Show ANOTHER CRUSADE tile Thoi vils of mormonism have never been met with practical statesmanship one ono of the periodical bugle blasts against against the sect which joseph smith 70 founded is now being sounded in the east and there is every reason to anticipate that like each of its predecessors it will end in ili little or nothing being accomplished shed jt it probably is unnecessary at it this time of day to argue that bigamy and polygamy are opposed to our law laws a and institutions I 11 and repugnant to the feelings of our ll 11 people eople the almighty or nature settles the question 11 b by the equality in point of numbers of ot which the sexes are born and the governing governing over ning powers of all the tile civilized civili civilized zef nations nation of the world have legislated on that obviously natural fact for example in london loudon there are nearly three thousand children born every week and at the end of a year the totals show about an equal number of boya boys and girls in some weeks the males in others the tile females preponderate but in ili the long run the numbers of each are so equal that it is as clear as na light that nature intended one man for one woman and that neither polygamy nor polyandry ism is naturally justicia justi justifiable fia ae it is estrue I true that in some sonic of our statesmen states men preponderate on and in others women buc ut the gross totals being consi considered derca we maintain that the position which we have ass assumed unfed is unimpeachable even in ili the totals there may be a fraction more of one sex than of the others but a man cannot conveniently antl y marry a fraction of a woman and to marry two women would bo be more than ins his natural tilla ohara rc san francisco E examiner bantin er the F examiner like many of ita its co temporaries goes off wrong on this subject excepting wherein it I prognosticates prognostic ates a complete failure of any attempt that may be made to destroy the fabric of AJor monism 11 the marital system professed and practised practiced bythe by alio latter day saints lias has not the most distant relation to bigamy which necessitates tho the introduction tro of deception and fraud practised practiced by and upon one of or other of the parties the assertion that the alleged numerical equality of the sexes settles the marriage quei question tion is unsupported by sound argument if the evenness in point of numbers bo be admitted liow low would the examiner dispose of certain other facts there are tire many millions mil liona of the male sex engaged in the armie dand navies of the nations and have no opportunities tuni ties of entering into the marriage relation there lire other professions fes and occupations that are unfavorable to men entering into that condition there ia is a large proportion IX f the male part of the race who for various reasons prefer under any circumstances to remain in single misery while it Is is the almost universal inclination of the other sex sox to become a wife and mother then if the premises of numerical sexuality be admitted theae these facts throw it again immensely out outs of balance so far as marriage ia is concerned viewed from this stand ow point the position that the marri marriage ag of more than one woman by byone one man gives to io alie latter more than his bis proportionate or natural share is the sheerest she erest nonsense the shoe is oil the other foot in view of the deprival dc of a P large proportion of the female sex from getting a husband at all under existing marital institutions any measure that would deprive a woman of becoming allied to a good man on tho the ground that he lie is already married deprives her of her natural share in the husband field restrictive measures such as are aimed at tho the latter day saints are in the true sense an actual forbidding to marry which paul asserted writing to timothy would be one of the gibris of the latter times a sign of apostasy apo stacy in this a ago goof of professed liberality let the saints paints alone they profess to be aiming at the construction construct ioA of a IL community incorporating all the higher virtues let them have an nn y opportunity of showing whether they can attain tho the object of their pursuit that is the most sensible method of solving tho the mormon problem to be both acceptable and agreeable in society it lic behooves hooves ono neither to see nor remember a great many things |