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Show 63 ANTI-POLYGAM- when they were scarcely older than the above mentioned Maryland bride, and cases are known where SALT LAKE CITTT, UTAH, DEC. 18b0. three generations of women are living with and bearing children to fffijfT Entered at the Post- - Office in Salt the same husband. There isagond Lake City , Utah , as second-clas- s mail Saint living in this city at the presmatter . ent time who has for plural wives InDiel month'y by The Standard Puelishinu Compa four neices, the children of his own nt The Ormi of the Womeui National brother, and not so very long ag; a Society. man in one of our adjacent settleTERMS: ments married the daughteV of his One Year, in advance 3i.n0 Six months 50 twin sister. There are some peoThree mouths Si ple in Zion who are so wordly in REMITTANCES: their views as to consider such alliRemittance" may be made by dra t, money order or registered letter, at our risk. Give Post Ofricu address in tuh, ances infamous and loathsome, bu including County and State. of dwellers in this The receipt of the paper may be considered the rectipt the majority for the subscription us. sacred city prostitute the holy won. and call the parties to Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates, and should marriage these unlawful relations husbaiu reach ns on or before the 15th of each month, to insure sertion in the suecceediug number. and wife, and hold them guiltless of Address all communications to Tue mdnult y STANDARD. Y further information on the subject polygamy, and overflowing with indignation that such a barbarous institution should be permitted to exist in the heart of the most professedly enlightened country in Christendom. Monday November 1st we had the privilege of attending the regu- lar monthly meeting ot Sorosis, the first Womans Club ever formed in New Tork, and of which Alice Cary was first President. A few words In regard to Sorosis will be perfect- ly a propos in this connection, espe- daily as people away from New lork labor under great misappre- - enjoy a grand literary entertain-o- f ment, which was interspersed with gems of vocal and instrumental music by artistes who are not unknown to fame. A brief season was accorded to us, a special courtesy which our Society should fully n predate, in which we represented as well as possible the importance y of the cause. When we had concluded, the Rev. Phebe Hanaford made a few short ap-O- Anti-Polygam- but extremely earnest remarks, to us the right extending hand a of fellowship, resolution and offering endorsing work which was unanimously our adop-hensio- n about tlie aims and inten- - ted by the Society. When we left, tions ot the Society, as well as the we felt that had nothing else been incharacter of its membership. The accomplished, it was worth while idea of Sorosis originated in the ac- making the trip to New York to ob-ti- e O. P. Box Lake Utah. 385, Salt biain and kindly heart of its tain the Standard, City, any impropriety. Verily this editor recognition of Sorosis. Correspondence solicited from women in all parts of the must his views or har never executive change Mrs. officer, On the following Wednesday af piesent J, C. Territory, which must have the name of the writer, not necessarily for publication but as a guaranty of good faith. bor any idea of becoming a denizen Croly (Jennie June) who had long ternoon, we delivered a lecture on of the city of the Saints. been advocating an organization Polygamy in Utah,' in the Central, To the Pastors of Christian Churches: women of and among artis- M. E. Church, (Dr. J. P. Newmans) literary If this paper should fall into the tic taste and vocation for mutual and were THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS. greeted by a very large hands of any Minister of the Gospel , sympathy and and Many appreciative audience. A, large will he kindly give it to some energetic have had the Education is indeed a very im people opinion that number of noted women, of wealth lady of his congregation , and ask her to Sorosis was an assemblage, of weal- - and position, whose names are of whom and portant matter, but get up a club for it. Will he please call where the educationby umGii, meie butterflies of fash- - national renown in good works, werp of a child or . her attention to the appeal at the head of scarce any- - among our hearers, and we were is to be conducted is also a lqn, a w ote youth the 1st page, addressed to the Women of question worthy of the most serious thing else was discussed save cordially invited to address other America. Let this subject be kept in consideration. It is certainly im- Worth s latest importations, or the meetings in New York. Mrs New-ao- i o he dishes at their sumptu- - man, who was agitation until public sentiment shall portant that children should be unpresent at the very force the enactment of such measures der the oils But these janquets. influence of teachers and opinions first eifort at organization among the that will tend to the total abolition of are erroneous, at least so far as the Christian women of Utah, also made companions, whose moral or religithe other twin relic of barbarism. ous views are at least not antago- present ociety is concerned. Many a few remarks which proved that ar women of she had not lost interest in the cause nistic to the convictions of their pa!e Jnem p1 IN LOVE. and high social standing, which e.xcitod her warmest rents. W e do not use the word resympa-bu- t these also are from a denominational standdistinguished for thies while in Salt Lake City, and The above is the caption of an ligious their benevolence and labors for the our Society may be assured that it editorial in a leading New York point, but rather employ it as a o goo others of will the word Christianhave her earnest lumanity. Many synonym journal of recent date, and was wor era ire in and But in artistic we think it matters a ity. itei.uy any measures for the suppression prompted by a news item to the great deal who teaches our fields, workers who earn their daily of this children, great crime against Nature effect that a resident of Maryland bread of brain exercise and by milswhether and inthe law, and which is so dis- voluntary or had married a young girl of only because, whose wealth cle, m consists genius honoring to womanhood, thirteen years of age, who bore to voluntary, a teacher exercises a and industry, and, (to quote irom a strong influence over his pupils. him the relation of tribute paid to Alice and Phebe The writer criticises that Biblical Whatever may be his moral or religious character, he impresses it on Gary. by the large hearted and grand home again. law as superfluous, which souled President) provides his pupils in a more or less whose isolated degree. lives are so that a man shall not marry his The simple, and so pure, who of the teacher is great, power grandmother, such contingencies and it is but reasonable An unforseen accident having back tenderness and devotion for parents give not being likely to occur, and thinks to desire this power exerted in fa- and loving charity for the slights fastened our departure from New the commandment should he that a vor of morality and truth. Those which Society deals even to gifted, York, we say good bye with many naan shall not his if lonely womanhood. grand- parents who are able to marry The moral J'ebrets- Yet not without experienc-sentimeeducate He waxes very indig- their daughter. of Sorosis cannot be bet- - nS 51 thrill of delight when our children and fail to do so, sin nant over this husband with a dash ter exemplified than by quoting from sandal shoon is turned aain to-oof fatherhood, and says that the against their fellow citizens, against of the terms of their wai'd the land of the their country and against God. But setting sun. pledge, wrorld will not hold him of to defend women against calurn- - Though more than ever impressed guiltless it is not sufficient to give children the most shocking impropriety, not ny, and these fews words speak lvith ie culture the stability, the to mention pruriency and morbid- mental training, it is our duty to al- volumes. In a word, Sorosis is an intellectual and moral strength of so look that they receive moral anc He concludes ity. by saying, That spiritual culture. We verily be- organization of noble, intellectual, the large cities of the East, we still as there is nothing more cultured women, who meet more fully appreciate the grand posholy than lieve that it is also the together of duty the relation of husband and wife Christians (we do not mean Church for the interchange of noble sibilities of the broad free West. between a man and woman who are members, but Christians), to do thoughts and ideas, who believe in Especially are we hopeful of the perfectly adjusted to each other, so what each other as women should, who future of our own Territory, with its can to control educathe they there are few things more loath- tion of this country, as a matter of have an individual sympathy for glorious climate and unrivalled minsome than the spectacle of rampant duty to their children and to the womans sorrows, an infinite pity for eral resources, when it shall be maturity wedded to green insipidher failures, and an equal pride in brought into harmony with those there is If a country jjt large. pow ity, and unconscious of the infamy er in her success. enlightened and progressive Chriseducation, it should be em to which it has stooped. At the meeting we attended, the tian influences which has made the for the greatest good. ployed our Now, editor is altogether too members began to assemble about civilization of the East. fastidious, and he evidently has not On the Erie road we fall in with noon in their spacious and elegant EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. much sympathy with the celestial parlor in Delmonicos building, and old acquaintances who are also ordinance as practiced in Utah, for after a while spent in pleasant social destined for the City of the Saints, New York, Nov. 5, 1880. the majority of polygamous alliSince our last communication to converse, luncheon was served in from whom we part temporarily in ances come under the The repast did Chicago to meet again on the great, category Tiie Standard, we have been favored adjoining rooms. which he so roundly denounces, with several opportunities of bring- justice to the reputation of the well transcontinental thorough fare. We both as regards ties of consanguinknown and accomplished caterer, journeyed on the Chicago and North the being cause whose taste and skill in these mat- Western Railroad, which route we ity, and difference, in ages. And fore women of. the land, prominent what is more, not only do many and we The consider unrivalled for comfort and need say that those ters cannot be surpassed. scarcely become men husbands with a dash of have not been neglec- Standard representative was hon- elegance, as well as the attention opportunities of fatherhood' but they do so in ted. On two occasions ored with a seat on one side of the employes to the wants ' of passengthe life time of the mother. We large audiences in Newwe addressed President, and Mrs, Florence Rice er3-, At Clinton, Iowa, we are have heard of numberless instances had a number of other Jersey, and Knox, the celebrated prima donna joined by our towns people, Mr. and invitations where a man has married a widow to which circumstances ob- occupied one on the other. After Mrs. Geo. A. Lowe, and Mr. and speak, with two or three daughters, and liged us to decline. We find Mrs. Shoecraft, of Onieda, New uncheon, members and guests every taken the latter as plural wives woman we meet anxious to obtain to the reception room to Tpr.k good Christian people whoAnti-Polygam- t n. re-unio- STEP-FATHER- ns th S . step-daughte- co-operati- cn r. ' nt - ne I I , Anti-Polyga- my ( . ad-ourn- . ed - f |