| Show THE MORMON QUES rION IN a lively letter from douglas a washington correspondent we find the following under the above title in the tho pittsburg leader of august 24 extreme disgust for Jud judge gerBore bore boro man and his sots acts are expressed here the administration notwithstanding its unfortunate bavor savor of orthodoxy is displeased with him and is mildly condemnatory of his highhanded high handed exercise of arbitrary power to those who know the mormons cormons the grossness groba grosa of injustice in progress of practice against them ie Is collaterally understood toad and manifest they are a quiet temperate hardworking class of people who find it reasonable to attend to their own business and cheaper to support and be assisted in life by two or three wives the last is a rarity than to neglect a single wife and squander their money on dollar bottles of beer or five dollar quarts of effervesced cider called champagne with the en off color women so unfortunately incidental to our oun pseudo christion civilization bishop cannon the delegate in congress from frow utah who has been imprisoned by judge boreman recently ia 19 despite his four wives one of the purest minded generous most moat refined and most moral of all men that I 1 have ever met I 1 will guarantee to say that in thought and in practice there could irot fiot be found even under investigation a dozen of his colleagues in our nati national oual congress his bis equal in morality and virtue and honest dealing and if it he chooses to support genteelly four instead of one woman in his community muni ty where they are as sacredly respected as his wives as one would be why it is greatly to his credit if the thib old testament be true polygamy owes its origin to god pros tit ution is a human invention the former is followed by the mormons Mor mons the latter is patronized and ke kept ept I 1 in existence by us persecution under the work of religion is played out nowadays and the only reason the cormons mormons are assailed is that they have built a rich paradise out of a wilderness and we are greedy to grab the results of their labor A western subscriber who owes us for the times writes 1 I know rowa iowa debt utah care and nebrask a second time for fot fo I 1 kankas kansas back and make as illinois as you can whitehall While ball hall 7 remos times imes |
