Show V GREELEY ine ITE ON THE UTAH QUESTION THE tian annexed letter from a greeley ite ito was published in the denver me be publican and we reproduce it as in the language of that paper a common sense view tt stated and embodying the ideas of a good many people who do not join in the senseless howl which has been started all over the country by sectarian priests and noisy nolay demagogues GREELEY greeney jan in your to days day B republican you yon publish the chicago inter oceans call for a mass meeting to consider how polygamy may be exterminated in utah and you join them in recommending cooperation operation co throughout the country to accomplish that end and there is ev evidently dently a general willingness to do also GO polygamy is the form that the social evil takes in utah to almost the entire exclusion of promiscuity the form which the same evil takes in all thel th rest erest of our country if we can eradicate the bocal evil hi in utah by any amount of meetings and petitions it will be worth our while to do so but if we can only suppress the polygamous form and change it to conform with tiie the prevalent kind of adultery I 1 sincerely doubt if we shall have accomplished pl any good take the terrible p picture ture that the same number of the inter ocean that makes this call draws of the evil in its promiscuous form in the heart of chicago they publish a map of the district called the levee consisting of twenty five blocks and aver that on those blocks live prostitutes and the district ia Is visited daily by al at least men a perfect sink of drunkenness robbery murder and all the vilest debauchery and this is only the cen center ter of the chicago sores bores sore bore the part A far greater part draws a veil vell between itself and the public gaze what is true of chicago the tho inter ocean avers avera Is equally true of all the other large cities and in an equal degree of the smaller cities and towns on this promiscuous form nature places the ban of capi capital tal tai punishment and follows the women who engage in it with disease and sterility and death more sudden than the law visits on murderers and on the men who stop before death overtakes them she visits disease and transmits it to their children nature follows the polygamous form with no such manifestations of her displeasure but counting poleg amyes amyas amy as aa adultery let us exterminate adultery where we can only let the laws he be general and not fiot partial or local in application it if we disfranchise the adulterers in utah let lot us do so throughout the land if congress is to expel mr cannon adultery fon leti let it t also expel all other congressmen guilty of the sam earne i e crime laws that are not ge are seldom just and those that punish one form of a crime crillie and 1 11 I binse cense another and woree form of the mine same crime are seldom productive osgood of good adulterers control elections in utah and too they very frequently control cau cusses and conventions nominate candidates and decide their election in chicago and if we can believe denver danver papers sometimes control affairs even in denver deaver I 1 believe in making a square fight against the whole evil and that each esch community had better commence en cn that which is nearest to it making its fight at close quarters instead oti at arms armb length J S B S the writer of the above is s mistaken on the actual situation in utah but correct in his bia argument and deduc deductions tiong there is nothing in common between the social evil of christendom and the marriage system of they are diverse and alien allen the former is founded fu fa lust just born in bin sin and in iniquity it bears the gruits i rul rui Ls of disease and decay decays feeds the sources of vice and crime smites both body and boul sobi with the blight of corruption and leads down to death and to hell the latter extends the blessings of matrimony and th the e influences Influence a of love it multiplies off offspring earing born under family regulations inculcates chastity and honor honors is governed by religious impulses and ordinances is pregnant with life and health and makes the union of men and women in the family relation pe perpetual P t thair ahns binding the ties that J join 0 I 1 n them forever and making the family basis firm and endearing it strikes the axe at the thes root of the tree of the social evil and is jtb its most uncompromising and effective foe counting polygamy as adultery is a common it is a palpable error living with two wives by mutual consent under a marriage marr marn lage ceremony considered by them divine and authoritative is not to be compared with taking another mans wife the two acts sets are totally diff different eren t in essence essence in intact rach fact lu in law and reason ronson re neon neou and in n effect those who believe in and practice mormon plural marriage abhor adultery they believe the former governed by certain restrictions to bo be right while they regard the latter at as a deadly sin which ought to be punished with death adulterers do no not control elections in utah they and their thein fellows outside of utah would like to do BO go and are moving the whole country to effect their purpose but eo so far they have not accomplished it we are with J J S sr in a 69 square fight against the whole evil 1 of adult adultery efy and were gard them as ail the besetting sins of this age mormonism ril lil is at war with WWI them uncompromisingly and it Is iff the spirit which ie le da to them that is inflaming the public mind against utah today to day and lustful politicians and Pha rha risete ss guaring us by their own standard are ane making a tremendous bellowing through the land but they have no conception of the purity and sanctity with we regard the family relation nor the self belt restraint and self denial which mormon marriage properly understood imposes the GreeZe vite touches the fhe inter ocean in a tender place and the inconsistency of declaiming against cl mormon marriage and at the same time winking at the notorious and monstrous evils in their own vicinity is a characteristic of most of the newspapers that loin join oin in the present crusade that chicago sore has bat its counterparts all over this christian land with of oscor cor reaching into unnumbered households poisoning the very fountains of life and breeding sorrow sickness distrust contention infamy and death yet these common and crying evils excite no commotion while those who gaze upon them everyday every day or read about them in the public journals pass them by as naught or as necessary evils and go wild with excitement because a few mormons cormons Mor mons in utah marry and take care of all the women with whom they live livland and father the offspring of their un lona iona verily humbug is king and hypocrisy prime minister mini sterl |