Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-28

lnat Molm0nA remember the datm.
gnlthod traveller IN spite ~ his candor
win the utmost kindness. But nut
burton on ono ldo aud ! think | can
defy any one 10 name another book
ABOUT Mormons worthy OF honest re.
tgeot, From that truly awful book
,The History OF the Saints published
by ono Bennett tovcn an anti. Mormon
mas styled him the greatest rascal that
ever came 10 the wcHt) IN 1912 down 10
Ntonhousob M lSjS, ihoro IN not 10 my
knowledge single gentle work before
the public that Nv not utterly unreliable
from It's distortion Of fncls,' tSmnom
0nd saints, page ?ib,)
Mr. Robinson IN editor Of the Court
ana Society Review, published IN Lon.
don, ana Journalist OF the hlgost rank
lie IN not q Mormon" but hns Travelled
among them, lived with and among
them ana investigated thom thoroughly
10 ret NJ The truth the whole truth,
and nothing but the Truth" and I wish
every one could read his book SINNERS
and Salna'
Nov were II moi better for W. 20
take 'ho words NJ those Who are fair
hud honest n purpose uud who know
WHEREOF they Npo0k, than 10 take idle
honrh0y on ihe untrue reports of enc.
mlos-dnd after nll were II not moro
fair 20 form no opinion until we iuNpF.
tl0nlo for Ourselves ana obtain infnr.
nation and knowledge from a source
which we know 10 be reliable
PolygamN2 II ! may bo pardonpd
nknln | WIN quote from ELLA Wheeler
WILCOX, from an article published IN
the Chicago American, IN May 1908
~ am ashamed IA confess that until
recently | had supposed Moumouem
ana polyghmy To be Synonymous terms
Few ol me present generation
know the remarkable ana tragic history
OF the people 'Nho nrsl settled salt Lnko
CITY They Uho Mom0nD are essen.
TALLY n peaceful and Industrious people,
Their Wlforings have been manifold,
ana their Industrial achievements I'm tho
desert of the west marvellous Their
young men ana young women lead
beautiful ana wholeyomo ives BEFORE
we east any more stones W their nn'
cpslora, let us weed from the ranks
OF our own churches aud our own
fashionable society all the unWplcomp
and fatherlesa children all the desert.
cd ana betrayed girls ana stand them
IN q row and practise upon them ms
targets, IN order that We may have u
gurcr aim when we stone the polyg'
Lmista again"
Now, whll, polygOmy does not appeal
20 mo--as u woman ~ith very strong
ideas Of what ! do and do not Ike, yet
| must say this IN justice TO those 60
whom II docs appeal ] have lived
among them ana know them intimately
both Nv polygan,lsts and monogamlsts,
ana | have never seen the husband
ana father of ono wife and ono child
IA. la
have | known the husband and father
Of three wives aud 20 children 10 be
10 his large family, | am personally
acquainted with polyRamIst fathers and
mothors--sons and daughters ANA |
ran frankly gny they are some of the
giandest people have ever met,
I AN GOING no DRAW TWO PIC.
TuRlsS
without Hftcr comment llhro IL u
man, right IN our own midst a ro.
spcctcd citizen lie maniCa one Wifo
ana gives her his name perhaps gives
nm honorod name land birth 10 one
child, his several "olhcr wives he
mother marrcs nor honors, nor are
their children given honorod names
and birth and moro often nro given
no birth at ull This IN a truth we
cannot deny or gel around
ON the other hand, hero IN a man.
II polygamlst, II YOU please he mare
rles three women, he gives them nll
honorcd names ana an honolod homo
and an honorod birth and name to
twenty children, ANA ho cares fol them
all, New which are We COINS to cust
our stones nt2
In short this is my summary "
tho matter Does poygnmy MI, mo
or appeal to mo pON0nnllN' No, Thrn
IN lot II alone, DOCS II hurt mo or
any one clfo2 No, Then III mind
my own hnsineW and Jet those alone
who do enjoy II aud believe I'M II, hut
whether we ike on do not like or sym.
pnthigo with polygnmN II remains a
fact that this very Sumo polygamy has
given 20 the world some Of the finest
young mon ana women one can wish
10 meet, They are grand ana noble
people and the world VIII DO botlor
FOR their liYce
SOME ONp HAS SAID
through the press rtccMtly ana that
for soansntlon and pold that polygnmS
IL being lived and taught constantly ~
the pulpit, This IN absolutely fnlno, II
w u thing ~ the past Ana " ono
Wishes to take the trouble 60 prove H.
II win bear investigation, only those
who had their plural families before
tho manifesto continue their relations
and caro- for them ms they ala before,
and any fair minded person VIII say
that this Is but right
But, dropping the subject OF poly
gamy, the mormon people ore set
ting an example for HE world, They
arc an Industrious ana progressive
people, They are thinking people,
They are n neoplc who love and praes
tlso the "Ooldon Rulo' They are u
moral people, They have lived through
ana surmounlod some OF the most lrag-
10 diniculos They have been driven
from their homes In tho past, and per.
secuted by our civilized people IN this,
our free America, where we boast of
tho right OF every one 10 worship God
according 10 our own conscience Yet
thoy have forgiven ana probably muoh
more freely than We would have done,
And jnal ms surely ~ the sun rlAeH
and sets 20 surely VIII the world como
IN time to recognize what the Mormon"
people are ana then II VIII wonder why
II slept 80 Ions,
THERE NJ 80 MUCH THAT |
COULD SAY,
that | mlnht not know whore 10 stop,
nut have said nothing from moro
haaps.u.-hul nplV that tIhiph 1 kupW