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Show 62 ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y X Communicated. The Deceit and Treachery of Our religion teaches us to love our husbands plural wives as our own sisters, to share with them our worldly possessions, to consider their children as legitimate as our own, to rejoice in their happiness, to comfort them in affliction, in short, to regard them as sisters in the flesh as well as in Christ. Such was the remark of the first wife of a certain Mormon apostle, herself one of the most strenuous advocates of the degrading doctrine, and whose influence and advice have led more than one innocent young girl to eternal ruin, made recently to a strange lady, who was seeking information in regard to the social relations of polygamous households. But, alas for the debasing influences of this beastly tenet of the Mormon faith, which makes women positive liars, and robs them of every feeling of pity and tenderness for their own sex. To strangers, these leaders of the Mormon women will say, We love our polyg amous sisters as ourselves, while if they told the truth they would say, We hate them with the hate of hell. They will get up in church and political meetings and bear testimony to the truth and purity of this God given principle of plurality, and then go home and treat the plural wives with a brutality that beggars description. Not that we, who have made it our life work to expose and combat the vile institution, can pretend to blame them for hating the women who have supplanted them in the affections of their husbands; we only blame them for their deceit and hyWe do not look upon pocrisy. our husbands plural wives as mistresses; they are honorable women, and their children are born in holy wedlock, said another of these female apostles of polygamy at a large public meeting in this city not many ages ago. A little later word was brought to this mother in Israel that a child of her hus- bands favorite wife was dying. Let it die, was the tender and humane answer, nature has made no place for the children of lust." Only a few days since a young wife of the husband of the woman whose remark heads this article, gave birth to a child. Of course this ardent defender and advocate of celestial marriage was with the young mother in her hour of trial, giving comfort in her anguish, and then rejoicing in her joy. What less could be expected froip a sister in the flesh as well as in Christ. But marvel how devious are the Saints! The ways of the Latter-da- y suffering young wife was left in a helpless condition, without any care or attention, and the first wife would neither go herself, nor suffer any member of family to visit or do anything to make the poor ereature comfortable in her illness. At last, some ungodly Gentile neighbors went and ministered to her wants, and while they were .so doing, the woman who had lured her to destruction, was shouting on hr See in what she was not a married woman. She unity we live who have embraced refused point blank'to tell who was the celestial ordinance of plural was the father of her child, and swore that she had never lived with marriage!' The evidence One more instance of this de- Hintz as his wife. lightful unity came to our knowl- of this woman showed plainly that wrell tutored by her edge but a day or two ago. An- she had been other female apostle of polygamy Mormon advisors, and no stronger said in a public meeting that if it illustration of the falsity and of the gigantic fraud could was the will of the Lord, she would gladly give seven wives to her hus- be chronicled: Here is a good latter-daSaint, band, and she expatiated eloquently who had been upon the peace and blessedness of the mother of a child blessed in church by the name of patriarchal households. After returning from meeting, one of her the man who had been heard to achusbands wives offended her, and knowledge her as his wife, and she a scene ensued that would put to deliberately takes oath that she was blush the dwellers in the realms of never married to any man, thus darkness. The language used by publicly proclaiming herself to be a these holy exponents of the celes- common woman, at the bidding of tial doctrine could scarcely be an iniquitous priesthood. And the equalled among the slums of Isling- worst of it is, that polygamy has so ton or the Five Points. The finale demoralized the majority of plural was that the plural wife was turned wives that they would perjure into the street, and there is one themselves in the same manner Ilagar less in that Abrahams fam- - under similar circumstances. Let those who hesitate about interfering ily- Verily, it is not a delightful withthe religious belief of this thing to be a woman among the pious and virtuous people please Latter-da- y Saints. Who dare re- note this fact. The case was submitted without fute the assertion of Sister Eliza Snow Smith Young that nowhere argument, and Hintz was placed on the earth is woman so highly under bonds of $500 to answer behonored, or so tenderly cherished fore the grand jury on a charge of as in Utah. And let us add where, violating the Edmunds Bill. in the whole wide world will you From Andrews American Queen. J find a religion that so degrades and demoralizes woman, that engenders so much deceit, hypocrisy, treachOR THE ery, envy and jealousy as Mormon Queen of polygamy? WAS BUT SKIN DEEP. the street corners, hy-pocri- Kimball & Lawrence, Wholesale and Retail 'Dealers in cy 8TAPJE ANDJFANCl y Wkft, TV&Y, Heavy and shelf Hardware, Mechanic's Xools, Miners Supplies, &c., &c. Shebas Beauty Laflin Rand Powder The renowned Queen, ot Sheba, with all her royal pomp, magnificent apparel, and brilliant retinue, would never have appeared within the The first arrest for polygamy presence of the grandest of the monarchs of the had she not also possessed that which is under the Edmunds bill was of a past, the crowning glory of the female person a 6kin Mormon elder named Ferdinand F. unchallenged for its softness and its almost transHintz, residing in Big Cottonwood cendental purity. Cleopatra, holding emperors ten miles from Salt Lake City. at bay, and ruling empires by her word, had lost her charm and power by one attack He had been living with two wives quickly of blotches, or of horrid tan and freckles. ESTA IJ IjI3 I 1 1CI), MAY, 1878. Arrest for Polygamy. for several years, and wanted to marry a young girl who was a domestic in the family. This arrangement was very decidedly objected to by both the father and brother of the girl, who were instrumental in causing his arrest. Hintz had been appointed by the Church to go on a mission to Scandinavia and came to Salt Lake to get his commission and make preparations for the journey when he was arres- ted. The examination was held before a United Slates Commissioner, and several witnesses testified to the man being well known in his neighborhood as a polygamist, that he had been heard to call the two women his wives, and acknowledged their children to be his. 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