Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-22
"MOR MONIsM" TO GO,

Tho Christian Herald, publishes u lot
Of Misrepresentation concerning MOE
monlsm" ana tho "Mormona' after the
common style now In vogue ana editor
tally comments upon II under tho
heading OF "Mormonen Must CO. TINS
contains the usual and hockheyod
phrases. "foul blot upon our national
oIyIllgal ton" "mmonl influence "de-
fyng the laws Of God and man." DOM
mating the nation" "lho eyil brood OF
Joseph Smith" ats hIdcous naked
ness" "ngh,Ing for the honor Of ~o'
manhood" Immoral political hlor'
arohy," etc, etc.
The Christian Herald desires that tho
whole nation shall be aroused, II nd'
vecs chiefly 20 campaign Of women
but OF course requires brothers ana
husbands 20 furnish "tho slnews OF
war" 30 that there may be formed
ana enrolled ian lnnumorablo army OF
women from every town. village and
hamlet Throughout, the Union" the
Christian Herald promises to be ~ the
Held where the nghtlng IL tho lhlck'
est" and the battle cry ia to he 'Mor'
monlem Must Co.
Now what II the meaning OF all thltY
The good women who have been work.
cd up into furoro by such agencies
as the Christian Herald and other blas'
cd Journals, could not, for the HE OF
them give u fair explanation Of what
"Mormonlsm' Is. they know nothing
! about 1, except that which they nave
cleaned from the distortions Of ils tcn'
ots which make up the usual anti
Mormon" lecture, sermon or nowspa"
per article. The only idea IN relation
10 A. that improssoe their minds Ia that
II means q plurality OF wives, and tho
object that IL held out for their at
talnmenl, by those preachers ana pa
pers, ls a constitutional amendment for-
bidding that practice
TO begin with, there Is far less Of II
IN Utah than elsewhere In this great
American Union, There are few fam
lilies, compared with the populntlon
which remain In the status established
many years ago, but few cases Of un.
lawful marriage, " any there be, have
been contracted during the last httoon
years. II every case that has been al
legged, proofs OF which have not been
forthcoming, but only suspicion, seam
dal, unsupported reports and doubtful
oroumst0ntial cvldenco)could be cstab.
lIshcd as facts they would form much
smaller iist OF Illegal unions than could
DO tuthmlly made In large number
Of the eastern states
The fact N, these papers and tho wo'
men whom they are cndcaVorlng TO
arouse and the men who are to furnish
the funds for the warfare, have really
nothing To fight That which they
imagine TO oXl6t IN Utah ~ simply In
the brains and mouths Of oNtatore,
What the Christian Herald means by
"tho thicNost Of the 0ght," II rather
dinoult TO understand The so-oollod
"nghtn w all on one side Tho NOR
mon" people are not engaged In any
effort 10 oppose the amendment, which
those people seem to think such u great
doeIdorNtum, II lts promoters would
have II 40 wordod that II should apply
TO all the evils which AFFECT the family
and the home, and which are permoat'
INK society In The great ccntow of
civilization, 40 NV to strike at all sexual
crimes, the people Of Uinh would not
even offer AN objection, ana many Of
them would Join In the ondeayor TO
purify the nation, ana cleanse II from
the corruptlons that pnuw at the very
y,nls OF It's social Me, Hut that "
not what those persons want who
shout, "MormonBm must go'
We do not suppose that anything we
Nigh, say would influence people who
are reused into fury over nm imagine
AIRY evil, which hap leon magnllled into
monslrous proportions untll the fur'
ore has subsIdcd ana people arc willing
60 listen TO reason, II IL perhaps use'
less TO nttcmpl to SHOW them their folly
There are 80 many individuals and NO.
oletles That would rather spend money
IN sondIng missionaries and bibles nm |
tracts 10 houlhens IN distant parts ~
the globe than 10 root out wrong and
crime ana vice ana poverty ana dcgla'
dalton right under their own eyes, that
n Ia labor IN vain to attempt to bring
them TO sense OF consistency ana re-
ality
Things close AT home have become 80
familiar that they excite no wonder
and arouse no EFFORT from their betlcr'
mont, Tribes In Eastern India or durk'
est AfrIcn are greater objects of atten-
,lon Than the street arabs and tenement
habmos IN Christian cities, ana condl'
tlons In UtOh the purosi, brightest ana
most promising state IN the Union
worry large number Of very good
poopc many hundreds Of miles away
when ihoro ARE hclda for their
labor IN social moral ana odu'
ontIonnl ways, which would be no waste
OF time OF money and they would have
lunl "nght' ON their hands II war
fare they want, instead Of tllllng
against wlndmille and saving the nlr'
Aa A., uAinp,nn,laua ~ a Nulll NAT Nun ~