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Show 82 ANTI-POLYGAM- The True Story of a Mormon Wife As a specimen of the manner in which the Latter-da- y Saints look upon the marriage relation, and also of their treatment of the women who are sealed to them to ensure their salvation, we give the follow- ing truthful history. Mr. Robert Greaves was con- verted to Mormonism in England more than thirty years ago. He hac at the time a wife and one or two children. His wife refused to ac cept the Latter-da- y Gospel, and therefore, in obedience to the teach . ings of Mormonism, he abandonee her and her little ones, and sailec for America, intending to gathe with the Saints to Zion. Afte reaching the United States he mar ried again. He lived with his se cond wife thirteen years, and afte she had born him nine children he abandoned her like wise, and came on to Utah. The second wife was a Mormon, but after the knowledge o Mr. Greaves character which she STANDARD. Y drying fruits on shares, etc., she has managed for some years to support her family herself ; but now being in feeble health, she has asked the authorities of the Mormon Church whether her husband, who has a good business and is making money ought not to do a little toward the Under support of his children. our present laws the courts alfo. d her no redress, and she appeals to the heads of the Church, her husband being a devout Saint, for the justice that they have promised. Thus far her appeals have been disregarded. The brethren who compose the High Council think that i she prayed more and attended the Fast Day meetings she would have a better spirit and would not enter a complaint against her husband for such a small matter as starving her and her children. Mrs. Graves, on the contrary, believes from her own experience of Fast Days, which have been pretty frequent with her since she came to Utah, that they are not helpful, and she declines to take the good advice given by the . . Honor with 125 members and assets good men and. noble women to mak valued at $1,500, and one Reform such a use of their columns. When a Mormon wife becm s Club with 200 members, assets $50,- , in all $467,100 given and pronounced in her opposition to her raised by the Gentiles, almost with husbands second marriage, the leadin a decade, for religious, education- ers of the people declare her to be al, charitable and benevolent pur- possesssed of a devil; similar accusations are always made by the Morposes. These figures need no comment, mons and their supporters against but a little more explanation is ne- cessary to place them in the proper light. The census of June, 1880 found a population in Utah of about The Mormons at the 144,000. April Conference of that same year put the number of their people at about 112,000, leaving 32,000 non Mormons. This result surprised everybody, and if there are as many m Utah as that, two thirds of them are of the non active sort. The burden of the great work that has been done, and is doing has fallen upon the Gentiles of Salt Lake City, who have never yet been able to poll more than 5,000. And this is the marauding, greedy, dissolute set, who are in Utah only in the hope of ultimately breaking up the Mormons and getting their lands and houses for nothing. Salt Lake New Years Tribune. non-Mormo- all who oppose polygamy. The only crime of those whom J. K. H. Willcox stigmatizes as dissolute, unworthy of belief, etc., is that they are working to rescue women from a life of unspeakable misery and degradation, and to secure to innocent children their birthright. Mrs. Paddock in the Woman's Jaurnal ns -- Kishoi Wiley on Utah. Bishop Wiley, in an address before the Home Missionary Society in Cieveland, thus spoke upon the Mormon question: Utah is now occupied by about 150.000 people, 130,000 of whom are Mormons, and reaching out further into Nevada and the Territories, you have 20,000 Mormons in the circle, and then you have the full number, 150,000 Mormons. I intended to stop to tell you what Mormonism is, but will give you some of its features. We have there, in the heart of our country, one of the most abominable and vile caricatures upon religion and disgraces upon civilization that now exists in the world. Just think of it In the heart of this Christian land, in the end of this nineteenth century, is growing and prospering every day one of the foulest abominations of this earth; one of the most terrible impositions ever practiced on man and woman ; one of the most wicked deceptions ever imposed upon people abroad, and one of the most subtle in character that ever gained a foothold in our country. These , are very hard words, but true, every one of them. As a religion it is false, and as a system it is tyranny. It is vile, root and branch, stem and leaf. I make the had gained during thirteen years o Council. married life. She did not think best to risk coming to Utah with The Marauding Gentiles. him. Soon after he reached Zion Mr. Greaves married a young EnIn has often been charged by the The Of Utah. glish girl of excellent character. press, the pulpit, and in Congress, To his third wife Mr.Greaves reprepeating the lesson printed every AfEditor Journal: In. your issue of resented himself as a widower. day in the Deseret News, (the Morter she had lived with him over a mon Church organ,) that the Gen- the 19 ult, a writer who signs himyear, and had one child, she learne tiles of Utah are a rapacious and self J. K. H. Willcox makes the folthat he had deceived her, and that unprincipled set, and particularly in lowing extraordinary sta einent: he had a wife living in England, and their unceasing political The gentile are agitation soon after the facts in relation to are but seeking to break up and de- many of them, dissolute persons who his family in the States also came stroy the Mormons, so that they desire civil war; and, as a rule, are to her knowledge. She felt that may enjoy their property, lands, unworthy of belief. The names of the officers and dithe man she called husband had homes and orchards. Sco-iet- y We have been at the trouble of rectors of the blighted her life, but in those days a woman in Utah was helpless, and thoroughly collecting the statistics are published in every number y she did as many another has done of the religious and educational of the Standard. submitted to her fate. work these wicked Gentiles have That of the president, the venerable After the birth of her second done this marauding set and we Mrs. Cooke, once a Mormon, now an child, Mr. Greaves thought by this assert, without fear of successful esteemed member of the Congreg-gationtime that he ought to have a fourth contradiction, that no people of church, is too well known wife, and began a course of neglect equal numbers, and resources, and to need any defence from assertions and that was meant to laboring under equal disadvantages made by any defamer of women fit her for the future that awaited from unwearied misrepresentation, who, with noble self.forgetfulness, her. Not long before the birth of and unrelenting ostracism, ever on are giving their time, their strength, her third child he began to teach this earth, showed a more lively and their very lives, for the good of her to live on plain food. They active interest in providing for the others. The remaining officers of indictment cool and deliberately, behad a cow, and he said milk and religious and educational wants of the society are blameless wives and cause I know what it is. Now, shorts was all the family needed. the community at large, than the mothers, whose high standing in the what does 150,000 Mormons mean? Accordingly he would bring home a Gentiles of Utah have shown. community makes it quite unneces- It means 150,000 people who beWitness the following summary: sary to reply to such an attack up- lieve in Joseph Smiths bible, in bag of shorts and boil some of it in Mormon revelation, under the dion them. water, put it on the table with a They have established twenty-si- x bowl of milk, and inform the family church organizations, with a p Perhaps one third of the members vine inspiration of Brigham Young; that they could have nothing else of 958 in the Protestant of the society are Gentiles, the wives 150.000 people who now believe in A few weeks of this sort of diet churches (not counting Catholics) and daughters of our best known citi- the inspiration and divine revelation r brought Mrs. Greaves to the point costing $250,100; schools, zens. The others are women who of John Taylor; 150,000 people of death by starvation. She grew with 129 teachers and 3,821 pupils, have been driven out of the Mormon who believe the best man among so weak that in attempting to walk laving twenty-fou- r G. Q. buildings, which church by the wrongs and cruelties them is the Honorable a few steps from the door she tot- cost $145,450; fifty-tw- o Sunday inflicted upon them in the name of Cannon, very severely married, to tered and fell. A d old schools with 2,250 attendants and religion. be a representative, or delegate, to lady who lived in the yard ran and about 180 teachers, three hospitals Among the men who are the the United States Congress ; 150,-00- 0 lifted her up and said to the hus- 'one large Catholic now being built) strongest friends and supporters of people believing in plural marband: movement wo riage ; 150,000 people who believe seating an average of ,700 patients ;he Brother Graves, your wife is yparly, the ground and buildings number the governor and secretary in marrying for time and eternity, dying of starvation. costing, estimating the one now of the Territory, and other United marrying half a dozen wives down After the poor woman got back to mildingat $15,000, and including States officials, the best known here and half a dozen more up the house and to her bed, which it some ground purchased but not yet members of the Salt Lake Bar, our there; 150,000 people who' at this seemed as though she would never juilt upon, $30,000; eight Masonic cading merchants and business men, time set at defiance the laws of the be able to leave, the neighbor odges with 422 members, and as- our largest mine owners, the pastors United States, and yet year after in a cup of tea and sets including library of nearly of all Christian churches in the Ter- year the patient American nation brought her some food. It is to be presumed 5,000 volumes, valued at. $22, 000; ritory and the principals of all our lets it alone. There is no place that she spoke her mind also pretty six Odd Fellows Lodges with 309 academies and seminaries. These else in this world where this blot freely to the husband, for next nembers, and assets valued at $14,-00- are the dissolute persons who desire could exist. three Knights of Pythiag civil war! These are the parties morning he actually brought her something to eat, and during the odges with 140 and assets valued who are as a rule, unworthy of bewanted in every city, Agents winter that followed she was not re- at $2,000; one Hebrew Congrega-io- n lief! town and village in the United live to Mrs. with 50 shorts, a quired I am sure nothing but an over- States for the new book, The Woupon members, Relief and Graves is now the mother of four a Benevolent Society, with assets See ulver-tissight on the part of the editors of the; men of Mormonism. and children, by going out washing, valued at $0,000; three Temples of Journal tms allowed this slander of, iiont in another noluinn. Anti-Prtlygaiuis- st anti-polygami- ! sts Anti-Polyga- my Anti-Polygam- al ent mem-rnrshi- fifty-fou- kind-hearte- anti-polyga- 0; e. |