Show MORMONISM the following is the closing article of a series of twelve which have appeared in the columns of the greely tribune from the pen of capt D Boyd who has caused quite a furore against himself by his manly stand in defence of an unpopular maligned people but has also aiso caused much admiration andai and applause from the fair minded and just for his bravery and good sense I 1 have before called attention to the fact that the mormons cormons have had bad many foreign apologists but so far as I 1 know no am american except the late jud judge jude e black to my certain knowledge many well informed fair mind ed americans entertain the same views about the mormons cormons as does the writer but they stand in awe of public opinion of course it would be political s suicide for one who should dare to raise his finger against this insane onrush of popular f frenzy renzy what cowards political cale caie expectations make of the able a ambitious bilious portion of the citizens of the republic I 1 whoever has the hardihood to speak out unwelcome truth 1 stands from henceforth branded in the public pu alic estimation as a fool it was the same kind of public opinion which stood by and applauded the murder of joe smith mith S and his brother hyram and drove the mor mons from the bosom lof rot of civilization into the howling wilderness as that which dragged I 1 gar rison through ahr the streets of boston with wit a rope ro around his waist and rot t ten egg egged ge wendell phillips the same unreasonable blind fury I 1 say because there is not one in a th busand thousand now howling against the mormons cormons who could give a reason for the clamor they are making they simply take it for guthat granted that a custom which is newly a adopted and contrary to their own must not be tolerated whether it concerns themselves or not before clodin closing it is right that my exact position te be understood I 1 am asked do I 1 believe poly polygamy amy right if by this it is meant do I 1 believe belleve that it would be right for a man who is married ina lna in a monogamous community to take a second wite without the f full fuli ull uli free and cordial consent of the first one then I 1 say most emphatically no I 1 because it would be a breach ol 01 or the most sacred of contracts besides I 1 shall go farther and say mat it would in my opinion be very imprudent counsel lor for any wife to give or an any husband to take the beil beli that would wom ring the announcement of the second marr marriage lage must be the death knell of the love which was supposed to make sacred the first but in the second case it would be an imprudence about which it was nob odys business but tile the parties concerned if we are nrc to legislate to prevent imprudent marriages where shall we enu ena that ma many ny perhaps most of the marriages which take place under our eyes can only result in misery is patent to the observation v atio atlo n of all but the parties concerned stu still it seems to be taken for granted that the contract is sacred provided each is so sufficiently under the influence of a frenzy called love as to blind them to the defects of each other admitting that love Is the flower of life it soon in some cases does soon fade without ripening into the noble fruitage ag ge of f friendship nourished and matured by bf mutual needs finding mutual satisfaction it is to be remembered that polygamy is nowhere compulsory while e monogamy always is where permitted c amit prudent people would never contract plural marriage so long as human nature remains essentially senti ally as it is with its love its hate and its jealously very prudent people now deem it advisable not to contract marriage we can but admire the audacity of the man who has the courage to marry half a dozen of women in an age when so many dread the sup supporting orting of one who of the two I 1 holds T S in higher estimation the worth of if woman the in man an who fears to marry one lest her several good for nothingness and extravagance bring him to p poverty or the mormon who counts the numbers of his wives among his riches it would be well worth our while to study carefully f this problem of mormon economics it would seem that among them neither father nor mother sighs when the newborn new born babe happens to be a girl they seem to re regard g a rd the little stranger as a de desirable SIM b 1 e acquisition likely I 1 elt eit to become a useful member ol of S society ci y to characterize as unwise the attempt to suffuse polygamy in utah is not the same as to advocate the repeal of all laws against polygamy among people who believe in boilo monogamy amy while I 1 believe that a prohibitory liquor law is both wise and practicable in greeley Gre eley cley I 1 would not believe that a prohibitory liquor law enacted by congress for wyoming would be either wise or practicable A prohibitory liquor law would be practicable in utah and an anti polygamous law in wyoming because they would each be in accordance with the sentiment of the people but the sentiment sent imant in favor of plural marriage is more deep deeply ay rooted in the minds of the people of utah than is that of the right to sell intoxicating liquors in wyoming the people of the latter territory Terri tary do not regard egardt the he use of intoxicants asare as a religious 1 g bious act the case would be parallel should congress pass a law forbidding the use usa of wine vine in the sac sad sacrament of the ie lords supper by the mormons cormons only use water and make of it a commemorative feast celebrated every this Is the fundamental difficult difficulty ty that besets attempts to get rid of p polygamy in utah it is woven into t the warp and woof of the mormon religion this will be admitted by all who have studied the subject the writer had a conversation with miss faithfull laith f ull uli when here last week on this subject she says that polygamy is ingrained in their religion and there is no hope bope of curing them of the one without converting them from the other the women will argue in favor of polygamy from f rom one endom end of the week to the other and there is no hope of convincing them by argument she then asked me what was my remedy I 1 replied only the slow growth of general knowledge the light of science and literature ture e bringing on a more perfect day under the influence of which the ghosts ghosts of superstition shall pale an and fade away but how slowly the light of growing knowledge quenches ile the outlines of these ghosts the student of it human progress process knows ivull if ull uli well they will not down at the scourge of the persecutor but vanish at the cock crow of science the best missionaries to send to utah would be lecturers who would let iet religion severely alone and who could awake among the people an interest in science and literature then send them Hux leys lay sermons carwins Dar wins or origin n of species dalls fragments ili zil of science and and spencers sociology gy to these add Shake plays lay S Tenny sons poems dickens hac I 1 reys and george eliote novels and not a few standard histories with these and the tile induced disposition to superstition would vanish and no doubt with it polygamy but the induced disposition to read them aye theres the rub rubi their priesthood would fight them tooth and nail as every other priesthood has fought them theland and is lighting fighting them still thare is this in favor of the mormons cormons Mor mons they are a geo peo people p le remarkable for their patience in listening ening cuing to opinions hostile to their own A lecturer can not only go anywhere in utah and be unmolested in attacking their most cherished opinions but will ever be accorded an attentive bentive hearing who has ever heard of a mormon amorton mob rotten egging a lecturer from the platform surely there is hope for a people so patient as this D boyd |