Show A GREAT MISTAKE at t intervals during several years the sta has been made in different papers published in different states abat oa the mormons cormons have resumed the practice of polygamy within a few davs ays eral this allegation has appeared sev such ahnes unes in eastern journals and 1 a process of damnable iteration tres es to be met with edalo 8 frequent ent der this Is the justification for dima erecting gnadl attention to the great mistake by dy the springfield tho the republican in lne f following roli owin paragraph 41 revival the mormons cormons are not only shi showing owing and nd of their old spirit ln in utah a 8 all al intelligent observers dra nia c agree 01 cing se tang polygamy as well astreas aa reas the doctrine but they are to an extent perhaps never exceeded by them their missionaries are dispersed widely over the southern states mainly in the country and their greatest success is among the mountain people of tennessee northern alabama north carolina and virginia polygamy is not being practiced by the mormons cormons Mor mons nor is the doctrine being reasserted by them in the sense intended by the republican intelligent observers who claim to know to the cont contrary never strange to say appear b before 0 Q a magistrate or grand jury in ut utah ah as witnesses but content themselves with showing up anonymously in some newspaper published a long way from the scenes of the offenses they testify to As a rule men who had more than one wife before the mormon church adopted a law forbidding future marriages in violation of the civil statute are caring for them and their children Is there anything amiss in their doing this would it be a good thing for the husbands of polygamous wives and the fathers of polygamous children to abandon them and leave them without support and protection what would become of these helpless ones if their husbands and fathers should take a course so heartless what would the springfield republican itself say of former mormon polygamists who would throw upon the world the women who became their wives under a covenant as sacred as mortal can know and leave the children of those wives to become homeless waifs waife no marriages have been solemnized in utah by the authority or with the approval of the mormon church since the manifesto abolishing them was adopted by that church but the heads of polygamous families are taking a manly attitude in caring for the wives and children who are dependent upon them they refuse to be guilty of the cowardice the inhumanity and the dishonor that would follow th the e opposite course if this be treason the carpers and bigots may make the most 0 it |