| Show UTAH WHAT THE THEY Y SAY ABOUT HER I 1 IN N THE EAST utah its inhabitants and institutions in the absence of more exciting subjects continue to furnish matter for some of our eastern elchan exchanges es to dilate upon we have no objections to our people and institutions being made the subjects of remarks oral orai or written what we do object to is the unjust and false accusations made against them the imputations in recklessly thrown out and the flimsy sophistry which runs through the so called arguments used in ill opposition to them polygamy continues to be spoken of as a twin relic of barbarism with slavery and the republican party are lied called upon to wipe it out peaceably if possible forcibly if necessary we quote from a new york paper to call polygamy a twin relic of barbarism idan lian is an erroneous assumption everyal every argument um ent based upon such an assumption must be wrong and inconclusive for the premises are false its only connection with barbarism is lt at antiquity ty As well might monogamy be termed a twin relic on the same grounds ar bunds and as well might the decalogue be swept away in theory asit too often is in practice as another enother relic of barbarism that lay in the shades of antiquity ty we protest against the term it is hi correct false and abusive and t the khe h e arz arg arguments based upon it are only calculated to influence unthinking minds polygamy is also spoken of as being in plain opposition to divine and nd human law 11 what divine law is it in opposition ion ton to or what human law based upon that which the modern jurisprudence of christendom claims as the basis of all its legal enactments the ancient revelations of god to his children T na statute gan oan justly ta y 15 legalize d erime crime no no Hcan I 1 can any blat ilat 1 a crime which the almighty has stamped with his approval and sustained sustain ecLas as a virtue polygamy however much abused it might be by unbridled passion the degradation of ignorance or the unrestrained acts of savage life traces its origin directly to the creator of man and the greatest and most venerated names of antiquity names before which christendom bends with mysterious awe real or assumed as the favored of gf god and the great benefactors benefactor of man including the savior of the world himself were either actual polygamists in person or of direct lineage linead c they rhey gave a civilization to the world which has lived through thousands of years and which the brightest minds of orthis this and preceding 0 generations own themselves selves humble copyists of and they practised practiced or sustained polygamy openly honorably legally under the direct sanction of He heaven avenand and often by its its immediate command these are biblical truths beyond successful contradiction tra kra we notice among other things that false accusations which we have before disproved are repeated why is this ibo iso 0 o why is the same language used when we have published the facts officially obtained which prove the statements made to be false in ordinary r life wilen a man utters an untruth PI V charitable hari harl tabie table supposition may be en pertained if lie ho be bears ars a respect respectable aW character that he has been misinformed but if it be repeated repealed after the truth has been made plain to him he is or should be frowned from decent society as a moral plague spot to be avoided are editors and newspaper writers in their public bubli e capacity capaci to be exempt from the h e amenities of private citizenship anu nuu aaa do or say unquestioned that which would otherwise drive them from respectable society utah is again charged with not having paid any internal revenue tax and further fu arther that the government agents are not able to collect it I 1 nor in any way make them the mormons cormons Mor mons comp comply ly with the special laws that have been necessitated by the ahe rebellion that statement is simply and unqualifiedly a falsehood without even the shadow of a foundation tile the writer of it has either cither wilfully and grossly lied or is ignorantly and negligently culpable in not possessing himself of the requisite information for our article containing the refutation of the same statement before made was mailed to the office of the paper that again con bains it the internal revenue and every other tax imposed imps ed by government on utah have been and are cheerfully paid throughout the territory this we state on the strongest assurances to its correctness by the government agents here and from personal observation I 1 are they bitterly prejudiced priests anxious to have the mormons cormons Mor mons exterminated mina ted shoddy contractors looking for another fat thing or two onn uncle sam gain through a military crusade against us or aspiring officers desirous of gaining laurels among the valleys of the rocky mountains who are at the bottom of these newspaper attacks the editors who ho permit their columns to be BO so abused whether for favor or compensation can best answer the question we ve commend to the careful thought of the people of this nation legislators and editors included the following sentiments on this question by john stuart mill who whether as all an eminent political economist or an unfaltering friend of the north should equally command their respect hen they the dissent dissentients lents have conceded to the hostile sentiments of others far more than could justly be demanded when they have left the countries to which their doctrines were unacceptable and estabi established 1 s b ed t themselves h em in a remote corner of the earth which they have been the first to render rene d e r habitable to human uhran beings it is difficult to see bil oh principles kut tift those of tyranny they can be prevented from living there un under er what jaws a aws they please provided they commit no agres sion on other nations and allow perfect freedom of departure to those dissatisfied with their ways I 1 am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized so long as the sufferers by the bad law do not invoke assistance from other communities I 1 cannot admit that persons entirely unconnected with them ought to step in and r require that a condition of things with which all who are directly interested appear to be satisfied should be put an end to because it is a scandal to persons some thousands of miles distant who have no part or concern in it let them send missionaries if they please to preach against it or let them by any other fair r means eans of which silencing the teachers is not 0 one e oppose the progress of similar doctrines among their own people if civilization has got the better of barbarism when barbar barbarism ism had the world to itself it is too tod much to be afraid lest barbarism after having been fully got gt under should revive and conquer civilization A civilization that can thus succumb to its vanquished enemy must first have become so de degenerate ener that neither its appointed priests and teachers nor anybody else has the capacity cIty eity or would take the trouble t to 0 s stand n up fot it if this be so the sooner such a civilization receives notice to gult guit amt the better |
