Show THE HEDGEHOG mr 11 1 oil bior io mou aa NY N Y IT 1 aco COC LUDm di an oriental legend shows in allah sitting in ill casual conversation conversa tion with a inari mail A cockroach do comes me along allah stamps on oil it what did you do that for asks the human look looking ilig at the ruined insect because I 1 am god almighty 0 was tile reply now polygamy oly gamy can bo si sma nashed hed flat if tf tho to states chioso to show their power to do buano but no man who takes a part in that demolition must 11 suppose that in so doing ho lie is rescuing a commet community alty from degradation and saving them in ill spite of themselves s if left alone polygamy will die out cormons mormons Mor mons deny alis hut but I 1 feel sure that they know they arc are wrong when they deny it for nothing but a perpetual miracle of loaves and fishon will make polygamy m and families of forty possible lc wl when 1 g population and food supply come conic to tall tho tile position over seriously between them n the u of plurality will before long prohibit plurality tho the fashionable milliner is the most formidable adversary that the system has yet encountered A 20 bonnet is a staggering arg argument ament against it when women contented with sunshades sunshade s and made them for themselves tho the husband of many wives could afford to be lavish and to indulge his household in a diversity of headgear head gear but that old serpent the fashionable milliner lias lins got over the garden wall and lilith andave a arc re no longer content with prim primitive I 1 garments of home manufacture by the way it is curious that it should be cli arged against the ifor mons that they had made adam a polygamist it is nota not a Mo mormon invention at all for it is well known legends far older ilian mosess writings declare that eve married into plurality that lilith was the first the great pro progenitor gelil no pol polygamy amy will before long be imps impossible sitf c except to the tile rich and in an agricultural com restricted in archand area and further restricted by the scarcity of water abere can call never be many it rich men As it is io tho the cost of plurality was on oil several occasions occasions referred to by cormons mormons Mor Morri mons lons whom I 1 met during ili my tour and I 1 know one man mail who has for three years postponed his second marriage as lie docs foes not consider eliat his means justify it while I 1 fancy it will not be disputed by any one who lias his inquired into polygamy that as a general rule prudential considerations control the system polygamy thena sincerely erclA believe carries its own antidote with it and if left alo alone will rapidly cure itself in ili the mean time it has bas not ilot degraded the comin community unity that practises practices it and those who take part in smashing in it up tip must not think it has lias the ai mormon Mor mons arc are a pleasant people with many of the faults of peasant life but with many of tile best human virtues virtue sas as well wealthey They are con conspicuously pic sober there is very little in common between oriental polygamy and I 1 Mori mormon tion plurality but for all purposes of sensible discussion they aro are sufficiently differentiated by the single fact that the oriental is the very laziest human being under the sun still and that the mormon is the hardest working an to the former fornier ever every bride means greater alf indulgence to tile latter it means les lelm if if another point of difre difference rence were needed it is is this thattie that alic eastern objects to largo large families if ho lie has lios one son oil to perform his obsequies lie is content for lie lias has satisfied religion and secured Vs own salvation in Morn mormonism I 1 need hardly say it is very very different they prefer twins twin s 1 lie main object and the tho main wain result of the two systems being therefore so widely diverse diver seit it is baldly necessary to go into the hundred other points of difre difference rence which make mak e comparison between the two so absurd yet the comparison is is often made in order ordel to prove the i mormons cormons Mor mons degia degraded ded and it is a great pity that such superficial argument should ic be used for tho the cormons mormons Mor mons having vanquished these so easily consider g have triumphed but this is not the case really wrong can call never be proved roved right by the refutation of tad bad arguments and polygamy though difficult to handle le is ig not invulnerable the hedgehog hor after all has bas to unroll some dd timo time or another the wiser man therefore will wait for the problem to undo itself or of course if lie lias has a abick stick in ill his hand liand he lie can call kill it and not give any apy reasons fur for bloing so it is only the foolish man who tries to give his reasons for violence iio ile must not try to compromise and say that lie killed the ilic hedgehog because it looked ugly or because lie thought it might bo be dangerous angelous ang erous or so forth if ho lie killed because lie c liose to do it well and good there is i an end of the matter but to assault polygamy because the cormons mormons Mor Morn mons ions jaro a turks or debauched bobanic tans or the other things which silly penmen call them is monstrous tito women have complicated the problem by multiplying instances of eccentric af affection and anti abnormal matrimonial phenomena but with it all they have bave retained a most exalted estimate of womanly honor lionor thomen tho men again have inextricably entangled led all recognized ideas of love and duty yet they bave not loa lo a ally a of the manliness liness which characterizes the pioneers plon cers of the west their social anomalies are deplorable but they arc are not des left alone they will be a pride to the union education and tile lie influx of outsiders arc are doing dobil their work and any attempt to arx rob these men and women of the fruits of their astonishing industry and of tile peaceful enjoyment of the soil which they I 1 have 1 av 0 conquered for the united stat states es from tile alio most warlike tribes among the indians and from tile most malignant type of desert is not only not statesmanship but is not humanity |