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Show -- J: 12 ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y , . there is no disguising the fact, that will take the matter in their own the Mormons are welding their hands as the Legislature has not forces together by the adoption of acted upon the recommendations of SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY, 1881. polygamy. A lady in this city who Gov. Neil. If your representative has every opportunity of knowing, is a Jack Mormon, see that he is fjZgp Entered at the Post- - Office in Salt asserts that in her own neighbor-- j not again returned to misrepresent Lake City Utah , as second-clas- s mail hood, there are many first wives the sentiments of loyal American matter . who are unutterably wretched, be-- ; citizens. If you have no other cause they are afraid their husbands means of redress, make that very leaned month'y by The Standard Publishing Company The Organ of the Womens National have taken other wives, and yet point an issue at your next election, S Jciety. they have not sufficient evidence to and do not return one man to the mi ! Anti-Polygam- y j TERMS: One Year, In advance Six months Three months , $1.00 50 25 in-th- at REMITTANCES: Remittances may be made by dral, money order or regis- tered letter, at our risk. Give Post Office address in full, Including County and State. The receipt of the paper may be considered the receipt for the subscription sent us. Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates, and should reach us on or before the 15th of each month, to insure insertion in the succeeding number. Address all communications to The Standard, P. 0. Box 385, Salt Lako 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 Anti-Polygam- y Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, ofBitte Creek. Mich, Is the general agent of me Standard, and is duly authorized to receive subscriptions and contract for advertisemmts. 11 f" Officers of the Womans National Anti-Pol)-ga- Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sabah A. C oke, President. i Hamilton, Jennie a. Fkoissth, (Vice Presidents. Mary A. James, Recording tary. M. A. f Correspond! m Secretary. Bn, Lawrence, Treasurer. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. L vura C. Douglas, Julia A. Kimball Cordelia A. smuh, Mahy A. Lloyd, Selina Boukop ky, E. M. Fisher. Worn in's National Society. Meets on First Tuerday in each montn at Independent nail at J: Wp. m. Anti-Polyga- ? s says the policy now is to conceal second marriages from the first wife, especially if it be thought that' she No. 4 cannot be implicitly trusted, not to consult hei or ask her consent, for jf there was no suffering through if she should be inclined to prose- - heartaches and jealousy, among cu e him, she has not the slightest women living in polygamy, the de- particle ot evidence against him. moralizing effects upon, not onlv Ihe plural women are sworn to the children, but among all classes es and are even - grea pined secrecy, e- to deny the paternity of their m- fante rather than compromise their aintly husbands. Of these poor deluded young women, we can only repeat what Mrs. Young says of the Colorado convert that nothing will open their eyes but the sorrow in o'f people thrown in contact with the disgusting system, should be enough to condemn and drive it from the earth. An incident will illustrate ON THE INCREASE IN East-hundre- ii ) j j i in of torture that her countenance plainly said to the world I am heartbroken. The long journey she was going to take with her recreant husband had few if any bright prospects for her, while the happiness of the other woman seemed only to be inspired by jealousy and gratification in her success as a rival. Christian women of America what no you think of the beauty of polygamy? Leonora our idea of thig fact A neighbor who had two wives, raised a large UTAH. Note The Difference. double family, and these children as they were growing into adults, be-- s It is said, and we have it on very ore or them. The Salt Lake Tribune thus comcame victims one after another to le demoralizing influences of the crimes which good authority, that a prominent invariably are the ments on the bequest made by Delemerchant in this city, dischargee the system are now being felt in results of polygamy. In any gate Cambell: Hon. Allen G. one of his head clerks a short time of homes that were as ern town, their acts would havedis-happ- y pell, our Delegate to Congress, gave as the generality of house- - barred ago for taking a second wife. The them from decent society, $40,000 to establish a college at man, of course, denied it, and there holds a year, or even a few months but in Utah they were upheld, and Holton, Kansas, his former home. is absolutely no way of proving it hundreds of uPon ? Ilulndre,lsL were more applauded than con-- c George Q. Cannon, the alien polyi ren ave true, but from the character of the een and will he demned by those claiming to belong gamist, who was kicked out of Con- -' merchant in question, we feel safe ushered into this world, the in- - to our best society. One daugh-noee- gress, says education pauperizes in asserting that he must have had victims of priestly tyranny ter, before she was of age eloped young men and women. Mark the some pretty conclusive evidence of and licentiousness. And there yet, with a disreputable character, but difference between a Mormon fraud the fact before taking action on the are people m this very who afterward was rescued from a life of and an .American freeman. Think city matter. There can not be two opin- Wl, rason not taking shame, and showed signs of repent- - over it, young Utah. ions among a decided on stand in the persons ance and determination to live pure. the gentlemans conduct; as a law cause, that the system is In this condition she was a fit subThe Christian Woman, published citizen, he could not consci- gradually dying out before the inject for the sympathies of our sex, at Philadelphia, and edited by Mrs. entiously tolerate or countenance an- fluences of Gentile fashions and out- who might thus encourage to a pure Annie Wittenmyer, assisted by a other man in committing a felony. side civilization. life and lift her out of the pit into large corps of able writers, is a paper But leaving this particular case which she had fallen. Such sym- that should be in every Christian out of the question, there is no AGGRESSIVE MORMON ISM. pathy was not accorded her except household. It is a monthly, price loubt whatever that the crime of by a few Christian ladies who were one dollar per annum, and we have polygamy is alarmingly on the People who have the idea, and it inspired to use their influence for made arrangements to furnish it, in in this Territory. The Mor- is a very prevalent one, that Instead of re- connection with the Standard for good in her behalf. mon priesthood know only too well is simply confined to Utah, ceiving the approbation of our sisters, $1.50 a year, only 50 cents more that they have an additional fetter should read very carefully the their acts were questioned, and their than the regular subscription price on a man when he becomes a law special message of Gov. Neil of characters for tolerating a of our paper. This offer holds good breaker, and consequently men are Idaho, and the letter of Mrs. Ann visit from assailed, the wayward girl. It to our old subscibers, who ought to oontinually being urged into poly- Eliza Young in this issue of the would be well if this were all. The renew at once. Send us $2.00, and gamy, who, if let alone would never Standard. It is a lamentable fact very persons who heaped censure you will get the Standard, the think of doing it. A young man that the of the United States on the Good Samaritans, felt them- Christain Woman, and Our Union , people from one of the settlements was are either ignorant of the constant selves honored by ther association the three best missionary journals heard to say at Conference time, encroachments of Mormonism. or bewith a woman of mature years, who in the country, for one year. Wo that the young fellows had no aware of are indifferent it, to, or had became the second or third wife defy any one to mention a better ing chance at all for finding a wife, as legligent of the dangers arising of a prominent Mormon. Ladies, investment for the money. the old men were appropriating all rom the spread of a doctrine, claiming to be Gentiles, commit a the young girls. A young girl from which in the name of religion seeks great error in seeking association ow is the time to renew one of the Southern counties told ;o undermine the your citiof with women in polygamy, unless it subscription to the allegiance her mistress that an elder who had zens to the United States. If is for the purpose of influencing Standard. And try and send in one already a number of wives had two people would only understand that them the obnoxious other against name with your own. system. others sealed to him during Con- Jieir own households are not safe I once saw in the waiting room of a ference week, and added characteragainst the viper, that they are as depot a scene that was enough to Will our city friends whose subhas been he istically, paying one of ikely to he contaminated in New have chilled the heart of any woman. scriptions have expired, kindly rethem a dollar a week for tending to York or Massachusetts, as well as if A man with three wives wasprepar- new without being called upon, as the cows, but now he wont have to they lived in Utah, there would ing to take a trip, accompanied by it will save us much trouble and do that any longer. Wot be apathy on this subject any the legal wife and one of the labor. plural can send They their dollar lhe time, may not be as bad ashonser in class of society. women. The latter was dressed in direct to -any the old Reformation period, but postofficp Box 3 85, or leave We trust that the people of Idaho gay attire and very busily coquet- - it at the Tribune office. POLYGAMY t they are acting under orders tended to subvert our American in declaring what is not true. One institutions, of these wives said lately to a neigh- The suggestions contained in the bor, I scarcely dare let my hus- - letter of our Idaho correspondent )and go out of an evening, because are also worthy of attention. Let I am afraid he may be spending it good people petition, and keep ageta-wit- h another woman, and if he has ting and petitioning, until Congress 0 be absent for a night, my uneasi will be forced by a healthy over-lesknows no end, and yet he denies whelming public sentiment to do its having become a polygamist. in this matter. duty The Standards friend at court I St-cr- - Harriet K Jeannette to prove it a certainty. The men Idaho Legislature, unless he be deny it, but there are many attend- - pledged to resist the encroachments ing circumstances which go to prove of any and all systems which are ting him around him while making preparations for travel, and she seemed to be as happy as a bad woman can be while torturing some rival fora mans attentions. Off in one corner sat a lady dressed in plain garb, almost presenting the appearance of mourning. Her close watchfulness of all that was transpiring between the man and his concubine attracted my attention. She was an entire stranger to me, while I knew the man and woman, she was so closely watching and it did not take long to discern the situation. Every feature of her face showed suffering and blasted hopes, and the teardrops were seen coursing their way down the furrows in her cheeks, which had once been as fresh as rose leaves. She was the first wife, who had been robbed of the affections of a once1 kind and loving husband. His own passions amd the counseling of the priesthood had driven him into polygamy, and this fist wife was living a life ds nt right-minde- d Anti-polygam- y ing I i in-erea- se Mor-inonis- m Hi Anti-Polygam- f i y |