Show the petition journalistic levity I kept women social vice on eho the rie lie poor Cons titu liberty CHICAGO feb 4 1876 I 1 have noticed that tho the petition to congress from the female world of utah has evoked a little com ment from our eastern mends friends I 1 have also noticed that several attempts at being witty on the head of this petition were made by very verdant and unlettered journalists there is nothing in the world so disgusting to a man or woman of taste as those miserable platitudes on wit and humor that sully the pages ot of the american press at the present time in fact the general tendency of all our eastern writers is towards this humorous strain all sub subjects ejects are treated of wit with h levity even death itself in whatever form it appears is gaily alluded to the body of a drowned suicide would be termed a floater and a good deal of very low wit would be indulged in over the probable life of this floater certainly this kind of teaching must have a very injurious effect on society no doubt a good deal of the bravado manifested by criminals in their last moments on the scaffold bid can be traced to this source A short time ago a fiend who was guilty of every crime in the calendar turned poet on the scaffold Told this thing for man he could scarcely be called indulged in all kinds of braggadocio bragg adocia he conducted himself in such a manner that even hanging was not a ait fit death for him one journalist stated in his graphic description that this monster d died led game A few days ngo hgo go there was a man hung at cairo ill who pub dished a string of verses before his death it is needless to say that any well regulated community would not tolerate for a moment the idea of publishing trash such as this man gave utterance to the revolting endsor ends of these two malefactors ought to form themes for all the thinkers and teachers in the country no a few words of smutty wit or a column or two of vapid sensational matter is deemed sufficient for these trivial things A man chops up his mother and father and kills hills his wife and tries to kill himself in the easta east a day or two ago what must lead to this dreadful work it must surely be some rotten corner in our social fabric A man who owns two newspapers turns a forger and flies the country doubtless the rev name of this worthy has already reached you but innocent mr winslow is safe at home by this one of our chicago teachers has also got into trouble he owned the We lV esteran nural rural but I 1 am wandering too far from what I 1 intended to be the theme of this product production iou ion the petition from utah I 1 was thinking about these who petitioned the government for a recognition of their rights and their ligion religion ic it is strange that in this country whose founders counseled toleration for all religions modern statesmen states olen oien will hardly deign to think seriously for a moment on yours and yet before them lies a petition signed by female Te maies males among whom there is not ome abandoned creature all either virtuous maids or chaste mothers what a spectacle oh but our pious journalist will say eay they are slaves they are forced lo 10 do this and besides they are concubines well it is very easy te to prove that such is not the tho case by a son with our method of doing things here let us take females in this city of any grade and place them beside the same number from utah and ask seriously which is the best evidence ef of sound bound society it is very hard to enter into facts and truth is always supposed to b be 0 bitter but ia Is it not better to speak truth than ruin society by false teaching among our the prenatal pre pro natal the adulteress the harlot the concubine the abortionist etc can be found five out of every ten would have a tale of sorrow and corruption to tell and would heartily wish for some phase of society that would prevent such awful mishaps it may be safely estimated that between and females exist in chicago alone who are known as kept women these females are comfortably quartered in fit fur dished rooms and all their expenses paid by heads of families biar Blar married ried min men are usually the best supporters of this class of females in fact this woman business has grown to be an institution in our large cities in chicago alone I 1 could name hundreds of respectable business men who are fathers of families and who keep women we have in our palatial blo bio ks furth furtA furnished shed rooms on the hotel plan but more properly speaking assignation houses there is more liberty io in them than in the hotel these rooms are luxuriously furnished the tho occupants of them have nothing to do but sleep it is no wonder that the position of kept woman is now more sought after than that of mar marl 1 ried woman by a certain class of females the young woman who ia Is placed in one of these nice rooms with board paid and all attendance at hand band is certainly happy or ought to be but suppose the history of one ia Is traced what dos does it unfold there is a pretty young wa woman man working in a store the employer takes a fancy to her and immediately takes steps to fecu i e of her bod body yand and soul one of those furnished rooms is procured cu redin in a splendid block tho the young girl is taken there and introduced to tle the janitress of the building who immediately adopts her as daughter because a ten or twenty dollar bill accompanies the introduction but where is the 11 ue be of following this doomed creature through the different scenes of lifes dark drama tomorrow to morrow she appears as an abortion abortionist 14 the next day in a bagnio baguio the day after a Madame and so soon on until a it miserable end closes the he drama who can say the picture la Is overdrawn it Is bawell well weli known great humanitarians have wad had something to say on this social evil and the causes which con eon conduce d uce most to its development all writer shave condemned the thes Csop lal ial evil but no remedy has ilas succeeded in banishing it it ia is conceded that its absence from society would be a benefit therefore why inveigh against a religion and social i fabric which pro promise nilse utise to be a sure sur e guard against this from the littie little that I 1 understand about the religion of the people of utah I 1 do believe that it will wili be a sit successful safeguard against all thu so kinds of vice which degrade and immolate humanity take our society outside this sexual question and see if it will bear analysis only yesterday t talked to the mother of four children and learned from her the old old story she bhe was a german her husband was a hardworking man and be tween them they managed to put a few dollars a week into a savings bank regularly during the last few years about two mouths ago this savings bank batik turned out dut to bea be boa a regular confidence swindle the poor couple did aid not get ten cents out of their hard bard earned savings to crown the unhappiness of this wretched family the poor man got dis employed a few weeks ago and isnow is now dependent on nn the charity of friends another woman told me that her husband worked for six months on a railroad and got cheated out of his bis wages what wonder is it that we have what the press calls communists ia la our midst but what I 1 would call pooh poof working men m en who have been the victims of base unprincipled eonni dence operators in short it would be easy to prove fo to the legislators of this country that the female petition from utah is a reality and should not be superciliously jg jig nored besides are the present generation of statesmen to transmit their names to posterity as subvert ers of their country s laws constitutional jurisprudence will require them to prove that mormonism is not a religion before they can consistently interfere with it every school boy knows what the word religion means and the recent action of 1 the women of utah proves that they have a rell reil religion gion glon yes indisputably proves it history can show that it is a religion surpassing any that appear elsewhere on the earth its members are harmoniously bound together no complaints reach us of personal or individual oppression we read no wholesale accounts of f fractured faith blighted troth etc I 1 would be sorry to think that state statesmen Amen of this great country should thoughtlessly essay to subvert the hallowed traditions and sacred edicts of our fathers the women of utah have convinced the world that theirs is a religion they have convinced the world that they enjoy a purer religion than an equal number of any otner women in the world they require but a very moderate demand to be let iet manage their own affairs socially i and religiously and in a measure politically in fact I 1 cant reconcile with my ideas of probity and fairness that any sane statesman would venture on such dangerous ground as the overturning overturn ing log of a religion would be and I 1 am sure suye president grant wont sully the name nome of hero and soldier by rendering himself liable to the production of another poem like ilke evangeline van vau geline MRS ilits D D well treated A co gorlier pre in dice those who oppose A liberal denomination NORMAL illinois february 3rd ard 1876 editor deseret news I 1 returned to this point a fe few w days ago from another trip into the country preaching and arld lecturing my health being only moderately good owing to t the he sudden changes from extreme cold to very mild weather that we have been subject to this winter so that I 1 found a few days rest positively necessary as I 1 have been speaking almost every night I 1 was well treated and kindly received by the great majority maj erity of the people who listened attentively to what I 1 had to say and earnestly requested le quested me to return to the same locality again which I 1 expect to do tomorrow to morrow aud have now somewhere between fifteen and twenty appointments already made bro jog joa standing from he ward will probably arrive hero the first of next week to assist me in my jabers labors for which I 1 feel very thankful and trust that with the spirit of bod god to enlighten our minds our united efforts may resul result resulting tin in some good in this locality A suggestion made by brother miles P romney bem bom romney Rem ney now laboring in fit wisconsin that the elders would do better to concentrate their labors and published recently in the NEWS was I 1 am satisfied a good one from the fact that the people generally are totally ignorant in renard lard to our view views and many of them grossly prejudiced so that it requires two or three public meetings to enable them to overcome heir hein prejudices so as to examine into our principles with any fairness I 1 find that the first meeting is attended by tile the people pretty much upon the principle that they attend a circus or panorama merely out of curiosity after the first there is then some opportunity offered to give them a reason for the faith that we have and nuil aud anil I 1 find many ready and anxious to examine into our religions belief I 1 spoke one night on I 1 plural marriage by request and had u large audience who gave close attention and appeared deeply interested the only opposition I 1 meet is from the ministers and leading members of some of the churches who appear to get furious atthe at the sight of a mormon elden elder I 1 find the denomination called christians er or cam ites ahead of the rest in their willingness to investigate and open their churches to all classe people ond their action generally is very liberal I 1 am very truly your brother J MORGAN A fire CITY feb 9 1876 editor deseret about 4 pm yesterday a house on the north part of town belonging to president snow which was built and owned formerly bv by W C thomas was discovered to have caught fire and a preat great number of people were seen been in the streets rushing unsaid direction soon boon all the furniture and effects C of the homo were moved into the streel street the fire ore was in the upper story of the and was caused by a square block of timber thab that was placed auros then dobles the inner edge if the block touched the stovepipe and tile the outer edge the cornice of the building the th e situation was awkward as it was not nut possible in the first place to reach teach the tire with wate water r the boys boYE piled plied snow 0 on aud and round the cornices cornicks cor nices leBro al xi ensign took position on a long ladder and plying with sharp tools soon succeeded in making a farge large opening in ih the strong cornice when it was discovered that the fire had a strong hnud and if it it had not been checked wil wit while I 1 le in a limited li rn I 1 ted compass clum pass the building would have havo been beed doomed had it been a frame li building dilding it have the damage done is inconsiderable AC ft 9 i 1 T olt opt lj 46 t ya oal blondon 1 oto to melbourne 1 foots 1865 1 I I 1 to bishop J JY tie haf me 9 aill in coan conn fl I 1 an I 1 to the he dealt A ann AND ND SISTERS I 1 feel that lau iau language guage such as I 1 api ap of 0 Is a very imperfect means of conveying you jon my thoughts though ti concerning you and myself abed I 1 I 1 think of therm thero any years it wa was my pralle pr ylie e fo to live in your jour midat midst and With jou jon learn jeani tho the things of or gods kingdom I 1 look back lack upon lias it as a dream I 1 find far far sway avay from home z in tho the vl YI evard of the lord in a ver ter very tery jr different capacity to that of 0 home sweet sweet home hoine I 1 atu am glad giad to tell yon you that we are all ail well weil 1 thank our oun liea IlMi tenly venly father you D no d douht doubt ht received our little notes from london Loudon Just dust before we selled called for this distant land yc wo had bad one of or the best trips on record both in good weather and speed a fine chip ship a good captain and crew a larce laree company of good and bad people we left london assou asson as yon remember on of august and arrived here on the soth 2 of october being from sight eight sig olit glit to of land jand 51 days daye and on board of ship 56 days da Ts sta tute pr geographical miles musa musi we sighted porta centa ralma and madeira islands on afie he ind 2nd af pf und pass past pasted passed ad so dose close as to seey seep see with the aid of bro bio cooba jacobs class gins S 1 the moving about on an lahore shore whito while with the ual naked naud dd eye we could see tee ee the houses zar gar gardens denb dene vineyards lle yle fcc biery tiery berv easily we entered the tropics dil ou the ath of september the day dat pr president geo gee A smith was budded buried id day daf week we were undena vertical gun sun the weather was delightful not atall tall as I 1 had expected Brother brothen bluer heavy snit gult of and was not too warm in lone bone week weck more we were out of the tropic tio pire and began to look to our northern buu suu buu A peculiar circumstance happened on sunday the of tcp lemyer lemier perhaps not a mile mlle and certainly within ten miles ol 01 uhe the df north and south wt all saw the meeting of tides in such guch a manner as to be visible to the ey eye eyo e for miles and milca forming a ridge euch ench as could be made by continual back furrowing the circumstance seemed teemed to be stran strange gge to most ot of the seamen nothing ot of imi ortance becerr occurred i ed until tile the ord ot at october when wind came up from the S W which wab wap idour in our oar fator favor as by this time wo had bad r rounded 0 tied oled cape of good hope and headed beaded due east aas it thus giving us a good wind on our oun larboard larb oana oara quarter this increased in force nd bd to came a gale and continued night va ant a antray tilday day until the loth we had bad 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