| Show ON TO washington NUTON the anti roberts fight has no other interest for me than so far as it relates to marriage polygamy has been tried in the united states as an offset or an intended cure I 1 ought perhaps to say for the licentiousness and social rottenness of monogamy gamy I 1 look upon the evidences everywhere to be found in what is styled civilized society as demonstrating that marriage is a failure and is hastening modern life into that condition which existed in rome when women calculated their years not by the calendar but by the men with whom they had domiciled there are true beautiful and good monogamous marriages there are the same kind of polygamous marriages there are just as true beautiful and good marriages where no civil or ecclesiastical law has been called uvil upon n for sanction in much older times than ours polygamy was the greatest social on earth I 1 will undertake to dem j on strate this if necessary it prepared the way for monogamy and led into it by natural development monogamy became legalized sexual abuse and degenerated into a perverted civilization as the divorce records show all over the civilized world mormon polygamy came in the name of god it is alleged as a cure christian hatred of the growing sect fought this renewed system of marriage on th around that it was a reversion to barbarism it athas has produced many of the best men iad and women in utah christian hatred forced the mor mons into a promise to suspend it rut put that promise could not annul the old eld polygamous marriages it W was Ir intended tended to relieve the pressure against the mormon people it was made on the ithe hope that for prudential reasons those in polygamy would not keep alive the lc re relation latton to a fecund extent but men and women are animals as surely as they hey are presumptive immortal souls the temptations have been too great for some 13 H roberts it te it charged s one of the weak ones he is fought on that ground Hs his election will carry the fight out in any event there will be an airing of modern marriage that will do good monogamy is a failure polygamy has been ar arrested tested in its development out of the row may come new light my own opinion is As reserved for another occasion whether mormonism is what it claims to be cuts no figure in what it may inay do as a elvi lizer the grandest advances of humanity have been through questionable means let the fight go to the national and there let the doctors disagree but let utah have peace unless these most ardent presbyterians rians bring some al ege 1 violator of the law to bar convict him and send him to prison if I 1 were a presbyterian believing an all the hot stuff in the catechism I 1 worry a bit over the Mor mormon mons I 1 would rest assured that they would all go to hell wad ama look up from the lake of fire and brimstone and see me gazing down from the first balcony in heaven and laughing and rubbing my hands with a glycerine slickness and clapping them to in Christ christian lazi delight over the special roi asting ot at the damned how those fellows loving goi god as their father and their thedr fel fellowmen as their brothers brotherson in ln chrast can be worried oyer over the mor mons when they axe are so suie sure they haver have a hell dead cinch on them la Is more than I 1 can comprehend it looks as an if they were wit not quite ripe sure of their own boheme of salvation and were afraid the morcom mormons would get into the kingdom ahe ahead ad of them it would be game it such should be the case and the ohe presbyterians rians wera went to hell instead of the mormons Mor mons if I 1 seem to be in any wase loose r free and emy easy or irreverent in ift my illusions to my esteemed presbyterian fellowmen fel I 1 apologize in advance A let us have peace not a peace that depends upon patronage a scorned pe people ale may offer to purchase it but upon the verdict of the representatives of the whole nation gathered to congress sor for that reason and with that eldh I 1 cry ary on to washington Wad hington Y the nation achl achieved eved euch efta glories of late in working tor for suffering eting men abroad will have sea an opportunity to do something too suffering women cut at home edther with or without the consent of utah presbyterians rians CHARLES ELIAS |
