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Show STANDARD. ANTI-POLYGAM- Y tandard. MX TUE DIFFERENCE. it then unanimously agreed that was the duty of all loyal men m Sons if i Christian Women says that by Joseph Smith, yet they discard polygamy, the one man power, com- I LoxLs tithes, and other tenfta still held by the women of this P, ' who love morality are due followers of Brigham Young.' And hands of a Lcounty AlTI.PoLTGAMr 113 Territory m the Society of whHe fte not prepared to in Salt w.th full authonty to A few women with the of Mormon as So!o- mail the s aet in the prem se , a masses of men and women against Jmon Spaldings romance, yet they BALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH, 1882. e the-Ui.nkstoth- for . Entered at the Post - Office Lake City , Utaht as second-clas- s matter . eaued monthly by The Standard Publishing Compay ny. The Organ of the Womens National Society. . TERMS: ear, in advance $1.00 50 Six months Three months 25 REMITTANCES: Remittances may be mado by dra money order or register" l letter, at our risk. Give Post Office address in full, ' including County and State. 'J iij receipt of the paper may be considered the receipt for the subscription sent ua. , be reache . will now be done. The peo- recommended this plan on lus 1880 thingemand u abfl the le Intothe of to the Secretary report their iaw.makers .with. President Hayes as never be' esioD of the same reccom- corporated hid in monrMirm M, nnniml The same journal further remarks message to Congress, and it seems to that ,tbe most bllmilwtlnS thing in l,e understood thatPresident Arthur a11 thw degradation of the.homeand is also favorably impressed with m,puon ofthe fountains of hfe, is this method of solving the Utah women themselves foster and Droblem the h.orrid, corrupt system The ni m has received hieh en- - uPhold Anti-Polygam- y . Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, of Battle creek, Mich, is the authorized to Jndard, and is general agent of the receive subscriptions and contract for advertisements. .r the Womans National inti-Potj-- 1 the ignorant superstitious dorsement from the few statesmen Ln.ot who are led blind- uf-- ,freiSIiers wi10 ime studied the qULbUUU , . alne; , i it10 DUt miei1&en.l rUm ineir trive intelto an able to be ficieiitly f whom ligent opinion on the subject, and fducated womten so!e to come to worthy afth a etter sibIe it is and plead for their An. might be 'proposed, still it is."B?.,,1,,sl,uu and Portray lts certain that none has been yet. It 1U1 ,.US lp.tem Congressional, com- is uow incorporated into one. of the beahes not a few who several bills which have been intro- - h?lWes: "'omen and "!struot thlr sisters duced into Congress, and in default ?tand up m reSard t Po'amy and lts ad- anything better, it should re- - vantaSes- 1 he editor goes on to ceive all possible encouragement from every one who desires to see ?aote fm,!be speeches of Sisters FerSuson and Eliza R. laws enforced in Utah. . - , - just We think that any reflecting per- - fno" n rder t0 StW er eaders been instru- tbse women son must perceive that this plan is mental in corrupting young girls, very feasible, and cannot fail to work sneedilv and well The an( influencir2 tpieP1 f embrace a main point is in the selection of the syf em ,that has rulned them body --s is 0Ur purp0se in the near fu- - 1 reaches a class of people that could not be reached by any other agency. There are many people who were converted to Alormonism years ago who never heard of polygamy, and . blood atonement etc., until they came to Utah. They are loath to give up all faith in the doctrine that has brought them away from their and their moral senses far-offhom- es, revelt against accepting the hideous excresences appended to it in Utah, This class can be reached by weap-o- f 0ns in the hands of the reorganized church, which other denominations cannot consistently nse; such as the Doctrines and Covenants which ex- pressly denounce polygamy, as well a3 the former teachings of the Utah leaders themselves. Although we differ with them in regard to the oriSin and early history of polyga-- It my, and have sometimes been cen- sured by their organs for dendunc- - soul- Commission. It should not num- . bt b 0USht to. encouraging to her less than fifteen loyal citizens L l the great majority of them, if not see that the Christian we recognize in these Saints a pow- all, to be residents ofthe Territory, boclety n d I r bravely baUli"f that the matter is so difficult to and all classes of the population to ; their labors lor the cessfully aPPrecwte Utah of errors Gen-be 1 Of the course be will next deal with, and that it represented. and deluded women Mormonism, and we stand on a would desire to be represented, M"n tiles to impossible to make laws interferop U.tab and. tbat tbr0 th,tIr common platform in reference to in- - with the existing order of things and there are leading Apostate Mor- , ffort8 nation m awakened polygamy and its kindred evils in inUtah without causing an untold mons whose courage in breaking fact face must this this Territory. tbat, ?onSreSf loose from this monster called a amount of suffering in various tblsf blot nevliabTy Church can scarcefy be injured Of course al r v lu A entail a certain amount of disorde who took their lives in their- hands WT u n Prpstituting when demanded it should that in think we that and suffering, but they God given gift of mtelleelt m t he let the business go its this case the fear is greatly exaggerThe Nebraska delegation, which affair! of f tbf lnfamous moaster- - called thisTerritorv, serv.iae at 1, because there are thousands of and political one moment and upon President Arthur to ask and whose intimate knowledge of would on y the Mormon people who are for the apointment of Ion A. S. of the Mor- - look at the run tbey ha'; made, the intricate workings themselves, ally preparing we see the' can 1 addock as secretary of the Interior be Church mon would invaluable. must fan what come for unconsciously on Y1111 cour&e before long as surely as daylight There are also some leading non- brouS .tlde80"-. polygamous Mormons, who, as said follows darkness. are Senator assured that Paddock 'rould If is only th?y The signs of the times will not before, are prepared for the influence their the cause in 0 a warm fnmid of the cause which The entire itable, and whose large material inJ failure. countenance . , Jforoo would influence Jiern to co- - truth and morality what a different the Standard represents. Mrs. A. S. the nation is interested in rt:Cor(1 iiugut be theirs? . L Thev- LPaddock headed a petition from 129 , . . . and its Lnor,,!,, , operate in measures tor tne common AT , T? r n before. that the polygamous Cannon might efactors of their sex instead of a and the forced has been polygamous, commission, by absolutely gress their names, as one of Brigham not Ibe allowed a seat in the House the pressure of public opinion to Territorial Legislature abolished, the k daughters expressed it, of Representatives. It Senator take the initiative steps toward its rest might safely be left to the re- Youngs becomes Secretary of the Inheld up to everlasting infamy. People are every- - deeming agencies of schools, church-wher- e suppression. will have terior, the discussing methods for the es, the press, and to enfranchised THE REORG ANIZED CHURCH OF LATTER a friend at court, which is a great DAY SAINTS. abolition of the evil the grossest and educated Young Utah. deal more than we would be able to organized iniquity in the world We publish in another column a say if Sargent received the On the 6th of Feb. in the House but none can decide upon a plan that seems either available or effec- - a bill presented by Representative portion of an article entitled Mortive. Burrows of Mich., defining the qual- - monism vs Polygamy written exOne of the resolutions passed at In such an emergency the opin- - ifications of Territorial Delegates pressly for the Standard by Rev. n citizens of the was passed. The bill provides that Thos. W. Smith, of Chicago, a pas- the great ion of meeting in Territory, who are thoroughly fa- - no person who is guilty of bigamy tor of the Reorganized Church of Rochester, N. Y., commended the miliar with every feature of the sit- - or polygamy shall be .eligible to a Latter Day Saints, or as they are representative of the District. Hon. J. Van Yoorhis for his firm and unt;ou,and whose material inter- - seat in Congress as Delegate from more familiarly termed, the As we have before ex- faithful opposition to the system, e&ts are completely indentified with any Territory, the country shouid be worthy of plained, this sect must not be con- and pledged him support in all necconstitutional A year ago The Legislature of other States founded with the Utah Latter-dameasures, some consideration. essary Wis-waand heroic for Um s Saints who believe in polygamy, for however radical last summer a public convention should follow the example of held in which both political consin, and pass resolutions on the although they accept the original speedy removal of this evil firt w sness principles of Mormonism as taught our land. parties were represented, and it was Mormon question. has been repeatedly stated at one reason Congress has delayed so long in legislating against the abuses of Mormonism is ,on, ture to give an outline of the his-i- n especial- tryof of this sect, and ofmore its mission- the operations ly We believe ary labors in Utah. that the mission is uomg a great WOvk in the interests of virtue and morality, and we also believe that it - Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates, and should reach ns on or before the 15th of each month, to insure insertion in the guccceeding number. Address all communications to The Standard, P. 0. Box 385, Salt Lake City, Utah. Correspondence solicited from women in all parts of the Territory, which must have the name of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. It I f I Officers &- h Anti-Polygam- Ono sub-Commlss- 4k I roen I Is - 'r f?" Lost 1 r J&m.Mm t , - Pad-doc- anti-polygamis- ts 1 law-abidin- Anti-Mormo- g Jose-phite- s. I y , ri Mil' tQf ,rancn 'News, ' i . |