The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-06

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deveiopments made through the Pal
6aa Gazette is beginning to subside
Fhe rotten protuberance which il the
ottgiowth OF modern Civilization. and
whi, i: called society, has arisen and
SnaKs q It's sh ggy main, and is now sub
siding, replacing the disturbed locks.
anu patnDg itself on its own hack with
It's own tail, well pleased with what II
has done. The legislation on the sinh
lect Isl on idered and reenacted is meas
ures are enforced and its yiyors miti-
gated by men whose sons and who
themselves are the very people who are
the promoters of the CRYING and rorrs,,
vices OF the age; while the man whose
Children suffers is called upon Ia vote
to support the very people who hreed
the vermin that ill the world with s..x-
uai Nth. IL is the old story ever ay,i,,.
All this Is done for the woykingn,an
What sympathy have men whose
daughters are not tempted by want
from IN path of rectitude, for the SUI
ielngs OF Others whose happy or al
leaSI Virtuous homes are blasted bv the
iotten-healted scOundrels wins are the
beau Ideals OF society," Governments
IN civil lied countries. the wortd over
are rotten. putrid. and perhaus the
most startling instance is that of lhe
United States. How many of the men
who make the laws pre- tend even TO
virtue? The Congress OF the United
states has a. reputation of being com
posed OF grand assemblage Of men
whose chief aims; coupled wish the
drawing OF their salaries. ~ the gratifi
cation or the SalacIal lust for which
they are noted. OF couse, there are
honorable exceptions to this rule, but
the exceptions ars not much more
plentiful than hens teeth. And these
are The men who IegiSlate morality for
the ''beaslly Mormons." 1t is the same
class Of men, or the series of such a
class who leglslate IN the United King
dom for the suppression of the whole
sale traffic IN the virtue OF little less
than children which has come to light
by the recent publications of the Pail
Mail Gszetle, and which stand on par
almost with the rotbenpess prevailing at
the time when Sodo IN and Gonaorrah
were destroyed. No one has any fai III
IN the legislation, and pious winners OBJ
lect to whipping as being too severer for
the deStringers of female chastity
Kind hearted, damnable hypocritesi 1t
is tacitiy implied by the press that the
eDactments will be poyerless to check
the inventions of the smart tools of
lnstful demons with pockets filed with
money; and tits already plainly stated
that after the present indignation is
over the law will become a dead letter,
and the heinOus traffic will continue as
before. Is it q wonder that this is be-
coming a world OF prostitutes? No
wonder that such. Christian and God
fearing race are tso pious to eontem-
plate the "beastly" practices of Nor
mons without a shudder. This is the
age of Gospel blazeW the Nineteenth
Century the sge of religious light and
the 900 years christianity has never
witnessed period when bestial prac-
uces, we're so common and when the
heshly evils of rotten humanity excited
as short-lived Indignation. Can Pro-
testant nations show such picture dur
ing the whole OF Catholic dOn.ination2
No; nothing like it. And ifthis is fruits
of Professionalism, if it was for such re-
suits that Luther, Lattimer. Ridgley
and the other martyrs died they had
better never been born. The Christian
ity of the world Is rank failure It is
supposed to be the element that holds
the baser passions of mankind in check.
One can see how potent it is in the
great nations of the WorId.where vice is
common among the lower classes because
OF ignorance and the lack OF any Vita
force whatever in their religion, and
where it is boast and psstime
among the Weather because Of their
wealth and because thsir religion IS a
hollow moekery and vile profession
which is sodead thatit smells TO heaven.
In the United Safes and among the
people who live in Utah and who blat
aboui the Wlckedness of "MormOns,"
the intimatl0n by young man that
he had led life of virtue would be re-
ceived with derlciYe laughs; and If any
expression were made in reply to his
declaration of virtue, it would be this:
you're damned iari" and it would
come from the lips OF pieus Utah re-
former. ! know whereof 1 write Legis-
lalion will not made people virtuous.
Prohibition Will not stop drunkenness ;
and the efforts of the PalT Mall Gazette,
however good may be the intentions,
will be poweIless TO promote good, ua-
less q healthier tone is infused into the
public; and that is very unlikely while
mankind still prefer dead and effete-
and what should be buried-forms OF
religion to q living and all-pervading
faith that will control man in his I'M
hallowed and iustful desires. The time
has arrived when poverty is a crime.
The poor man would help himself if he
could; but the law is against him; If he
takes 1t in his own hand, be is guilty of
treason and is punished. He has to
grin and bear it. Talk about respect
for a government that uphold and for
a flag that waves over horde of moral.
" rotten thievesl The virtue is gone
fromAboth. If there is such thing az
Divine justice or poetic retiibution
there viii be = sure accounting some
day. WANDRRER.