Show NO MORE MORMONS irom from knelt Pome roys democrat SA VA weak pol poi point at in the presidents ines message is his bis 8 recommend that 1 mormons cormons be prohibited from coming to illis this country judging from the marked difference bobeen the be matter and the manner of utterance on the mormon question and ali all other questions touched upon generally gene nene rally raily so ably in the in message e 84 ge t that h at portion was the work of 01 a wo woman m an it certainly was not the emanation from the mind of a statesman in dealing with the mormon who as a class are among the most virtuous temperate best behaved industrious and mind their own business people of this country cou the president i mii mil ill do well to attack it outside of god and the bible in the first place assuming the bible to be true god has nowhere spoken against mormonism any I 1 more than ag against ainest methodism if we select out the very small percentage of mormons cormons who are mists and deal with them as such we find that god has shown more favors to pol poi poleg 9 amista than to other oiher people he has us not only tolerated and protected the plural marriage system oud out for hundreds deeds of years selected his chosen i mediums for greatness from poleg amista i not on one oue word has god ever uttered against poly polygamy amy monogamy or marriage as not of divine origin ar or command un on the contrary it is the direct of man when he found aund that males outnumbered the females in the camps and locations where men aggregated as armies abounded and wyrene where there was not even a sufficiency of women to permit the men to have each one wife etaline et alone two or more therefore it it well to om omit t referring to god as opposed to polygamy or even giving a against ainest it an on the other hand god has given positive commands against adultery and fornication and yet set this coul coultry itry is continually full and slopping over with adulterers and the woods Is full of them they come down from the pulpits break toe laws ot of god and man then go back into the pulpits from their nest hunting and preach they swarm about camp meetings circus tents gin gln mills sailors boarding houses bouses the retreats of legislators the offices of law makers the treasury department and even accept chairs in the senate in congress ress and in the white house men meu clen llen who have won renown as adulterers and fornic acors and who would bleach out their own numerous offenses against the laws of god and man by bathing in the blood ot of polygamists in this conecpion it is sale safe to assert as susceptible of proof that nine out of every ten len active outspoken opponents of plural marriage in this country are males and females whose abose early lives were more or less given to debauch and disregard of all that was respect for or sympathy with the marriage mariage relation it is this positive fact that makes the suggestions of reformers from whose hee heehs beefs Z are dripping tha humo samo of ot sin fall to the ground with other worm dorm eaten fruit but we are arc with the thy til question of polygamy or pluvial damase we are not lor for it nor against it to the peaceful relations assumed by others olber do ilo not concern us in the least oid old bachelors whose onla cb Ildren children are arv illegitimate and old maids are ae not fit lie educators on the subject of or home influence sas they are nort not edd edo i cattad to what they talk about ally we care not a whit whether vor oer friend briend beslu besin be single gle gie married or very married so long iong aa as he la 14 not a seducer or a bastard bringer against the laws of private and public decency aitu any relationship mair mait kanand and aud woman enter enten into that brings bringa peace honesty happy homes loving and united families and nd well behaved children we are satte salte nied fied we believe it to be more honorable to marry than to burn that it Is more honorable to have two wives than to have one wife and one mis tress truss one wife who has to put up with the odds and ends I 1 and one ii ibn tress alres i whose fingers finders ire strained evy ewy to lift the leaf lard ard that plural mr niage and legitimate children born to any form of sv edlock wedlock is better thab than 0 one f family M y of legitimate and a larger izo lol loi lowins an of illegitimate hiding children to be sure the one wife and one or more mis mistress tress fashion Is cheaper to the pious fraud known asman as moan roan than is the plural marriage relation lon loD in which a man cannot throw his pr progeny gny off upon the public and andriate an diato diate P tiu lc charity institutions but must care re for them himself there are greater evils than polygamy in this country it is belter better to begin with greater ones first tackle the longest rows in the tile forenzo fore foren noo unless onless ouless unless it is tue lue intention to leave them over for seed that president cleveland is not N ell eil eli ell informed on the utah or mormon question is apparent were be well ivell posted he would not give utterance as be he does in the first place lace mormonism Is one of the hundreds ds of forms and varieties ol 01 religion I 1 of the world As a religion it has an absolute constitutional right to existence and protection in this country and to abc abw same opportunities of growth as have all other forms of religion i on that people mav way or may rosiy not believe and embrace let the law av attack all lawbreakers alike let it purify homes and pulpits and colleges and aud legislative halls wal wai anki aal presidential mansions alike or abandon the idea of justice lu stice let it sweep sweer in the monogamist who keeps a mib mis tress and raises bastards equally with the polygamist who has two wives and no mistresses distresses mi stresses or bastards let us as a people be just T there ere are utah and in ju this city there are more polygamists in washington D C than in in sald sale nal bal lake city U T there are moie mole colored polygamists among 11 the bach bacr fists methodists and presbyterians rians of the south than amon among all tile the white people in the united united states then why wily not give up alt all other matters and begin a general war upon mists ever everywhere ere the Mormon Mor moni mons 4 went to uy utah tal h a portion of mexican diex Alex ican territory years ago that territory Terri tory torr came into the union ulon with its high mountains its salt lake its bertile soil its mormon pioneers its mormon mono monogamists and mormon polya poly a mists all these many many years has the government nor nov emment emmert of the united states permitted defended and encouraged mormonism with its addenda ad dendas ns of truth peace disposition to agriculture temperance economy economys sobriety and last and least its fretting of plura plurality ity of i wives under this state stale of government protection as guaranteed by the constitution ution there are under all the circumstances most wondrous levy polygamous marriages between thos who agree to nuch such conditional these marriages are as legal and beav en ordained as are any other othur in this world thau thai are divor canle cable and far more creditable than the profligate de bouchery pau chery seasons mark a portion of the lives of tens of thousands of men in this as in other countries the result of these marria matria marriages es are wives and children families Pa milles that are as lovable and happy as deservi deserving of legal and all other protection as a are the families of monogamists then what congress passes a law declaring that these milies families la maybe torn apart by so called agents of justice that women who were true lawful lovinc wives for years before the passage of that act can be arrested by officers of justice andin and made ade to testify against husbands in no other part ot the world is thereso there so monstrous a law it commands a man to turn out into the street one wife if he has two one branch branch of his offspring if be has two ani and J to be guilty of crime against a portion of his family it punishes for tor what the law now declares to have been an offense before the law came in to existence under the constitution there can be no ex post fatto fato laws pal pas passed ased and all such enactments therefore are legally inoperative except at atthe the point of arbitrary or military power the position taken by the president is therefore Oe lin tin inhuman human and unconstitutional and therefore undemocratic and unjustifiable a ble bie the wail for a law excluding cu anid astill ng mormons cormons from this 1 country is neither manly inaus nor noy constitutional the mormon Ls has the same right to come as has the catholic the covenanter the communist the celestial the infidel the i hindmo and mohammedan it was for i this the trw tro of 04 liberty was planted rien clen tien pt furor fador uror acor polygamy 1 asks someone oma one 1 no with h a majority of bubines imen we care not the sual snap of our fluer for or against it anat we favor is an all observance of justice and itle itie conati aution let congress Con gres pass a general ancial marriage marr e and divorce law if it will let it declare for or against poly polygamy gardy garay let ac declare how bov at what aej aud aad what conditions marriage shail shall be legalized and by whom L t it then declare the causes causes for divorce and legal separation so that thau the people of every state territory city and t 0 of this vast domain shall know what mamac is in this country what the duties of husband and wife are aud by what means a deceived neglected abused ill III treated wife wite or husband can be relieved from a yoke that be meat but turns out t to 0 o be doi poi ou 6 punish for offenses coin coln committed bitted after a law is passed tear no ilven liven hearts homes and had f families apart for any actor alliance all ail lanca lance f formed ormed before the passage of a law makin making such act an offense better bitter that polygamy be general than hit that the law does one act of wrong or I 1 injustice let the f form orm of marriage be national not local let lis whoever in 10 the future comfor conforms com forms ins to that law be man and wife no matter where they reside let there be the same cause lor diva r e d the same saide remedy for unequal in and d pain producing marriages in every state and aeike I 1 cleav ing undisturbed the sacred assumptions of relationship in the past let unlawful cohabitation mean unlawful cohabitation forjet for fon jew and aud gentile mormon and aud methodist protestant and catholic married and single alike and it you punish one for tor buch such an offense punish all quit this groping in the dark come out in the light act like men and like men wild observe the constitutional rights of a people rich and poor alike do no injustice and justice will come of her own accord and the laws of the land will be observed cheerfully cheera ally Iti it Is often soften said sald thal that under our oun con oon cannot be violated or set aside except by mutual consent every marriage in this c country try be he it monogamous or polygamous is a contract and cau can in the law no more be violently broken or set sut set aside than one made for the performance of labor the payment ofa of ota a debt I 1 the support of an illegitimate child or of a parish priest or pulpit preacher consider these thing |