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PAGE TWO. ' l: . s -t 1 - THE MOKNIKG ASTORIA N, Established 1873. RATES. Jy mail, per. year ..$6 00 By mail, per month ' 50 By carriers, per month CO THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAN. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. A MORMON DEFENSE. The revelations in the Smoot investivation have put the Mormon hierarchy on the defensive. Inside the church there was developed a spirit of revolt en the part of the young men and women that was alarming to the leaders, says the Call. This re volt was in the form of opposition to the polyga mous teachings of the church and the polygamous practice of President Smith and some of the apos tles The defense runs, therefore, to an appeal to these uneasy members of the church, which is indi rectly a defense of polygamy, by declaring that the opposition to it in the gentile world is produced by immoral practices among Gentiles. If the church can demonstrate to its faithful members that polygamy is moral because those who oppose it are guilty of immoral practices, it may check the spirit of schism in its own ranks. The fact that the defense is of this character is evidence of the strait in which the leaders find themselves. When President Smith returned from ' Washington and was met by his five wives and thirty-two of his forty-two children, there was a public acknowledgement following the admissions in his testimony that he is the head of a harem. While the enthusiasm of his fellow rulers of the " Mormon world was unabated and they hailed him as a religious hero, a considerable part of the mem bership did not share in these ascriptions to the leader. These look upon polygamy as an unnatural condition and their association with the growing Gentile Dotmlation makes them ashamed of it. ' It becomes necessary then to impress them that the Gentile society with which they associate is un worthy of their respect and that they should not permit their conduct to be influenced by their opin " ions. If this plan succeed they are driven back into the church and all that it teaches, and to a firm support of the leaders and all that they prac tice. The Deseret News, the church organ, has under taken this work and carries it on by what we be lieve to be a thorough misrepresentation of Gentile sentiment. In its discussion the News says: " 'Re fined society was much more shocked at the num ber of President Smith's children than even over the fact that he acknowledged the wives whom he wedded previous to the issuance of the 'manifes to.' So with the course of other 'Mormons' in the same status. The objectionable thing is that child ren are born to these plural wives. Punishment for this incivase is the demand of modem moralists of the school of suppression.' " This is not true. If the mothers of President Smith's children have an equal number of child ren it would be but little over eight to each. Fam ilies of eight children in the Gentile world are com mon. They are no curiosity, nor is their presence in "refined society," or out of it, a cause of crit icism or offense. The President of the United States has a family of six children, and if this Mormon defense is true society should be shocked at it, but it is not. The numerous children of Sen ator Hale of Maine and the large families of other senators and representatives, in some cases number ing more than the children of President Smith's individual wives', shock no one and cause no other feeling of admiration that such men find their offi eial duties consistent with the proper care of many ehildren. Indeed, among the gentiles, husbands and -wives who have no children are much more the ob jects of pity than those who have are the objects of aversion. The objection to President Smith is not that he has forty-two children, but runs to the number of his wives. The results of such a system of plural marriage are well known in Utah. The nurture and admonition which a father owes to his children can not be given by him to such groups of families, During his testimony he was obliged to ask for time to refer to memorandum in answer to either how many children a particular wife had, or the date cf their birth. It is certain that these children are ; without the joint care which those receive who are reared in a home daily and continually ruled by the presence of the father and mother. - President Smith's five wives live in five separate THE MORNING ASTORIAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 19tH. frof.j;b7rocI houses. On his return from Washington, after his general reception, he paid visits of courtesy to each of these five homes of his forty-two children. It the Deseret News thinks that "refined" or any other form of society has no objection to that spectac it is mistaken. If the young Mormons will choost1 to think he will learn that that which in the Gen tile world is regarded' as vice is taught by tin church 'to be heaven inspired virtue. Non-Mormon society is by no means free of offenses and vices, but its conscience stamps them as such. The Mor mon conscience, on the other hand, is tansrht. t re gard those very offenses as moral and elevating when they are enjoined by "revelation" jmd prac ticed by the hierarchy. DISCOURAGED POETS. Mr. William Watson, who is a poet, and Mr. Al fred Austin, who is only a poet laureate quite aft other profession are both despondent over the lit erary outlook in England, says the P.-I. Mr. Aus tin's protest against "the growing dislike for the higher kinds of poetry," has already been the sub ject of many a jest from the paragraph makers, for, whatever may be Mr. Austin's own opinions, the consensus of the competent has decided that the gift for producing "the higher kinds of poetry" is not his. William Watson is entitled to be heard with all seriousness, for he is a true poet, who falls not far short of greatness. He accuses all save the elect few among English readers of indifference to the great traditions of English literature and of igno- ranee of its glories. Of Shakespeare they know something, of Milton they have heard, but beyond this they hardly go. Mr. Austin avers that men and women of Wadsworth's and Coleridge's generation siezed upon new poems with avidity, cherished them learned them by heart, quoted them, but that their descendants have totally different tastes. It is per haps true that cultivated tastes are no longer so much taken for granted as the accomplishments of money and a" certain amount of social influence as they were two generations ago, but it is also quite likely that we over-estimate the extent of the cul tivation of the first half of the ninteenth century. The truth is that it is the clever people, the cultivat ed people among our ancestors who chiefly survive and come down to us in anecdote and Btory. The "comfortably-fixed" or the poor and uncultivated are not the ones whom their descentants remember or talk or write about. Three distinguished great great grand parents are a large portion to adorn anybody's family tree; but for the three of dis tinction there are always thirteen others of more or ess mediocrity. We should be thankful if we know them as fairly honest, God-fearing folk. It is some thing even, if they escaped hanging. However it may be in England, in America ieo- ple still discuss poems and learn them by heart. It is true Mr. Austin's are not treated in this fashion, but Mr. Watson has not entirely escaped such marks of affection, nor has Mr. Steven Phillips, while Kipling at one period was loaded with them. It is always the few who do these things, however. It always has been, it always will be the few. Mr. Watson admits that there are English readers. 'true lovers of books," who still prefer "a style that has breeding and pedigree," and he knows himself to be approved by them. In addition, how ever, he admits that he would like "the direct, vivid stimulating sensation of fame." The gentleman asks too much. Caviare will never have the vogue of wienerwursts, and it would be strange if Bach were preferred to Sousa. Exqui site work, like virtue, is its own only reward. To be discouraged over literary conditions that are in herent in the makeup of things is a sheer waste of time, and the time of a true poet should be too precious to be wasted. 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