| Show ins HIS SETTLED POINTS A A SALT malt LAKE correspondent of the new york graphic sums up his ob on be the situation in utah in three points which be he consider eon son siders settled 1 in family nover never outlives one on 0 genera aou 2 that polygamy i Is certainly not on the increase 3 that mor wor monism Is net not a moral monal mom institution in reference to tile the fart point pointy n f ilia lib lie means tatt ht ma at aly nii tir the chil chii children dlen of 44 mormon fort non lya ion arena ren n do not become mormon he heury henry be right iver Iler haps it would beina baina possible to single out any ery religion of the wiy wit many Y hundreds hundred ef es kinds in la the world in which web tee uniformly walk in to their boes sham religiously piety flety Is not necessarily e cessa rily hereditary if lie he mean that where the parents aro are mormon 11 the children never are tire the facts in hundreds of instances are we are inclined to t the 0 ol opinion vinion that a greater proportion of the children of mormon parents become mormons cormons Mor mons mods than of of the children of religious parents of the various other denominations follow their parents in the matter of religion in reference to the second point that polygamy is certainly not on the Iner In eream creaM easo we have to say but we are willia willing lnor nor for evers every everybody ty to be welcome to his own opinion upon that point we may further say that i polygamy la 13 an grom from that ex exited from the remotest ages and in all probability always will ex egut As to he the third point it depends entirely upon what is taken as the stan standard dabi darl of morality it Is altu cult to imagine what standard the correspondent of the graphic took when be he came to that it is a well established fact that immorality has ever increased and multi multiplied lied with the of what Is Is termed gentile influence in this community when th there ve was much leas less 0 of hat that particular influence her here than there is now thero there was markedly less lees immorality I 1 t y there were no houses of prostitution prost I 1 tit I 1 and very few drinking a shops h opa bo so it is patent to every everyone U p t that h at is oar tar more moral and more conductive to morality than any other system that has wielded influence here the correspondent speaks of the great injustice of the mormon a system atom stem of government and as an ly instance tu ilane says that the minority P pay nearly two thirds of the taxes tat that 11 gentiles pay more taxes tax than hiow mormon and yet et hey they are deprived of all share fin flu in the local government 1 As an to the taxes this is a mere assertion and ard it is to as easy to assert asbert one thing as another it is just as a easy tu to some ample to make male a false aser tion uon am an a true one und mud the they round regarding the proportion pro portio n of taxation tax atton being generally got up for beteet are liable to ans and should be received with a tow lew grains of salt sait the system of local government in utah is such as is provided by the constitution of the united states the laws of Cong congress tessand and the territorial laws in accordance therewith taxation is based upon property nna and the suffrage rage upon citizenship liz enship p with a qualifications few including taxpaying the local i om officers cers am are chosen by thu the people or r b by we their chosen representatives if the gentiles 11 by their good con duct do not receive the good will of the voter hw h w Is i it likely that they 1711 the ant cn can get into office do they wish to do it by coercing the tho voters by intimidating them ev by procuring a fraudulent vote neither of theae these ways waya Is exactly lesal local nor honorable Is Is it not puerile for a man maht who Is opposed to the great majority of the voters to complain that they wl will 11 not elect him to domce |
