| Show HOW IT IS VIEWED iv the tone of the pres press generally is to be regarded as a fair index of the sentiment of the people of this nation the conclusion Is irresistible that what the le chers apologist apologists alias the salt lake tribune tribunes denominates nominates de one of the common vices of humanity Is generally looked upon very lightly or else pe the hatred for the mormons cormons Mor mons isso is 0 intense as to overshadow every other consideration in iq connection with it the burden of the telegrams sent to a alt all parts of I 1 the ho country by ane dispatch fiend liend of ou this city for several days was that the Mormon Mor mons ss had been conspiring to entrap pecking by means of decoys ill lri in the shape of lewd women the statement was accepted as every other against the mormons Mor mons Is without question and a howl of indignation against the conspirators and a general demand for speedy vengeance upon the whole body of the mormons cormons Mor mons went forth from the press of all parts of the union but not a word against the weak and vicious federal officials whose lewdness had been detected but we must make at least one exception to the general rule the st joseph gazette comes down upon the skulking class who seek to blame the eor mormons Mormon Mor mons ss or rather the wiles of women for their abominable practices in the following vigorous style ever since adam ate the apple which broucht brought sin upon the earth and then accused his wife of having tempted him to his undoing man has always been swift to accuse the woman A man sins and lies a woman sins and carries her scarlet secret to the grave A man boasts of his amours over his wine a woman would cut her tongue out before she would speak a word woid push a man to the wall aud and be he whines like a puppy do the thes same ameto to the woman and she turns at bay like some hunted wild beat beart surprise sur bur prise a man at his trysting and be lie will run like a coyote surprise a woman and she will face a regiment no wonder therefore I 1 that when the fornicators fornica tors and the adulterers were stoning a woman to death the blessed christ 1 who knew man so well shamed them to forbearance by reminding them that they were reeking all over with illicit sin I 1 male human nature in this respect had a vivid illustration the other day among the edmunds officials of utah they had been pres ures pressing siu sin tile the mormons cormons sorely on account of their polygamous practices when all of a su sudden en the mormons cormons turned about and began to hunt their hunters some villainous practices were proved up against the gentiles despising the very name of mormon they yet had been doing things that would put to shame th the e most beastly mormon in the territory professing and vaunting mono morio gomy as a virtue some of them appear to bave have had as many concubines as there were lewd women to be encompassed As usual the adulterers whined and put it upon the woman they were tempted they said their enemies the mormons cormons Mor mons they said had set traps for them they would not have gone into them if they had bad not been baited each with a beautiful woman out jut upon such poltroonery and want of com cornmon nion manhood what matters it how hov they were tempted if they did not have virtue enough to resist reit who cares how many traps the mormons cormons spread for them if the honor 1 ul I was to be compromised through the embraces of tile the harlots hired to do the work what hope is there for bre ure akina akiua up the ac cured vice of polygamy if those sent to break it up are upu ngu clean in their morals morais iiii ardd arid Y irreproachable iu in their pr private I 1 vate life president cleveland should look closely after the unclean set of federal officials in salt lake city and permit no cowardly lit ill heding hiding cling behind tile the petticoats of a woman to save them from merited di disgrace gorace ggrace 71 |
