| Show jimr AND COMMON SENSE COMBINED IN another place will be found a communication entitled an unnecessary emary scare 11 it contains some bome very excellent suggestions which are none the less good because they have been so many MADY times repeated from the pulpit and the press prow but there are a few points in the article which we do not think are well taken and as our friend undertakes to criticize be he must consider him also to criticism we bearo aro are not of the number who think there is danger in friendly controversy we have no objection to being objected to DI merent different persons often view the sam same subject act from different standpoints and by an exchange of opinions if they are adv advanced aneed in a proper the tru thas it is may bo be arrived at byall by all nil there ia more danger in 3 than ia in agitation running water ia Is purified by encountering obstacles while the still pool pooi ool la Is pregnant with corruption ft it is only a weak cause that dreads antagonism vigorous truth shines brighter bright erand enand and develops force through attrition and while it does not defy others it is ever evex ready to defend itself when the foe is worthy of attention the first point to which we object is the statement in the tho communication muni cation that our local item is Js an unnecessary scare this is incorrect the scare if any was in existence some time before the item was written agrest A great number of little children have been stricken to death by prevalent diseases which are now general generally y conceded to be contagious the sentiment expressed concerning the closing of schools is growing fast among the people and is a very v ery rree free freely tj ex x and we really think n means of 0 obtaining information on this point is Js at least as good as our objecting frion felen fr lends lenda dvm we nobody we merely express an increasing opinion of a great many people who are already alarmed not by anything we have said but by thie the sight slight of so many houses of mourning and chambers of sorrow and the fresh mould upon po so many new now made little graves the next point is the idea which Is very distinctly conveyed in the article that when epidemics and other calamities which betait mankind appear in fulfillment fulfilment of ancient and modern prophecy nothing is to be done to avert them and no precautionary measures are of any use indeed the notion is advanced that there is danger in adopting them for the scriptural saying baying is inserted id this connection he that to save his life shall lose it but our friend with singular inconsistency 3 recommends certain precautionary 11 and also remedial tl 61 measures they may differ from those which many adopt but they none the less come properly under the head of those means which he denounces we cannot allow such senti benti ments menta to pass without correction faith in behalf of the sick and to avert evil of all kinds is enjoined by ancient and modern revelation we believe in the doctrine and this paper has frequently advanced and explained it but according to our friends logic it would be wrong even to exercise faith against epidemic diseases for they are among the great and terrible judgments of god and he that to save his life shall lose it when sickness Is stalking through the city and buffering ring ning and death smite many a heart with grief are we to stand by and smile shake our heads in owlish wisdom or sit down and do nothing this is not faith it is nothing but fanatic im faith is active not supine it gives energy and prompts to good works there are causes for evils of all kinds generally when the causes are removed the effects will soon cease an ounce of prevention is 18 worth a pound of cure and we have no doubt whatever that if p proper roper sanitary and other precautionary nna measures prevail many of the epidemics numbered among the visitations of providence would be kept from our borders and linger only around the localities where filth decaying animal and vegetable matter foul odors and impeded ventilation poison the air and spread desolation and death then all people have not faith and those who have it cannot exercise it at will it does not come at the call of man the mainspring that touches that force called faith is secret from human eyes we know it exists we have felt its eow pow power erwe we have been seen its effects but it arises in the soul at one time with little effort and at others it remains dorni dormant ant in spite of hope charity desire or determination does our religion teach us to provide no remedies for the sick does it intimate anywhere that we fly in the face of providence by administering remedies to them does it encourage inaction when contagious diseases prevail NO jno indeed bead read the following and whosoever among you are sick and have not faith to be healed but believe shall be nourished with all tenderness with herbs and milk food and that not by the hand of an enemy and the elders of the church two or more f shall be called and shall pray forand for and isy liay lay their hands u upon p n them in my name and if they di die dio they shall dicunto die dle unto mean menn me and they live they shall live unto me doe doc doc doe and cov new ed 2 p see also page and again verily I 1 say unto you all wholesome herbs god hath ordained for the constitution nature and use of man in the tha same game revelation we are told of a certain herbal remedy which is to be used with judgment and skill and all these wholesome herbs are to be used with prudence and than thau thanksgiving kagi vid vin g 11 this t skill III judgment and prudence results from study of the best beat books and the knowledge that comes cornea b by y experience and research I 1 all of which is predicated by this word of counsel now if it it is right to use remedial measures for the cure of sickness does not common sense as well weil as divine revelation prompt us to use precautionary measures to prevent the spread of sickness jwta dl k T 1 emu me ine aspre spread ad diphtheria or does I 1 not depend depenti on its contagious contag lous loua character we are sorry to differ with our friend but a great many physicians who have made this disease e their take the opposite ground and among them are not a few who have become convinced that they were in error in sup supposing 9 it non contagious we do not think our correspondent an authority on this subject the next is bis big assertion that to be consistent if schools are to be closed all public places of worship should also be closed every store on main street ac 11 31 11 we think this would be very inconsistent there ig Is a wide difference between visiting a store where fresh air is continually admitted and b being eing cooped up in a warm room with large herge numbers of ethers for two or three hours at a stretch we can also see the necee alty which may arise during the prevalence of diseases that chiefly attack children for closing schools while places of public resort for adults may be kept open but wo we fail fait to see any con sis tency or common sense in such regulations as he suggests as a necessary sequence to ours perhaps be he is not aware that in one large school in this city a physician discovered six bix cases of incipient diphtheria among the scholars there are some d districts in this city where it has bas been seriously contemplated tem plated to close the schools for a time in consequence of the alarming spread of diphtheria scarlet fever and other diseases which we yand man more believe are contagious notwithstanding the learned opinion of our critic and we repeat that AS the disease spreads this may not only ohly be deemed advisable vi sable sabie but may become a necessity 11 the suggestion of course ia Is only intended for localities where it la Is applicable As measures that would de be wise for one town would not perhaps be necessary in another so it ia Is with regard to different places in the same city we are no alarmists alarmiste alar mists we never assist in scares but nut we believe in precaution precautions common sense and the use of preventives all of which are quite compatible with faith and prayer and we do not think it Is of any great avail to ask the al mighty to turn away a scourge if we fall fail to search out and remove its causes and use the means within our reach to prevent their spread and prevalence with the exception of thesa several points the communication shorn of its head makes pretty good reading RUSSIAN CHAMPIONS OF THE CROSS GROSS QUITE a nu number aber of bf american journals took sides with the russians in the late unpleasantness between the czar and the sultan and in wishing success to the northern invaders grounded thear on their horror of the atrocious deeds said maid to have been performed by demoniac turks in the Bul bui bulgarian gari garl provinces but they appeared quite oblivious to the facts that aggression aimed merely at the acquisition of territory or in lio other words worda the stealing of a portion 0 of f the sultans domain and that mus Rus muscovite covite barbarity was far in excess of moslem cruelty recent official investigations have established the latter point beyond contradiction the bulgarian outrages were committed b by y the bashi these are a set bet of marauders of the guerrilla kind and cannot be correctly numbered among the troops of uhe the porte the accounts of their de predations preda tiong were but in any case the turkish government was not responsible for them the massacre and mutilation of turkish refugees in the rhodope mountains were the work of regular russian soldiers under the direct orders of the officers ficera of of the czar amor amot g whom was general at the alobe of last february there were wagons dallof full fuli of fugitive men women and children between kaekel and Iler Her hermann manil manU they were at first harassed by Cossac cossacks kg and afterwards attacked by russian bussian infantry and artillery artiller y and an d at night ng I 1 h t driven through the snow into a corner formed by the junction of two rivers nere here the russian artillery from the adjacent dja cent heights played twelve A hours helpless H ea D I 1 a Z W UM X sought refugo refuge by plunging into the 10 i river from which the bodies of two 0 thousand dead children were la taken k en i after the armistice the regular troops of the Itus sian army burned eighty manome Mahome dah daa villages between stan inkO and De demotica demot Demoi ika news of these and other similar atrocities a found to und its way into papers all over the civilized world and i through the indignation ib it excited a commission was organized consisting of official representatives of england france germany austria and russia to inquire fully into the matter AB As the investigation proceeded the russian commissioner withdrew for the evidence was too conclusive and he had nothing to oner in re or defence the of this commis sion slon stamp russia with themo the most st atrocious crimes and bloody massacres all committed in the name of religion in the brutal and savage deeds investigated it was not muscovite against turk but greek christian against moslem it was religious slaughter hrell Orell religious kious hlous barbarism religious mutilation of women and children among 11 9 the favorite exercises of the soldiers 1 S of the czar was cutting off the breatta of mohammedan women betting as to the sex of unborn children and deciding it by mutilating the mother rolling women in tar or petroleum and setting them alight trapping in a barn and firing the building violating young girls until they went mad or died from exhaustion giving females from six to forty nine years of age to the lust luat of christian soldiers beheading old men and grand dames nameless mutilations of men and women etc these horrors arc established facts the commission after visiting the scenes of these rived at consta constantinople with a thick volume of evidence which will bo be published and advanced extracts from which have been produced in english papera papers firing the public heart with detestation of the beasts who invaded turkey with the cant of christian mo motive and the pretext of delivering christians from mohammedan slon eion and reveled in blood and lust luet putting to shame the deeda deeds of the lowest heathen when victors over the foe the apologists apol apoi for the russians bub Bus slana aiana I 1 should now publish the authenticated statements of disinterested officials who speak that which they know and testify to what they have seen and then if they can exalt bussian russian civilization over turkish barbarism and greek christianity over modern A LADY WRITER ON UTAH mrs matilda joslin gage the talented editor of the National citizen and ballot leoz in the december number of her paper liaa bas a long and pointed article on the utah question the lady wants to know why the governor of this territory gln in gin a spasm of virtuous indignation proposed the disfranchisement of utah women she cannot bee see why he against her sex and bays sayi if it is on account of polygamy the women were not its institutors if the laws of utah are Illegal the women did not make them perhaps we can enlighten the lady a little on thid question governor mean it his hib recommendations were merely thrown to the hungry mormon eaters who had been i i against him because be he had shown no decided hostility to the majority of the people for whose benefit he 1 was appointed to office but if it will be any satisfaction to the lady and her associates we can assure them that be he has made no capital by his spasm and itis it is not at all likely that his propositions will a at t tract any further notice than that accorded to them by the portion of the press which has given them passing mention the lady then takes tabes up the subject of the movement of the gen tile women of utah and maes malies maea the following caustic comments but after all what a sham morality is this cry against plurality of wives in uta utah until the advent f a wora worn no gambling hells no houses of prostitution no paupers haupers and few criminals they were not compelled to lock jock their doors from thieves and u s any hour of the night a woman cassare was safo safe to traverse any part parl of the city unattended but now through the husbands fathers brothers and friends of the male sex of these gentile women institutions have been established which were unknown in utah saloons gambling dens houses of ill fil fame these rhese the gentile ladies can endure because they we were re accustomed to buch euch vices in the 13 states slates tates but plural marriages they feel is more than their delicate natures can bear lear out upon such sham I 1 h hypocrisy and non nonsense bense tense for our part we think plural marriages stand white beside the common abominations of cities cities did I 1 say the country everywhere a is rotten with lust and woman is a everywhere the victim of mans vices and crimes this is strong language but it is not stronger than is warranted by the facts it corroborates what we have maintained it shows up i the pious hypocrisy of who pretend to be so greatly shocked with plural marriage and it is a virtual endorsement endore ement of the advice odthe of the A mormon lormon women to their would be censors to devote their spare energy and virtuous desire to shine as reformers to the removal or diminishing of those vices which are so common in the places of their residence before they cam came here to breathe the polygamous atmosphere of in this connection mrs gage cites them to the exposures made by talmage from which she makes the annexed extracts 1 I have discovered in my mid night exploration that the haunts of iniquity are supported by what are called the better classes the men who in our cities support luxuriant vice come down from 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