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Show THEIR CRUELTY TO WOMEN. Perhaps there is no other one thing of which the polygamous cult of Hie Mormon church aro more boastful than they arc of their pretended great respect re-spect for women, and the tender care which they excrciso over them. Upon' this point wo havo a short quotation from a sermon delivered by President Ucber C. Ivimball, July 12, 1 857 (in the very hey-day period of the polygamous practice in Ulah), as wc find it iu vol-umo vol-umo 5 of the Journal of Discourses, pige 2S, as follows:. What! sustain a woman, a wife, in preference to sustaining the prophet Joseph. Jo-seph. Brother Brlgham. and his brethren! breth-ren! Your religion Is vain when you take that course. Well, my wife may say. "If you will sustain Brlghani in preference prefer-ence to me, I will leave you." I should reply, "Leave, and be damned!" and that very quickly. That is a part of. my religion re-ligion "Leave quickly, ypu .poor snoop!" Hcbcr C. was probably the bluntest speaker there was in the Mormon church at that time; but it must bo said of him that his blunt ness at least had the effect of exposing tho real sentiment? senti-ment? of the church leaders upon various vari-ous subjects. Jn 'this matter of dealing with the women who had boon dragged into tho polygamous trap, he was foro-most' foro-most' among tho hicrarchs- in expressing expres-sing the contempt folt for th6ir victims. In fact, the matter given above is extremely' ex-tremely' mild in comparison with some of his utterances many of which arc so absolutely filthy that if reproduced in The Tribune there would be dangor of exclusion of this paper from the United States mails. It was very often tho caso that; Hcbcr would air his family fam-ily rows on the tabernacle stand, humiliating hu-miliating his families iu a most shameful shame-ful manner. FFo scorned to have the particular mission of chastising women generally in behalf of his own tyrauny and for tho benefit of his associates in tho polygamous cult who desired to plant the iron heel of oppression upon the necks of .their numcrois wives through the intimidation and implied threats constant Fy carried iu Jlober's outbursts. Ho was a sort of polygamous polyga-mous whip, so employed becauso of his particularly unpitying brutishiicss. One of his waives wns known to often lenve the meeting when he arose to speak. However, not all the blame for such cruel treattno'nt must be piled upon the head of Hcbcr C. the others wero equally offensive in this respect, only thoy didn 't dare to blurt lit out as he did. -Polygamy, means matrimonial slavery, slav-ery, no less todny than in the timo of Ilcber C. Kimball and the other introducers in-troducers of the practice in Utah. Mcm-bors Mcm-bors of that cult havo in their hearts no more respect for women than they havo for the Tioasts of tho field and, indeed, in the majority of cases .they nrc more cruel to the one aud less unkind un-kind to tho othor. |