Show editorials A CONNON INCIDENT THE tre new york berald herald of july ath baya saya t L j gra A woman who was recently arrested by the society for the prevention of bf cruelty to children was ws found ho homeless and drunk in the streets surrounded by four of her children and among these little onea ones were two children that had been committed to her charge by a charitable institution I the herald further records the fact that some boma of these charitable Institutions for tho the care of destitute children bury moie more than they rear in which ft 11 Is ia sustained by figures and reports and the expo eppo aures bures which are occasionally mado made babut what kind of society is it that brings forth such soch fruits that requires an institution specially organized for prevention of crudity cruelty ta to children and that places so many of its little ones in the care eare of soulless and inhuman beings if such an incident as that described by tho the great gotham dally had bad only occurred in utah what an outcry would have been raised in which the herald would no doubt have been heard as loudly as its neighbors about the awful results of polygamy but these things are arc scenes of often orten ten tan repeated annew york the commercial capital of this monogamous 2 country would it not ba be just as well for of thelast the East bast to devote a little attention in attempting to cure care their own social soe soc al diseases before they try their hands again at doctoring distant utah where such evils hareno haye have no actual existence think over it pious journalists and sleek and oily olly occupants of iro hrc christian h rIstI 11 pulpits EVILS OF I 1 CH ISTIA hll all SOCI sool ETY THE fay Far farmerly farmers merya merla union a paper pub fished at minneapolis minnesota has las printed the report of a lecture kli kil delivered vered before the reform club of that place by nev bev edwin sidney williams it is a sharp assault on the vice of rum drinking so prevalent in the land and commences by rele reference rence ronce to the anti antl polygamy agitation which recently convulsed the country the lecturer does not find fault with this he announces himself an enemy to mormonism and by his remarks shows that he has been misled in relation to it by the rumors which have iken been so exten circulated but bat he calls general attention to a general evil that cannot be denied and ought not to be ignored and denounces the policy which cries out for the extermination of polygamy yat at a distance and neglects an evil of immense magnitude at hand we take the following extracts on this point from the lecture as reported in the union fellow ofellow citizen the ebullition of long lorig pent up feeling concerning a sorrow and shame which really affects fec fee ts only a few thousand men and women in a far away wilderness a comparatively small part of bur ample domain juat and holy as it is ut is but a tem peest t in a teapot compared with what should stir every evert pa breast in all the land in con temp tomp lation of the greater slavery the rum power puts ts on men and dure aure women both there is a growing felon on uncle sams finger in utah which the government bayonet can lance with the corruption of whisky the whole body politic Is isi cancerous the whole head ble bid siek sick aad the whole heart faint it is time we were awake about this anis imminent and monstrous noua roua evil of mormons cormons less than thau practice polygamy more men and momen are led into adultery and lew lewdness duess in one of our great cities by rum mm than in all the terri torlea under the stars and stripes which are cursed by polygamy more lore maids are debauched by drugged draughts and led on to ruin through pass passions fons lons inflamed by drink while conscience than are sacrificed in the hares harems of mormon profligates making a sodom of our fair west more wives hearts ache in minnesota than ln utah ache harder and sorrow longer more children cry for bread here than there more honor bonor im logt lost more manhood sacrificed W a I 1 t simply and hud eole Edle muty declare to tol my fellow cithens citizens that in protesting against a far away and local monstrosity we do not do all our duty there is corruption here at home as costly and slid as dangerous as any known to ill lil story history god kindle far and wide the fires of deep and genuine lne ine remorse and measure with justice the degree of retribution we ought to suffer but senda send 0 heaven we pray a flood of eyo eye opening light upon this wi widespread d and open bore eore of the tha republic I 1 c until ashamed and penitent wo we d daro dare aro are do righteously and ce cease be to fat fatten t an with rude and dangerous riot on the wave wane of iniquity in the form forca of government license of a fierce and unquenchable enemy of a and nd morals ik hell ia is not beyond the alone itis it is here I 1 can take you to its vestibule every pastor knows the skeleton in ili the tho closet which alcohol has laid bare good hearts ache for orphans the home for the homeless burdens sympathies already fearfully taxed the sad tide of bruised and shamed wot wo manhood nowa flown into the rome homo of the sisters of bethany hospitals the tho caro care of the wounded and Mair maimed malmed ried 0 I 1 put it upon your jour consciences fellow cit citizens izene J joining dining in the crusade against the foul fanatics natica fa of if it be not a farce to spend bhend such disproportionate breath upon a heathen abomination in a dutant distant territory and ifo lio enslaved by a power which will be broken brohen n when patriots seize their opportunity port unity and say bay it must dam the current of our progress aud and pro prosper sperl more 11 in tn reproducing these theae utterances wodai we do not idt attempt to apologize for polygamy because of the prevalence of rum drinking if plural marni marri ngo ago is wrong tho large proportions pf af another wrong will not make i night right or offer any excuse for its existence but wo present these ext tracts with the same sania motive that prompted the lecturer that is to show the hypocrisy of those who pretend to be so shocked at a tice which has but few adherent adherents and they located at a great distance while in their own midst are glaring vices that affect their own society and which they ignore or treat as no necessary evils to be winked at if not protected that ia ii the point boint shown up in the lecture of rev mr williams williamp and that Is the point to which we direct attention LITERARY EXCURSION PA TY ON the of ji y a large company of literary ladie ladle sand spud gentlemen will pay a visit to salt lake it will consist of an excursion party composed of members of the I 1 ligols press association J of which C B bostwick bos Boa esq of the matton gazette is president and fred balles kailes esq of the tho pontiac sentinel is secretary ry from the last named gentleman we learn that the party will reach ogden on the dinst in time for supper and will be conveyed in their special pullman cars to salt lake saturday the will be spent in viewing I 1 ng prominent gut dut points of interest in the city sunday in attending religious services etc including the Tabe tabernacle macIe bacie meeting monday in a trip to provo returning in time to take the regular afternoon train to ogden ogdon we assure our illinois friend friends that they will be welcome in the city of the saints saintes and we have no doubt that they will enoy enjoy the visit and gain considerable information about a territory and a people widely known by name but little 11 atle understood abroad come Com enrid and see bee us as wo we are i mi 0 THE PAY OF THE UTAH commissioners NERS IT will bo remembered that during the debate on the edmunds bill in tho the house of representatives mr converso converse of ohio contended that the bill should b be considered cittee of the whole because it evolved an expenditure of money from fro nithe the treasury of the united states that is for the salaries of the commission commissioners ors era and under rule any bill author authorizing mag Wag or requiring the expenditure of public money must be BO so considered but the supporters of the bill maintained that no expenditure of public money was involved in the bills bill because the E salaries of the COM corn loners would inva to bs be paid out of the treasury of utah territory atory they knew know better they were fully aware awara that those commissioners ners being united states have to ba be paid out of united states funds sunds and that there was no power in ja Cong Congre resa reea ssi to legislate money out of a torri toral trea treasury u ry the reason why they took this stand was because thoy they dreaded the discussion of the bais bill with its unconstitutional and infamous provis p ovis lons ions they wished to pass it ve without ith debato debate under a gag rule and if it had gone into of the Who leit would hare have jasen fully considered and no doubt amended but in the excited sta state teof of the country worked up lip by the foulest cal and most absurd exaggerations there was a public demand for something om ething stringent and the republicans public ans wanted to gain public ft fi f t vor and BO co pandered to the popular passionate plon te outburst by py stifling debate repressing reason remson aud and refusing to be govern governed cd by the usual parliamentary usages and the established rules of the house speaker keifer sustained them by his ruling on this point well wall on the ath of july the sundry civil appropriation bill being under consideration in committee of the whole the following items appeared I 1 to V 0 enable C nabi 6 tho the secretary of the treasury to carry out the provisions of tho the act entitled an act to amend section of the revised statutes of the united states in reference to bigamy and for other purposes approved march 22 1682 as follows for eor salaries of commissioners at each for compensation of the officers of election including contingent expenses for expenses pf af tho commission COMMISS ion IOD for printing stationery clerical hire and rent mr holman raised the point of order on these paragraphs that there was no law authorizing the expenditure ot money sor for the purpose named because it had ha 1 l been ruled in the house that no appropriation of public money was involved in the law for tho tha suppression sion bion of polygamy mr hiscock prevailing upon the gentleman to withhold his point of order moved to strike out the first paragraph for payment t of the com corn mis miB misso Boners ners because became the ben een be ate had bad inserted for the bame same purpose putting the salaries at instead of a byear year this was agreed to and hence the telegram received here hero and published in theoress the press dispatches announcing that the house had strick stricklen stricken sen ken out the provision for the commissioners salaries they are now to per anjum payable a from the united states treasury treasury rea sury where it should properly come from 11 and ud not from the treasury of this territory mr holman then pressed his point concerning the other paragraphs in which he sustained by mr springer but opposed by mr haskell the latter gentlemen using the sophis try that the edmunds bill did not compel the appropriation of public money here is one of the paragraphs of his sophistical remark as it appears in the record crit it did not require an appropriation of money you cannot construe the bill as one which would compel the government of the united states to appropriate money there is no doubt about that point but when under that act passed at that alm time e a committee of this house acting upon instructions of the house or upon estimates from the departments submitted to them come in here hero and plead that that is the right way to handle this matter under this law you will nind find there a warrant for the appropriation though the bill itself did no not t originally compel IM it to this mr holman made the fo following straightforward and pertinent reply mr chairman the gentleman from kansas is too fair minded a man to give emphasis to a word that has no application at all the lang age of the rille rulo is requiring or authorizing thor izing a payment of money now that bill it was alleged aid did authorize a moncy money out of the public treasury it was held heid by the chair at that time that it did not so under that ruling it did not go to the committee Commit tee tea of the whole thenia a bill 13 iii passed which does not authorize an expenditure of money how can ibbe it the possible for an appropriation of money to bo be carried into effect ia in on an rap lap appropriation bill when wilen the polut of order la ignado ingae 80 against dinst it that the law itself does not authorize tho the expenditure of the money out of the treasury it seems to me that that position is very clear but I 1 call the attention of the chair to the third clause of ruie nuie eule I 1 under which language the ruling to which prefer was had and the chair will see eee that if that bill did not authorize the expenditure of money from the public treasury but did authorize it from the treasury of utah that then there ia Is no law authorizing an appropriation from the public treasury inasmuch as that law does not authorize it x the chairman of course ruled in favor of the Republic republican au a side aide 1 1 de of the argument and eo so the amounts remained in the thebie bill thus congressmen in taking their ili ill advised steps against utah aro are compelled to eat their own awn words worda go back on their own record and act in thia this contradictory and inconsistent manner F birst first arst they declared that the bill did not authorize or require the expenditure of mones money out of the united states treasury now they maintain that the law does require such expenditure the amounts will no doubt remain in the bill the house being sure to sustain tte the action of the committee and BO no we may expect the commission to arrive jn in due time their galar ealar ies iea and espouses expenses being assured RESULTS OF THE RECENT SURVEY OF PALESTINE tim right non hon the earl of shaf shaft t edbury K G presided at the annual meeting of the victoria victora VIc vie torl tori philosophical institute of great britain which took place in london on the of june sune the honorary secretary captain P F potrie read the report which showed the total number of home indian and colonial colonia members to be professor pasteur and many other well known men of science had joined in the past year to further the Socie tys objects namely the investigation of all philosophical and sj questions especially those said to militate against the truth of revelation an address was delivered by mr trelawney Vre bre lawney saunders the official geographer of the survey of palestine he described the scientific results of the exploration of and their heir great value to the histo historian idan idam especially I 1 i ally aily as the recent work of the exploration 1 ora seemed to bring the country before the tho student of the present day asit as it appeared to the inhabitants nineteen cent centuries urles uries ago and i confirmed in a most remarkable manner the accuracy of the bible record among the speakers were the right hon A A S ayrton the bishops of adelaide and of nelson who spoke of the value of the Victor victoria lit isi philosophical institutes instituted transactions and their great anxiety for the increase of the number of its members in the colonies where its journal recording the investigations of learned men into the truth as regards the philosophical and scientific questions of the present day would be even more welcome than in england dr stenn stern the celebrated abyssinian captive mr J F bateman FRS and mr D howard vice prel pres president |