| Show LIBERAL MORALITY THEBE could be nothing more demonstrative of the hypocritical pretense of the preservation of public morality in the assaults made upon the ahe mormons cormons Mor mons legally and p politically oll ti cally than the developments of liberal impurity of principle and character during this municipal campaign aliens in all respects qualified for citizenship have been preen prevented ted from naturalization solely because of their belief that plural plum marriage is religiously religious my right though legally wrong others have been obstructed because though entirely repudiating polygamy in belief and practice they belong to the mormon church at the same time men whose lives are openly immoral have been admitted and a judicial decision is 18 now reached that fornication Is of itself no barrier toad to admission and no evidence that a M man who has committed it is not of good moral character it has been proclaimed by billib lib in open court that nine hundred and ninety nine men out of a thousand have committed sexual sins which are crimes under the same law that provides penalties for polygamy these of are liberal every day af te a asti a 1 A 7 at fairs faire it has been admitted by our opponents official and otherwise that they are not usual with the k mormons cormons Mor mons PY attorneys in court who object to a mans naturalization because he is a mormon are highly indignant that any objection should be made to a ellb liberal because he is an adulterer or fornica torl and now judge anderson Ander sou rules that one or several acts of this charter do not make a man immoral if secret but only when he is continuously and habitually lewd and yet the edmunds tucker act provides a penalty for a single act of this kind and the law was supposed to have been passed in the interest 0 of f general morality and to take away the odium of the appearance that its penalties were only enacted against the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons god preserve us against the morality of the liberal party which sustains prostitution in fsr ogden and champions fornication in salt lake and let the country judge of the moral intentions and spirit and actions of the thrice condemned hypocrites who pretend ito I 1 to oppose mormon plural marriage on the ground of its immoral immorality ityl |
