Show A VIEWS what an infidel thinks on mor nor moo mou principles aco A strong writer upon this subject and withal ft a gentile gentilo saye the cormons mormons Mor mons shrink from a civilization that introduces the brothel with its advance guard fills our papers pipers with unmentionable advertisements tl ti a and ud makes of every city a sink of iniquity a civilization that converts women to prostitution faster than it does to christian life lire fills our enra ears with clerical scandals and our courts with christian de faulders faul at that elevates into a social institution and leads to a prevalence of and stud infanticide which if iu its extent were known as only physicians know might fill us with horror and find dis 11 may the 31 mormon ormon can take the position of accuser and retort upon the defenders of carl christian tian civilization in striking down the sacramental obligations i eions with which catholicity city had had hedged around the marriage rite in making a mere civil contract between a man and woman for sexual and other purposes you have weakened the very velt foundation of society the student of social science seeing the start startling ing increase in divorce statistics the growing social tolerance tol trance given giren to in marital infidelity the general decadence dein in fact of marriage marria e itself may be able able to comprehend the mormon feeling of aversion aversion the A IL writer quoted from says further mormons cormons Mor mons have seen a federal judge and a woman of disreputable character sit side b by side on the bench have found tk their lawa against rum it and prostitution inoperative from the protection ai granted ranted by government officials and have read in the gentile organ known to the cormons mormons Mor mons as the daily as well as heard from from the lips of christian cler clergymen tho the startling affirmation afy that tit houses of ill fame and saloons arc are necessary agencies in tho tile emancipation of I mormon youth they have seen in in a recent fourth of july celebration the carriage of governor murray followed vi ia the procession by that ofa of a woman ci of f notorious profligacy without protest and have seen those now wearing the judicial ermine shield immorality and vice the same writer in concluding the subject of plural marriage uses the following language aZe polygamy in in utah is is the consecration under religious obligation obligations of the sexual relations yet the E edmunds d in bill assumes that it is identical with bigamy or the betrayal and deser desertion ion of a woman through false eten ses this bill not only brandr brands men as criminals for following out their convictions in which womans comans content consent is prerequisite but proposes to disfranchise even tho those thoe e who contracted plural marriage before congress declared it to be a crime crime but in what doea does their crime consist it is i t time i me to cl close S e in indulging du I in in mere assumption in in appeals to paa passion aion and religious bigotry in yew new york there is no IR law W on the statute books defining cation as a crime and all our pulpits are silent you may if unmarried enter into sexual relations with a dozen women so long ns as you do not represent them to be wives call them your carlota har lota your concubines anything but wife and you arc are guilty of no criminality would it follow that inthe imis erable fanatic the tho Mormon could be lie induced to strike down the sacramental relation in which he holds marriage if he be should cease to give guarantees to both the woman and society to stand by the results of this relation be he aou would id be less open to clerical rebuke if ho he adopted the suggestions af the Salt lake city tribune and recognized prostitutes as social missionaries basing his sexual relations merely on animal passion following new ew york rather than biblical precedents and lived in open and admitted fornication there would be no law specially drafted to meet his case the pulpit would be es topped christian society compelled to look i e elsewhere Ise where for its sacrificial goat goal if lf polygamy bo be barbarism our superior civilization will crush it out but r right lit or wrong be careful how you yet deny to even a deluded people cople the r right i lit of self government brand their c children 11 dren has bastards lard and turn them over for relief to the sense of equity possessed by a board of politicians liticia il ns wo we tolerate the S shaker r in seeking to prohibit and prevent marri marriage aCe certainly necessary to social existence Le let us en deaver to tolerate the men who re regulate marriage on a religious belief and find invariably condemn eve every ry plural marriage by an apostate as wanting in that consecration which can alone sanctify A crusade against these who refuse to recognize chiv civil il marriage as the catholic ii u full as legitimate and would be attempted were the their ir property centralized in a territory we have baye learned to tolerate the religious heretic beretic in law at least but not the social heretic and the mormon problem brings before a test which will try our boasted liberty to the utmost when we as 03 a people go two thousand miles to deny the right of self government because the lett r not the spirit of the law permits it when we deprive citizens of the right of franchise for acts of which those interested do not com complain lain but indorse and which inyim involve no moral criminality when we do this to a people upon whose mural moral character the only blot is in the non mormon portion we strike a blow at sit the idea of liberty and toleration that might well arouse thomas Jefre jefferson from his tomb whatever wo we may think of polygamy ai as a social system ey tero let us be careful how we act and not fashion a handle far for an axe ax which may one day strike nearer home when wielded by other otier pas cassious sious arc are there none of our statesmen tal esmen who can rise above the level of prejudice and see the danger coercive measures mu must st lead to if moralists mora lists choose to ignore the golden rule a statesman cannot be blind to the peril involved in following a course mapped out by a few political adventurers iu in utah leave to clergymen the lionor honor of glorying over the possible apa apostasy stasy of a few thousand mor mons from a faith which has kept them from profligacy and vice or in their emancipation from moral c atrul and view the s subject U b e c t in n a far broader sense seme the I rm e ns point to the prophecy of joseph smith that the time was not far hir distant when they alone would be the defenders of the great principles of religious liberty shall tha the fulfilment fulfillment of this prophecy come through ai the act of ae representatives of a republic founded by jefferson and his 1113 colleagues if the mormon home is not the childless home of tha the eastern cap calist or the home of the factory operative in which the bell of the mill connect connects with the cradle and weaves human life into the manufactured fabric if it id is none the less a home consecrated by family lovo love and sanctified by reli religious Zious observances where t the e mothers devotion guides aides tho the feet of loving children k you ou know the golden rule little apply it in this caso case or ell tell lewhy no not till in this connection it seems proper I should give the following part of letter from mra mrs Be belinda linds at 31 pratt to her sister in new Hamps hampshire bire kul but leaving all scripture history or precedent out of the question let us come to natures law what then appears pears to be the great object of the tu marriage arriage relation I answer the multiplying ti of our species the rearing and training of children to accomplish this object natural law would dictate that a husband should remain apart from his wife at certain seasons which in the very constitution of the female are untimely 11 or in other words indulgence bould should not be merely for pleasures or wanton desires da sires but mainly for the purpose of pyo procreation creation the morality of nature would teach a mother that during natures process in the formation foi mation and growth rc howth of embryo man her heart should be pure her thoughts aad and affection affections chaste her mind calm her passions passion without excitement while her body should be invigorated with every exercise conducive to heath and vigor hut but by no means subjected to anything tf ieng calculated to disturb irritate weary yea ry or exhaust any of iti its function functions and while a it kind husband should nourish sustain and comfort the ilia wife of his bosom bv by every kindness and attention consistent with her situation and with his most tender affection till still lie should refrain from all thos those untimely associations which are forbidden in the great lassof laws of female nature which ich law laws we sec see carried out in almost tire entire animal economy human animals excepted except cd polygamy then as ao practiced under the ilia patriarchal law of god tenda tends directly to the chastity of women and an I to bound sound health and morale morals in the c institutions of their offspring you can read in the law of god in your bible the times and cir circumstances curn under which a woman should remain apart from her husband during which time bislis is considered unclean and should her husband coma come to her hr bed under such circumstances he lie would commit a gross sin both against the IA law a of nature and wise providence of gods law as revealed in his word in short ho lie would commil commit an abomination he lie K cin sin against ai st hia bia own body against the bd body y of his wife ilia laws of procreation ro it in which tho the health an and morals of this offspring prin arc are directly concerned tho law of god opens to all vigorous us healthy and orens v virtuous too us females a door by which they may become honorable wives of or virtuous virtu eui men i and md mothers of faithful virtuous healthy e at liv and vir vigorous orous children and aud here heri let me aak ask you mv rny dear sitter what hat female in all new hampshire would marry a drunkard a man of hereditary disease diame a debauchee an idler orn or spendthrift or what woman it would become a prostitute or on the other hand live and die single or without forming those e inex r essi bly dear relationships ot of wife F and mother rn ther if ir the lie covenant or patriarchal laws of god were extended over your state and find held sacred and honorable by all while this part of the subject is still before us let me mt cay say that in in regard to remaining apart from their wives while in a pregnant state mormon hus husbands are model husbands I and aro worth following by all the husbands hus but banda bands of america when a wife has become becom e in that interesting condition all sexual relations are discontinued and the embryo child is allowed to mature matura without the irritation a nud aud injuries of continued sexual indulgence in this regard the cormons mormons Mor mons arc sire a long way in iu advance of all the christian men of the country sexual intemperance i is one of the crying evils of our binic s teni of thousands of women are deprived of health and aud their days shortened in the world directly from this cause many cases have been brought to my direct knowledge where clergymen have not only been the cause of the death of excellent wives from this very cause but where two and three subsequent wives have been absolutely murdered in the samo way clergymen arc are by no roeana means the only ons ones guilty of this sin it is far far too common over the broad expanse olour of our country let every man look to hi his ways in this respect and not become the murderer of tho the woman whom law and buttora have placed in his 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