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Show 7 ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y I greater evils. The good that a society ceived when on arriving in Salt Lake like the Reform Club can do among the City, my husband brought me home classes above mentioned is almost inca- la house, where another woman was inculable; and not less in importance to installed as mistress, his first wife, who ducing them to sign the pledge, is proti- - was tbe mother of several children, ding them with better associations than They toW me afterwards that for . they have left. By providing inno- j raved ,ike a mad woman cent recreation, and interesting them in a , ;od of uncon then musical and literary entertainments, such When I recovered rom as have lately heen given by the Reform piousness. the attack, brain, fevr, and realized Club, they will he better enabled to keep that good resolution which may be the how shamefully I had been duped, became a changed creature, means of not only saving themselves 1 was al- from shame, but also preserve their Although my husband I families from poverty and ruin. ways kind and tender, and provided And there are other classes who may wen for my temporal wants, and his also be benefited by the labors of the wjfo not especially disagreeable, I McKenzie Reform Club. There are other yej. j could not forget the miserable I cases of intemperance than those which deception he had practiced upon me, into the of convert the cabins raging and be vcly name of religion became poor o homes pandemoniums, there are also hateful and obnoxious. and wretched made and luxury elegance desolate by this demon wffio makes his power felt everywhere. There are cases OUR POLICY. Standard, Since SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL, 1880. the publication of the Standard has been determined Anti-Polygam- I y upon, the questions have been asked what attitude do you purpose K The Pcblishiho Compa Issued monthy by Standard assume in regard to Mormon women? Society Hr, In the interest of the Ladies Do you intend to prosecute a war against all Mormon women, or all those who ne $1.00 lieve in, or practice the doctrine of plural Year, in advance And this class who do believe .25 marriage? TreonthsV............ a religious principle and there i in it as remittances: are JOU going to hold Remittances may be made by drat, money order or regis-- I are many SUcll address Office in ftill,' Give Post our risk. at tered letter, them Up to the BCOm and contempt of including County and State. the women of America? We answer, we have but One feeling Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates. Address all communications to Thb toward the women of this Territory, that d of ki"dss andsod "ill: t -o- not of the name writer, Territory, which must have the purpose to wage War against any party, necessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. ge(, Qr pergon but we do intend to fight to the death that system which so gjaves and degrades our sex, and which As it is customary upon the advent of a robg them of so much happiness. We new venture in the journalistic world to gbab endeavor to induce the Mormon is women to give some reasons for its appearance, it investigate for themselves the exbe will remarks few a foundations of that system, and show where the conscience is becoming depraved presumed that intentions and aims them that the facts in regard to its in-- of and the will weakened in thoe whose early pected in regard to the 1 albeit the Standard, ception fully prove that there is no he character gave rich promise of moral rents mghtfind some consolation for I had endured in title is almost sufficient explanation iigjous principle whatever about it. W firm resolution. Here is also the terrible sufferings and strength successful of its design. One of the most gbaq endeavor to convince them by fact, as a fieldfor the Reform Club, and we heartily my brief absence from them. For editors in this country has frequently said wej as argument, that polygamy is not trust that it may live long and prosper. some time he objected, but at last he that a newspaper must have a purpose, 0ldy agajnst tbe laws of the country, but told me that I might go, since I was and that in order to accomplish its mission as0 tbe jaws 0f (jod and contrary to the What Polygamy Has Done for Women. so unhappy, but I must leave my babes a such for want a be there must public holiest sentiments of a womans heart and with him, one scarcely sixteen months he such of want this and aq die teachings of nature. We shall newspaper, I have been requested by some of old, the other, not nearly as many weeks, breadth as to give that newspaper com- try t0 make them comprehend that an all So- - U Plead with him against this cruel y wise and loving Heavenly Father could the ladies of the plete support. It was announced in the prospectus of never gancti0n, let alone command the ciety to tell how I became a polyga- - stipulation, but he was inexorable. Of this journal that it would be issued in the practice of a mous wife, and why I continued living course I could not abandon my chil- is so revoltin that systera when I did dren, so for their sakes I remained and interests of the Ladies Anti-Po- l j gamy L0 all sentiments of purity and goodness, in that unlawful relation, Society of Utah, to aid in prosecuting the and prociuctive of so much misery and not believe in the institution as a di-- 1 bore "y sufferings with all the forti- work for which that Society was organized. wickedncss We my aid sympathize with them, vine ordinance, and hated the system jdf,.?,cou,d su?mn The Constitution of the Society defines its we ajm to eevate them, to any mother believe me, when I the way with my whole soul. My story is not open that often I was tempted to give object as follows, to plan and execute for them tQ something better than that an uncommon find say can and easily one, such measures as shall in the judgment of nfe which ig tbe lowest form of the little innocents something that 8laveiy many a parallel in the history of its members tend to suppress polygamy the most would make them sleep their last, long of bond degradi t of the other Territories and in Utah And from the experience gamed in our slumber, thus purchasing freedom from . . in and I born was then brief the belonged This States. England, is in United labors in the Society, we believe that hun- a life at which my nature revolted, and . . , , of the middle aid tbe ladK's dreds a to family respectable of women areonly waiting for that fIANDD which my conscience told me was as a successful was father of the class. Society m their en- My t0 be for th and hundred8 sinful as it was degrading to my womwhich had of others deavors to suppress a system when once convinced of their tradesman, and being an only child, anhood. But it is : . true, and I marvel its origin in sin, and which is as inimical error wi were educational best the advantages gin n0 more an( now that I resisted the temptation as to progress and true Christianity, as it is We do not ;ntcnd t0 refiect on the afforded me; in fact, I received what well as I did. Upon learning the enslaving and dishonoring to womanhood cbaracter of the is termed in that country, a finished or indu, in a true state of affairs, my father made Consequently, we claim a high and sonal vitupevaticn, hmt, it is our firm education. When I was about sixteen noble purpose for the determination to expose all the horrors of years old, my parents became con- preparations to cone to Utah after Standard. We also claim that there is a the system, and reveal its infamous work- me, but he died suddenly, before his I had as and to verts Mormonism, intentions could be fulfilled, and my public want for a paper having the aims , . iciolls reslts s0 f de ad a, and been inclined, religiously always enbroken-hearte- d of this journal, and judging by the mother was not long wilI permit. We start out with doctrines as there Mormon the rehas our already couragement project in following him to the grave. If I good intention8j with motiye ceived, we believe the want is of such kind feelings, and with hatred and con- preached seemed to me so simple and had only known how short a time they beit was not and beautiful breadth that will give us that complete long good, were to have lived, I would have tempt only for the sin, and not for the ! is successthe essential to I which enthusiastic an became fore support votary sinner. Spared them the. knowledge of the bitful accomplishment of our purpose. We of the new religion. I had heard that ter truth. believe that the importance of our object THE TEMPERANCE REVIVAL. the Saints in America practiced polygFrom that time until his death, my will be appreciated by every man in the The importance of the Reform amy, but did not trouble myself about husband was kind and affectionate to who respects purity and virtue ment inaugurated in this city by Dr. Me it, as I did not anticipate leaving my me, and considerate enough of my and honors womanhood, and by every Kenzie can scarcely be appreciated unlegs own country ; besides, the missionaries feelings never to mention the word rewoman who would resent the profanation the need for just guch a revival ig taken always denied it, and said that the reof her own household, and who would jnt0 consideration and measured too. ligion in private in connection with In a wicked was invention of only polygamy. We lived on quietly for preserve her innocent sons and daughters an probability there is no city in the port enemies to the their injure reputation years, no one suspecting or knowing from corruption. We believe that the United States that has more ( drinking in the outside the Saints world. of m great mass of the intelligent people of the gai00119 than Salt Lake, in accordance of disaffection, but one trusted I when was in of United States, irrespective sought sex, creed, with the number of its population, and Subsequently, friend, who would not betray me for I a or nationality will bid our venture God when it is considered that missionary, inquired her own life. In those days it was a the liquor marriage by speed, and hope that our efforts may soon iicenge ig ten times as high as in other into the matter more particularly, but terrible crime for a woman to disbebe crowned with complete and lasting sue- - cities, it must certainly go to prove that was positively assured by him that no lieve any portion of the Mormon , tpofl an immense amount of patronage is be- - such thing as polygamy existed. We creed, especially plurality, and if In conclusion we may say that the gtowed on these lived and We were for are married, places. happily known she was subject to all manner Standard starts out as an independent informed that there are certain reliably he when was recalled to of saloons two years, persecution, but my husband loved journal, confessing allegiance to its own which are illfestcd on after Utah, and I, of course accompanied me well Saturday enough to shield me from the convictions, and making no shallow pre- - noon8 with working men, where they often him to the promised land. I left my tense of neutrality on the leading ques- consequences which must inevitably th(! earni 8 of a week in wi(j spend home and bade farewell childhoods to tions of importance to this community , or I ensue, should my true feelings become then go home penniless; the m any conflict in which right, justice, and carou8a)which Bhould parents with many tears and re- known to those in authority. Though my have t0 thc wagC8 the good of the sex are concerned. grets, yet with many bright hopes and lie deceived me so outrageously, yet 8Upp,,rt of wifc and children( having becn for a future in anticipations happy he would not betray me, and I must do left in the dram shop. It is also stated Zion. They were on the declining side him the The articles on the origin and progress that the number of boys and justice to say that, apart youths1 who life of the Ladies of and could not bear to sever from his Society frequent these haunts is very large, thus delusion, he was one of the written by anofficer of the Association will showing that from themselves all old ties and assobest and truest hearted men that ever intemperance is be found both interesting and instructive, on the increase in our midst. alarmingly ciations, but me There inay they gave up, their lived, a man in a thousand, if he had also the papers on the Women of Utah, be worse crimes than intemperance, but dearest treasure, and told me God not been perverted and ruined by this Sample cbpies of the Standard sent to in ninety nine cases out of a hundred, ny speed with their last blessing. accursed libel on religion called address on application. 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