Show EDI edl rori jiw jbv 1 I RJ A alsa lse a a ii THE SA banci soo boo gorden golden pra makes just ire marks concern benei in ing the t situation in this thib locality local ity The jera era observes that a religious religions society based upon the teachings of the old testament may reasonably adopt a plurality of wives aa as a portion of its creed er e ed we have 6 iii lid never ary grm bieard A n jobje objection to this except ace apt in utah 1 so 0 far as we know it as generally conceded that a man mat cannot buot receive the teachings odthe of the old testament hii aa isi a rule ruie of faith and practice without acknowledging that plurality of wives is a system by stem of divine institution and sanction the prevalent idea that the new testament wars against that system is erroneous as has been confessed by mor moro than tha nond dond one divine and by otherwise eminent men in ages giha since ilba the establish jentof christianity we know perfectly th ataman that a man may have more than one wife and be a good husband a tender father a highly respectable citizen an honorable member of society a moral honest upright man and in every way a truly estimable ea character we do eerily know that a man may obtain from heaven as perfectly satisfactory a conviction and a knowledge that the system of plurality of wives Is to from god as he can that any other doctrine or any other practice set forth in the bible Is from him so that no man need be ae dependent pendent upon the rat ratiocination locina of divines or Judge judges sor bor or politicians in regard to the right or wrong of that question thadera the era makes sno suo another ther then very good point it says bays that it is not the fact of a man cohabiting with several women that the huo hue and cry is raised for but it is because he marries them makes wives of them honors and prot protects ecta them and recognizes and cares for their eb children ildren thebe these are the reasons for the objections to polygamy if a man wont marry women but will take them as ko mistresses stresses mi as distinguished men do doall all ali over the union disowning them as wives and disowning their offspring then it will beall beail be all ali hushed up for he is a perfect gentleman society receives him with open arms all honorable positions are olento open to him but let him marry those women with whom he has haa become practically one flesh tiesh 11 and he becomes an outlaw at once the point is well weli tale taken taie n by the era but betit it is a sad commentary upon the civilization of the day manifesting that with all its powerful progress and enlightenment there is Al something rotten in the state of denmark fatally rotten MUCH of the speculation of the newspapers concerning the position and prospects R of what the world terms mormonism Mormon niem lemly hab has harthe the peculiarity of reasoning in a circle vircle it ends where it begins and the public is just as well informed and as near a satisfactory satis batis facto ry conclusion after reading such reasoning as before reading it an extract from the new york ff berald er published in the NEWS yesterday has this same bame am e peculiar pecullar ec ullar quality the kerald herald thin thinks ka t the 0 present a very unpropitious time lor for the coming wholesale divorcement of mormon women which it takes for granted is immediately at the doors the time is particularly unfavorable for the reason that it is one when comans womans wo mans great numerical preponderance over the other sex makes her with all her acknowledged swee bwee sweetness a drug in the worlds market a very excellent reason why the utah system of marriage if not generally adopted elsewhere elbe else here should at the very least be left jeff undisturbed by the rash hands handsol of officious official intermeddlers intermeddle rs re wh ohavo nothing better nor half so good to offer in its place and are perfectly bewildered which way to go to escape the dilemma into which they have recklessly rushed As the herald says bays the whole subject presen presents tsa a most complex appearance and will probably have to be left finally for fon circumstances to unravel here again is the circle complete if after all the labored attempts to unravel the tangle or the supposed tangle it must be left finally for fon circumstances cum stances to unravel common ense inse i would berta berts certainly dictate that it aou wourl be far betterto better to saye bave all the time and taix dx lety leky aid and labor expended over the perplexing subject and let it be left for circumstance Ek to unravel not only finally but originally i from alpha to omega first last and altogether meantime says the berard berald JS let the them women have a vote upon it 31 they ought at once onee to take a vote upon rit t let the r women have sante upon P tt atit if only to get gei their opinion on the mat ter j as it would be interesting to knott what thier thought though t of it 11 lae lie herey ev the herald has hns as swung round the circled circle more and 11 hns has just got ba back baek ek to 6 the point of co corm corn M roen moen emeriL cement the merald berald has i a great reputation and justly for we WO know for enterprise and energy in tho the publication of news but it forgets wh what a t F it t has already published publish edi edl elbeat else elbe it would vibul d remember that the mormon Mormont women have ever voted on this question for they eleca elect atthe first when and to whom they will ba be married and the privilege e aprI privilege vIle bof bot of divorce aas has hns not been denied them the herald would next recollect that about two years ago the mormon women inthe in the time of the infamous cullom crusade did assemble in mass meeting and n speak and vote and petition on congress in favor of or the system of plurality of wives I 1 we are in no fear as to w which highway way the women would vote again and again upon this question to their everlasting credit be it said they always are in favor of marriage and they always will vote for it they dont like to be dragge dragged into dinto the position 11 though many of the men like itier it far too well for the welfare of man woman or society at large bo so decidedly arb are women in ir favor of marriage that if it they could be persuaded to vote against the plurality system many of them with that sweet and charming perversity native to them would go goi right atlay away from such voting and be married to the men med of their hearts even if those men were ware already married the women ard are sound enough on the question of marriage it is the men who are rotten upon it IL meantime cannot the berald get out of that mystical circle and reason if not in a straight line at least in a line that will admit of some progress in stead Instead of 1 bringing the reasoner right back to the initial point |