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Show A 1 ' V.. ' ""v. I t ict YOL. II. To the Women c.lcrU 4M:,n NO. 8. of America: Let every happy wife and mother who reads these lines give her sympathy , players and efforts "tofi ce her sisters from this degrading bondage . Let all the womanhood of the country stand united for them. Time is a power in combined enlightened sentiment and sympathy , before which every form of injustice and cruelty must finally go down. Harriet Beecher Stoive. Womans Work. JENNIE A. JILLSON. Womans work is in the home, 'Tis there the heaviest burdens fall; Where loving footsteps ever come, And tender voices call. Womans work is on the spot Where right, and wrong go hand in hand; To combat wrong, to shield it not, And by the right to stand. Womans work is where the voice Of anguish strikes the listening ear; To bid the sorrowing heart rejoice, And staunch the falling tear. Womans work is where the weak T lifes unequal strife go down; Some words of hope and cheer to . speak, Norheed the worlds rude frown. Womans work is een where man Forges the chains to bind his slave; To loose the shackles ifshe can, And some poor sister save. Womans work is here and there, Where broken hearts in sadness pine; Womans work is every where, Gods blessed sun doth shine. Salt Lake City, Sept. 30th. ht!: ,ll't ii'iff' amt it ever ii $Ucmim hve tcr onn SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER, - BY Imt 1 38 1 After openly denying the fact , George Q. Cannon has at last admitted that he is a polygamist , and that he has openly preached that doctrine. See the December Standard. Send your orders at once for the next Standard.) The Advocates of Polygamy. People who are unaquainted with the workings of polygamy sometimes ask the question, do any of the better educated and more refined Mormon women sincerely advocate polygamy? We have heard that they are compelled by circumstances to submit to At, and we can imagine that the illiterate class under the spell of superstition and fanaticism might be advocates of the doctrine, but how can a pare and refined woman think that the system can be anything but the offspring of tyranny arid lust? It would take mfich longer time and space than I have'at present at my dis- posal to answer tliis question thoroughly and intelligently, because sometimes even the educated and cultured class are susceptible t,o the influences of bigotry and fanaticism, and people from the lower walki of life have not always been imposed upon by the specious teachings of tlic Mormon priesthood in regard to tliijs doctrine, as easily as those who ha.ve received better edica tional advantages. Of course, as a system, but a long course of careful observation has confirmed me in this opinion, that whenever you hear a woman openly advocating polygamy, you may safely conclude that she is either a tool of the Mormon priesthood, an ignorant fanatic, or a thoroughly corrupt creature, and sometimes the first of these is also the last. I will give one illustration now, which in the principle involved is not by any means an isolated case, though perhaps a little peculiar in its own special features. Not very long ago a lady was visiting a settlement only a short distance from Salt Lake, and she asktd that identical question from an old resident, one who is still a member of the Mormon Church. Come with me was I the reply, and will introduce you to one of these polygamous teachers, then The obyou can judge for yourself. ject of the visit made known, the exponent of the priesthood freely gave her views about the celestial doctrine, its benefits to women, how lovely it was to see a venerable patriarch surrounded with his loving wives and obedient children, living in blessed unity, and what a pregnant lessons of purity and morality such a scene into human minds. But, the visitor ventured to remark, if history be true, the, instances- - of polygamous families living in harmony are very rare, in fact so rare, that one has never yet been found, and as to morality, the reverse seems to be only too true. Before she could reply, a little child came into the room and climbed into her lap, a lovely blonde babe, with the bluest of eyes and golden hair, however of an entirely different type from its mother, who was also fair and quite an attractive looking woman for her age. The loveliness of the child being commented upon, the mother remarked it was like its father, and then immediately another child entered the room, this one a boy of about eight years of age, who also greeted our polygamous advocate by the title of mother This child was a pure mullato , his african origen plainly visible in every characteristic of face and head, from the twinkling black eyes to the close cropped wooly curls. The gentile visitor did not want to hear any more from that source about the morality. inculculated by polygamy, and after they had taken leave, they met another Mormon lady who remarked, if you desire it, I will give you the address of a woman in Salt Lake Citv, who will preach you a most eloquent sermon on the subject of celestial marriage, and then afterwards perhaps she will show you her Chinese baby, which is not yet one year old. It Is needless to say that this unregenerate Babylonian had seen quite enough of one class of female apostles of polygamy. in-still- George Q. Cannon is hot a citizen of the United States, neither can he become one under the law , consequently , he is ineligible to a scat in Congress. See the December number of the Standard . The True Mother. ar. 7 : 2. Xjttsbmd. PRICE 1881. others, to her he is her boy. Biography is rich with illustrations of this truth, although the man whose is to 10 CENTS. Mormon Children. Says an earnest Mormon advocate, on the law of heredity, and in defense mother is still spared to him need not Our physical organi go beyond his own experience to rec- of polygamy: ognize its force. Here, for example, zation, health, vigor, strength of body is gruff old Dr. Johnson, bearish and in faculties, inclinations, &c.,areinflu-ence- d Herboorish in many things. When he is very much by parentage. fifty years old, and his mother is ninety, editary disease, idiocy, weakness of You mind or of constitution, deformity, he writes to her in tenderness: have been the best mother, and, I be- tendency to violent and ungovernable lieve, the best woman in the world. I passions, vicious appetites and desires, thank you for your indulgence to me, are engendered by parents, and are beand beg forgiveness of all that I have queathed as a heritage from generation done ill, and of all that I have omitted to generation. True, every word of it. And the to do well. How many men there are whom the world little thinks of as testimony of visitors to Salt Lake City, childlike, who could make these words native and foreign, with practical untheir own, and set their hands to them animity goes to prove that these transdeI mitted evils exist to a with Johnsons closing assurance, am, dear, dear mother, your dutiful gree in Mormon progeny. Says one of these who visited Salt son. And the lion hearted Luther, who seemed better suited to thunder Lake in 1862, and was for awhile the The childefiance at spiritual oppressors than to guest of Brigham Young: speak words of trustful affection to a dren of the Saints have a bad name for d woman, turns from his precocious depravity. Says another who was there two religious warfare to write to his aged and dying mother: I am deeply sor- years since: I had an opportunity to rowful that I cannot be with you in the see several thousand children pass in flesh as I fain would be. All your review or procession before me. They children pray for you. certainly were a very inferior lot. Says another, It would be impossi- John Quincy Adams mother lived but he had notout-grow- n ble to collect even from our great citto be seventy-four- , his sense of dependence upon ies, as many children so unprepossessher when she was taken away. My ing. The mortality among children at an mother was angel upon earth, he Salt Lake City, is also remarkable conShe was the real personificawrote. tion of female virtue, of piety, of char- sidering the general salubrity of the climate, New Orleans is the only city ity, of ever active and benevolence. 0 God! could she in the United States that reports so have been spared yet a little longer. great a death rate. Mother and daughter are often wives I have enjoyed but for short seasons, of the same man. The jealousies beand at long distant intervals, the her society, yet she has been tween the wives, make inevitable disin the polygamous to me more than a mother. She has cords children breath a The been a spirit from above, watching over family. is no privame for good, and contributing, by the vitilated air; there mere conciousness of her existence, to cy, no oneness of sentiment, no home. the comfort of my life. That concious- If rich, the wives live seperately from ness has gone, and without her the each other. If poor, they are herded together in one or two rooms. At the world feels to me like a solitude. When President Nott, of Union best, in the rearing of children, polyCollege, was more than ninety years gamy and monogamy present about the old, and had been for more than half a same differences than exist between an Orphan Asylum andthe loving pure century a college president, as strength and sense failed him in his dying hours, circle of a Christian home. Dudley C. Haskell. the memory of his mothers love was fresh and potent, and . he could be Geo. Q. Cannon, in the contest with hushed to needed sleep by patting him G. R. Maxwell said, "I deny that lam gently on the shoulder, and singing to him the familiar lullabies of long ago, living in violation of the laws of the Docs then the law sanction after the fashion of that mother whom country Dehe fancied was still at hand to care fo r a man having four wives? See the cember number of the Standard . him. An entry in the diary of the gallant Polygamous Mormonism was never young General Bartlett, while he was There is nogrowa prisoner of war, severely wounded, stronger than now. If I could only ing evil that more loudly demands the in Virginia, reads: of live to get in our lines, orto Baltimore, careful and conscientious attention statesmen. I could die contented. My mother The elements of evil and of danger would be there. Thus always. Mother, your work can l.be naturally marshalled in two diIt costs groups. One having relation most is a hard one, but it pays! to the State, the other affecting something to be a good mother; it rectly more specifically morality and Chriscosts time, and devotedness, and but no love on earth is like tian civilization. In guarding against that which a faithful mother wins and the first, we can legitimately appeal to Congress, and the National Executive. holds from a faithful son. For averting the second, we must rely upon the same great moral forces that The loyal wives and mothers of Utah has christianized the world. g D. C. Haskell. Territory , call upon all citizens throughout the country to join Is it in accordance with the spirit of with them in protesting against the pres- American institutions for an unnaturalence of Geo. Q. Cannon , an alien and a ized foreigner , and a to citizens See in Congress ? represent American polygamist in the halls of Congress. pre-emine- nt kind-hearte- A good mother never grows old to a good son; nor does his love for her. Their relations to each other are not changed by the passing years; she is to the last his mother; and whatever he the December Standard , never-intermitti- . ng hap-pinessj- of self-sacrific- e; law-abidin- law-break- er See the December Standard. . |