Show EXPOSING THE hypocrites tho the pretended spasms of virtue with which some of the most corrupt centres bentres of modem civillia civill za tion have been shaking during the past few weeks the detroit free press 8 cs has the following pungent editorial cc chicago is nothing if not sensational only a few days ago the citizens met hi in solemn conclave to denounce the immorality and wickedness of the mormons cormons in utah and they did denounce if mormonism could bo be wiped out with oratory or rhetoric it would today to day be a thing of the past ali AU the ro re tio lio of the eity city were vere drawn upon T the pulpit jait the bar and the mercantile cant le pr profession ofes sion contributed their presence and eloquence and the spek spee ches and resolves were emphatic and scorching the morality of chicago long since shocked was thoroughly arou abou aroused md and the 1 ab lou iou outrageous law defying def ying practices a of the pestiferous poly polygamists I 1 mists we were portrayed in all ail their hideous colors while the law majers majors of the land were ca aw pon for fresh devices chereb great blot upon the national escutcheon may be wiped out Th the nation sympathized when tho the electric messenger bore to the four corners of the land a report of the chicago meeting the friends ot of law and decency and good government cried out done the outburst of the great city was hailed as an indication that a better day had dawned and that from thenceforth the government strengthened by the consciousness of popular sympathy and assured of popular support would move upon the mor mons as a government meaning business A few of the more enthusiastic would not have been surprised if an expedition had been organized the very day after the chicago meeting with orders from washington to smite the polygamists hip and thigh and to break the bands of the oppressed in utah but if any of those who have been moved by the chicago outburst read the papers of that city their enthusiasm must be sadly chilled by this time for two successive weeks on saturday the chicago inter infer ocean has devoted itself to an exposure of a few of the worst dens of infamy shame and crime in that city and the picture it presents Is one which makes the story of polygamy and mormonism seem in comparison like a tale of pastoral simplicity in its issue of saturday last it sketches in outline outlines beenes of vice and depravity and crime which cannot be pa paralleled ralle ralie led by any anything n that at has As ever been laid to the charge go of mormonism eyen even when the alleged murders of the ab blood da d a atonement e ent are included for the chicago wickedness not only has bus to do with the destruction of the body but the destruction of the soul goal this showing which the chicago press Is making ought not to weaken the protest which the citizens of that place have made agai agal against ast polygamy but it inevitably will if they permit the scandalous beanda ions lons doings of their own fellow townsmen and neighbors to pam pas without an equally vigorous protest they may be as earnest and honest bonest as they seemed in their abhorrence of the plural wife system but they will get no credit for either unless they show something of the same earnestness and honesty in exposing and denouncing noun cing the eln ein which flourishes in rank luxuriance beneath their noses on the contrary they will be denounced all over the i and land as hypocrites |