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Show !'; theKIormons I j $'By Elbert Hubbard I; U '' .2 Polygamy camo Into being with tho I ' , Mormm'iB simply aa a mnttor of ex-I ex-I pedlency. ', 3 Ileud-hlstory and you will find that ' nomad's, cntorlng on tho agricultural l ' ' stago, imvo nlwoys been polygnmlsts. 1 Hard work and unending toll 1111 tho lives of tho pioneers. Sentiment ' Is at a low ebb. That Is something I whl eh' comes later. Children nro in B demand, and polygamous marriages, B Kanctlflctl by religion, regulate the H I BOX (lUCStloU. B Abraham and Jacob on the plains B of Assyria wcro polygamlsts. B l'olygamy, under certain conditions, B tho biologist recognizes Is eminent- B ly right and proper, because It Is nat- H ' urnl. H' Plural wives woro happy wives. H " Tho dlsolplos of Brlghnm Yoang did B I not depress and repress tholr woman. Bj 1 Life was free, Joyous and filled with Bj ' ' religious seal and hard work. Sue- BJ. cess crowned their efforts and the Bj f earth laughed a harvest. Wealth followed, sg It always does Bh t When men, women and children work ttthec work in joy, work Intelll-Bj' Intelll-Bj' !tly, and are animated by a mu-Bj mu-Bj tftel desire and ambition. H "We must Judge things by result. My their fruit shall ye know them. B - With the second and third gener-H gener-H tlon. the refining of sentiment and H tht advent o( art, polygamy was grad-H grad-H , Ufllly sloughed, and monogamy he-H he-H ' comes tho rule all this In response H to natural law. ' Bj At tho lust, people oannot be gov- Bj ornod by legislation. In order to H suooeed, legislation must ha In lino H - with tho obu and flow of tho tlde8 of BJ tho human heart. BJ Xolhlng more cruel, wicked, bluer BJ and unreaaonablo was over attempted H tl)an the enforcement of the Edmunds BJ -ft Whs n New England Idea, devls- H ' 1 by the New England conscience H' '( t&ri New England conditions, nut H tWnsferred to a people living under BJ' ', Mgfy different conditions from those ' wWok exlated In New England. This BJ' wu men now fully know, realise and H' ijjperltand. BJ ' -The patience that the Mormon pec- Bk ' pl have sl.own liaa been one of Hi t)ir chief claims to the respect ot H- lltluwotltj. BJ' iSro one can visit Utah now and see H'- tw towns, cities, villages, farms, B rSfhes. schools and colleges without ft being thoroughly impressed wttb the m t oxteUence and worth of the moral BR JitfetUles of these people. BJ Visitors at Salt Lak who wish to Bl get their Information from other than Bt '' bell hops, liuok drivers and loqua- 1 akrtis babern would do well to take BR, tjfe! Intenirbau line that runs overy H' haft JjourrQia.Salt Lake City to Og- Bb- 'lE er Ib distance covering K tJ8ra$s nllee through a tract ot Bft 1 cjpitrrtfie.t ban actual garden spot ' BH Go out ten miles, get off the car H gMi walk five miles, stopping at the ' BK ' lBuH and visiting with people along ' BE 'i tllgway., BB .-pf tako an auto and go south for- BE t miles to Provo, as I did. If you B lWTe time visit the country schools, BB sS,tu chlldron, talk with the teach- j BE oj,- talk with the farmers at their , BB wflMt, With the v.omcn cuilnu for the j BBj nenltry and fruit, see the Jolly boys J BB and girls at tkiir gnraes or tasks, and I BB yeA will be com uvoit that honeatv, i BB trui and right intent animate these ' BB ! They average high. j BB ,i the days of po'yRamy no wnm-! BB on was tyrannized over by a man. ' BB Thare were no henrtbtoken women, BB no Suicides, no oinm i , do ns.inlt. ' BB Mormon women liom Hi,' time they j reached tho Salt Lako valley were economically frco. Thcso Mormon women had big families. Thoy brought thelf cnlldren up to work, to bo useful. Thoy lived "closo to tho 'soil. Thoy moved 4 line with nature. They hnd firm ho d on tho few virtue's for which civilization civiliz-ation has never found n substitute. Thoy were Industrious, economical, temperate, honest. These virtues still abldo. In Utnh thoy nro tho rulo, not tho exception. Victor Hugo onlo' satd: "Shake-spcaro "Shake-spcaro needs no monument ho has his plays." Tho Mormon pcoplo need no defense. de-fense. Schools, colleges, parks, ho-tols, ho-tols, good roads, paved streets, happy homes and great, smiling stretches of fertile farms, well tilled are tongues that tell tholr own story. Utah has really not yet been discovered. dis-covered. Her rcsourtes have not yet been tapped. Less than 10 per cent of her avallablo tillable land is under un-der tho plow. And tho event of tho wealth stored In tho Rocky Mountains Moun-tains Is incomputable. |