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Show I ' " ' A CONTRAST. The News of last night contrasts the I ! condition of morals in Philadelphia with things in Utah. Tlie showing against s i Philadelphia is not to the credit of that city by any means, but the moral con- ' $ diticj of Philadelphia has nothing in the i ' ' world to do with Utah and the question , 1, 5 here. If infanticide is rife in Pkiladel- j phia then bo much the worse for that : city. Infanticide is a crime everywhere i j i and should be eo punished. If it! does not exist in our own city j . " then it is to our credit. Utah should raise j her own standard,and its merit should not depend upon its being better than that of : some other-place, but rathei upon itself, f ' If girls are led astray by policemen in I .. Philadelphia, then such policemen should . be severely dealt with, more severely than ? ! another offender, lecause it is their duty j t to guard society and not prey upon its . members. All these things can have no i ' bearing upon the Utah question, because f f here tlie question is as to obedience to a i , j; . "partioular law or disobedience to it. i .There is no place in the world wlwre . r. tjje crimes spoken of in the News , , . as being rife in Philadelphia are deemed . : . 4 virtue, and it is a poor argument with : : which to uphold a system to say that it is 5 ' not so bad as something elsewhere that is I i f . there declared a crime. The arguments often made in Utah to uphold the doc" j i x trine and practice of polygamy are a dis- i grace to man's intelligence and an insult j ' . f te all who are sincere in their, belief in f polygamy. Evil and crime are evil and ' : crime everywhere, and their prevalence ; in one place is no justification for their existence in another. To say that a sys- ; tem in Utah is not so bad as some of the ;-t. crimes committed elsewhere, crimes that i j s I are punished by the law, too, is not to I praise Utah's system very highly. One I ! : man's crimes are no excuse for another I J man's crimes, and to endeavor to mate j f them an excuse is to spread an impres- l ; , eion that all the world is bad.' and the j j f only thing to be guarded against is not to ' ' be the worst. ; I ' The methods of the Ne ws in this direc- I , ! I tion are but the spreading of moral poison ! : f throughout this Territory for the youth of i : the Territory, whom the New addresses . J ; ! more largely than any other paper in the I Territory, are taught that everything out- f f side of Utah is corrupt to the core, and ' ; , especially is this so in the relations of . men and women. The New$ j ! . ls . a correspondent . in Chicago ! i whoso sole business seems to be to 1- 7 hunt up all manner of sexual crimes and i j then forward an account of them to the ; , ; Newt as showing what Christianity in the t ', J 7. world is like. If the News believes that ;' j V the accounts which its Chicago corre- : i : epondent send to it are a true picture of I j the Christianity of thi world, i. e., those : wno are not of its faith, then the Newt is depraved beyond comprehension. Is I jl;, ' it a noble work to only look for the ovil 7 ' ' among men and rejoice when it is found ? j ; i I Such seems to be the idea of the News, at j leasts , ' - . . 7. The world is too full of crimes . of all j ; ' j . - Rums, uui ii is no way to crush out crime i.to be forever glorying in it because , t some crimes are committed more largely : ' !'; in one . community than another. '..ill Crimes are more abundant in .Philadel- : j phia than in Salt Lake City because it is : l - larger, just as crime is more abundant in 7i 7 Salt Lake City than in some of the" re- j ;f mote villages of Utah. The crimes of I;,, ; Philadelphia are an example for no one, !;j7 but a regret for all who desire to seevir- j j J . tue and civilization advance and triumph. j j j : The crime of a man professing one relig- I I 7 ; f ion is no graater tlian the crime of a man j j professing another religion, and if one rc- I j fi Upon minimizes crime more than an-1 I 7 7 I " other, then the religion which minimizes i ! j crime eo far as that is concerned is the s t 7 bCBt. . . ' 7" |