The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-14
because the ignorant and benighteG
people of Arizona had not been edu-
Gated uD to that standard of morals

lot containing nearly all the truth there
Is In the whole article. The Dane was
certainly strong man. He had been
seen to lift with each hand more than
the reverend or the speaker would
like to lift with both; he had built the
house by honest labor, task the
reverend was not likely soon to ac-
complish, as he had not even improved
1t any since the burly Dane left it. He
always had sufficient to eat, earned by
honest labor, and did not need TO learn
another trade in order to make living,
and that it was pity the opportunity
OF learning trade could not be trans
TERED to the reverend as easily as the
house. as he evidently needed it worse
than the Dane did; had evidently
studied the people of Arizona better
than the people of Utah. Referred to
the down-trodden women, broken hearts,
cruelty, abuse and all the usual clap
trap about Utah, and contradicted it
by giving four instances where the
ladies bad ruled in spite of patriarch,
priesthood, husband, church pres,
carried their points in spite of
the whole of them. Referred to the
great pressure brought to bear on men
by the church to force men INTO
polygamy. Yet it was shown that Lehi
did not contain more than the average
or 3 per cent. of the whole country. rs
The reverend says: sYou cannot
pierce the surface of society any
where in Utah without finding
below a greater or less amount
of baseness, suffering. cruelty and
wrong" The speaker asked: "Can you
pierce the surface of society anywhere,
in any Christian land, without finding
plenty of all of the above named articles,
and in much greater amounts. pro-
portionately, than here in Utah r.
And for fear the reverend gentleman,
through ignorance 9or Innocence, was
not posted on that score, the speaker
would read an extract from the Cincin-
natl Weekly Times, of January Goth, 1882,
entitled, 1.-THE Black Hole of Chicago
as follows: Five hundred liquor
saloons. 200 houses of prostitution, Loo
concert saloons. gambling houses and
pool rooms, all in region bounded by
Van Buren,, Fourteenth. State and
Clark streets, five blocks one way, four
the other. In this district it is estimated
there are 5000 abandoned women, and
the nightly orgies of these maddened
and dissolute people are attended by
IL 900 young men, who, it is calculated,
spend on an average, fully 100000
weekly, in the most deprayed and de-
grading amusements," etc.
Now, here was a city, the head
quarters of the New West Educational
Commission, and also great missionary
and church centre, whose ministers had
found time to hold meetings and send
memorials to Congress, praying for ac-
ton, to suppress polygamy in Utah:
when right at home. in a very small
portion Of their own city, there were as
many persons, guilty OF worse vices
than had ever been in any way con-
cerned in polygamy in Utah. including
husbands, wives, widows, all IN al, thar
had ever been In, and more OF all kinds
of vice to be found on that small area
in one week, than had been in Utah
since its first settlement. And we have
no reason to believe that Chicago Is
much worse than many other American
cities, and yet these cities contain
of ministers, who are pro-
Tossing to teach the doctrines of our
Savior, including that doctrine which
says, i'Thou fool, first cast the beam
out of thine own eye and then thou
shalt see clearly to take the mote out of
thy brothers eye." And of what kind
is that article referred to, and called the
America conscience, that can tolerate
all this mass of reeking vice right under
their noses at home. but cannot tolerate
a different order of marriage. two thou
sand miles away? And what opinion
can thinking people have of the class of
men called reverend, but who seem
Dowerless to quell vice in its worst /
.orms right where they are2 Il
The reverend says: ~ have been ia
niliar with Mormonism for several |
years, and have found myself mistaken
n some Of nay pre-conceiyed ideas.
On some former occasions he spoke
avorably of the Mormons, and in his |
ate articles in the SALT LAKE HERALD,e
efers to his former favorable statements
which. he says, had been to his loss.
But what about the former statements.
We're they true or false2 As the rev I
rend, in the letter referred to In the
BEGINNING. admitted that his last state
nent were not true, let US hope for his
axe that at least his first ones were. /
ven though favOroble to the MormOns.
The reverend continues: divorce is |
ar more demoralizing, here in Utah,
han in the east" To which the
peaker replied: Divorce is a misfor-
une in any country. And the conso-
dLlOIi w uo ID Ltut NC nav AAiOA 1850 |
If it than the eastern people.
Parts of the speech of Senator Brow,
If Georgia, given in Congress, were read.
irving statistics. ETC., and showing that
he opinion of the reverend was not |
ounded on facts.
Mr. Cooley again remarks: "The |
Aormons like to hide this teaching (po.
ygamy1 from the world, outside of |
'Ifab and thew rive STRANGERS Tn under
Itsnd that it is an entirely voluntary |
lite, but no fact is more patent in Utah
han this one, that men and woman. |
gho by nature revolt from polYgamy. |
ire forced into it.
Reply-Hide the teaching. Very
furious charge. that. Others charge
IS with continually teaching it.
Though the Law has made it
crime; and they CLAIM for us that
tut of respect to the lay we should
ease to teach it. And does not the
eyerend know that thirty years ago.
nd right n Washington City, we pub