Show editorials edito nals op OF ALL ALI disingenuous argument of all flimsy casuistry of all transparent sophistry of all thin of all shallow pretexts that by which it is sought to place plural marriage on a par with murder robbery or any felony or capital crime should be awarded the palm it Is fly a favorite plea argument we can scarcely regard it of bf most moat persons persona who oppose plural marriage that a man may as well be excused for theft or murder as for celestial marriage ah I 1 why so whom does a man injure by marriage himself we hope not the woman he marries that geneed he need not do any other woman not that we ever heard of any other man how can he does he rob anybody if beddes be doeg does who is it does he destroy ilfe life why no marriage naturally increases life what harm then does he do what wrong does be he do what crime morally speaking does he commit we have never met with the man who could give an intelligent answer to this question if there is one we wish he be would stand up and bring forth his strong reasons and say why in this enlightened age in this enlightened country a man should be threatened with incarceration confiscation firmand are and sword for contracting a marriage common in all ages of the world among the beat men known to history and among the bulk buik bulkot of the ibe inhabitants of the earth THE PAPERS throughout the country are giving their views once more upon the inexhaustible topic of I mormonism and specially upon the present inheres interesting ting situation the denv denver denven er tribute things there wont be beany any war that few mormons cormons Mor mons are polygamists that those few are rich and would rather abandon their wives than their thein property that the balance of the cormons mormons Mor mons dont doul icare care a fig about the peculiar pec peo allar Aliar institution ution that the Mori mormons cormons Mor mons plia pila no colonger longer require extraordinary i me aha ana 71 1 to 0 u thattie tit late their theli real realms mii miJ thab that fell twi things hallm indicate I 1 a seedy speedy surrender before bhe the farm aggressive attitude of the fing ring that the t e it great bugbear and swindle wil wll be dissipated like chaff before the wind wild that the mormon leaders are aux anxious that polygamy hould should be taken from them that the wives are old and the husbands would be glad to get rid of them asif women and especially ally wives ever did aid grow old or their husbands ever did lantto want to get rid efthem of them why chatis the tribune thinking of W what a poor opinion it basof has hns of women to be sure to rate them as simply for the men which it does out upon such an estimate of the me sex women are not I 1 conveniences mr tribune manthey are necessities they are integral and essential portions of the men and cannot be discarded upon any consider consideration atlon atton whatever as the apostle says neither is the man without the woman neli ther the woman without the man in the lord people who are not in the lord may assume to pick up women and cast them IT off at pleasure but such a course is damnable what therefore god hath joined together let nou noc man put asunder no man no set of men not the denver tribune man no J judge no jury no con congress gress grebs no legislature of any avy kind no ki king no potentate whatever not eyen even if the united states court convicts the men 0 ot criminality is there any excuse forit for it notwithstanding the tribune 21 abune thinks there therb is in that case having thus satisfactorily disposed oi of aad the tribune glances at tue the in the whole matten matter of tl the discarded women the tribune thinks that the same power that takes the women away hould should take the property also just so when spoliation commences it ia Is not worthwhile worth while for it to stop while there is anything anything left worth stealing the mormons cormons Mor mons have bave married women gener ensly according to the commandment and accumulated amount of lesert desert property ro perty literally grubbed it out of the desert and now it be a splendid d id woke stroke ot 0 policy a masterly piece of statesmanship hip to rob them first of their alvesi wives and next of their property leaving them bereaved and destitute on the naked prairie and ind moat most brilliant idea of all to do all ill this infamous stalling atall ng leg legally there is a nothing like giving a huge piece of rascality a legal cotor color that is the true policy baying paying ghe the printer there are people of every civilized country under the sun who have mistaken ideas about the business of printing and the manufacture of newspapers they believe that a newspaper can exist thrive and nourish flourish on itself without any external aid on the principle on which the bear manages to tide over the cold weather without requiring sustenance or board many of the people of canada labor under this strange idea hence it comes that some of our brethren of the provincial press are driven half yearly to dun and clamor for what is due them and to browbeat readers who believe that they can read their paper without money and without price our brother of the allison star of the uit makes an appeal ad ai iam which is a fair sampie sample plo PIO of what printers are driven to by the wanton neglect and carelessness of those whom they faithfully serve he says we want money and must have it prom from the date of our commence ment to the present we have not urged upon our subscribers or advertisers the necessity of paying up there is an end to all things and we find that the time has arrived when we cannot refrain from asking for what should have been paid long since printers jike like other people require money we have a large weekly outlay in the way of wages paper ink ac we therefore trust this hint may be sufficient every straightforward man will admit that there is something desperately wicked in the system which compels a decent man to turn bumb alliff and throw out such vivid hints and insinuations as the above every straightforward man will admit also that the parties who are the them cause of such a transformation are guilty not only of but downright dishonesty and sh should uldie be added as swindlers lers of the poor and needy the printer ought to be the last baat man in the world subjected to gouging his profits are small for years often invisible he has then to toil toll early and late to slave often when men are at rest to steer his bark through a multitude of abuses which if justice were done should fall on other shoulders and besides doing all this he must never lose sight of the interest of his readers nor cease to push them forward with might and main maln toronto telegraph for the winter velvet suits will be in demand and the various imitations of the tho genuine silk article will probably be in greater favor than ever the prices for these goods will probably not vary much from those of last season A scotch minister recently told his neighbor that he spoke two hours and a half the sunday previous why minister were you not tired to death asked the neighbor aw na nae 11 said he be 1 I was as fresh as a rose gut edt but bub it would woula have done your heart good to see how tired the congregation was A new orleans youth called with his intended on a magistrate to have the marriage ceremony performed in haste ifor for you see he observed theres another man has a licen license so to marry her aud arid be may be along at any moment the magistrate hereupon 1 besita hesitated tied and t the tie would be bridegroom I 1 3 suggested ngn ed a compromise 1 I say judge marry manry us anyway and if the ther ather fellow makes a fuss about it why confound it he can have her this arrangement was agreed to and the t he marriage proceeded to the mutual satisfaction is of all ail the parties |