MR. FOX ON MORMON MORALITY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 27, 1 November 1873, Page 9

MR. FOX ON MORMON MORALITY.

MoBKONiSM, remarks a Northern paper, has been preached in the House this session. We find Mr Fox, in 'Hansard,' approvingly quoting from Dr Lees the following words — " Even in distant Utah, as 1 saw, the poor ignorant Mormons, once the pariahs of Britain, born to conditions worse thaa their masters' horses, had, by means of tbe safeguard of prohibition, founded » coluny and a city, conquered the obstacles of nature, made the wilderness blossom like the rose, and created a state of society which, for wealth, comfort, and morality, the absence of lunacy and pauperism, corruption and crime, shames the proudest capitals and cathedral cities of so-called Christendom, demonstrating that a true principle and law will effect more to further the genuine civilization of mankind, that all the moral and material appliances of Church and State vhen underlaid by the sensualieing machinery of the liquor traffic." This is the first time any public man in any part of the Bitish dominions has held up for imitation Mormon morality.