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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- Feinrle Mormon Missionaries. STANDARD. Y yery many of tjie laiqes of tllis city given toothers, but one could 67 scarce-- y Treachery and Tyranny of (eorf?e Q Cannon. and Normal will remember Mrs. Dr. repress a feeling of i y for the .A few months ago there was a The Deseret News of Oct. olst Ferguson, and the insignificant look-th- e weakness that could not witffitmd meeting in this citv between the Mormon Church organ, con- - hng man who was her husband, and lie blandishments of the Circe who Presidents of the County Stakes and tained a letter signed Ellen B. P er-- 1 slie his ruler in things both great Had brought him to eternal ruin, es- the At that meeting, Apostles. ' in which the writer stated alKI small. They lived in Normal, pecially as tears of remorse and sor-o- George Q. Cannon, who assumes to guson, that the llev. J. C. Kimball of Hart- - FV0m there they went direct to Salt ran down his wrinkl'd and fur- represent a free people in Congress in letters the ford, Conn., (whose Lake City and she is now a full rowed cheeks in streams. He felt said ttiat in the last Legislature Christian Register stamp him as a fledged Mormon. Mrs. Dr. Fergu-pai- d that, in a measure, his sufferings there were some members who were emmissary of the Mormons) re- - son is unattractive in personal were only a just punishment, still, disposed to act and vote according, to take part in the pearance, has an unlimited amount lie thought that he deserved some- to their own opinions, and who Lfself-assuranhis in Memorial services held Church and was not ham-o- n thing better from the woman who evinced a disposition not to submit the occasion of the funeral of pered with excess of modesty, hut had lured him to destruction, and to the counsels of the Priesthood; President Garfield, assigning her rather the reverse. As a lecturer for whom he had sacrificed home, that this year all men who showed the second place in the programme 0n happy marriage relations she friends, position, wife, children, and a disposition to act independent of of speakers. She delivered an ad-- 1 will probably not offer her own all that an honorable man holds hurcli counsel must be kept at dress occupying about twenty min- - matrimonial experience as an expo-ute- dear in life, than to be hurried into lome, and men must be selected and congratulates herself that nent of her knowledge and s his grave. The poor old man lies who could be relied upon to act in in the potters field of a Mor- perfect harmony with the Priest-moopened the door for further ment on such matters. work in Hartford, and expects to while the woman And this is the same Geo. Commenting on the above the mon grave-yarreturn there soon and deliver lect A Salt Lake Tribune eavs: We pre-ur- is traveling about the country Q. Cannon who in the East tells the sume this is the Mrs. upon Utah and her people. preaching the infamous doctrine of people that Mormons select whom In the same letter, it is stated whose husband died in this city last Mormon polygamy. they will for office, and vote for that the writer and Mrs. Zina D. winter. The lady ought to make Mrs. Zina D. Young was one of whom they please, that they are an Con-1 an excellent missionary. Young attended the Womans Sho:tly the earliest exponents of plural entirely free people. But here in gross :n Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Sara after the fearfully cold days of last marriage, having deserted her hus- Utah he declares to the Mormons Spencer of Washington met them, November, an old man came into band to become the concubine of that there must be no such thing introduced them to many of the of-- the Tribune office, and taking off his Joseph Smith, and after his death, among them as free thought ou any ficers and members of the Congress, hat, showed where his whole scalp she becamh the property of Brigham subject, temporal or spiritual, that and presented their names for elec- - had been frozen. He said he was Young. Old Mormons say it re- their whole business is to obey, tion as members. close upon eighty years of age, that quired a great deal of both faith and that for a legislator, elected ostensiThe writer is very bitter at their ho was once a clergyman, and being courage to practice polygamy in bly by the people to make laws, to names being rejected, but she does infatuated with a woman he had those days, for the majority of wo- exercise his own judgement is a not stop to consider that a Society married her and joined the Mormon men who were sealed to Smith were crime for which such a man must his. official head. whose object is the elevation and Church. With age and disease he still living with their own husbands, atone bv v losing advancement of women, would not had become incapaciated for work to whom they dared not confess the And yet year after year George Q. only be traitor to its own principles, and she had nearly starved him, she fact that they were also living as Cannon has taken the oath of allegiby receiving as members two apos- - herself being infatuated with a man wives to the prophet. And accord- ance to the United States, year after ties of a doctrine, that drags woman in this city. He added that three ing to her own admissions Sister year has sat in Congress, and yet, down to the lowest depths of degra- - nights before, he went out of the Zinat matrimonial experience has during the whole time he has been dation, but it would also b'e casting house for a moment, when this tig-- a not been a bed of rose leaves. A but the veriest slave of his creed, exdeadly insult at every virtuous Less of a wife, sprang up, locked the lady said ouly a day or two ago, alting its sovereignity above that of wife and mother in the whole land, door, and kept him there until the Sister Zina told me herself that the United States Government. The which the Womans Congress was skin of his unprotected head was she had wept enough tears on ac- simple truth is that George Q. Cannot likely to do. frozen. He brought his head seared count of polygamy to drown herself non is a traitor to the Government The writer also criticized very se- - by frost as a proof of the truth of twice over, and when I remonstrat-wit- h more dangerous a thousand times her on her wicked and hypo than any traitor who ever plotted verely Mrs. Ednah D. Cheneys pa- - what he said. A few days after-pe- r on the Ideal Home, in which ward the Deseret News published critical course in trying to induce war against free institutions, for he that well known and estimable wTo- - the announcement of the death, by others to embrace what had cost is using his place and influence to We herself so much sorrow and anguish, break down the manhood of his man took the ground and su Tained pneumonia, of Dr. Ferguson. it too that the true home, the true should think that Mrs. Dr. Fergu-famil- she gave me a reply which was people, and making slavery the only can only be built on mono- - son would make an excellent equivalent to a confession that, be qualifications necessary for office. Saint missionary. She can ing herself lost, she cared not how There is not an intelligent Mormon marriage, and that polygamy knows that Cannon destroys both freedom and equality, not only tell of the beauties of Mor many she dragged down to her own in Utah but but if put to the test level. And, to repeat the words owes his promotion to his toadying She closes her letter by saying that mon This is to Brigham Young, and now that he though debarred from any public ex- - might explain what it was possible of our contemporaryagain mod- has power, he shows himself just pression on the platform, they did for a Mormon wife to accomplish the material from which some not fail to bear testimony to all when her husband became old and ern female missionaries are made ! such a tyrant as toadies always are whom they could reach that this helpless. Above we have given Does not the story carry with it its when given authority. And Cannon never lets an opporpolygamy was the work of God, but the merest outlines of what own moral? and Mrs. Zina Young presented the old man told us. It was a story tunity slip where he thinks it will H e open letter to President Arthur la the Read not reach outside ears of proclaimMrs. Julia Ward Howe, the presi- - of cruelty such as only a wToman Janaary buuui arl dent of the Congress with a copy of turned fiend, could invent, and the ing his own and the Mormon peoy The Standard is ples contempt for the United States most striking proof that it was true, the Mormon articles of faith. Queries, almost numberless, have was that no ordinary mortal could waging a vigorous crusade against laws. Not long since the Church come to us, asking who are these invent such a tale. It was said of Mormonism, and it ought to have a leaders visited Bear Lake Valley, female apostles of polygamy, these the ancient Medusa, that all who wide circulation throughout the the seat of Mormon power in Idaho women who are seeking to subvert! looked upon her were turned to country, that it may be furnished and Geo. Q. Cannon in the course the purity and unity of American stone. As a symbol of this modern with resources to carry on its right- of a sermon preached to a large homes, and what is their previous Medusas power, Mrs. Dr. Ferguson eous warfare. The December num- congregation said in substance: should paint a picture of an old man, ber will have special articles on Geo. Nineteen years ago the Congress record? C. Mormon M. and the and Q. Cannon, of the United States passed a law To answer' this last question would bowed with four score years, hundreds should circulated it be his bare and to prohibit and punish the practice by take more space than we have at with the skin of into bloodless of thousands. of polygamy in the Territories. How our disposal, and we would not say wrinkled scalp frozen Boston Congregationalist. much prohibition has the law efwlut folio TPs, were it not to warn ridges. It is of such material that fected? How many of us have been American mothers to shun those some modern female missionaries Ministers and Societies who have punished! for practc ng polygamy? who would lure their innocent are made. Then after this taunt, he assured a not This same old man responded to the letter of yet daughters to ruin under the guise of his hearers that Mormonism was of the number of prominent y Society will religious teachings. of God, and that The Pantaqraph of Aug. 11th Salt Lake, including members of please do so at their earliest conven- the especial work y Society, related ience. We are prepared to fill all the Government would be powerless published at Bloomington, Ills., had the in the future as it had been in the an article from which we make some the same harrowing tale ef woe, orders for this and succeeding numand gave the names of responsible bers of the Standard, all of which past to enforce the quotations. law detrimental to the It is announced from Utah that parties who could corroborate its contain important information for or any other progress ot the kingdom of God on about Aug. 20th two Mormon worn- - truth. He acknowledged freely his every body. earth. Will the American people will start East ou a lecturing own sin in deserting the wife of his the presence in the chil-YExtra copies of the December Standard any longer permit hioiitThe lecturers are Dr. Ellen youth and a lovely family of of this tyrant and halls iiLuson, formerly of Blooming- - dren for the woman who had thus mailed to any address for 5 cents per traitoroftoCongress all republican institutions? meted to him the measure he had copy. . . Syi amf Normal, and Zina D. Young. w c s, judge-thisha- to-d- ay d. d, es I . I - y Lat-gami- c ter-da- y .J wife-hoo- d, Anti-polygam- Anti-polygam- Anti-polygam- anti-polygam- j B. -- VO A , y, |