Show AND POLYGAMY LAUGHS I The Mormon city press laughs at the public indignation which has been excited ex-cited by the discovery that two small children are incarcerated in the city jail This is natural Why should not the Mormon papers laugh Why should there not be church merriment over the horror felt and expressed Here are ample materials for a Church jest Here is B fitting occasion for the Saintly chuckle Is there anything in the horrible fact that two little children are the inmates of a criminal I cell that their tender and innocent minds are exposed to daily and foul contamination con-tamination that is not in full accord and sympathy with the moral idiosyncrasies I of the polygamous Church Is there any brutal association in this criminal cell that is not present in the polygamous family circle Can there be a more glaring and disgusting example of vice set in the County Jail than in the dwelling dwell-ing place of the polygamous saint Is the prison room in which these little ones are confined more redolent redo-lent of moral slime than the various polygamous nurseries beneath the rooftree of the bestial elder the carnal car-nal apostle or the sensual prophet Is the woman herself the mother of these children marked as she is with the public and apparent brand ot sin more immoral than those other women who in private minister to polygamous lust and conceal the livery of shame beneath the cloak of religion These are questions to which only one answer can be given No wonder the Mormon press the exponent and defender de-fender of the vice of a community sees only a jest in the vice of a prison cell No wonder the city jail officials bred and nurtured in polygamys sensual sen-sual atmosphere see no necessity for placing the childish mind beyond the influence of an immoral contamination The whole affair is in the nature of a revelation Nurtured In the vices of a public jail these children are fitting themselves for a future private polygamous polyg-amous career And in the mean time publicly expressed horror furnishes forth a brave Cliuijt1 |