The sun., 1892-03-27

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but the indignation created by the polyg
amous practices then beginning among
the Mormons. drove tho colony westward
and there thcocracy was founded just n.
theocracy had been founded In Massachu
setts two hundred years before. Polygam,
is return to barbarism; but which is the
moro harmful to society, the polygamy
sincerely believed in as a religious institu
tion by the ignorant converts to Mormon
ism or the consecutive polygamy practised
by 30 many OF the intelligent Inhabitants
OF divorceful Massachusetts, Tho Mormon
emigrants arc thrifty. industrious. close
and forehanded like tho Now Englandcrs
In general way. taking into consideration
events and not individuals. and remember
Ing that polygamy as practised by sincere
Mormons. must be considered as religious
tenet. an article OF faith. President ELIOT s
comparison wasn't the least apposito that
could have been made. Tho fatal weakness
was in assuming that it was in illustration
OF religious liberty. Both the Mormons
and the founders OF New England we're ex-
emplars OF religious despotism.
AS for President EL1oT's remarks being
"a direct insult to the Government of tho
United Statcs." it is proper to say that
very grave doubt has existed in minds to
which tho peculiar institution of tho Nor
mons Is as repulsive as IT can be to tho
most Jealous Gentle in Salt Lake City, rs to
the justiliabiity Of the means resortcd to
| for breaking the Mormon power. 1t is pos
siblo TO be on tho Gentle sdo without ap-
| proving all tho measures that have been
taken: and 1t Is also possible to believe that
time and intelligence, and not stretching
OF the authority Of the Government. are tho
one effective way of dealing with Mormon
ism. President ELIOT saw, or thought he
saw. that Utah was a community divided
into hostile camps; and IL he has made tho
Gentilcs moro furious than ever. he has only
had the ordinary luck Of people who touch
upon ticklish subjects. In any case. we
hdvise tho Salt Lake Gentiles to spare him.
Wait until ho gets home. and hears from
tho descendants of tho Pilgrims and
the Puritans. There is certain
chapter in job which will represent his son
timents when he returns to Cambridge,
unless he can demonstrate that his plea in
tho Tabernacle of the Mormons has been
garbied. "What. JOE SMITH ana tho saint
ed ROBINSON? BRIGHAM YOUNG and JOHN
WINTHROP" We already hear the accus-
ing voices. There is an increasing area of
cloudiness in Plymouth county and Suf-
folk county. and the eye Of tho Tutelar
Goldfish is Il ruby. Tho chortling in Salt
Lake is nothing to the chortling that will
be heard in Boston.
And yet DR.. ELIOT had n good Yankee eve
for business. His speech to the Harvard
men of Denver contained this passage:
I've have had accession to Cambridge in the
IN ne of n mi ia
ton and very desirable There ten Mormons
now attending the university and the preparatory
schools in the neishborhood have been invited to
be the guest of the Latter Day Saints during my stay
in Utah. The nationality OF Harvard becomes wider
and wider each year.
1t seems that there are number OF Nor
mon students ut Cambridge, and others at
the Massachusetts Institute OF Technology
in Boston. Our esteemed contemporary,
the Boston Journal. has interviewed some of
them. and they all say that DR.. ELIOT is a
gentleman and II scholar. president
ELIOT came to me- says Harvard Nor |
mon, a former professor in Brigham Young |
College. before his departure for tho West,
and inquired about my people. the schools, |
the great canals. the educational system, |
and other features, and spoke Of his nten-
ton to stop at Salt Lake" The need of |
that visit may be judged from those asser-
tions made bya correspondent of tho SAT-
Lake Tribunc:
president Bor might with rropriety have prefaced
his address at the Tabernacle the other evening with
brief sketch of Harvard College. A representative
Mormon and man high up in the Church. returning
from the gathering at the Tabernacle, IN comment
upon President ELors remarks. asked where Harvard
College lie said he had heard of the school
before. He lamentcd the fact that in the an nounce
ment of tho address made in the Tabernacle on Sunday
it had not been fully explained for he know that
nnetynnc out of hundred Of tho people there and
even AyGrs C.SS0N himself. had never heard OF Iar.
ward or President ELIOT before"
Well. they've heard OF him now. Adver-
tising pays. He can't look for much Gem
tile trade from Salt Lake City at present. but
the Mormons ought to stand by the Puri-
tans. and his success in attracting students
Is well known. The Mormon colony at
Harvard may grow so that the students of
the university will have to be divided into
ientiles and Mormons. just as the students
IF the old University OF Paris used to be
iivdcd into nations. We hope that the
study OF consecutive polygamy will open
lhe eyes of tho Harvard Mormons to the
wills Of Simultaneous polygamy.