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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y It would probably rreseut Condition and Attitude of Moriuonfstu and despair. cost less to abolish this evil by eduLent. Gunnison, so far back as cation than to move Congress to Of all the children act in the premises. 1352, wrote, Many men, that have come under our observa- familiar with affairs in Utah, look to tion, we must in candor say, that see the present weak, trifling carried those of the Mormons are the most on till it finally ends in bloodshed. Careful men, Letter in the Advance. lawless and profane. who have been intimately acquaintOn the 6 of June 1874 the House of ed with the leaders of the Latter Day Saints and the history of the Representatives adopted a bill in these 59 ' Realities of Mormonism. I will never leave the house she declared to Philip. alive, Lord Macauley closed and put You cannot hold possession after with the the place is sold, Philip answered. aside Uncle Toms Cabin A disagreeable book! The man who has bought it and comment: Doubtless. And the reality was paid for it has a right to his propmore Men, wom. disagreeable. yet erty. and en children bought, sold, I did not expect you to turn Human lashed starved. against me, Blanche said bitterly. chained,condemned to a fate worse My poor girl! You know your aeings the field. brothers would still be your friends han that of the beasts of how could a if all the world should turn against With such a subject Mormon Church declare that morals zvords: Picture painted from life abound in And no such person who is guilty of among them are in as much lower bigamy or polygamy shall be eligible to you. 1 am only telling you the and cheerful tints? state than in early times. The an- a scat as such delegate . Is not George facts. The court on which you rely aright So in the present case. A system nouncement of the doctrine of pol- Q. Cannon hereby declared ineligible? for help will send officers to eject more barbarous than anything outdo not if the from block a was you premises you great stumbling ygamy side those dark corners of the to the earlier Mormons, and thou- llow Hie United States Courts iu Utah can give up possession. the habitations But Blanche would not be con- earth that are full of Hundsands of them apostatized. he used to Farther Mormon Villainy. of cruelty, holds multitudes of reds of families in Northern Illinois vinced, and in spite ofjier brothers human beings in absolute thrall. On Two days afterward Philip learned efforts to persuade her to leave, reand Southern Wisconsin, among the die one hand this system rears the best families in those States be- that the second marriage had .taken mained in the house until the puraltar of blood atonement, and its of a chaser writ had but Morbride been not the to revolt that ejectment, procured place, longed against high priest stands by and says: Blanche, who in and she was removed by force. monism. brought home. When a man transgresses his In other days the prophet would Brigham Young was both profane this emergency developed a spirit breaks his oath of unand obscure; Ileber Kimball was "which had been latent during the have called upon the Danites to en- covenants, obedience, his blood questioning a declares which barrithat law had force of the her low and the life, language happier years beyond vulgar must be poured out on this altar. of the slums, even in his public ad- caded every door and window, and woman who refuses to give other On the other hand rises the altar dresses. Mormon women have of- announced her determination to hold wives to her husband shall be desof celestial marriage, upon which ten risen and left the Tabernacle, possession of the place at all haz- troyed, but now he found it wiser to thousands of women are immolated United the officers of obmake the ards. his and outraged by disgusted and tens of thousands of children, the in instruments Government of States the women more few a intimateIf who have Men been scenity. born to an inheritance of sorrow which turned The will. of his writ such would take a this from the with Territory system ly acquainted and shame, swelling the sacrifice. A its early days, assent confidently, course, polygamy would be broken the disobedient wife into the street law which the people dare not set Fran- was issued by' a federal judge, and that the morals of the people, par- up in less than three years, aside reads: marshall. United States how served a Wait a see little and cis said. are the by rising generation, ticularly , It is the duty of a woman to give far below the standard of the early the thing ends, his brother advised. When, a few weeks later, Blanche other wives to her husband, even as same the a for be six months so You mav not divorce, church. sure, applied Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham. But her decreed and is it course the her from that to much has for answer now, granted judge Polygamy if she refuse, then it Shall be lawful the munificent sum of six dollars per Lack of best one. in producing this result. for the husband to take other wives For two weeks Blanche was the month as alimonj, and in less than a education and home training explains without her consent, and she shall be alto released husband was she house had of the the sole much of this condition. Brigham year occupant destroyed for her disobedience. of time the end that said that not a dollar of his money fortified. At gether from the payment of alimony And standing face to face should go to educate another mans she fell sick, and the doors were to the wife who had dared to rebel with theyet, and cruelties of wrongs howNo to who nursed admit blame, to word. his true Jessie, child. lie was against polygamy. opened this system, compelled to witness 'its and would have ever, could be attached to the judge The money of the people has gone, her tenderly, gladly crimes, beholding its victims, the anfor the in as this husband, matter, not to put up and equip schools, but offered her such sympathy artist is commanded to paint a picthad suit for in the manifested her own Blanche divorce, is no There to build temples. ticipating sysure in which light and shade shall his of out in all his mortal of dark hands, that hour tem of free schools in the Territory, property pain, put blend harmoniously. The skies of to came cause could the when she and never trial, which are settlements the forget. past favorably yet Utah are soft as those of Italy ; but situated for them. Water is scarce But the nature once so sweet and any number of Mormon witnesses beneath them the blackest crimes in Utah. People fbek where they tender was embittered and hard- were found ready to testify that he The air is exhilarunpunished. go in services for and no and received salary The result is that the ened by misery despair, but it is tainted with sisMercantile Institu ating as wine, the settlements are compact, and chil- Blanche turned a deaf ear to her The valleys treason and murder. a debt. out words. was She did s not but less with ter far working dren can be educated tion, pitying in summer with ten thouare bright Tour JIts La hud amt From Jessie as by J ltd done, expense than though the settlements pray for death sand blossoms, and rich in autumn wish to live only Paddock , (This booh will be given to but she seemed to were sparse. with golden grain and ripened fruit, new se'e vs one as she five Mormonism is of that sending The plague spot punishment any might but their sod is red with innocent husher visited deserved I upon polygamy. From what have writ they blood. The mountains are stone who had ten above, a stranger might think band and the girl supplanthouses of treasures, such as Alladin his under admits Cannon her. to ed fall. is destined Q. soon It evil this George never dreamed of, but their hidden is he a that own reach polygamous them The lawcannot men signature is not so. All the prominent yet, and again breaker. Can Congress admit him recesses have echoed again law I live shall to hut of the Churcharepolygamists. Per- she said Jessie, bill passed June 16 withthecries of those whom the Danthat the of in face I shall sonally, many of them are agreeable to see the day when it will. See the next number of the ites have hunted to death. Farm 1874. branin both them to see live of prison, ability too. men, and men and Fireside. Great numbers of thechildren are ded as felons. You do not wish to see your born in polygamous relations. Will We have had a large number of All laze abiding citizens zvho desire to Jessie ventured there? husband Those mothers? these deny their responses to our offer of sending the sec George (J. Cannon, an alien and to who think so do not know human say. Standard three months for fifteen polygamist removed from Congress face 1 The have no husband. nature. Polygamy is the strongest cents to new subscribers, but still should circulate freely the December bond that keeps theMormon church of the wronged wife grew livid, and not so many as we desire to have. number of the Standard. 1 Let a mans moth- her hands worked convulsively. There is scarcely one of our friends together Mother has Recovered. as some as er be a plural wife ; lot his best cannot go on loving who could not send us several names friends be compromised by that sys- women do. My love lnd received without any effort whatever, as no Wrote an Illinois girl to her EasPhilthat blow that death bo night strength- its tem; let these bonds She took bitters person who is solicited will refuse tern relatives. of ip found me. the when ened by innumerable cross-link- s small this sum, especially for a long time but without any that to learn soon was Blanche is We is the it considered. is way value received relationship. This So when she heard of the good. to was which law Mormon the powerless with polygamy nn the will let this offer remain standing virtues of Kidney-Woshe got a Marhis for to from hear breaking church. They are ostracised from punish a man for the present, hoping box and it has completely cured her, when was vows The next enough subscribers. strong respectable Gentile Society, They riage many other so that she can do as much work of instrument will used as aft vengence three numbers of the Standard' must hang together, as Franklin nowr as she could before we moved to refused who give be excellent ones to send to said of the signers of the Declara against a woman Since she has recovered West. In husband. her to wives other tion, or they" will hang separately about here is taking it. everyone of Bichard the from weeks three itind day they will' hang They know it, See adv. house the second must marriage, Government Barneys together. Thjp George Q. Cannon openly advocates be determined?, wise' arid steady to which his wife had called her home George Q. Cannon was indicted jii in his public addresses in Uta ri, polygamy deal properly with .this plague. The for nearly twenty years was sold and and this incites others to break the laws 1874 for the offense of polygamy, and slowness of Congress, their selfish! Blanche received formal notice of the country . Shall he be allozccd to also for 'lascivious cohabitation . Shall See the he be admitted to a scat in Congress? ? dallying drive the thoughtful cle- - from the purchaser to vacate the sit among our law makers Set the December Standard. next number of the Standard. tiles' in Utah to rage premises.' 1 ' , V , Co-operati- ve , to-da- y. rt ' ' ' . j . 1 ! |