Show A WIDE difference THE washington in discussing the jewish question in ger na many any makes this remark arhe the wayford way nor for jews aws to escape persecution is to cease being beling jews jewa ll 11 and adds this isa is a way out of oppression ao so easy and plain wonder much it ia Is not more frequently followed 31 the same rule is applied to the mormons cormons Mor CMor mons mong I but the change advised is not quite so easy as some people in the case of the jews race as well as religion fe Ys in the way if the jews were to pretend to b be e christians we have v rv little faith in a full blooded je jews Vs professed conversion blood tell in spite of creed JC jew might cease to be a jew in reil rell religion kion klon hui hut lie he would still belong to judah anda and among niong bigots and bogus chris rqn tan ti an za he an object of derision aversion averion lon ion ot ol f r t arse cution s i the mormons cormons Mor mons would 11 please ease a cert certain aln ain class cl assof of 1 pious I 1 us PU puritans antans inthey would ceab to fobbe mormons Mor mons t but ut should thisbe this be asked of them lin in a land of religious and political liberty Is there not room enough in this vast domain over which the eagle of freedom is supposed to spread its protecting egis for a people whose faith is antagonistic to the forms and professions of the majority if not the boasted toleration of this govern government m i ent is a fraud and a delusion the ca capitala Capi pital talf pursuing 0 the sule subject i ct s says ay s 1 we suggested once to a lyl ISI mormon ormon we vve said to our polygamous friend why owhy shock the christian world by marrying your mi stresses the constitution ution and christian practices are as good to you as to a congressman you can have as many mistresses mi stresses bs as you please provided you dont marry them i it struck us that it was extremely absurd to make such a dish disturbance r ance averso over so small a difference but this seemingly small smail difference is in fact very great the cap atil alit puts it in an amusing and perhaps ironical manner but it touches the marrow of the difficulty it is perfectly true that the cormons mormons Mor mons might practice any kind of licentiousness after the fashion of the corrupt world and if they did not entirely escape censure would at least be untouched by national law they would not however cease to be the objects of christian malignity the chief persecutions which the mormons Mor mons oils have ft undergone were sutured suffered before plural marriage marriage became a part of their fath and practice e sinea sinca its incorporation ent Tnt into 0 their creed they have been comparatively ively safe from the enmity of the sects and the fury of religious mobs to cease being mormons cormons Mor mons they would have to drop a great deal more than polygamy and if they were to abandon the one obnoxious tenet the cry for further concessions would increase until they forsook the church established b divine revelation in the nineteenth century this smail small difference that the th capital capitaz talks about forms forma as a guif gulf as that between Ab abarabar Abra hiar bosom and the abode of dj pi f mormon plural marriage and andal keeping of a mistress are dive t an dalien dallen 11 they are exactly ill lil t same relation as marriage with 04 on wife and cohabitation with a bonite for nor mere lust we are aware thata that thai some people peo le there very little ditre difre difference rence between swem 41 een fin i two and that consists in the ba f that in the first ease case a ceremony I 1 performed which gives it legal ien 14 social recognition but if a mere attempt at t sanctification of the othi the sentiments of some men ment menu these subjects are expressed in tl tf remarks about plural marr marn i they cannot conceive of N in it as a motive but the gratl tion of animalism why 1 because that is their conception marria marriage ge in any form they bestial in their lature ia ture amu ana tx tl cannot rise to any higher though and motives than those that bovea goves themselves mormon ormon plural marri aki gt merely an extension in tile the principles that underlie tk matrimony as ordained of god the happiness and exaltation man and woman in time andett and eta if itis it is practiced practised in th the sp spa of lust that is a departure from 3 design and principles the keen keea ofa ora of a ini mistress stress and the marriage of 06 plural wife under the cl mormon system have havo have bave nothing whatever a common they are opposite eine in sence they are different in irl thel ther results we would despise a as who would place his plural wit win M over the great void on the domain th the e kept mistress and consider tie the tt who would turn them adrift ia any circumstances or any didat pressure legal social or ren reh gian beneath the tiie contempt of any hom hoin able aule man or woman on earth |