Show PHARISAIC assumption raon As A reason tot for appointing a committee to investigate mormonism the new west commission Commiss iun asserts that this system of organized superstition kud and misrule is arrayed in deadly enmity against the social order prevails throughout this country countr 11 it must be remembered that this accusation was made and published publish ea in chicago could there be a more striking illustration of the saviors parable of the mote and the beam the relative conditions of salt lake and chicago offer perhaps us as striking a con contrast as can ob be f furnished ur by any two cities on this continent one iss is a Mor mormon the other a so called christian city the peace order sobriety industry and general gene ial immunity from crime oi of the former are the subject of favorable commean the world over while the reputation of the latter for violence in temper ance gain gambling bling restitution swindling burglary fur tur plary glary ga rotting sandbagging sand bagging jobbery jobo ery trickery divorce adultery perjury murder and every offense in the criminal calendar is universally notorious jt it life and property were half as safe in chicago as in salt lake city its inhabitants would think they bad moved into a social paradise I 1 what does the commission mean by the social order that prevails throughout ough 0 this country 1 Is it the he kind id th that at prevails prevail IC in chicago hi ag 0 T take ke it its ra record r d from the e d daily ally papers paper a and ald wh what at ki kind ad of ai social 10 order der 1 is it that the e commission labors to sug sustain stain and introduce into quiet utah it is to a large extent the social order that one might expect to prevail in hell bell it the seeth seething Wg festering mass of pollution I 1 that swells smells to heaven from t the he I 1 illinois jajou lanois city by the lake i is a sample of tb the social order that prevails throughout the country we admit that mormonism is arrayed against it mormonism Is arrayed against the corruptions corrupt ions of the age social political li ci civil viland and religious it is a living id potent force on the olde of true social order and against vice oce and disorder in every form it is 3 a stahlin standing 11 protest against the social evils tuat that ar are e eating into the heart and poisoning the he 1 lifeblood life e blood of the nation andt and the he deo people ale who have come under its influence ue nee with all their faults and all thelt heit failures to reach up to its standard of personal and social excellence are comparatively free from the filthy vices sud and sexual impurities tiia tha render cities like chicago an offense to heaven ven and a reproach to the civilization of the ibe cent century t I 1 ry but aga against i ast the social order that prevails pre valls in an pure homes anywhere in christendom is not abt arrayed it supports and encourages it the relations of husband and wife of parents and children it alms aims to ina maintain I 1 deain and make permanent perman nt it regards home and tre the family as the roun foundation dation of social order in this world and 0 of endless increase and glory in the world to come it for bid an any desecration of the marriage bond it it regard sall commerce of tile the sexes of the matrimonial relation as deadly sin if lae committee of investigation to toe be sent here will only try to find fidd out the facts thi they by will discover that mormonism is the strongest friend to social order that exists among the various systems now low extant it is not only so in theory but in practical rac effect those of its professed professed profess eg adherents who do not live in true social order harmony purity aud and peace bace are not submissive to its teachings teachings or guided by its influence and where mormonism is practised practiced according to its spirit aud and letter there will social order be found in its fullest perfection and most admirable beauty for this is its very stronghold its grand object its true ideal it Is a common error to suppose that because inculcates the e inculcate edothe right under riven given conditions of f some men to have more la milies than aba n one it countenances looseness of life or opposes the Luon lorm form of social relations pure monogamy and mormon polygamy arp not antagonistic they are parts of the same fame divine matrimonial by tem if god gives a good woman to a good man and they preserve serve their purity the marriage is tre holy ly and if god gives a good man morp corp than one good woman and they a all 11 a bide abide in the covenants covenant 6 they make with him and each other that is an enlargement of the sacred family relation and s also holy if pert persons sons raised in the atmosphere of chicago or J bentres centres of modern civilized ivill zed corruption cannot comprehend the purity of a mans matrimonial relations with more moie than one virtuous wife the fault is not in the nysted but in the mind and sensuous imaginings or of the electors who probably see little or nothing in matrimony at all but a respectable method of gratifying carnal appetites to such animalized individuals divi duals chaste plural marriage is no doubt ler incomprehensible As I mormonism is not a foe but a champion of that social order which is the product iet of the marriage relation when observed in infidelity fidelity to fro also it ip not a supporter of superstition er cr misrule it inculcates living laith in the supreme being and confidence in his promises promis esIt Jt regards him as a present father Fil ther ready now tas as ever to help and commune with his children and wherever where it prevails the order and peace which are its effects protest against the charge of its misrule the new west commission arnini amid the fumes and feuds of chicago abominations and disorders accusing mormonism I 1 in placid utah of misrule and impurity is the very acme of pharisaic arrogance and ast asi emption and when that is coupled with I 1 the ignorance of the situation self confessed in its order for a committee of investigation it falls little short of the sublimely ludicrous Is there no opening in the slums and alleys and hell holes of chicago for the christian effort of those good people who want to put down tha waichi is opposed to social order I 1 Is there no superstition in the east Is there no misrule except in utah thou pious mud and wealthy life member of the new west commission commie sion hast bast thou no sight for the sorrows vil lannies and crimes that abound and swarm up all around thee but must stretch thy neck to discover imagined evils afar off and why beho beh oldest dest t thou ou the mote t that at is in thy brot brothers ers eye and consi derest not the beam that is in thine own eye and nd if thou wilt persist in thy self righteous course coarse shall thou not be num numbered berea with the foolish and aad the hypocrite |