Show T MOCK MODEST MORALISTS the powerful I arm odthe national government is frequently invoked to punish tho the people of utah who are accused of being guilty of the worst crimes known to the tile laws and all because they dare to have opinions of their own and believe in a theology that differs in mail many particulars from the faith and practices of modern christianity especially ally is the government urged to suppress polygamy tho the chicago refers to this matter and says at the same timo it permits customs worse even than thia this feature of to prevail it has lately transpired transpire A that settlers in dakota arc are in the habit of pu purchasing indian girls and working them as slaves in their fields and in their houses while their halfbreed half breed children draw rations from the government this abominable kind of thrift should be incontinently squelched it is alleged to bo muck much more extensive than the public generally su suppose it is cellared charged by correspond corre correspondents spon spose ants that scores of white men are fire accumulating wealth from the ole physical labor of these poor women and their children this phase of the indian question has heretofore been kept in the background but its evils and miseries present and pro prospective spec tive are so serious as to merit prompt attai attention we do not remember that secretary schurz has ever alluded to it though some of his countrymen appear to be par in thu tile unholy business if tho the zealots zealous who are so clamorous for the regeneration of the people of this territory would cleat cleanse ize the inside of their own platter before attempting to purify our morals and manners they mi might ait learn a useful lesson and prevent such occurrences at home as the following which waa was developed in court in a lawsuit between two female members of the methodist church and published a short time since in the new york sun it seems that in mrs rs wise and mrs ames were members of the methodist church nt at eldores EI El mores mrs ames A roes had circulated stories about the improper relations of mrs wise with the then pas torand mrs wise complained to the tile church authorities and to hush the matter up mrs ames consented to dismemberment mem berment from the church without standing a trial mrs amea ames was formerly assistant tU superintendent of the sunday school subsequent to her being dropped from the Church she visited the school and proceeded to open the exercises exercise st when the following scene occurred mrs wise who was a bible class member arose and asked mrs ames if she thought she had bad any right to open the school esbe had been dropped from the church for falsehood and slander at this several odthe trustees were aroused some in favor of mrs amea ames and somo in in favor of mrs wise they talked and shouted tile children screamed and the greatest confusion prevailed when order wae was at length restored it was voted toted that thit mrs urs ames be allowed to open the school and that mrs wise be to retire from the room the above is by no means an isolated case but then it did not occur in utah among the mormons cormons Mor mons or a terrible howl bowl would have been heard beard calling on government to stamp out such tuch immorality |