| Show NOT THE UTAH WAY the boston traveler in an editorial headed the utah cormons mormons Mor Morr mons t says polygamy may be dead in utah as the defenders of the mormons cormons claim iut but how comes it that we have apostle taylor declaring that abe manifesto of president Woo woodruff droll advising advia ing that no more polygamous unions may be entered into for the preL present tent does not prevent a man from supporting more than one woman this would seem to indicate what has always been beau held by those who looked deeper then than the more mere surface manifestos mani Amani festos that the alleged abandonment of polygamy is a mere pretext to win a better opinion from the rest resi of the country and to influence politicians in favor of statehood that it has succeeded is shown in the congratulations indulged in by bv president cannon over the miraculous change in public sentiment how much president eliot Harvard of has had to do with this miracle is in not said laid but he should not be dented denied the credit or the discredit as the case may mav be of his share it will be a good thing to give mormon utah a long probation intelligence and humanity may be alive in as public rumor and the census rep arta still inform us but how ames 0 mes it that we have the editor of a respectable newspaper there misquoting mis miE quoting remarks in order to argue them and advocating by the violation of one of the plainest duties an honorable man ean assume dees the traveler writer think that president woodruffs Woodruff Pe manifesto prevented or Ore pretended tended or ww was intended to prevent is a man from supporting more than one woman if that other or happened to be his wife or wives and possibly the mother or mothers of his bis children if so his hia intellect must be pitifully dwarfed and hla his sense of hum humanity antty utterly depraved he suspects that what he calls call the alleged abandon mont ment of polygamy was a mere pretext to win a better opinion from the rest real of the country and he intimates that that better 0 opinion would have been won wo from kim him at lose if the men who had practiced poly polygamy tamy in utah bad immediately turned their plural wives and their children out of doore deorr scorned repudiated depp leed and left to the mercies mel olea of a world in which such christian scribes as he be are good to be considered respectable the Mormon aln in utah are an far above the need of a better opinion from his hafl olam clan of thinkers thin kera BB n they are above hla als method of dealing with the women and children who have claims upon them for support to the law and to its ito spirit even to its ite very letter they yield sincere obedience Butth but th taw t law does not require nor can it compel that they shall withold support BUp port froth the women they covenanted to loveana love and cherish and the children born unto them thear in sueh aboh alliances the traveler mana man im notions under the abandonment of polygamy prove what hla his notions ot of the practice of polygamy were he teat it strange that the men do not hall with pleasure the opportunity heartlessly to cut oft off and mercilessly to hurl burl down to eternal borrow the women whose love they once had won it lei ie enough to say bay to him that such auch may be the boston way but it to ie not the utah way As aa to the congratulations d in by president cannon over overs the miraculous change in c senti ment P they d sprang shiang from a perfectly natural gratitude that the intelligence of the american people had at lat last come to reject dejeet as drivel such emanations at as might be expected from writers write ra of the traveler stripe and as aa to the question of how much president Preal ilent ellot elli had to do with this ibis miracle we are of 0 opinion inton that the more that distinguished gentleman had to do willi it the more entitled he be is to a share in the congratulations |
