The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-03
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and its people may be engaged in
what they consider a high and
holy calling; if, as they so freely
alIege there be within the confines
of this Territory such enormities as
ask for more legislation and more
stringent measures than are now in
existence, and they have something
better to offer, by all means let US
have that something better. But
the ugly thought will obtrude itself
that the reformers are neglecting
their own houses to purify that of
their neighbors; that in their clam
ors flor cleansing in the home of
their adoption, they are forgetful OF
the Augean stables they have left in
the places that gave them birth.
Utah may have, and oficourse does
have, its bad features, since no
work of man is perfect; but even
with this concession taken into full
account, is it worse than or even as
bad as it's neighbors, when daily
transactiOnslare taken into consider
alton? Those who weigh carefully
and decide impartially, will say no.
The case of a certain DR.. Hat b
away, of Philadelphia, recently tried
and convicted on numerous charges
of foeticide, is but one example of
many in point. The evidence showed
him to have been the murderer of
thousands of unborn infants. His
own wife testified that his victims
for long time averaged nearly a
dozen day and this is only a part
Of the horror. To quote from an
eastern exchange, "the women who
visited his establishment were not
forced by MIN to go there. He SIM
ply Performed a service required of
him by persons who had learned of
his ability to perform such service,
and who were willing and able to
pay for it. Every mother who con-
sented to the destruction of her
own offspring was as truly a MUIR
derer as the fend who consented to
assist in the crime"
What CHASTITY, sickening horror
such a state Of affairs presents
And, when it is considered that
Hathaway is only one among a per-
feet myriad of like demons in hu-
man form, and those who employ
him and his kind to murder are cor
respondingly numerous, it will
readily be seen that there is a state |
of affairs outside of Utah whose
growth is onward and whose pre-
Yalence is vast; whose votarieS
because they antedate physical
life in their destruction, endeavor to
make and to some extent have made |
the slaughter of infants respectable!
Even the courts tolerate it and the
laws partially condone it, for upon
the monster Hathaway
a sentence of a few years
Imprisonment, the utmost penalty
provided by the statutesl His Gus
.omers included "ladies" of high
md low degree, the silken- clad ar
stocrat sparkling in diamonds, and
he poor working girl driven to sin
by the hard circumstances in which
the was placed. Can it not
Jafely be said, in view OF
his picture, that some people,
whose houses are constructed of the
irailest quality of glass, throw some
If the most ponderous stones?
1t is not right to excuse or at
Tempt to excuse crime in Utah
neither Is it proper to accuse the
people here Of so much that is il
legal and make them a special ex-
ample, when so much is proved and !
so much more can be proved in
every other part of the country.
It does not sound well to hear the |
probable character of the contents
of Utah cradles this and next year
canvassed, when there are so many |
empty cradles elsewhere.
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