Show solution of gho ghe normon mormon pron bron ieni yeni editors the hackneyed proposition of abandoning polygamy to secure the tho inestimable privilege of statehood received a quasi quaal endorse jaent in your issue of saturday permit the expression of a few reflections I 1 am a vare rare that such sueh concession to the progress of the age aa it hab hns doubtless overjoyed the kind hearted benevolent gentleman proposing thib thia expedient to entitle it would in their estimation improvise some sort of a transition from territorial moth dom the amerlean american press have aiso also generously solaced themselves in thia opinion for the past fifteen years one thing I 1 flud here bolow said baid carlyle the just thing thu the truo thing if the thing is unjust thou hast not succeeded and what do congress or the country really care about polygamy in utah the outcry comes from the tho sepulchral pulpits of the huaca N ew man hue add and congress cornea down with the polygamy net neu of 1862 the best statesmen and clergy dare daro not volee voice their deepest convictions in public but bul have two sets of morals one nor for the closet and one for the street it may be ad however to ask what legislators propose to do in view of the alarming and increasing exceed of women throughout this thia question may well weli appal appah the wisest men nor are we half awake to its import legislators pause upon the threshold of comans womans enfranchisement women in the cen deney dency with marriage on the tho decline are the anomalies of the time and aud yel yet either elther male maie or female la but half hait without the other othen As priestly celibacy has haa filled with defilement the cloistered haunts of the vestal virgins so roman boman monogamy las lag made christian cities drunk with the wine of her fornication the im pending crisis is not whether woman must go baek back to polygamy or forward to free freelove love jove bul but whether bhe she shill obtain patriarchal marriage aa instituted by jehovah and honored by the practice of the long iong lived inspired aud and chosen exponents of high heavens will wili of all nil ages or the dry of christendom denying honorable marriage to sweet attractive graceful njmen in the solitary state of massachusetts flanking the avenues of trade with horgea of assignation and prostitution precipitating upon society a social evil law can ean restrain aud and no power suppress and dragging woman the moulder and finisher of nations down to an average ilfe life of bub but four years yearb when she ahe dieb of the will of kocl goci or borne other disease from erom the low piane pinne of traditional monogamy it is sometimes asked if a man mau be allied ali ail wed to have a plurality of wives why not also aiso allow the woman a plurality of husbands it should be observed thal that sueh buch an inquiry ia only consonant with total oblivion to the laws of procreation and aud the highest and holiest hollest mission of woman that thal of bearing the souls of men and wherein says the scripture she bhe shall achieve her salvation a brighter purer holier more queenly and exalted estate thau than hns has ever entered into the hearts of those who prescribe promiscuous intercourse as the panacea for the catalogue of political social moral and physical wrongs by which trusting woman is daily crucified conjugal law which in 11 ages and nations has hag confined one woman to one man hab bab never confined man to one woman it might safely be admitted as an axiom that the author of being cannot be defective iu the laws of baing being it is not less demonstrative that he has most moat unequivocally endorsed indorsed indor bed sed patriarchal or plural marriage that through that lineage have descended all ali the prophets and apostles to whom the heavens were unveiled and even the only begotten of the father himself came through an undisputed line of polygamous ancestry tho efforts to press any of the utterances of jesus or his Apo ano etlea into bervice service iu abrogation of patriarchal institutions must be as inconsistent as they are subversive of obvious construction and good sense it ia not claimed that the of accredited monogamists composing that euphonious division of the world pet named christendom are in duty bound to practice polygamy the cormons mormons in utah have been commanded to do soi boi now wont this thia announcement sooth booth many disquieted nerves it must not be forgotten though that isaiah the most moat clear headed anamin ute delineator of the mighty convulsions of the last days predicts in no mincing words a gigantic woman revolt against an order of things so fraught with reproach infamy and death to her and aud sueh such a fervent dervent requisition will be made por nor true womans comans rights aa will nind find its way to hearts of masculine adamant we will eat our own bread ao only let iet us bave have an honorable marriage bachelors and old oid maids will wiil then be found wanting the one ono the tho others othera helter heiter for ron increasing responsibilities comans womans right to propose will be asserted maintained and honored in conclusion wili wiil it bo too much to ask abc of our oun good christian ministerial friends either elther to throw away their bibles or quit the roc roe of apologists for the almighty in devoutly explaining that in the duys days of ignorance god winked a spi spiritual api ritual wink of course at bin aln in which category they have very indiscreetly to say aay the of it the friends and favorites of god it is quite presumable that men having the frequent privilege of personal communication with angels and exalted baingi had better opportunities for acquiring correct information on any science or subject than those who os tracine all nil further revelation and aud whose bighea t conception of tho the god and father of our lord jesus christ is that thal he is a baing without body parts or passions whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference la nowhere the tho most exael exact definition of nothing to be found in language we respectfully to our oun brethren of the christian ministry thi solution of the mormon problem M cleveland plain dealer french beela are among the discarded follies of society girls A bitter experience peri perl ence in the direction of banina bab hns warned almost all ali our belles to discard them JS r |