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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y I THE CONSISTENCY OF IT. Largo A Legislature almost entirely composed of men with from two to five wives each, has been in session in Salt Lake City for nearly two months. It may be perhaps unnecessary to state that they belong to the Latter-da- y Saints, or Mormons. In the District Court, on the 7th of February, while this polygamous Legislature was in session, a man who had been previously convicted of having two wives was sentenced to imprisonment for two years in the penitentiary, with a fine of $100. It is needless to say that the man was a Gentile bigamist who was exposed by his first wife. The second marriage, not being solemnized secretly in a Endowment House was proven Mor-mo- n by competent witnesses, and thus his conviction was possible. Now, if he had been a Mormon, the very priest who had officiated at the second marriages, would in all probability have sworn that he knew nothing whatever of the circumstances, and the women have vowed that he was not her husband, only a partner in sin, and instead of getting two years in the penitentiary he would have been a successful candidate for the Legislature. This is only one instance of the impossibility of convicting Mormon criminals in Utah. Rescued from Death. The following statement of William J. Coughlin, of Somerville, Mas., is so remarkable that we beg to ask for it the attention of our readers. He says: In the fall ot 1876 I was taken with a followed by a Bevere cough. I soon began to lose my appetite and flesh. I was so weak at one time that I could not leave my bed. In the summer of 1877 I was admitted to the City Hospital. While there the doctors said 1 had a hole in my lett lung as big as a half dollar I expended over a hundred dollars in doctors and medicines. I was so lar gone atone time a report went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, but a friend told me of DR WM. IIALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS. I laughed at my friends, Jthinking that my case was incurable, but I got a bottle to satisfy them, when to my surprise and gratifies tion, I commenced to feel better. My hope, once dead, began to revive, and I feel in better spirits than I have the past three yeais. I write this hoping you will publish it, so that every one afflicted with Diseased Lungs will be induced to take DR. WM. HALLS BALSAM FOR T1IE LUNGS, and be convinced that CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED. I have taken two bottles and can positively say that it has done more good than all the other medicines I have taken since my sickness My cough has almost entirely disappeared aDd I shall soon be able to go to woik. Sold by VIOLENT BLEEDING OF THE LUNGS to-da- y druggists. Wm. BEOWN, Worker In Stone and Marble Monuments. Tomb Crosses?, Headstones, Ete., executed In the newest designs. Beet Material and Workmanship, and the most Reasonable Terms. W ill. BROWN, block east cl the Clift House, 3d South Steeet. SALT LAKE CITY, Address, One-ha- if W. W. BARTLETT & CO. PROPRIETORS OF The Adjustable Spring Bed llont Manufacturers of I 111 tlio 3Iarket. Bed?, Cots, Matrasses, Excelsior Spring and General Lpholsterere. 230 NIain Street, SALT LAKE CITY. Mass Meeting. Anti-Polyga- One of the largest and most enthusiastic meetings ever held in Salt Lake City, convened on Sunday evening, Feb. 25th, in the Methodist Church, under the auspices of the Womans National Anti-polygam- The Women of iormonism, OR THE The meeting was Presided over by Mrs. S. A. Cooke, President of the Society, and able addressess were made by Mrs. A. G. Pad. dock, Governor Murray, R. G. McNiece, Hon. Jacob Boreman and Gen. Bane, whereupon the following preambles and resolutions were read and unanimously adopted, It STORY OFPOLY GAMY. EDITED BY JENNIE ANDERSON FROISETH, EDITOR OF 180 t ntj) mm Main St., 5 doors North Walker House. Standard Anti-Polygam- y Society. y 93 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. An authentic statement of the Wrongs of Women under the accursed system of Polygamy. 8old only by Subscription. Agents Wanted Every- AHnroaa tcnAfa C. G. G. PAINE, Publisher, Detroit, Mich . TO INVESTORS. Wholesale and Retail to-wi- t: of the Mormons to disturb the not memorializing Congress existing order of tilings in Utah, directly commit every Mormon to the endorsement of polygamy in defiance of the laws; and Whereas, Those same petitions, by their signatures, reveal the absolute slavery of the Mormon people to their chiefs; and Whereas, The frantic exertions of the Mormon leaders to put olf the possibility of enforcing the laws in Utah show the innortal 10,000 Shares Treasury Stock Whereas, The petitions terror at the prospect of losing political power: Now, therefore, the Womans Na tional com- Society, being posed of old residents of this Territory who are familiar with the situation here, do Auti-rolyga- hereby Resolve, That for more than thirty years Utah lias been under the control of this element, that under that control this Territory has been made a mere dependency of a hostile creed; the rights of real citizens have been stolidly denied ; the ballot has been prostituted; women dishonored and every sacred element of jhonie destroyed: Resolved, That every mercy of the Government extended to the Mormons lias been spoiled at by them; that the failure of the Government to enact effective laws has been treated as an interposition of God to protect this people, and that every weakness of the Government in failing to make its laws sovereign here has been used to strengthen this kingdom. Resolved, That the Government of the United States can no longer afford to leave the control of a great Territory in the hands of a people who hold a higher allegiance to the heads of a creed than to the Republic. Resolved, That ltjis unbecoming the dignity of tlie Government of the United States, and a steady menace to its power, to leave the management of a great Territory in the hands of men, who are in no sense real citizens, and who, Seven in memorials to Congress, give notice of their determination to continue to resist the laws. Resolved, That nowhere, under any civilized nation except in Utah, are men and women, who are felons under the law, given the ballot, the jui and the control of the government. Resolved, That this Society, speaking in the name of the outraged womanhood of Utah and for the 10,000 real citizens of this Territory, beseech Congress to make no more demeasures, lays, to rely no longer on half-wa- y but at once to take from the Mormons all political privileges until they conclude to accept as sovereign the laws of the United States. Ilesqjved, That Congress owes it as a duty to the Gm eminent and to the loyal people of this count i y to amalgamate the Edmunds, the Shallenberger and the Willits hills, and make of them a law for the government of Utah; uutilby their submission to the laws, tire majority here shall prove that they are entitled to be trusted as citizens, Resolved, That the Edmunds bill alone is fatally defective, inasmuch as while it forbids the holding of office and the exercise of the franchise by polygamists, it provides no effective redress against t lie perjury of the men here who are not bound by ail oath, and if passed in its present form, there is great danger that it will, like the law of 1802, become a dead letter on the statute hooks. Resolved, That we believe that a Commission of sterling citizens of this Territory, given full legislative poweis, working under the supervision of Congress, is the only rea and prompt and merciful remedy for Utahs wrongs. R solved, That Hie omak of the M muons that the enforcement of the laws of the United States will cause a business depression, is a matter which Congress should not roundel antil a ict.iil trade is deemed of more impoi lance than the great principles on which the Republic rests. ul Every Article Fresh and New OF THE i OF UTHII, Are now offered to persons desirous ot a safe and profitable investment at the nominal price of 81,50 PER SnARE, Independent Assay Office, F. M, BISHOP, Assay er. e, under T. R JoueB Bank, I U wol re8 O. Salt Lake City, I30X 1004. arcfully executed and guaranteed. I I leral Waters, etc., n Specialty. Analysis J J. McVICKERS SAY OFFICE Cait Lake City. r W. S. McCoriilcIss Bank. Main A As our paper was just going to press when the meeting was held, our report must necessarily be brief. A fuller account will be in the next issue. I t All goods were bought by us personally, from leading Manufacturers and Importers of New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Chicago. 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