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Show VOL. 1. To the Women NO. ct evcrn gomat have ler own jgunbattd. have 1in owtj JSjifa, and yt or . 7 : 2. 1 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 1880. 6. The .Woman' s National Society. of America : Let every happy wife and mother who reads these lines give her sympathy , prayers and efforts to free her sisters from this degrading bondage . Let all the womanhood of the country stand united for them. There is a power in combined enlightened sentiment and sympathy , before which every form of injustice and cruelty must finally go doivn. Auti-Polyga- The object of the Womans Nation- al Society is briefly in fined its Constitution as follows : Anti-Polygam- y de- PRICE for the purpose of determining a plan of operations for the coming year. The Park City Branch of the Womans Nat onal Society be to not promises very strong, only because of its numbers, but because of the high moral and Christian character of its members. Here, as elsewhere, the very best elements of the community are represented in an organization whose object t is to destroy a system that throughout its whole existence has sought to enslave and degrade wo man. All honor to the Park, the banner city, the first to respond to our call and extend to us a helping hand in our work. . Shall we not hear, during the coming month, from a score of towns in this Territory who will emulate the example set them by Park City? Mrs. A. G. Paddock, Womans National Anti PoSecretary lygamy Society. Anti-Polyga- , to-da- Anti-Polygam- i Anti-Polyga- Anti-Polygam- half-craze- His-coc- k, , Vice-Presiden- t, 1 CENTS. you who persuaded my husband to take another wife, to live up to his privileges, as you term it. We had lived happily until that time, but polygamy made our home like the abode of satan. For months before the birth of that boy, I felt as if I wanted to kill his fathers second wife, the woman who had robbed me of my husbands love, and destroyed the peace of, our home. Murder, and nothing but murder was in my heart all the time, I never looked on her but I wanted to kill her. There were times wh'en I would willingly have yeilded up my own life if I could have had the satisfaction of seeing her dead first. That poor, unfortunate boy has only paid the penalty of his fathers crime, and his mothers sorrow. Then raising her withered hand oh high, she continued, I pray God that the curse of an injured wife and a bereaved mother may follow you all the days of your life, for it was you who lead my husband into polygamy. We would'like to have all our exchanges copy this article, so as to give it all possible publicity. Let the people of the United States learn some of the effects of the abominable system of polygamy. If any person is in doubt as to the truthfulness of the above incident, our informant is willing to make affidavit in regard to the facts. Eds. Standard. To plan and execute such measures as shall, in the judgment of its members, tend to suppress polygamy in Utah and other Territories of the United States. What a comment upon our boasted Harriet Beecher Stowe. cviilization that such a Society should be needed inthe latter half of the nineteenth century, and in the most enThe Alpine Sheep. lightened and progressive nation under the sun! Yet, humiliating as the fact After a childs untroubled breath may be, we cannot deny that in the its took the Father to way, Up United States alone, of all, nations And on our home the shade of death claiming to be civilized, polygamy not Like a long misty twilight lay, only exists, but year by year spreads deeper root. In our And friends came round with us to wider and takes country alone the laws which forbids weep plural marriage is habitually and defHer little spirits swift remove, iantly violated by a whole people. This story of the Alpine sheep Our Society seeks the suppression of See notice of Agents Wanted. Was told to us by one we love. constitutional and polygamy by legal y the in the They valleys sheltering care, measures, and we repeat, The Effects of Polygamy. Soon crop the meadows tender appeal made last month to the women of the United States to aid us in our prime, The first wife of a certain prominent in And, when the sod grows brown and work by organizing branch Societies their own localities. Send to the Secre- Mormon had several sons, the youngbare, The Shepherd tries to make them tary of the parent Society at Salt Lake est of whom evinced a most cruel, for any required information with re- vindictive and bloodthirsty disposition climb gard to our object and methods. Our almost from his very birth. From his To airy shelves of pastures green, work is one in which every true wo earliest childhood he seemed to take That hang along the mountains man, and especially every wife and the greatest delight in torturing and side, mother, is deeply interested. What- then killing animals or birds, and as he Where grass and flowers together lean, ever tends to break down the safe grew older, he became a perfect terror And down through mists the sun- guards thrown around Christian mar- in the neighborhood where his parents When people came to his beams glide. riage is more than a local evil. Any lived. to complain, or to. demand mother religious or otherwise, which But naught can tempt the timid things system, boldly proclaims the monstrous doc- satisfaction for some new depredatory That steep and rugged path to try, trine that one man may give the name act, she would shake her head sorrowsweet the calls and and state of wife to many women, is a fully and say, poor boy, it is not his Though shepherd sings, When foe to every household in Christendom, fault, it is only his misfortune. And seared below the pastures lie, for an asked of her heed will explanation words, you sisters, wives, mothers, reshe declined to but would communicate Will it, our give you appeal. Till in his arms their lambs he takes with us and set about the work of or- peat them oyer and over again, much Along the dizzy verge to go to the disgust of her friends who proSocieties at once ? Then, heedless of the lifts and breaks, ganizing nounced him to be without exception Mrs. A. G. Paddock, They follow on oer rocks and snow; y the worst child they had ever seen or Secretary Womans National And in those pastures lifted fair, Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. heard of. Neither the tears and prayers of his mother, or the punishments i More dewy soft than lowland mead, inflicted by his father made any imThe shepherd drops his tender care See notice of Agents Wanted. pression upon him, and as the years And sheepand lambs together feed. went on, he steadily grew worse. When Organization at Park City, he was about 16 years old he went This parable by Nature breathed, Blew on me, as the south wind free Pursuant to a call made by the Wo- away from home, and for some time Socie- nothing was heard of him, until at last Oer frozen brooks that float un- mans National sheathed ty, the ladies of Park City met on it was discovered that he was living From icy thralldom to the sea. Monday, August 9th, for the purpose with a band of desperadoes, who were More of organizing a branch society. Mrs. both robbers and murderers. A blissful vision through the night L. F. Gerrisli was chosen chairman of than once were his hands stained with Would all my happy senses way, the meeting, and the secretary of the the blood of a fellow mortal before he Of the good Shepherd on the height, national society acted as secretary, pro met his own death, being lynched by Or climbing up the stony way. an infuriated mob for a peculiarly untern. A statement of the object of the provoked and outrageous murder, Holding our little lamb asleep; meeting called forth an earnest and an- When his mother heard of his dreadful And like the burden of the sea imated discussion on the part of the end, she shook her grey head sorrow Sounded that voice along the deep, ladies present with regard to the means fully, as she had done of old, and re Saying, Arise, and follow me. to be adapted for the suppression of peated the same words, poor boy it Maria W. Lowell. polygamy, after which the resolution was not his fault, only his misfortune to organize as a branch of the Woman s I knew it would end just as it has. Wanted reliable lady canvassers National Anti Polygamy Society was Shortly afterward, some friends came in every town and city throughout adopted unanimously. A constitution to condole with the heart broken in so mother, among whom was a person the United States, to whom a liber- identical with the present society methits and high in authority in the Church. An al commission will be paid. Address far as relates to andobjects ods was drawn up adopted article eye witness'told the writer that she wil y Standard. by article by, unanimous vote. The not forget the scene until her dying After a few sympathetic words to the election Subscribers , who do not receive society then proceeded Mrs. Terhune day. c had been said, the poor, of officers by ballot. their paper regularly, will please was creature rose, and looking the elder duly elected President, Mrs. the and Miss the mat Carrie straight in the face, said, in thrilling and Standard, notify You are responsible for the ter will be attended to. Jewett Secretary and Treasurer. By tones: vote of the society, a speci meeting fate of my poor boy, you, and the in See notice of Agents Wanted. was called for Tuesday, August 17th fernal doctrine of polygamy. It was , 10 The Great Need. What the Republic needs is good mothers. Women have the government of the country in their hands for the first sixteen years, the best half of human life. If we had better government in the homes, we should have better citizens and better government The mother who says to her little ten or twelve year old boy, Now, if you dont behave yourself, Ill tell your father when he come home, is incapable as a governor in the home. The mother who cant govern her own child, and put her stamp upon his character that will hold him to the white line, as true as the needle to the pole, is a failure in her department of the government. When we have better and more thoughtful motheis, we will have better ciiizens ; when we have better governors in the home, we will have better government in the Republic. Queen Louise holds her son William Emperor of Prussia, by a magie power to this day; and although her hand has been in the grave many years, and he is now an old man, a marble cast of her hand lies on a table in his private room, where he kneels to pray. Senator Blaine sent as a wedding gift to young Mrs. Eleanor Sherman Thackara, a case of fish knives, with a card on which was written To the daughter, with as much love as I have ever borne the mother. The mother is Mr. Blaines cousin. Gail Hamilton sent the bride a beautiful flower picture, with these lines: Hasten happy roses, Come to me by May, In your folded petals Lies my wedding day : |