Arizona republican., 1890-06-29

entailment of the one-wife law. Owing to which, together with your colossal armies, millions of otherwise pure and lovely women deprived of protection by marriage, through poverty or otherwise, become slaves to the selfishness, lust and brutality of man--pander to all his vices, and are sinking with him to social conditions which rival Sodom of old.
 Again, let us look at Uuah with her 80 per cent of Mormons. Upon the re- maining 20 per contour renemies-rests 90 per cent of the crime, and 10 per cent of the crime upon the 80 per cent of MormOns. Now there is more drunk enness, debauchery and crime in day than was previously known to have been committed in term of years.
 Let us now consider the burlesque perpetrted upon reason by the grave judges of the Supreme Court of the United States in the church robbery case, in which the court affirms that polygamy and absolute ecclesiastical control of its members were the dis tinguishing features of Mormonism, neither of which charges is true. There is no organized Christian community on earth so perfectly guided by their own 
 free from priestly rule, as are the Mor- mons. And not per cent of the Mor- mons have plural wives. When enter ing the church the question is not raised as to belief in polygamy. No one, however, is received as a member who does not practically subscribe to the doctrine of faith in God, repentance, baptism by immersion for remission of sins, laying on of hands, atonement, the resurrection of the dead, Joseph Smith as prophet, divinity of the Book of Mormon, etc. These are and al- ways have been the cardinal doc trines of the Mormon Church and are the features for which we have been so persecuted in the past.
 And then think of the ignorance or party animosity of learned United States Judge, who would so caricature reason as to draw plural marriage on a parallel as equal in crime with murder, while with Bible in hand he reads that marriage was the command of God upon all through which to produce human life, and that murder-to take human life - was the greatest of all human crimes. One the antipode of the other in Gods com mand. Does it look honest in judges and preachers who teach from the Bible to call polygamy adultery, while Moses, who was forty days in the presence of God and received the law that made death the penalty for adultery, was him. self at the same time polygamist? :? Oh how blessed is the Christian Bible when shut, but so vulgar and criminal when read and practically adopted!
 But, Mir. Editor, do not for moment fancy that am seeking to convert you to plural marriage, for it is the last principle we teach from the fact that it is only the morally pure who are worthy of one wife, and so very few that should be trusted with more. And then, as there is now, United States statute making it criminal, we believe, in 'ren- dering to Caesar according to the law" as it is, and waiting with fullest conf- dence for the survival of the Attest" and for evolutions in the near future, through which the now despised prin- ciples of our religion will become the solar centre of life and light to all the organized systems for the government of man upon the earth.
 This is a purpose of the great Jehovah, and his arm will bring it to pass.
 B. F. JOHNSON.
 Tempe, Ariz., June Is, 1890.