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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- 60 STANDARD. Y ida is a philosopher, a moralist and $ttU-$$olg(a- vj standard, a reformer; but we must never forget that she is also, and supremely SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOV. 18S0. an artist; that will explain much that might else seem unaccountable. Entered at the Post- - Office in Salt Ouida has looked upon this mighty second-class mail Lake City, Utah, as of human life with matter . compassionate, indignant, scornful and penetrating eyes. Very scornIssued mouth y by Thk Standard Publishing Compa ful for the scorn of genius, she nt The Organ of the Women's National Society. tells us, is the most boundless and TERMS: arrogant of all scorn; and curiously $1.00 One Year, in advance 50 Six months penetrating, for she detects the soThree mouths cial leprousy in places and in things REMITTANCES: where only she would have thought Remittances may be made by dra't, money order or registered letter, at our rLk. Give Post Ollic address in ful., of looking for it. Having found it State. and including County how bitterly, r may be considered the r,c ip: she denounces it, oh, The receipt of the Hut for the subscription sent us. and with what eloquence! first, in order that the denunciation Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates, and should reach us on or before the 15th of each month, to insure may have its full effect in reforming sertion in the succceed'ng number. and purifying the rising generation Address all communications to The into whose hands Ouidas novels Standard, P. 0. Box 385, Salt Lake City, Utah. Correspondence solicited from women in all narts of the fall she describes the leprousy Territory, which raiH have the name of the wiiter, not minutely, vividly, lingeringly", even, necessarily for publication but as a guatanty of good faith (from the aristocratic standpoint) To the Pastors of Christian Churches : lovingly. Her heart beats so pityIf this paper should fall into the ingly fur humantiv she so ardent-Ihands of any Minister of the Gospel desires to see them freed from will he kindly give it to some energetic disease, that she cannot be satisfied lady of his congregation and ask her to with merely pointing out the disget tip a club for it. Will he please call ease to us from a distance. She her attention to the appeal at the head of brings us close, and ever closer to the 1st page, addressed to the Women of it; she makes us breathe it, touch America. Let this subject be kept in it, taste it; in her grand enthusiasm agitation until public sentiment shall she would fain inoculate us with it force the enactment of such measures that we may indeed know and avoid that will tend to the total abolition of it. And, with her artless artistic candor, she will not paint the other twin relic of barbarism. vice in forbidding colors. On the contrar , she uses every device and CONSISTENCY, THOU All T A JEWEL. resource of her genius to make it A certain lady declined to subappear enticing and seductive; nor scribe fur the y Stand- are any pains spared by her to on the ground that it dealt with clothe virtue, chastity and honor in ard a subject so degrading and disre- a repulsive garb, and to prove them spectable, that she was fearful her stupid, irrational and repulsive. To respectability might be compromised a trivial mind, this might seem too if it should be kuown that such a indirect a method of advocating publication were admitted into her morality; but how, asks Ouida, can household. The lady was engaged you be strong enough to resist evil in reading when she was approached, unless you are convinced beforeand as she laid her book upon the hand that it is delightful, or what table the visitor saw that its title merit is there in being virtuous unwas Moths, by Ouida less you can prove that virtue is neiLooking over the columns of one ther respectable or sincere. of the principal Eastern journals the In order to have virtue loved, and other day our eyes met an article en- vice hated, Ouida makesvirtue hatetitled, "Julian Hawthorne on Ou- ful and vice lovable. ida. We will quote from the ar- There will always be people who ticle: Nothing that Julian Haw- will maintain that Ouida is a mixthorne has ever done redounds ture of ignorance, vulgarity, sentimore to his credit than his late let- mentality and mental and physical ter upon Ouida, and her last novel grossness; that her moralizing is Moths. '1 here has been an almost ttie moralizing of a drunkard on the unaccountable reluctance on the morning after his debauch; that in part of critics and reviewers to say her attempts to exhibit innocence plainly what ought to be said re- she smirches it with her unclean fingarding the works of this social and gers; that her heavenly thoughts literary leper. Fouler than Zola are like the sky as seen reflected in or any of his tribe, worse than the a sewer; that she has a greedy inworst of French novelists of half a sight into what is loathsome in the century ago, her books are yet sold world, but no insight into what is over the counters of all our respect- wholesome; that her memory is teable booksellers, are lent by hund- nacious of all that is filthy in life reds from our circulating libraries, and literature, but forgetful of all and are read by multitudes of young eLe; that her books area sort of people to whom every page is so collision between her ideal and her much moral poison. We hope, now real, and that it is difficult for her that a telling blow has been struck readers to decide which of the two by a strong and well known hand is the falsest and most debased. that the example will be followed And yet our censorious friend by others, and careless or ignorant who thought the Standard might parents and guardians be made to impeach the respectability of her know what sort of literature is sent house, was fearfully revelling in the into their households to defile and delights, we quote verbatim the debase minds of their chil- of Yre admit, as we Moths. dren. have done before, that polygamy is We will now make some extracts not either a pleasant or elevating from Mr. Hawthornes letter: Ou topic to deal with, but we also tragi-comed- y y pap-- in- Anti-Polygam- v , , Anti-Polygam- Brooklyn. We gave a, brief sketch of the main features of Mormon polygamy, illustrating it by authentic incidents, and we were listened to with almost breathless interest. We endeavored to impress them with the importance of the movement, and stated that it was the imperative duty of every woman our object in agitating the subject of in the country to give us not alone polygamy. But we believe it pos- sympathy, but substantial aid in sible to combat on evil in a perfectly our efforts for the overthrow of a respectable and decorous manner, system that peculiarly oppresses and this is always the endeavor of and stigmatizes our sex. At the the Standard fighting it with love close of our little talk, we did not and charity and bearing malice to- dignify it by the name cf lecture, ward none, and always clothing the the ladies surrounded us, expressing facts, hideous though they be, in as the utmost indignation that such modest language as possible. an infamous institution had been perWe think the delicacy of our mitted to have taken root in Chrisfriend rather overstrained, and we tian soil. The deepest interest have also met similar cases in the seemed to be felt in the subject, and 'prosecution of our work. It is sad we were urged to call another meeting but true, that the sorrows of a fic- soon and assist in forming a branch titious heroine, portrayed with the association. Dr.'Cuyler, who so corexaggerated sentimentality of Ouida dially opened his doors to us, is deor Zola will bring tears to the eye, servedly one of the most popular while the plain, unvarnished tale of clergymen in the City of Churches, a living, suffering and enslaved a grand, d man, celebrat-- . will be passed unheeded, ed for his love ot humanity. lie is or regarded as not 'respectable read- foremost in all undertakings in ing. Verily, we may well exclaim: which the elevation or benefit of the human race is concerned, and seems Consistency, thou art a jewel! specially interested in Utah. He EDITORIAL COIJRESPON DEXCE. spoke in warm terms of our friend,. Prof. J. M. Coyner, and hoped his Xew York. Oct. 13, 1880. efforts in the noble cause of educaIn Gotham again afte; so long an tion were meeting with the success absence! Our feelings seein almost they merited. akin to those of a good Moslem who The sermon of Dr. Talmage on is approaching the shrine of the Mormonism has created a great senprophet. For many years this city sation, and has awakened a new inhas been the Mecca of our aspira- terest in Utah affairs. We had the tions, and the realization of our pleasure of a few moments converwishes is at last accomplished. But sation with the Doctor who assured we will pass over all personal con- us that he intended to do his part sideration, and proceed to talk a in keeping the subject in agitation little about the subject that to us is until the vile structure should totthe most interesting the mission ter and fall to the ground. There of our society. seems to be pervading all classes We pledged you our word before, the opinion that the institution is leaving Salt Lake City that we doomed, and as soon as the Presishould never lose an opportunity of dential contest is decided, that the representing our work and we have sentiment of the country will debeen faithful to our pledge. We mand the extirpation of the other have met numbers of intelligent twin relic of barbarism. Public opinion is certainly exerChristian women, and whoever thinks that the people of the United cised on this question, and the agiStates are not interested in the af- tation must be kept up continually, fairs of Utah are laboring under a just as the agitation was, and to the whom result cannot be doubted. great mistake. Every one we have mentioned the subject of The end may not come as soon as Mormon polygamy are deeply inter- we desire, but as God liveth it will ested at once, and are unanimous in surely come. We have conferred with many the opinion that Congress should be forced to enact such legislation as noble women, who are noted as lawould make the United States laws borers for the good of the sex, wooperative in Utah, as well as in oth- men who have large experience in er portions of our country. We organization wrork, upon the best have had a large number of invita- methods of prosecuting our labors. tions to speak on the subject in dif- Those whose judgment can be referent localities which we wish it lied upon, and who haw had the were possible to accept. We have greatest amount of success in their interviewed Mrs. G. B. Marsh of own particular channels invariably Have your Chicago, a lady whose name is well give us this advice. known throughout the northwest organization in Utah perfected, and for good works, aud she has prom- in complete working order before ised her influence in our cause. Al- you atiempi to extend it. Before viyou in tempt, the organization of though only a few days in this cinity, we have seen Mrs. II. W. branches outside of your own TerBeecher, Mrs. Anna M. Field, Mrs. B.B ritory, see tha. there is a branch in Clapp, of the Temperance Union and every place where it is possible to other prominent ladies who evince organize one; and what is most imthe greatest interest in our work. portant, be sure that you have a Yesterday afternoon we had the plan of operations distinctly marked pleasure of addressing an audience out so that you can give intelligent maintain that whoever fights it honestly for the purpose of suppressing the abomination does so without compromising their own respectability, or staining their own reputations. And in order to mitigate or do away with an evil it is necessary that the conditions of that evil be exposed and made public, hence sister-- . anti-polygam- y large-soule- woman anti-slaver- y of cultivated, intellectual women in directions for In a. the lecture room of Dr. Cuylers word, set an object before you, some Church on Lafayette Avenue, one thing you desire to accomplish, |