Show outcroppings OUTCROP PINGS OF mono nono GANOUS SOCIETY it Is authoritatively declared that there are pers new york and brooklyn who receive charitable assistance and that not a few of tuese theba are entirely dependent upon charity for the necessaries of life the larger part of this quarter of a million of semi paupers haupers are children who if left alone will grow up idlers and vagabonds and their offspring will be ba paupers haupers and vagabonds also we clip the above from an eastern exchange it la Is only ow one 3 item out of many which might bo gleaned describing the low social condition of eastern cities boasted of as Christian civilized and cultivates here are some extracts from a description of places where people exist within a stones stoned throw of christian Christ churches in the city of new York given in the daily dally jgerald of that city one of the rooms which the reporter entered was lighted by means moans of a small tingle single pane of glas be smeared and covered with filth at first it was difficult to d is but aut on becoming used to the semidarkness semi bemi darkness the tho reporter found the room to be about eight by ten feet there were vere 16 people assembled e d there nine were females and seyen seven males bome some were in cornera on the floor floar others were cro against the walls or B stretched st ri upon rude benches made of two worn out beer kegs keg sanda banda and a dirty plank thera there ewas was waa no ventilation of any kind bind excepting through the door when bome some one came in and went out in a corner on a bundle of st straw and rags dclay a baby which upon examination proved to be in a high fevers feve rits its ito pale paie cheeky cheeks flushed flashed its itis little tongue all parched and banging from its It mouth there it a soul to attend to it some wore apologies for shoes shoeb some bome were barefooted their eyes we re bleared and their faces blotched and scarred bearing the marks of recent brawls all were more or im lebs afflicted with scrofulous diseases and covered with vermin it wai vai a relief to get to the street nga aga again inand and there breathe the air there are dozens of these denb odeno as aa they are eai eal called fedin Jedin in this immediate vicinity in one 0 n place there were four I 1 denb dens dena opening from one small dark hallway all small rooms without ventilation and filled with reeking reciting humanity A few nights since bince forty six of thebe theae miserable creatures were taken from one house filthy dirty sick and loathE omo they were a court and committed to the island these wholesale arrests have bave very little effect the tho people of the bend gleena soon boon get released from the overcrowded workhouse and straightway return to their old oid haunts to nind end the places they left lett already more than filled by others it Is ia estimated that they spend about one half of their time in prisons or the workhouse when they die the morgue claims them the dead with their old haggard facets faces races swollen seamed and marferd who could recognize them no one no one wants to and they are buried aa they lived unknown connection with this read the description of life in philadelphia phil Fhil adelphi a J communicated by a reliable corre corne correspondent s pon dent and following this article tho the necessarily evil results of mormon 1 plural family relations are insisted upon tipon continually in spite of the facts and in face of am pie evidence to the contrary anti mormon writers aiters have made up their minds that the products of this thio must be ba bad and there tittle fore persist in their erron erroneous eom com statements and fallacious argument sand band at the bame same time shut their eyes ob stina tely to such buch out growths of monogamous civilization as are axe briefly described in the foregoing paragraphs if a child of 99 mormon parentage exhibits lack of caro care and culture is poorly clad or has ev evil 11 hab habits 1 t a whether the parents are living in plural family relations or not the causa cause is declared to be polygamy if a woman la Is d deserted eser tod or goes as tray or Is ia ill treated in any way ways the source ol of the wrong Is alleged to be polygamy if a man is brutal profligate gate intemperate mean or vicious polygamy is stated to be the root which brings forth in him such bitter fruit facts are ignored if it turns out on inquiry that the individual young joung or matured Is s 0 monogamous parentage or roon loon condl d 1 uon tion it malkes matea no difference to the wilfully blind and purposely deaf deci almers aimers it Is polygamy that causes the wrong anyhow because in way or of reasoning polygamy has always produced evil results and therefore it must produce them now and ever but eat we would ilko like to know what causes the results referred to in our oar selected elected iv paragraphs paragraph fi they are only a few of the of the social system under tho the direction of by no means the worst the tho charitable assistance rendered by the benevolent are only clippings on the outermost branches of the evil they do not reach the root it is an undeniable fact that thoa thou thousands bandis bandes upon thousands of children in mono society ty are born ansin an fn bin sin having been conceived in iniquity and that thousands more upon whose birth there Is no stain are as aa described semi haupers paupers growing up to bo be idlers and vagabond sir fir and developing as tho the years roll on into criminals bt read bead ad the accounts in eastern daily papers of the horrors and vices and outbreaks of passion and bin bia that come como to tho the notice of omm off meers leers of the law and of the news to say eay nothing of the corruptions corrupt ions jurk ing to surface of society which vero viha never brought forth to the public gaze are these the fruits of poin polygamy amy 2 why they blossom and ripen ana aner rot where polygamy Is hooted at and dewa mid eid euey ewey fliey vuey ere wre connected with monogamous family relations they cannot possibly be charged to polygamy in addition to theba these myriad evils proclaiming the foul source from which they spring the opponents of Af morma marma atlan azian nf mar sir fir ariage have to face the undeniable fact that society where plurality I 1 prevail prevails in spite of occasional im proprieties which are the exceptions that prove the rule la in remarkably free from the vices and eruptions and horrifying corruptions corrupt ions which are common all over the monogamous civilized world facts on both sides are direct directly Y against their theory it is false because founded on a misconception asiatic polygamy should not be confounded with mormon plurality of wives the same results should not be looked for inthe Intha in the latter iatter as aa spring from the former bs ba cause they are altogether alq erent in principle government spirit and intent those who point to the one as an argument against the other reason from false premises and will be continually confounded by facts and had results and the state of society in the cities where the highest christian cul cui ture Is claimed to prevail when contrasted with the conditions existing is ting in peaceful peace fui fai ial utah ought to be a standing rebuke to every writer who attempts to make it appear that mormon marriage must bring evil effects upon the community |