| Show OOK AT tiie THE RECORD hio hie athe record of crime 1111 lyli misery sery sers sull suil suffering er or corruption and woe that reaches I 1 us by every mail mall through the tho medium of the newspaper press is black enough to satisfy the most fiendish desire it fills the mind that is ly by a constant contact with depravity with horror at its details tho the eye looks in vain over a map of the world to fand find a nation that is not rapidly traveling the path of retrogression we had contemplated publishing a condensed summary of the reported cases cages of crime corruption bloodshed ama and fraud contained in some single receipt of our exchanges but it would form a page too revolting for tile the perusal of any but a prurient mind or vitiated taste item after item column after column alternate with murder Is suicide I 1 I 1 I 1 11 horrible violations f idis di gusting depravity and other headings no more sensational than the details are horrible that we may not be thou thought gh t ea exaggerating g ge rating wo we will give the hea heading dingi of such iara aar paragraphs 0 arap in ill one paper only now lying on the deahr desk and band that a paper devoted to news and general literature not 1 a police olida gazette hero here chev are taken as they stand in its columns colu M ns poisoning C of a child Y 11 attempted poisoning polson poison hig suicide execution of the murderer of five persons extensive robbery murder i A horrible horri ble blo tale of guilt and summering suffering i baning daning daring baring robery robbery ll 11 attempted child murder housebreaking 0 and robbery shocking case of infanticide PY Avillan ous murder A savage bit his cifes lip off oil almost killed her 4 and ana threatened to cut cut out her up when he got out of prison I 1 attempted murder r brutal murder shocking murder murden I 1 outrage and death ja aa female outraged 0 till when found she was dead her dress dregs saturated with and body bathed in her blood but we yve give it up we have gone through one fifth of the paper and have not reached the cases of the police courts hor nor is is it a repe repetition kion aion of d the calendar brought before s grand iury jury ury but simply the ordinary gleanings of a newspaper which aims at furnishing its readers with the tho latest lateen most general and most reliable information we might almost aall fill ellla a column from flom this single copy before us with these headings if so disposed but hut enough ilas lias has been given iv en to provo prove prove that the state statements ments made are within instead of ou outside tilde the he bounds of strict correctness the siale slate of fy of which whim this tilis Is 4 icax partial til ac j y not nt confined toone boone to one nation nor to a country the inhabitants of which profess profesa one legalized and dominant form af religious faith it pervades itha the most enlightened C cor or as most civilized so declared and most christian nations on the earth airth peoples professing the thi protestant catholic and ana greek religions present alike alik the P evidence 5 of growing corruption tio nand and increasing degre degradation dation virtue la Is treated with contempt andee who can cail most effectually I 1 I 1 ly destroy es tro g it is looked upon in many circles asa as ns a sort of social hero loero a alady kuie killer kule r wilom matchmaking match making mammas angla angi angl for with W ith skill sk ill lil patience and assiduity instead of f shunning the scoundrel as I 1 if f li he e were a d emlyn i 5 serpent life li is growing more merb insecure more lightly looked upon and hud legislators with their congregated wisdom are unable to stem the rushing tide of crime and wrong these things occur in chrls chris christian tian 7 civilized enlightened nations in christendom which sends missionaries to the torrid and frigid zones and collects annually millions to convert the poor benighted pagans aye even in 1 that christendom which in its philanthropic charity would send missionaries toUt to utah ahto to convert the poor heathen mormons cormons Mor mons 01 well ki lowing knowing what a frightful risk said missionaries would run in this f far ar oft dark and benighted land laud I 1 has it taken modern christianity nearly nineteen centuries to produce the state of society we speak of 2 if so how much lon ion longer loner er will it take to bring about the millennium at the same rate of progress true there aro are many well weil meaning pious philanthropic people who deeply deplore the evils they daily look upon and would fain convert the heathen around them as well as the poor pagans of africa and india and the heathen of utah but do they not see will they not understand that facts speak louder than the best arranged theories and always upset them what has the proselytizing of modern christ christian iau lau missionaries sion aries accomplished what havethe labors of modern christian ministers done Is the world the th better for their teachings and und example Is there less sin or more are nations in their integral parts as families and individuals becoming purer holier holler and more righteous or is the contrary not the ease case case we have peace confidence union purity and prosperity pros here in utah these are ure the fruits we vve present of the dealing dealings 1 of the ae lord with us and until a cleaner record can be shown as a result of the labors of so called eb christian ristian teachers oise olse elsewhere where we geel feel impelled to and fully justified in repudiating the insinuation and anil covert statement 1 I am more moro righteous than thou 11 so 80 frequently made by our would be ba teachers who turn up their sanctimonious eyes at mormonism Alor monism t |
