New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

revelation at period long subsequent to the pub
ieation Of their so-called Bible Again it Is abso-
have resumed polygamy The Christian World rid
Mormons to keep faith with ali men IT was
only after twenty years of desperate struggle that
sTTrender it they did SO public regretfaIy
Statehood there has not been single polygamous
marriage solemnized in Utah. There could not
would not deny it If they had done it, for they
aheF am make promise 20 & y on
after obey the law against polygamy: Now. do
iygamy before Statehood have since then surren-
dered their additional wives When the State was
Utah. OF these 1000 heads Of families have since
men-possbly 200 Yet secTety maintain their former
relations This, in population of 800 goo, with 7e-
married 6n would that fo one & mafd 6ar man IN few @
Christian or Jewish heather communities any
where in the world that would not show up much
monism-that feature Of il which excites the anger
and active hostility of the MethodIts ana Tres
for the Catholics do not worry about it(-is not
missionaries in obtaining converts since polygamy
was eliminated from their system. This is the
l attribute this success to the fact that Mormon
operative Industrial society. 1t is an educational
social and mutual improvement, and business and
fit to its follower, but it promotes his temporal
him how and Where to work It sees that he does
not lack food shelter and clothing 1t furnishes
drama or music better patronized than in Utah,
and every little town of one thousand people has
its opera house" and the local dramatic and mu-
steal entertainments above mediocrity.
You protest against my statement that I re
spect the Mormon faith and ask me if I did not
intend to say that l respect the despite their
faith. No. meant just what I said. respect all
faith that inculcates temperance, truth honesty
and self-sacrifce, as / believe most faiths do. 1t
does not follow that l accept their allegories, or
their misrepresentation, their misconstructions.
Buddhism. though I do not believe that God is a
spiral staircase of whrling atoms. l respect the
temperance and devotion of the followers of Ma
homet, though II is my profound conviction that
your sex have souls ! respect the Jewish faith,
though l am not convinced that Jonah occupied
the interior of the whale that the walls of
Jericho were really blown down by one of Gideons
cornet solos. l respect the faith which fills the
land with hospitals where sad robed women make
life one long duty Of mercy although I do not ap
prove of the GOings of 'Torquemada. accent as
literally true the aegories of the feeding of the
multitude with five oaves and fishes, chang
ing of water to wine. So 1 respect Mormonism
without believing in the golden tablets as / re-
spect the Christian Scientists though | do not be-
lieve that they rid of my rheumatism by
calling it theory, when it is in fact a condition
and a very painful one
All. my friend. believe me; there is no truer
aphorsm than that 'the world is governed too
much For evils which offend our prejudices but
suasion, not sumptuary laws. The statutes of our
stately, fortunes are "scuptured with the chisei
not the axe, and there is commandment more
useful, If observed, and which 1 fear is more fire.
quently violated, than the eleventh commandment
Thou shalt mind thy business