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surely the man who can take that F o r th e T o rch of R e ,« ,u .
wise, but the offer w as not accepted.
A Bad Lot.
creed and profess to like it, has A Polygamous Congressman,
Representative Carpenter, of Wis­
something the matter with his
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consin, in his famous speech excus­
BY D. PRIESTLEY
BY
CHARLES
CLARK
MILLARD.
brains, or else he is merely preach-
ing or justifying his course in vot­
ing for the back-salary-grab law,
Mr. Moody, while talking to the lin« and does n<’' eJtP « ‘ t0 t* takeu
The
alleged
crime
for
which
the
indirectly admitted that it was
inmates of the Colorado state pris­ seriously.
religious press would have Mr. common for a member to have a
Newberg,
Ore.
on, said:
Roberts, the “tripple alliance” family at Washington, besides the
“We are natnrally bad, the whole
member-elect from Utah, excluded one he left in his district; and the
Mrs. Stanton on Mrs. Place.
crowd of us. The first man born
from a seat in the national house religious editor« did not howl.
of woman was a murderer. Sin
It is asked why women should be of representatives, is not a “malum Then, the enormity of the offense
leaped into the world full grown
and the whole race has been bac exempt from capital punishment. in se”, but only a “malum prohib­ does not cousist in a member of
Because they have no voice in the itum”. It is a crime only when congsess having more than one wo­
ever since ”
laws, no representation in the gov­ and where prohibited by law; man, but in publicly acknowledg­
After Mr. Moody had delivevec ernment. This is a “male oli­
himself of the above glad tidings o garchy.” Men make the laws and therefore if Mr. Roberts has violat­ ing, protecting and caring for their
ed no law, he is guilty of no wives or concubines. Those wrho
great joy, he told the convicts that compel women to abide by them.
crime
assume that they are the good peo­
he held in his hand a pardon for Men decide what deeds are crim­
It appears, from numerous ex­ ple of the United States are willing
one of them, from the governor. inal, drag women into their courts
Of course there was great excite­ to be tried by juries of men, advo­ tracts in the Literary Digest, that that public thieves and robbers
ment as to who it was for. It was cates men, judges men, imprisoned the law of Utah against plural shall sit in the house, with the sa­
for one of the women. When she and watched by men, their heads marriages is not retro-active, and loon keeper, the partner of courte­
received it she buried her face in shaved, dress adjusted, strapped in the law enacted for the same pur­ sans and the frequenter of “dives”,
the nurse’s lap and wept, and the the chair for electrocution by men, pose by congress does not apply to if they admit that what the good
account says that nearly all the in the presence of men, without a any state; and, as the “tripple al­ people profess to believe is correct.
liance’’ was concluded at a time and Practice is nothing; theory is ev­
prisoners shed tears.
word to say as to the law or its ex­ place when and where no statute
erything.
They were rejoiced, not that they ecution.
law existed prohibiting it, the ver­ This man’s conduct is no worse
were free, but that another person
I am opposed to the death pen­ dict in this case must be, “ No crime
than that of other members, past
was free. That was disinterested alty in any form, for men or wo­
benevolence, and showed the utter men,but the fact that woman has no has been committed”. But it is and prospective, but he docs not
falsity of Mr. Moody’s creed. That voice in the laws, no representation claimed that he should be excluded hide it—he believes he is doing
creed evidently does not fit the in the government, makes her as because he is immoral; and the on­ right; away with him!
But, should a polygamist be ad­
Colorado penitentiary. It would helpless as dogs or cats in the ly immorality alleged is the having
be better adapted to some cannibal hands of the vivisectionists, outside three wives. If Col. Ingersoll were mitted to membership in the house?
a member of the house he could, No; certainly not! The house
island.
the realm of justice and mercy.
Compare those ninety and nine What a picture is presented us at and doubtless would, consistently should, immediately after its organ­
convicts shedding t< ars of joy over this time for contemplation. The object to the seating of Mr. Rob­ ization, adopt a rule declaring that
one sinner who was to escape, with great state of New York on one erts on account of immoral conduct; “only men who have heretofore and
a person who expects to escape an side and an ignorant, unbalanced that is, conduct not conducive to do now keep themselves unto one
eternal prison by turning state’s and half crazy woman on the other, the best welfare and the greatest woman, their own lawful wife, or
evidence — a man who began to about to suffer the death penalty happiness of men, women and unto none if they are single men,
commit crime six thousand years for a horrible crime which no sane children. But ministers, religious shall be eligible to a seat in this
editors and church members gener­ body”. Then the gentleman from
before he was born.
person could possibly perpetrate.
ally have solemnly pledged them­ Utah could retire gracefully and in
Mr. Moody says, “The first man
For the protection of society she selves to take the Bible for “their honorable company, the house
born of woman was a murderer/’ must be punished, but let her sen­
That’s it—“born of woman”! It is tence be commuted to lifelong im­ only and sufficient rule of faith and could retain its self-respect and the
so much better to be made of dirt. prisonment. Such criminals as practice”, and the Bible forbids po­ office of representative might here­
But, after all, according to the in­ Mrs. Place, now doomed to death, lygamy,if it forbids it at all,only in after be compelled to seek the man.
spired fable, it was religion that must be deprived of their liberty, certain special cases. If bishops,
At an inquest recently held in
caused the first murder. It was a but capital punishment is a barbar­ deacons, etc., are prohibited from
having
more
than
one
wife,
which
England on the body of a woman
quarrel between Cain and Abel as ism unworthy this stage of our de­
is
doubtful,
other
men
are
not;
and
who died of starvation while her
to which God liked’best, mutton or velopment and a disgrace to the
church
people
are
estopped
by
husband and his housekeeper were
garden truck. They were fire-wor­ Christianity and civilization of the
their
own
act
from
calling
enjoying themselves at the seaside,
shippers. Paul said, “Our god is a nineteenth century. The parapher­
that
immoral
which
their
“only
a “mission lady” who had visited
consuming fire.” Abel’s mutton- nalia of death by electricity is more
rule
of
faith
and
practice”
nowhere
the deceased stated in her testimo­
fat would burn (the god would re­ harrowing in its details than the
condemns.
ny that she was not at all conoern-
ceive it), but the cabbage which gallows, and both are revolting to
“The father of the faithful”, the ed with the condition of any suffer­
Cain brought would not burn.
the moral sense of the community. man “after God’s own heart”, and
er she might visit except in a
Mr. Moody says the whole race There is a sentiment of tenderness
thousands of the best and most “spiritual” wayl This is true
has been bad ever since. A man
and compassion in the soul of every | faithfu, ..B(.rvantg of God.. und(M.
Christian love! What matters it if
who has had father, mother, broth­ man that revolts at the crucifixion
the
special
leadership
of
Jehovah,
the body starve to death so the
ers, sisters, wife, friends and neigh­ of a mother of the race, even in the
bors, who has experienced all the form of the most ignorant and de­ for more than fifteen hurdred years “soul” be “saved”? To feed the
—including prophets, priests and body only defer’s the soul’s eternal
endearments of love and friend­ graded woman.
The time has come for New York, kinK8 ~ ha<1 morB wiveH ,haD haB bliss. Why don’t the Christians
ship, and then can pronounce such
a verdict as that upon those who the great leader in the sisterhood of the member-elect from Utah, and all try to reach heaven a little
have loaded him with blessings a states, to abolish this relic of bar- in not a single instance were they more quickly?—[Secular Thought.
and give the criminals, by reproved for so doing. Has God so
thousand times beyond his merits, barism
useful labor for years, the oppor- changed that what pleased him
furnishes the nearest approxima­ unity to atone in a measure for
In every country and in every
tion to total depravity which it is beir crimes, and benefit society by ; then displeases him now?. “ M hat age the priest has been hostile to
God hath cleansed” Christians liberty; he is always in alliance
possible for an unregenerate sinner heir patient industrv.
By making our prisons what they should not “call common or un- with the despot, abetting his abus­
to imagine. The man who, like
be, schools of reformation, clean”. Mr. Roberts says that es in return for protection to hia
M hittier, tries to take the old creed ■hould
where the
best . elements
in » the hu-
ufu,
. ,
,
j
Christians must learn to V«
be more own.—[Thomas Jefferson.
under protest, sayiug,
man mind can be awakened and de- a ,
- ,
veloped, men and women might “ ’¡«rant of polygamies or give up
But still my human hands are weak
graduate as skilled laborers,scholars the joyous hope of finallyresting
“Christian science” is not posi­
To hold your iron creeds;
Against the word you bid me speak
in the rudiments of learning, with in Abraham’s bosom.”
tive, but entirely negative. It is
My heart within me bleeds” ;
clearer , moral perceptions
and
with
s . .
nrigbam Young once offered to founded on denials of things that
new
hopes
and
ambitions,
a
bless-’
or like Albert Barnes, who ex- ing to themselves the familv and re^orm and from that time restrict exist, and affirmations of condi-
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_ © state.—[Elizabeth
Cady Stan- himself to one woman if all the tions which have no reality.—
soul!” is entitled to sympathy. But (ton.
members of congress would do like-1 [Flaming Sword.
For the Torch of Reason.
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