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Show ' I pert; JJJan have 1is owt YOL. II. rm lowai pV, and g have ler own Qmhandl or. 7 : SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER, 1881. NO. 7. 2. PRICE 10 CENTS. of America: holds in this Territory. We are confi- appeal Women and Mormonism. to womany Mormon who knows the Let every happy wife and mother who dent that this and succeeding genera- an prac tions will be benefitted tical our of Strange as it may seem, it is never. offorts, by workings polygamy to reads these lines give her sympathy , and that there are many Mormon wo- answer this question? In the polyga- theless true that the women are the prayers and efforts to free her sisters men who in their secret hearts wish us mous households of your neighbors strongest supporters of Mormonism. from this degrading bondage. Let all complete and glorious success. and friends is woman honored, is she One would think that the pure instincts the womanhood of the country stand We are not, as has been frequently treated with tenderness or respect, is and holy affections of woman would united for them. There is a power in asserted, banded together to destroy her life made happy by her husbands rebel against, and loathe a religion combined enlightened sentiment and sym- the most sacred ties between man and care, and by his consideration for her which robs her of the love of a huschildren bastards, and feelings and her wishes? On the con- band, which degrades her to the level pathy , before which every form of injus-- - woman; to make of a beast, and which fills her heart trample upon the holiest affections of trary, are you not told that you have no tice and cruelty must finally go down. the human heart. We should indeed right to expect your husbands to love with wretchedness and her life with Harriet Beecher Stowe. But no. The Mormon womregret if any sorrow should come to and that it is enough honor for you misery. en with one hand clasped the forged you through our action, for we are all you, to be allowed to bear children to a IN THE NEST. sisters by virtue of our common woman-h- Saint! Is this fulfilling Gods purpose revelation of Joseph Smith, and with ood and we know, of all sorrow!, towards woman on earth, to be obliged the other draw the monster polygamy ' Gather them close to your loving that is the greatest which opens our to smother the holiest instincts of woma- to their breasts, and all the while their heart and degenerate ' into mere 'bosoms were streams of blood from to the fact that we have been n-hood, eyes Cradle them on your breast: as you know you have de- the poisoned fangs of the monster. idols of clay, and have cherishing They will soon enough leave your raised false Gods and fallen down to generated. And do the men of your There are two explanations to the atbrooding care, worship them. No sorrow shall come faith, these Saints treat the mothers of tachment of Mormon women to Mor- Soon enough mount youths topmost to the Mormon women that we are able their children as wives , respecting them monism. One is their ignorance. The stair to avert. We do not wish to misjudge as such, and demanding the same res- women come from the Peasantry of nest. in Little ones the or misrepresent our own sex in regard pect from others? When Geo. Q. Can- Europe and from the uneducated classFret not that the childrens . hearts are to the holy relations of wife and moth- non made his public answer to G. R. es of America, and are not sufficiently erhood, and our only desire is to ac- Maxwell who contested his seat in educated to see the bondage in which gay, held. The second and true That the restless feet will run: complish good for (as you call your- Congress he said, I deny that I am they are What did reason is that the women are deluded There may come a time in the selves,) the poor persecuted women of living with four wives. this mean? Geo. Q. Cannon was cer- by the peculiar teachings of MormonUtah. by We concede to all the right of the tainly living at that time with four wo- ism. Once obtain a womans consent When youll sit in your room and sigh : free exercise of their religion. Our men, all of whom had born him chil- to the doctrine of direct revelation from For a sound of childish fun; God, and she must believe all that is country is aland of civil and religious dren, and he lives with them When youll long for a repetition but while our nation is one of If they are not his wives what are said to have been revealed. There is liberty, sweet undertake to no escape for her. She must accept freedom, it is by common consent they? Will any of you ' each That sounded through room, Joseph Smiths revelation on the, cegoveined by law, and if you are, what explain this to us? the dear Of Mother, Mother, When Ann Eliza Young commenced lestial order of marriage and the is always claimed for you, loyal Amerlove calls mass whole of rubbish, called, revelaican citizens, devoted to the mainten- her suit for divorce, Brigham Youngs That will echo long in the silent halls, ance of law, Thus the iron chains are tions. in answer as her to Court made must admit that no plea, you add their to And stately gloom. assumed revelation can exempt any- was in substance this; That she was twined around the women until they are in the thraldom of religious slavery. There may come a time when youll one from an obedience to that law, for not his wife, because be had been lawEven the women whose better instincts if one has the right to obey a revelation fully married to Mary Ann Angell long to hear which he pretends to have had, another many years before, and his wife, the and natural affections make them avoid The eager boyish tread, will yet defend the doctrine The tuneless whistle, the clear shrill may do the same, and thus any crime said Mary Ann AngellJ was still living polygamy, on the ground of revelation. might be justified. Ifsome of us should and undivorced. Can you not see shout, more than thirty-fou- r For in which this anscome to you, and say we had received plainly the position years, The busy bustle in and out, in Mormonism has Utah been wife? first all wer the but. a revelation from Heaven commanding places breeding ,T And pattering overhead. and crime treason. Will It has us now is tell who it chilignorance, us to murder you, or your dear you please death all crushed to the hearts and hopes When the boys and girls are dren, would you submit quietly, or that would destroy the most sacred of i has It blasted women. .. grown up, ' . business between rran and woman, make would you claim the protection of the ties And scattered far and wide, law? The revelation on polygamy children bastards, and trample upon prospects, family ties and happy homes. Or gone to the undiscovered shore, is directly opposed to our law, neither the holiest affections of the human It has ever scornfully defied the laws Where youth and age come never declared of our land. I know that outwardly was it an institution of the primitive heart? When Geo. more, Mormon Church, and if as you assume that he had not four wives, what status Mormonism in Mormon communities You will miss them from your side. to believe, that God is the same, yes- did he give to the children of his plural is very pleasing, but inwardly it is full and forever, will you wives, and also to those women? of dead mens bones and reeking Then gather them close to your loving terday, is not so corrupt, so enlighten us as to how his mind was When Brigham Young said Ann Eliza stenches. There heart, and was. not his wife, did he not tactictly a ' in this oneparticular"case? changed Cradle them on your breast; w t VUf in existence., From MormonBut the best way to judge of the good avow that all his other plural wives system They will soon enough leave your ism Rev. the Geo. M. GalArraigned by is by its effects. were not married to him either, and in of or evil system any care, brooding consequence, their children were not lagher in the Christian Register. ' Soon enough mount youths topmost Can any of you honestly and truthfully issue? If you would stair say that one single good has resulted legitimate . lift and look Hurrah For Ocr Side your eyes, through On only Little one5 in the nest. Scottish frorq the practice of polygamy? the contrary, can any of you deny that the mists of superstition which envelop American Journal. Many people have lost their interest its consequences have been a long train you, you would see that the fetters of evils, some of which we dare not which weigh you down were forged in politics and in amusements because An Open Letter to the Mormon Women. even hint at, and preserve our own by mans brutality, and not laid upon they are so out of sorts and run down If t, and that it has planted sor- you by a just and merciful God. Can that they cannot enjoy anything . .5 Believing that there are many Morbe such would wise see ennot that only persons you are simply enough mon women, who conscientiously ac- rows which has blasted ten thousand you Celebrated rt that to and have been not deluded Kidney-Wosnared, remedy try you cept polygamy as a part of their reli- lives? Are there not thousands of you, and experience its tonic and renenough? Will you not listen to gion, and who submit to all that it im- - who feel, though you dare not say so, long the voices of own hearts, and ovating effects they would soon be poses because they think that God re- -' that there never was such a mockery break the chainsyour which bind you, and hurrahing with the loudest. In either quires such submission, or perhaps, as of God, such a blasphemy as to call which divorces from your hearts all the dry or liquid form it is a perfect remedy one of their number has said, because this accursed institution of polygamy a holier instincts of womanhood. Will for torpid liver, kidneys or bowels. they fear it maybe true that God re- religious principle? And if you would not, we most earnestly entreat Exchange. quired it, we feel that it is due to them only reflect seriously fora few moments you hands with us, bravely and to make a statement of our position in and let the scales fall from your eyes, you, join in the cause of purity, happiIf you have any skin diseases or disy the movement. you could not help but see that the fearlessly y to and ness, justice yourselves. eases of the hair or scalp any itching In the first place, we desire you to system was founded by the most transWomen. or discoorations, sun burns, freckles, understand fully and distinctly that we parent fraud of the century, and its pimples, rough or dry harsh skin, you have only been impelled to the work supports are superstition, ignorance, Women that have been bedridden have in Dr. C. W. Bensons Skin Cure, we have undertaken by a common love falsehood and lust. It has been well said that the civili- for years have been entirely cured of a sure, perfect and elegant remedy. of humanity to exert our utmost influence to impede a system which can on-- " zation of any people can be measured female weakness by the use ofLydiaE. Sold by all druggists, Compound. ly result in an accumulation of evil and by the respect and tenderness bestowed Pinkhams Vegetable Mrs. E. Send to Renew your subscription to the Tried has upon woman. Pinkham, 233 Lydia and' which by this standard misfortune, of civilization has been Western Avenue, Lynn., Mass., for Standard at once if you have failed to and what decree sorrow brought already o ' do so before. shame into so many house attained by the Mormon people? We pamphlets. To the Women , , child-beare- rs by-an- d ' to-da- y. ' 1 . . ; - - Q.-Canno- to-da- y, anti-America- I I W-I- n ua II r- - mmmmtmmmmrn n, anti-Christi- an mmm self-respec- . Anti-polygam- Anti-Polygam- , - ' |