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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- Reviving ti Read If Judge Black Issue. has succeeded in STANDARD. Y dollar of public debt. It is no more simple in its machinery than any other Territory. The impartiality of its laws are carried out when a Gentile comes into a County Court with a case against a Mormon. Ask the poor man who puts 10 per cent of his d pay into the tithing office whether the burdens are light. Protection universal; the Mountain, Meadow massacre, Robinsons murder and the doctrine of blood atonement, for instance. No official defalcations. If there is a possibility of ever getting the books of the various public officers ballanc-ec- l, they may tell a different story. Not a dollar of public debt. ' Only about $200,000 due the Government. But taxes are of- - little moment to Judge Blacks clients; their motto is, tithes first, temples second, yourselves next and taxes when convenient. Ogden Pilot. 83 to go they are significant. The Srnti0lngmnt! huthrd. that the law against polygamy pled was unconstitutional because it interfer-wit- h their religious -freedom, having been set aside by the Supreme Court, Reasons why the Christian women of the another plea is made to the effect United States should support the Standard. that the rights of a Territory are greater than the rights claimed for the States under the old State The Standard is the only paper m the United rights States devoted to the suppression of doctrine. Polygamy Chicago Inter Ocean. A. doing nothing to prove his senility, the fact of his basing his argument, before the' House Judiciary Committee, on the dead and buried issue of State sovereignty goes far toward not only showing his failing powers of mind, but also shows the merits of a cause that requires for its justification the point made by TO NEW READERS." Polygamy, a3 it exists in Utah, is not underthe secessionists and nullifiers of stood by the people of the United States. the South. Aside from the absurdThis number of the Standard will be read by a great ' many peoity of placing Utah on a basis with the States, the point raised by the It is the mission of the Standard io enlighten who, in all probabilty, have the ple, people of America in counsel for John Taylor et al. is to the workings never a copy before. To all of this monstrou s system regard seen of inquity. one that has been decided by four such we a extend cordial invitation years of cruel war, and at the exto help our work by becoming regIt is now more than thirty-onpense of some of the best blood on years since both sides and millions of treasure. ular subscribers. We will keep the Polygamy was planted on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. To attempt to revive such a quespublic informed of the situation of tion shows what consideration for affairs, and endeavor to discuss as the Government his clients have, During this time Congress has utterly failed to as possible, all ques- enact intelligently and how very likely they would be efficient, or enforce existing laws for the tions on the of Ibis great crime. material abolition and bearing Constitutional Polygamist. to show any respect for a ruling moral interests of the Territory. Judge Black is, on confession, power which they, through their in the United States counsel, argue even now has no inclined to believe that he has made Every person has never taken such a degrading We some reputation as a constitutional who desires to see priestly dominion andPolygamy right to make laws of them. debasing lorm in any nation, or among any have very little anxiety on the sub- lawyer, But he hazarded a good deal destroyed in Utah should become a people above the condition of savages, a3 in subscriber to the Standard. in Utah. of his of admission the Utah the as a when, argument against ject w www Lujiiminumwwww as arand for Blacks State, constitutionality of the Edmunds Judge bill,' he said: The The Women of It is degrading to man and woman, a curse to gument, it can only be indorsed by Mormonism, reof taklocal is who the sustain those children, and destruction to the sacred relations right position of family. OR THE en by the Southern States, and any served by the Constitution to the STORY OF POtV GAMY. act of Congress in the direction people of the Territories as distinctEDITED BY that the venerable counsel points ly and clearly as the to the States, We call upon all the Christian women of the JENNIE ANDERSON FROISETH, candocwhich to A subject upon the will give a moral force United States to join U3 in planning and executCongress EDITOR OF ing measures to arrest the further progress of trine of secession and the dead ques- not legislate in a State is manifestly y this evil. tion of State rights. beyond its power in a Territory. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. y -The three tailors of Tooley This is on the Douglas, An statement of of authentic Women the under Wrongs We also call upon them to assist us in keeping street issued a manifesto beginning, theory that the power the accursed system of Polygamy. Sold Wanted Everyby only Agents Subscription. public sentiment in agitation against an abominaWe, the people of England. Jere confered upon Congress in the Con- where. Address: tion that peculiarly oppresses and stigmatizes C. G. G. PAINE, Publisher, Detroit. Mich. S. Black goes before the Judiciary stitution to dispose of and make woman. Committee stating that he is there all needful rules and regulations represent at the request of the peo- specting the Territory or other Polygamy is a sin most especially against wo There is a remarka- property of the United States carple of Utah. man as it desecrates the home and the fireside, ble coincidence between the cele- ried with it no power whatever for and renders mutual confidence between husband brated tailors and the champion of the government of the inhabitants and wife an utter impossibility. Territories. the of one State and the rights, polygamy This was an argument made before the people of Enparty represented Consequently it is only right then that woman gland just about as much as Mr. Congress and the people and passed should be its most uncompromising opponent, Black does the people of Utah. If upon. This interpretation of the and work for its complete abolition. the counsel had by any accident constitutional powers of congress told the truth he would have said: was rejected, whereas the other inI am here by orders of my clients; terpretation which gives to Congress It is true that nothing more fully attests the He legislative powTer in the Territories the polygamists of Utah. progress of a nations civilization than the poei. would have said that his presence as great as the legislative power. of tion and character of its women. THE there was in behalf of open law de- a State within it own borders has decisions and of the fiers, of men who claim that they sanction of law It is also true that at no period of the world3 & North-Wester- n are above the law; of men who the Supreme Court. The laws on Chicago existence has womans work of love among her RAILWAY. own sex been more sienally blest. preach polygamy openly and prac- the statue books are all based on CONSTRUCTED! BEST BEST ODDEST Is the tice it secretly as long as possible; that interpretation! of the ConstituEQUIPPED! and hence the of men who teach their plural wives tion which gives Congress the absoLEADING KAILWAY Consequently, we call upon women to aid us to deny the existence of any mar- lute control of the Territories, and in this work of charity, trustihg that our labors OF THE riage relation, to commit perjury every phrase of Territorial organizamay also be crowned with success. WEST AND NORTHWEST! and place themselves in the posi- tion is covered by these laws, and SURE and SAFE Roate between tion of mere concubines. Such are every Territory has been organized Itilke SHORT, COUNCIL BLUFFS the real clients of Judge Black and under them. That this system of iniquity should be pracAND Black been Had he is such are the morals of which ticed under tbe name and cloak of religion only making Judge adds to the enormity of the crime. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE champion. Ilis address is lull of an argument on the constitutionaliAnd all p Aula EAST, such as and fallacies and ty of these laws before a Court comFalls, Lew York, Mitl:ulaihiv, Ilostou, resembling a tale told by an idiot, petent to pass upon them there NLwiara Washington, Ilaltlmojte, Pittsburgh, MonThat these unlawful and unhallowed alliances treal, Toronto, Detroit, Cleveland. full of sound and fury, signifying would have been some excuse for are termed celestial marriages makes the system At Council Bluffs tko Trains of tbe hicago But he was declarations. his simpfrom P. the U. i.na a, huI tne all the more revolting to our common Christian ivys depart nothing. Union Depit. nitre At Chicago iIojoco' reel' ons are wide wi h the Lake principles. Judge Black says the Mormons ly pleading the cause of the polyga- Shore, Micawau Cemrd. Rr.lt Iwu re A Ohio, Ft. Wayne are charitable to one another and to mists before the Judiciary nd Pennso Larva, anil Chicago & Grand '! ruuk IUys cr.d of the House, and bis remarks tLo KankaU-- e ana Handle It nites. the stranger within their gates. Consequcntly, we ask the cordial Room Pa face Puli mat (Ms Drawing and concerted action of the Christian women of There have been several instances put him in the attitude of regarding Are run on a'l through tranp of this toad. our land. of the first and the case of Joan his own opinion as more binding on ONLY ROAD upon will'll are run is the It ONeil is an example of what the the committee than laws of long the celt Dratctl the continued agitation of the subject, we stranger in their gates is likely to standing or of interpretations of the liUDeriai Lv iu u&vs By it may confidently hope that the great crime ot experience. Speaking of the Ter- Constitutions which have becouie WEST OK NORTHWEST OF CHICAGO. polygamy will be abolished. ritorial Government, he says it is fixed. as precedents. I The remarks of Judge Black signiIiiii:t upon Ticket Agen'.r Belli ug you tidtets v t this simple in its machinery?and imparroad, lisaiuli.e them, ami refuse to buy M the do not ever the Chicago & lonlway. tial in its laws, its burdens are light fy little so far as any definition of read The Standard is only$l per annum. SubIf you wish ike Ben Traveling Accomodations you will is ront of cheath.uv iron concerned, Talkets the and its protect mi universal;no by your Congress powers scribe for it yourselves and recommend it to your 3?AN D WILL TAKE LONE O'lUEK exwhat to shew Lice. this All Ticket A,onte tell Tickets by Standard, friends. Address, 'ns official defalca- but in that they ing at elccti V. U. SIENiSSr.Tt, J. D.I.aAML oVo hard-earne- Anti-Polygam- y InT T . 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