The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-16
The New York Resolution
, fallen women" obtain thesup-

those fallen women" obtain thesup-
port?
Yet we hear no outcry from the sla-
tors OF the land. nor OF the rdous
cerning utahs morality. againithe
state OF affairs partly exhibited 1.-The
figures we have quoted. nor OF anon
certed effort on the part OF those HES
and gentlemen to purify their own Ens
and cities and ncighborhoods OF en-
body In any National legislation orHe-
mcnt. endeavorS TO prohibit and ish
those crimes, or 10 redeem the INNS
of scnsuality and lust who swarm inery
populous Christian" city.
We shall probably be met 1itthc
old. fussy sophism that the existe1of
those social evils affords no reasonhy
some other lrregularity should not de-
stroyed Also, by the untruth that wrc
apologizing for one wrong by pointilto
a greater wrong and making kindrehc
practice of polygamy with the soclalr-
ruptions OF the age. These are the al
cyasions resortcd to by those who bk
at the common social corruptions ohe
world, and use magnifyinG Slassdo
search out and gaze at something VII
they detest but Is essentially dlfrat
to the fouiness that they tolerate.
We do not class Mormon" polyy
with the denominations that hodh
throughout Christendom There is n
ing In common between them. VT
there IL left of the former Is insiG-
cant when contraSted with the lnCTr
ing proportions of the latter. NeithS
OF the same origin as the other,
are its effects In any way similar, J
need for the restraint or suppression
the greater Is overwhelming. while }
other Is rapidly passing away, and
uuires no further effort for its ultim
extinction. Therefore II is the hel
! OF absurdity for the Legislature oi
State where social Generalization rel
TO heaven, TO engage In a violent eff
to purify small community IN
something that Is infnitesimal in cd
parison with Its own gigantic wrongs.
1t may be asked II what you s
about the decadence of plural maria
| about constitutional amendment
| Its prohibition and punishment 7
| answer Is. we are not II IL only
non-necesslty. absurdity and hypocr
of the movement to procure 1t that
have anything 10 protest against. 1t
| like loading a howitzer to fro at gn
| 1t Is an effort to magnify In the G,
of the Nation something that has nen
disappeared. 1t Is started in n simi
! spirit TO that which prompts the send
Of hannels and footwear To the Hott
tots, while ignoring the shIverlng o
casts and starving children In the cit
nj home. 1t Is a stigma upon q ST
of the Union which deserves no such
probium Tainted New York says
cleanly young Utah. Il am holier ii
| thou.
| The people who are engnged In clam
| ing for such an amendment to the c,
stitutlon are crying out against IN i'm:
mary evil, and Ignoring their own act
! condition. II they are absolutely sine
In the pretended moral crusade Il
would cmbody in their resolutions a p
| vision which would strike mt the root
oil sexual crime and would proh
| md punish every violation of chast
| and virtue. and thus make IL clear sw
rection of evils existing in the Nation.
lection OF the home and the maintcna
of a high moral standard,
We have nothing to say again tho .
| gage of such measures as Congress n
deem proper to enact, in the interests
public and Individual purity and the c
rection OF evils existing In the Nation
we would have more confidence in the !
tlves of the promoters Of nroposcd lc,
Iation OF that character II they wo
mike them so comprehensive as to lead
real social publication.