Show FLATBUSH AND UTAH the attention of the llev mr talmage and other persons who desire to exterminate the mormons cormons because they are lats who marry several simultaneous wives instead of divorcing the old ones be fore marrying the new now ones as if ift the custom in more civilized communities muni ties la Is clied called that peculiar in ution the 61 church sociable s if they will read the testimony in the higbie vaughan casa case they will learn that kissing Is the chief occupation ot at the frequenters of these although occasionally a mockery of the marriage sacrament Is performed in order perhaps to add a new now zeal to the kissing practices sueh buch as these cannot be made decent by pretending that they are religions ions lous practices sanctioned by the church socia wies bles ny more than polygamy in utah can be excused on the ground that it la is a religious practice and Is ia sanctioned by a so called church it ills Is evident that the fiat elat bah bayh church sociable is a terribly demoralizing moral izing affair and the pr ous oua and constant kissing in which its members indulge is simply sickening we must wipe out this blot upon our civilization at all hazards thi this is preeminently pre eminently a case in which troops are required let lot us send bend phil sheridan to flatbush at the head of an army with instructions to put pud every member eber eb of the church sociable to the sword mr talmage is doubtless ready to march mareli with the troops and to urge them ou on in their bloody work flatbush is in much nearer thau than utah and fer ron that reason will be a bettl better botter r place in which to begin the work ot of extermination mi nation in the cadee of purity s the foregoing Is ia from the new york times flatbush ia a town in kings county new york contain ing a population that is considered quite select and is ia very religious religions in the popular sense of that term it has many fashionable churches and is fis a high toned bort sort of a community A case of suppo supposed sed ted mock marriage which turne out to have all the essentials senti als to a real matrimonial ceremony has found its way into court courts the young man who figured as aalthe the bridegroom boing being charged by the bride with desertion the main object ot of the charge being to determine whether or not the alleged marriage is legal in the course of the trial triai most astonishing details were brought out showing the loose con eon condition ditton of society in flatbush and the great liberties indulged in by y young oung people connected with leading families and fashionable religious societies indiscriminate kissing appears to have been very common given and returned by both sakes bakes and mock weddings in which the epst sacred forms and names in the marriage bervice services followed by the pairing off of the mock mode married parties in hammocks or retreating to shady nooks in gardens and woods were among the diversions of these rea pec table tadie young ladles ladies and gentle men As thu the times intimates elst elat flatbush bush is a better place for the disciples of surface morality to begin their work than utah because it is so BO much nearer their home nut but this Is the great objection in their eyes distance gives lives enhancement to tha the view iniquity away awby oil ond Is ia so BO much lanch more popular to tackle than vice and infamy close by utah is over twenty rive five hundred miles from Brooklyn while flatbush is only four miles from halmage ral rai magele mage tabernacle and the difference in guilt increases is a the square of the distance imaginary evil becomes a terrible phantom when viewed afar off while actual irregularities iari larit ties ies and palpable vices fade into unreality when they disport them selves under the nose of we the popular declaimer and investigation would thal that 11 au the ibb of so 80 called I 1 church is not confined to the fashionable circles of flatbush neither is all tile the polygamy practiced practised ja in utah when F the things done in secret are revealed upon the housetops housa hous tops stops what a shaking there will bo be in cir cles oles and among howling anti antl amor cmor mor mow mown mon 1 hypocrites |