chance of obtaining husbands and unless natures interdict intervenes of becoming heads of families This thi cannot be said of the women jn any othiol part of the world and because of being denied this blessed blessed privilege hundreds of thousands of them are spending their days and wasting away their lives in what some blasphemer has styled single blessed ness nebs 11 but which the women know snow is single wretchedness then again the ladies of utah possess ahat j hav hat which many declare to be bb a panacea for every wrong woman has ba to endure namely the Auf suffrage frage and wielding this power it is natu natural ralto to suppose if they labored under wrongs that they would speedily redress them with such privileges as these who can consistently talk about the wrongs of the women of utah the above was suggested by reading leading an article in the tbt t louis dispatch of the uit the writer of 0 f which is a very sympathetic but SQ act far as utah is concerned a very ignorant or mistaken individual individually vy by the by a common occurrence when newspaper folk folks taik talk about utah if our friend of the tho dispatch dle die carefully fully peruses the abd abote statements he will at once see that his 0 on the men are an called led for and that his large eare expends ex adi adl adi re of sympathetic talk taik on behalf of the women is issi a great isau isar mistake stake and aud andru ill iii evidence equally of ignorance andr andare pre j judice addice but even supposing that all pill our contemporary has imagined about the I 1 wrongs and BO so forth of the women and the vice and crime of the men of utah is in truth could he not find scope for his 1 sympathy and execration nearer home t than an balf bald lake city or utah territory in asking this thia question we do not wish to reflect poeju dici dic ally lally upon the city or people 0 of f st t louis we believe belleve that they are about aa as good 0 as the average of cities and people peppie m an fn other portions of the united states or the world but bat while admitting this it is well known that what la is termed the social evil had reache reached dk such a pitch in st louis that the cit olty city authorities a few months ago in hopes of diminishing dimini aing ling this hideous development of social life were induced to adopt certain rules for fon its regulation and that to carry out their designs thoy they had to banish from the cay large numbers of courte now to suppose that where such a system flourishes nourishes so well the themen men are all virtuous is As preposterous there must be some bome very licentious and it would be equally nonsensical to imagine that in such jouch a community there are no women wrongs it la is see manifesta manifee tiona tlona of sympathy awards towards the distressed and unfortunate and if our bontem po expressions are genuine they are creditable to him as a man but though his perceptions orthe of the social ills ilia existing in his own city may bb toe blunted through being continually amongst them we thing that if he will be benevolent and sympathetic he can find worthy and needy oba objects at home and that will be more gen ien sensible sible than benti sentimentalizing mental izing and talking sympathy over imaginary objects two or three thousand miles distanti distant by way of conclusion and to completely relieve the mina wina mind of the 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