The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-12
WHAT THE CARDINAL SAID.

PstSoHdiIN Oh luesudN lasI pN rssl
dent Taft. ex-President Roosevelt. Sen
ator Root, and others in connection
with the celebration Of his jubilee as a
priest, and the twenty. anniversary
Roman Catholic church, combine to
make his utterances on live topics OF
the day of immediate interest and i'm.
portance. The Detroit Tribune of June
4th has an article in the nature OF
an interview with the Cardinal, in
which he treated on various public
questions. The Deseret News of this
city takes up his reply to the ques.
tions proposed in its usual nagging
and vicious style, undertaking to ere
fute' what the Cardinal says. 1t
states that Cardinal Gibbons "has
recently had himself interviewed, -
with the result as given. which was a
mean fling at the Cardinal, for he is
man that does not need to get him.
self interviewed. nor to come before
the public under any sort of false pre-
lenses. Cardinal Gibbons is man
from whom interviews are sought, not
one who invites interviews, or who
plans to give them. His opinions on
various questions of the day arc eager.
ly asked for, but too seldom had
because of the stress of his work and
the impossibility of his yielding TO the
solicitations of all who may wish to
hear from him. This, Of course, is per.
fectly we'll known to the editor Of the
News. so that his fling about the Car.
dinal getting himself interviewed is a
gratuitous insult.
The Cardinal is quoted in general,
and especially on Mormonism, as fol.
lows:
The five greatest evils confronting
America today, the Cardinal declares, are
the following.
"Mormonism and divorce. which strike
al the root OF the family and society.
An imperfect and vicious system OF
education, which undermines the religion
of our youth.
bath. which tends TO obliterate in our
adult population the salutary fear OF
God and the homage that we owe Him.
The gross and systematic election
frauds
Lastly, the unreasonable delay in car
rying into efect the sentences OF our
criminal courts. and the numerous subter-
fuges by which criminals evade the exc
cution OF the laws
I'm what way are these evils menacine
the American civilization" the Cardinal
was asked.
ITO one OF the five radical vices have
lust enumerated may be traced our in
satia Bile greed for gain: the co-eXistence
Of colossal wealth with abject poverty.
the extravaganza OF the rich, the discon-
tent of the poor, our eager and impetuous
rushing through life. and every other
moral and social delinquency" That was
the Cardinals answer.
There is not man who has the well
fare OF his country al heart" he con
tnued. but must he alarmed at The ex-
lstence and gradual development Of Nor
which is plague spot on our
nent, a degradation of the female sex
aud standing menace TO The sanctity
Of the marriage bond, The feeble and
spasplodIc attempts that have been made
lual immunity that ii enjoys have rem
lered its apostles bold and defiant For
nerly they were content with enlisting
recruits from England. Wales. Sweden.
and other parts of Scandinavia, hut now.
embol6ened by tolera ton they send their
smissares throughout the country and
obtain disciples from all the States of
The Gospel forbids man to have
more than one wife and wife TO have
more than one husband. Have YOU not
made man In the beginning made them
male and female And He said. For this
cause shall man leave father and mother
and shall cleave unto his wife. and they
recalls marriage to its primitive lnsti-
tuition as IL was ordained by Almighty
God Now. marriage. in lis primitive
ordinance, was the union of one man with
fTr lob Il
ielpmate 10 Adam. He would have Gre
ated more II His design had been to es-
tablish polygamy. The Scripture says
that man shall adhere 10 his wife. not
his. wives. II does not declare that there
shall he three or more. but that they
shall be two in one flesh
Hence Mormonism: unhappily preva-
with the plain teachings OF the Gospel
and is consequently condemned by the
Catholic church. Polygamy. wherever 1t
source Of family discord and feuds II
fosters deadly jealousy and hate among
The wives Of the same household. il de-
ranges the laws OF succession and primo
chiiren. each endeavoring 10 supplant
the other In the affections and inheritance
IF their common father
The church organ objects to the
Cardinal identifying Mormonism with
and yet The long record of
the Mormon church with respect to
is the Cardinal s complete
justification in this, and the fact that
The polygamy revelation is still carried
among the official rules and laws Of
the church, together with the further
fact that belief in the doctrine of
is still proclaimed, rein
forces that justification. And in An
article printed by the church organ on
Saturday evening from an English
writer, and reproduced or this page,
the whole stress goes to the point that
Mormonism is polygamy. The pith of
The church organ g reply is in these
words: "Cardinal Gibbons should in
form himself on the question and learn
that Mormonism is not SYNONYMOUS
with polygamy, but that the church
existed before that doctrine was
taught. and that it exists now after
the termination of the practice.' This
statement is rare piece Of deceit and