Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-29

OF releasing the sons of God from the inn
prisonment OF spirithood. This theory
in its fruitage is the reigning vice OF the
entire system. 1t magni1es animalism
by means OF the most sacred instincts OF /
woman's nature. Heaven itselfis viewed !
as the place for the limitless qualification |
Of the passions without the limitations Of !
the flesh.
In 1875 I heard 0rson Pratt, their great
historic pulpit orator, say, in sermon
delivered 10 thousands 81 people, that
Gentiles who had lived yirtuOus, upright, |
truthful lives, obedient to all the light
they had received, would be admitted TO
heaven, but they could only be bachelor
angels serving the saintsD The vice Is
not in pelygamy alone, but In Mormon
ISM Eradicate polygsmy and leave Nor
monism and you have the system with the
disease "struck in.v The condition
would be much like that Of ths child with
the scarlet fever who should be ''cured"
| by sudden cold or other experience
that drove the flush from the skin into
the blood The only remedy will be one
that purides the life blood Of the people
until they scale off polygamy as dead
and unweicome attachment.
THE POWER or LAW
What remedy is there for these evllsS
Law has It's mission. without IL there Is
little II any hope of the efficient action OF
other remedies. Law in the statutes
specifies the crimes, places a national estia
mate upon their wrong-doing, advertlses
their vices to the world, arraigns them as
criminals, places them ON the augmente-
tive, defensive side, robs them of respect
and enervates their courage. Law exc
cuted keeps them ON the threshold of the
penitentiary, II they escape incarceration;
ceptralizes their best forces in legal ac-
tlvity; gives all their missionaries the
faint Of fugitiyes from justice; crystal
ICES their tendency TO ialsehood until
1t reveals the manysided vices OF
falsehood religiously emphasized; re-
{ veals the trickery, chicanery and art
fulness Of the saints by the frequent
I crucial test Of the witness stand; and
gives them abundant newspaper adyer-
Using the world over of kind they least
desire, since the Associated Press by
force of habit tclegraphs legal action
where it fails to notice other and more
significant movements.
Law cannot directly purify the system
of the "blood poison;n they must have
different mental diet, must breathe ;
changed moral atmosphere, must have
, new Inspirations before we can hope fol
the ultimate restoration of the life o
D Utah to honesty, loyalty and purity.
= WHAT EDUCATION CAN DO.
: Local public school education labor
: under e disadvantage of being super
g vised and taught by the priest-trainet
II Mormons, of being unable TO furnisl
y enough qualified teachers, of maintain
: ing all vicious local prejudices, of inten
- styling false theories by making them in
= tellectually attractive.
n Governmental education, with the cor
;. troll and supervision vested in agents pc
IS litically appointed, has SO many viciou
e and unattractive phases apparent that "
u need only to say that it is as little feas
Us Die as probable.
,e The philanthropic focus for the II
Is moval of Mormonism must be schot
IN movement that shall be free to all, wit
ID instruction as good as pedagogical scienC
II to-day can furnish, with loyalty Tor Ii
re bible that can be trusted not to boun
cl into fanatlcism, with faith the tarthest r.
10 moved from superstitions, with the spir
,e of reform at the highest key that can /
~ relied upon to escape fsnaticism, wit
D. practical ethics supreme over theolog
ry Any movement for the reform of Mo
lei monism must run careful line, lest |
lack of mental balance ii do more har
than good. Without sympathy little GOO
X can be done; with too much zeal muI
all harm may be done. Without the bib
he little good will be done with people wi
lat idolize its name; without sublime sen
we in it's use much harm may follow.
in THE NEW WEST EDUCATION CoNIMIssIo
ter The New West education commissio
Die organized by patriotic, philanthropy
en- Christian men of Chicago in 1879, has
sal come society with national backing, al
to of its work I speak because | studied
on schools more particularly in recent vi,
cal to Utah. | saw, personally, thirty-thr
lch Of the teachers at their work and five OF
to ers out of their schools. | have nev
ms seen better teaching, discipline OF ma
cas- agement in any Eastern school than 50
oy. in these schools. Such is the quality
ln- the teaching that Mormons, high in a
ia thority even, send their children or gran
lde children to these schools, while comics
an, ing their fear of the religious influenl
the on the ground that there is no other W
nal to secure equally good education. Sol
"a children 90 long distances, some to boa
'er- in the vicinity, and other families reno
, OF their residences to be near these cor
ted try schools that are so admiral
re taught Although the schools 4
of free, many Mormons pay tuiti
est. as a matter of justice en- their part. 7
led salaries ATE larger than for any SINH
oes mission work OF which / have knowleds
ILL., on the ground that the indispensai
the requisite is an absolute lrstclass scho
ter with rs good q teacher as the East C
afford. There are sacrifices in abundar
I'M even where there is comfortable lin,
eo- clal support
My Property for school purposes has f
but quently been secured by great Difficult
OF Teachers have met with every conce
able peaceful opposition, have been
!. noyed by scandalous public abuse by
and bishops, have been ostraczed, Sigh,
de- and otherwise annoyed There has he
the but one instance, however, in which tn,
pie, has been anything approximating Il
VIII ure TO succeed in securing numbers a
lich winning popular favor Sunday servit
SO are held with surprising success, th,
IAN, ladies having the nerve and ability to c,
ION duct services such as would satisfy
IN Eastern audience. Singing schoo
ave literary societies, sociablcs, readi,
rae rooms, sewing schools, or something
lese the kind, is always at the front as a \
act, led attraction.