Show POLYGAMY vs MONOGAMY A losan vicar on subject EDITOR our courts have vainly tried to prove that ft man by taking a second wife commits an injury to and insults his wife in this attempt the courts display great ignorance for gas a rule the first wife is previously consulted and gives her consent in many cases that have come under the observation of the writer the first wife has induced her bus band to tako a second and in some instances has selected a lady and brought about the union these with other evidences assure me eliat if polygamous families were called upon to express their views of the two systems of marriage that plural marriage would be preferred people talk about the evils of polygamy but fail to show the evil but the evils resulting from monogamy are too glaringly conspicuous to need any proof hundreds of thousands of girls are required to supply the demands of the numerous brothels in the united states for the accommodation of principally ried men many of these girls have only just entered their teens and have been decayed decoyed into these dens of infamy by hired pro caresses cu who have caused untold grief in numerous families and brought many aged parents down with sorrow to the grave if it is the suppression of crime that the government desires to accomplish heaven knows there ia a very wide field for their humanitarian labors near their homes or is the so called social evil of the states too gigantic for the government to cope with or is it motives of a personal nature that cause their forbearance in that direction PO march |