| Show A DEFENSE OF POLYGAMY THE eastern illustrated paper that published the deceptive articles from a bogus cM Mor ormon 1 which we have pre exposed finding that the treatment of the mormon question is financially profitable keeps up the subject though changing its form the latest of its productions Is in the shape of letters purporting to come from different parts of the united states from non mornion mormon ladies some of whom have visited utah and all of whom advocate polygamy though from different standpoints the subject is handled iu a very ingenious manner not however us as it would have been touched upon by 4 cormons mormons Mor mons when it was considered a legitimate matter for discussion of course today it to is not promulgated or taught by mormon advocates the action of the church on this question having placed it out of the pale of authoritative preaching if we could be sure that these letters were genuine we might treat them seriously and have something to say in regard to their facts and conclusions but knowing that the articles published in ha that magazine professing to have been written by a mormon were a fraud upon the public we naturally conca conclude ude that these letters though pretending to favor polygamy were fabricated in the office chero the paper is published the burden of these them letters is the and inconstancy of man the average husband bik etc k 1 is declared too to be a polygamist in practice some boole of the writers object to this but ony only to its secret and hypocritical bon conduct duct they would rather have it open aud and u under liden stood they declare that eliat while polygamy is denounced men do not as a rate preserve the relation one ond says in regard to leri legislation against the cormons mormons Mor mons 1 rhe phe have always practiced practice polygamy ah hi private the saints S were honest the politicians are hypocrites hypocrite a nay I 1 will go further ninety per dent of tho the married voters in this ibis country practice polygamy in private this is a heavy arraignment of IM married men of america whether the letters in which it is made come from ladies as purported or from the zine zinc which publishes them one claims that she once objected to jhb polygamy of her husband but ab 3 found on inquiry among her frie friend taft that the husbands ot every onis one wf them without a single exception i w were ere the same she thinks that hans ten ner cent of married melk I 1 may keep their marriage vows we will not go through all the state ments and arguments of these women or of the writer of the letters suf buff flee it to say ay that ahey they do not institute an argument for mormon formon plural marriage which never depended such a low platform on which to ta web its ito advocacy the facts set bet forth may be as present ed we do not know we do know thie that among the bitterest foes of mormon plural marriage when it il was wag taught and practiced as a religious ordinance were men and women 61 the most corrupt lives and the most mod immoral conduct TW chhn was so frequently the case that when a person became unusually vindictive and malicious in opposing this tiou tito and pursuing its ita supporters we the coni elusion was reached that he was motil moral ly unclean and this rea reasoning 9 in ra most instances proved to be bb corfe correct ct we presume however that these the letters offering a spee specious ous plea in f favot fa vot of polygamy wilfa prove but the 0 prelude to attacks that are to follow and the object in view is to arouse discus sion lon a subject that was dying out of the public mind this revival being for the high moral and patriotic purs purpose pose of increasing the circulation of 01 1 the magazine and coining motie money adt 6 its proprietors proprietor As this appears to be the grand desideratum of american publishing publish big enterprise we wb suppose it in fa useless to offer any further upon the matter |
