Show judging the mormon people Is it quite fair to judge the mormon people by the single trait of polygamy polygamy if it is then tile the city of new york ork lies hes open to condemnation any day on the score of its grog shops gambling hells and other institutions of deeper infamy what are the facts brigham young gives them in the summary of his life as telegraphed to tile the herald this morning A desert has been made a home for one hundred thousand temperate frugal hardworking people two hundred cities have been founded with schools factories mill mills and other industrial interests tending to benefit the whole country though the indians could have swept away the colonists at any time they have made no trouble because they were treated with even justice justlee by these fruits of twenty six years the tile mor alor mons ask that they shall Le be judged but the impatient people of the east eager to cast the first stone set setup up tiie the one changeless cry of polygamy will it prove effectual in fact or even in argument the mormon prophet points to the cities of the east and procla procia proclaims i ms that their civilization is a lie that it fosters drunkenness promotes lust and tends to murder that the open polygamist is better than the secret sensualist that tile the statistics of crime are proof of the tiie failure of the old monogamous christianity he uses no declamation but points to the thi murders of Good goodrich fisk richardson chardson Ei and many another to the looseness of divorce laws 1 and to the wholesale slaughter of unborn children as the evidence of his position who shall answer ili lii him so that well informed men shall shail be satisfied if it cannot be done at once it may be well wei I 1 enough for people to be patient with utah and its it S r religion C 1 ia on happy would it be for ourselves if the same certainty of a better order of social morality were imminent here bere new yew york graphic |