Show A VOICE FROM THE QUEEN CITY EPISCOPAL THE CIVIL BIGHTS warts QUESTION satire ON astl asti moamoa CRANKS ABOUT POLYGAMY CHICAGO oct 28 1883 editor deseret bews Wh what whal atwith with social scandals scan daia dala political intrigues religious religions conferences mysterious murders and gambling foray forays B the average chicago news paper is not at all dull or somniferous literature the average chicago citizen too is not a dull or te resting creating he Is as aa well provided for as the denizen of any burg in the world and that awful and most sacred body of divines the protestant episcopal conference af atter after ter ten a week wee of serious deliberation I 1 has concluded to extend their pray era to all parts of this country the words ration antion united states and sueh buch restrictive restrict lye iye terms were not comprehensive for the grand 11 argy of ehst that venel ade but el al denomination the they y adopted the words our country so BO that where ever the chicago man goes the prayers of these holy men will follow him what an awful thing if the words united states were adopted and our chicago man were then to emigrate to utah whereof courie coun a h he e would be ba lost to episcopal protection utah being as I 1 a territory what wisdom what paternal solid tude what pastoral pas paa toral interest exists in the of thoe good and pious fathers of just juat thih think k of it praying for our our coun country and letting the rest of the world go to bavy davy jones poor samner sumner hia his work hu has been beeb vain vains and the african must now take his hta chances with the mongolian and caucasian such Is the effect of 0 hasty ill considered legislation the fanatic element and indeed the theologically theolo 9 icalla orthodox entered so strongly into this thia legislation that I 1 it t could hardly fall fail to be otherwise than abortive it is possible to legislate toleration and even fraternity between races or individuals vi but when it comes to mak makk ing them siamese twits twit 8 it la otherwise there are ate church committees aye sye in this very city elty who would condemn uha the supreme court rulings and yet would not admit a colored co ored man to membership among them we have a good illustration in ben butlers bullets colored judge some bome of aur sur newspapers as aa well as citizens seem to be really interested in mormonism I 1 enclose a of clipping p ping from a reformed sheet in this city which has a most moat unsavory record for blackmail libel and vituperation it is but a cample bampie of what is going ony ong on or rattler rattier of the pandering of a journalism to the alleged morality of the church monger I 1 hud bad a conversation with a professional a few evenings ebalee since we wen discussed this matter I 1 that at least fair play ought to be ber the rule in the republic ot of intellect why he be actually laughed at my fancying that intellect had anything to do with big headlines head lines iines andl imaginary abominations in utah don dont Doa tyoa yo u see ee 1 sald he a number of these ch church people meet A few old men and a great number of silly women meet and they agree thau that some certain matter is a vice vhey rhey rhey are actually brainless enough to think the whole world ought to adopt their plat form journalists Journal iata seeing how usellas logic or argument would be adopt a system of writing that any ben een sible person cm oan bee eee la Is but a satire on the church crat cranks iks fon for tor instance you might have read a dieca about a black cloth on the faces of dead women in utah why that was only a joke on the average averages avera gei newspaper women readers next year some good female will main tain tsin that ulah utah women are actually painted black af atten aften ter ten death iu in thi strain he went on for quite a cimei time and I 1 could not help bi bl blieding ieving that per pel perhaps naps Lews news newspaper paper matter after all must be harmless harm hanm lees leea we entered into the question of mormonism as the religion of the latte rd saints of utah la Is invariably termed here but of course I 1 being a gentile as far as aa the religion itself ii I 1 considered J could not go far into the mysteries if there are any of the religion the tho great theme seems to be polygamy on this principle I 1 could only say that the old bible com corn banded it the new bible did not condemn it and buch bach minds as the divine john johm milton mllton himself advocated it and channing the great boston preacher did not condemn con demal milton ron for so believing I 1 commanded him to read Mil mii tons treatise on christian doctrine and also aiso to read the clo ing chapters of Mil ull tonys tons life that good man died without the attention of any sect beet of christianity though now they all claim him but 1 I believe he was only a forerunner of mormonism Mormon niem lem so bo far christianity b not opposed to plural marriage As to social science I 1 think that if both aides of this matter wera presented it would ask for time to deliberate perhaps if the real facts were placed before it it would not deliberate it la Is alm bim ply thie thib which is the most sinful take one two or three women marry one debauch the others then cud cne their throats or marry the whole three recognize recognise them as creature creatures js of bf god as equals in the scale ecale of hu mani y as tue women at the head of household this talsia is the question whether a woman is more interesting at the head of a family anally than on a coro coroners nerys nersa table at the morgue I 1 have already gone too far so BO for the present goodbye good bye D S B D |