Show CHRISTIAN CO corruption AND HYPOCRISY N NY Y april 21 1886 editor deseret news I 1 have seen very much the last year in the eastern papers in regard to the cormons mormons Mor mons but only only of their faults if one may call them faults they say mormons cormons have many wives A few of them do but nearly all only one the eastern papers do not say anything of the church people who have one wife and several mistresses distresses mi stresses I 1 know of a deacon iu in a church here who rents one of his buildings to persons who keep a house of prostitution and many man church members have one or more mi stresses the superintendent of the first M E church had one wife while living in open adultery with another woman women A prominent romi nent manufacturer here has a gae fine wife while he supports another woman all these cases are well known but the papers keep quiet for fear if they expose them or rather speak of them 1 in a their papers the circulation will be lessor less or they will lose the support of those persons or their friends but bat they will rall rail at the mormons cormons because thy are far away I 1 heard revar rev dr graham pastor of the first M E church troy N Y say one sunday evening that the artillery of the united states ought to blow every mormon into eternity while the church people are crying put the mormons cormons in prison or into eternity those same church people are sending all the support possible to that tree free love colony oneida oneida community in this state by buying silk twist and canned goods not that they get them any cheaper or better goods out but they dont care who they trade with so long as they have a preference and free love ideas agree perfectly with many of the church peoples wishes they argue that it is all right to hang a mormon in utah but a Fre Free elover lovei in new york is a christian consistency these church people east do not possess FAIR PLAY we publish the foregoing by request of the writer a commercial man of gal good standing in the east it portrays the th e corruption that exists among people who desire to destroy the mor mons because of their adherence to the doctrine of plural marriage arid and shows the hypocrisy of the pretended puritans who attack mormonism and practice tree free love but the cor eruptions of christian society are not advanced by us as arguments in favor of mormon ideas on marriage the wickedness of other people is no proof of our purity celestial marriage stands upon its own merits we do not no i argue that a IMor mormon is justified in marrying plural wives because some pretended christian keeps a mistress there is no comparison 11 rison between the two and no plea F for 0 r one because of the other kotlier it is not claimed either that the so called christian sects countenance in theory the evils of society in practice however they quietly ignore them and are not too eager to discover them among their own members unless circumstances cum stances occur to mate make a public scandal but the wrong and the hypocrisy of their course is in making such an outcry against a few mor mons for marrying more than one wife each and at the same time winking in at the widespread sexual evils that exist exist anion among themselves the alleged improprieties of mormon conduct too are to a great extent imaginary and through distance are beyond their immediate concern a and beyond to correct while the corruptions corrupt ions peculiar to christian society fire are rampant within reach and abound right under their d daily ally sight and scent their inconsistency Is as our correspondent intimates indeed glaringly apparent the bloodthirsty sentiments of the rev kev dr granam graham proclaim what kind of a christian he is and show that like many other very pious people in name he would rather f fulminate al minate an arthemas against unpopular folks at a distance than rectify wrongs that exist within the shadows of his own vent icle also that methodism has no arcu arguments ments that can prevail against mormonism 12 so like other emana tion eions a irom from tl the devil it invokes the blasts of hellish carnal weapons to destroy where it cannot convert the world is in a terrible condition and it rejects the only system which would redeem it from the dire results of its prevailing evils but there I 1 is nothing that can save the long f faced aced and canting christians who cry out against the mormons cormons Mor mons for practicing biblical marriage and who yet secretly revel in sexual sin f from rom the sure damnation tt that will overtake the hypocrite and the would be slayer of the innocent |