The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25

4 peuitiSD, ana tQSQ put I I'LL Ou6TlOtu lu
bic lightning slirrups, beading his hsrea
westward, and iE one year Aormonisna
will be s1tirpated and national decency
vludicated. Compelling Mermonistic
chiefs to take the oath Of allegiance will
net do 1t, for they have declsi ed in open
assembly that perjury in their cause is
commendsbie. Religious tracts on purity
amount TO nothing. They will not read
them. Anything shorter than bayoLets
and anything softer than bullets will
never do the work. Every day you open
paper nd you sea in the State of New
York some big ,mist arrested and punish
ed. what you prohibit on g small scale
for State you al ow on large scale for q
nation. Bigamy must be pat down.
PoIyghmy must 60 free. What has been
the efsct, my friends? Il has democrat
lied this whole nation. That carbun Gle
on the back of the nation has sickened
I'll the nerves and muscles and arteries
and veins and limbs of the body polite.
| account 10 that way for many OF the
loose ideas sbl DAD on al sides on the
subj ctof the mar iage relations. divorces
| 6r the wholsae 9, Gu ate ! h.Qn
circles, libsriinism, if gloved and patent
lesthered, admit d into high circles
| tEo VI OSlt LII rs H6> sLDibt0u VIC
nation vita moral typhoid. The bad in.
influence has well -ngp spiked hat gun
Of Sinsi which needs TO thunder over the
New Engi and hills, owe the savan "a Of
| the south and over the bocky mountains
and the Sierra Nevsdss clesr to the
P-cifc coast "Thou shalt not com nit
adultery" In 1873, n the s ats Of
| Maine, over 400 cases Of divorce. In the
! Sf.to nc MaSoonh,,. oft n no
Year, over 900 divorces. In the little
Sac Of CONNECTICUT in that year, over
4G0 divorces. In New England. in that
year, 2,11S divorces. The County of
| Cook, In Illinois, over 800 divorces in
one var. Adver isements in newspapers
ssyI z, divorces legally AMI quietly
effected. Can pay il ipstallments"
Some of the New York lawyers giving
| their entire time to domestic separations
-suborning witnesses, giving advice as
TO how many months il is necessary To
be out of the city, inducing suspicious
complications, sending detective sleuth
hounds ON the track OF good citizsfs,
until the honest lawyers Of these cities
were compelled little while ago tn
make outcry against the bsmeanipg of
their honorable profession. Looser and
looser ideas On the sabject of marriage.
until SOM etimes the question Of divorce
is taken into consideration in the we'd
ding solemnities, and people promise
fidelity till death do them part and say
sfterwsrd, softly. ''perhsps," or may
be, 81 rssher think So" All over this
land more and more marriage in fun.
We do not want divorce made more !
easy in this country; We want it made |
more hard, go that pc pie will be more |
cautious 10 their sfSaDcing, and you will
understand that if you marry brute of |
q husband or q fool Of wife you s,l |
have 10 stand it. Ali my friends, there |
~lil be DO toning up ca this subject, |
tHare viii be no moral health in the !
I "ifed States on the subject of the mar
riSge relation. until this nation shall |
slough eff this Nor noDistic ulcer and |
barn out with caustic Of gurpo WIDER this |
wou0G which has bae1 50 long feculent |
aud lch -rous and desshful. II you are |
under The deIusion that by mild laws |
preached tgsinst hcrmoDi n the evil |
will b. e1irpa.ed. you are making en- |
awful mistake. The sooner you get over |
it the better. God and civilization de-
mand of both political parties now q
plank anti-MormOni.tic.
Now Of course l am unable to
say whether you regard this publi-
cation as authoritative or not,
but l think you will
admit my right to assume
that. you SAID something very much
like the above. | have not the
pleasure of your acquaintance, but |
as YOU have ,iisroursed on a subject
IN, h al, I b..X 1A donnnGT M
est. and pres crIbe:i Il remedy for the
evils in Utah, which, if applied, is |
likely 10 affect me more or less, | |
take the iiUerty Of making a few
comments.
| have lived in Utah manv years,
and perhaps 1t would be well LOT
me &, state that l am fully con- |
Ylncej that you are not so we'll &C !
Qudipted with the situation as | am |
Un this point, therefore, if IeXhihit |
a certain disregard for your dIctum,
L trust you VIII bear with me.
You say with reference to the |
Mormon qxestion: First of all,
then, [ remark, that God and civil |
iZation demand of the political par
ties of this day a plank anti>Mor- |
monistic." What plank anti
Mormonistic" Is, we are left to sur
mise.
Iquote again: "All the congress
sional laws on this subject have
been notorious failures, and the /
worst failure the last = the Ed
law, because SO much was
of it,
1t was "a plank anti Mormon
istic," though; was it not? Was 1t
not such as "God and civilization"
demanded at the time? Your class
Of men declared this to be the case,
as you will well remember.
Before l proceed further, should
like to ask you by what au-
5hority you assert "that God
and civilization demand" anythIng?
For "civilizati3n" you may speak, as
you know something about that pos
,ibly, but that you have any author
ty to speak for God" 1 deny, and
await the evidence.
You say, This moment, the ennis
,aries of that organized lust are busy
n Norway and Sweden and Eng
and and Ireland, and Scotland and
Germany, breaking up homes. and
With internal cords drawing the