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Show ( f t f t : ! ? . YOL. ' I' JV tern jjhiit hue One and another, who had been concealing of America: The pain of lifes long thrall, Let every happy wife and mother who Forsook their pleasant places and came reads these lines give her sympathy , stealing sisters her to OuUide the city wall, and efforts free prayers from this degrading bondage . Let all Craving with wish that brooked no more denying the womanhood of the country stand To. the Women ' , united So long had it been crossed- Time is a power in The blessed possibility of dying and for them. symcombined enlightened sentiment pathy, before which every form of tice and cruelty must finally go dozen. Liar net Beecher Stozve. The treasure they had lost! g mortals Daily the current of Swelled to a broader tide, Till none were left within the citys portals, And graves grew green outside. Would it be worth the having, or the giv- The City of the Living. mg, The boon of endless bneath? Can any' one tell who is the author Ah! for the weariness that comes of living, There is no cure but death. of the following beautiful verses.'' ' ' ' Ours were indeed a Published by request. pity Were that sweet rest denied, In a 1 age, whose varied story And few inethinks, would care to find the No record has city Where never any died. So long ago expired its grief and glory, There nourished, far away, rest-seekin- ' - , ' . fate-deservi- jug-vanish- ed to-da- : J H'twian halt ,,..rifjusband.l Ijrr own Jor. 7 : 2. ' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FEBRUARY, 1881. NO. 11. 1. l(i:, owif ij, ll'ife, and jCct turn i i y, In a broad realm, whose beauty passed all measure, A city fair and wide, "Wherein the dwellers lived in peace and pleasure, And never any died. Disease and pain and death, those stern marauders, "Which mar our worlds fair face, Never encroached upon the pleasant bor-- . dors Of that bright dwelling-place- . Incidents of Life in Utah. ' No. III. near a path leading through a meadow. A farcical coroners inquest did not d satisfy some citizens, who demanded a judicial investigation into the cause of the boys death. The case excited much interest, and all the Mormons were ranged on the side of he defense of the one charged with the murder ; and through that system of testi deception and mony so perfectly understood and practiced by the Mormons, the prisoner was necessarily discharged. Polygamy could not exist without the aid of deception, lying and perjury, and it seems strange to one who has not lived long in Utah that these crimes cannot be punished by our courts. While our courts are presided overby pure and good men, they and the United States officials are powerless in meting out just punishment to evildoers in Utah, because the Church exerts a more potent power. No tribe of bandits ever were better organized for carrying out their depredations than has been' the Mormon Church for screening its crimes, perpetrating its wrongs and gaining the ends desired by well-dispose- know-nothin- g 1 . PRICE Article 10 CENTS. I. This organization shall be called the (insert name of place) Branch of. the Womens National Anti-polygam- Article So-ciet- y y. The object of this Society shall be to plan and execute measures in conjunction with the parent Society for the suppression of polygamy in Utah and other. Territories of the United States. Article 3. Any woman, may become a member of this Society by signing its Constitution and paying into its treasury an initiation fee of (state sum). It is also expected that each member of the Society will attend the regular meetings when possible, and assist in the work of the So2. , ciety'. , , Article 4. The officers of this soshall be a President, t, ciety a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, and a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee of five prr is. Their term of office shall be one year, or until their successors be elected. All elections for office shall be conducted by ballot. Article 5. The duties of these officers shall be those usually belonging to such offices. The executive committee are expected to look after the general interests of the Society and to carry out any plans agreed upon except when they may have been assigned to special committees. Article 6. The organ of this Sociy Standety shall be the ard,- published at Salt Lake City, Vice-Presiden- . Leonora. One of my neighbors is a Mrs. 0., its priesthood. , 188-who lives in a small adobe house o January, o is roof two rooms. The composed slabs upon which earth is piled, an. How to Form a Branch of the Woman' s the walls are cracked and broken y National Society. Small windows admit but scanty ligh to the; rooms, which show in the fur If there are any readers of the Standniture and all therein that the domicile ard who, .having, read our appeals'are No fear of parting and no dread of dying is the abode of poverty. The outward desirous of forming a branch of our So Could ever enter there; surroundings are no more attractive ciety, the' following suggestions may, no for the No mourning lost, anguished than the inner, and even the quiet perhaps, assist them, in getting the Utah. ;j street in front presents little of life. It good work started: crying Made any face less fair. was not always thus with Mrs. 0. Article 7.. Regular meeting, to be First, speak with your immediate 'Without the city wall, Death reigned as Years ago she was a loving wife and friends, and try and get them interest held monthly'. Special ones by' notithe mother of three boys and one girl. ed. If they are entirely ignoiant on fication of the Secretary. ever, Her husband was then industrious and the subject, lend them your Standard Article g This Constitution may And graves rose side by side; Within, the dwellers laughed at his en-- , kind, but from being an advocate of to read, and point out to them thear-ticle- s be amended at any regular meeting by s vote of members present. he'doctrine of plural marriage, he beon the Beauties or effects of a deavor, adAnd never any died. with When ; a and the came polygamist your society is formed, you polygamy, then call their attention to vent of wife Number Two, came sor- our appeals. Send to us for extra cop will soon, find there will be no lack of 0 happiest of all earths favored places! row, jealousy, neglect, abuse and fail1 ies of the ' Standard and they will be work to do, and no difficulty in, finding O bliss, to dwell therein! To live in the sweet light of loving faces, ure to provide, so that Mrs. O. forwarded to you for distribution how to do it. And let your branch be was left to get along the best she among sucli women as you desire to a live, energetic one, bearing in mind And fear no grave betwreen could in supporting herself and chil-- , interest. If you select as your coadju- that itsobject isone of the noblest that To feel no death-damgathering cold and dren. Never of robust health, her tors women of thought aqd feeling, it can occupy the attention of women, colder, trials and the want of the necessaries will not take.lpng to rouse an interest. that of. liberating their own sex from a warm lifes truth; Disputing of life, made her an invalid and great When you have awakened that, speak degrading bondage. To live on, never lonelier or older sufferer for several years, until her of forminga Society. Issue invitations Radiant in deathless youth! sons became of such age as to assist for some convenient afternoon, and if Our New Sorial Story Founded Upon Facts. from And hurrying the worlds remotest her. The husband and father lives only a half dozen attend, you have with wife N mber Two, and is such a enough for a beginning. Select an enquarters, A tide of pilgrims flowed We shall commence the publicawretched specimen of a man that his ergetic, capable woman for president, Across broad plains and over own sons will not own him as their and another for it does tion of a Serial Story, entitled, A waters, all and To recite the wrongs father. not matter so much about the rest. Wifes Martyrdom, in No. 1, of To find that blest abode, Mrs. O. has would endured of offices The sufferings secretary and treasurer Vol. 2, of the Standard, which will Let there be a be Where never Death should come between not only take too much space, but the may be combined. the April number. It is and sever picture is so dark that words alone small membership fee, as some money Them from their loved apart, cannot paint it. She still holds to the will be needed, for you are required to written by a lady of talent and Where they might work, and will, and live doctrine of Joseph Smith, yet is a se- pay the parent Society at Salt Lake experience, who has been a resident forever, vere critic on the Church and the prac- City $5.00 to aid in the work there. of Utah for a number of years and Still holding heart to heart. tices of the Mormon people, while Then after your society is formed re- has had ample opportunities for And so they lived, in happiness and pleas- with those not of the faith, but when port to the parent, and you will receive observing the workings of the pecuwith Saints she apparently holds alleg- instructions as to how you shall pro- liar ure, institution. And grew in power and pride, iance with them. Scanty donations ceed. But in the meantime you need We can assure our readers that And did great deeds, and laid up store of from the tithing office no doubt very not be idle, you can commence work much influence her actions. One of by obtaining and disseminating all the the facts and incidents which it will treasure, And never any died! her trials was the loss of her son under information you can in regard to the relate are not colored or exaggerated He was in demoralizing institution of polygamy. in the least, but it is a And many years rolled on and saw them very sad circumstances. strictly true with and the country, living working striving The following is a good form of con- narrative of the sufferings of a love-in- g Morwere associates his and a With unabated breath: farmer, and lovely woman whose young stitution for you to adopt. Of course, And other years still found and left them mon boys who had been taugbt to we present it only as a form, and you life was blighted by the barbarous hate Gentiles and more especially make living, what changes or additions you doctrine of polygamy. And gave no hope of death. a he had One day August Apostates. deem necessary. Yet listen, hapless soul, whom angelspity, difficulty with some of his compan Constitution ions, and then, while suffering from a Craving a boon like this It is the duty of every wife and Mark, how the dwellers in the wondrous blow upon his head, started to go of the (insert name) branch of the y mother, to aid in circulating the home to his mothers house. Several Womens National eity y Grew weary of their bliss. , Standard. days afterward his body was found . Ami-Polygam- , , Anti-Polygam- two-third- , : ' . p ; ' vice-presiden- t, ; Anti-Polygam- Anti-Polygam- |