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Show SOCIAL LIFE IN PTAII. Mis. Traeey Culler, Pic.-ideiit of tliu 'ouiao'(i Suflrago Association, write? lo the Woman's Journal, Boa-tun, Boa-tun, Chicago and" Si. Louis, llrj most influential ol' the woman's rights or-catis, or-catis, eoncfirninc Wr lale lengthened viit lo Utah. After britlly skelchiog tlie history o(" llie belllement. of" Ihis Turrit oty, speaking en'ogilicaily of ; Mi?s Kiiza K. Snow and others with whom she made acquaintance here, ', and ol" hor lectures deliveivd in lliis city, she adds : Of my slay in a family where there were two wives and Qve children, I can say that I did not witness an unkind un-kind act, or hear no unkind word from any member of the family. I should have taken the younger woman for a daughter of the house, who had returned re-turned to tho fostering care of father and mother, with little ones tenderly loved and cared for. They all speak freely of polygamy, regarding it as an institution sanctioned by God among the patriarchs of old, and renewed by direct revelation to his eainta in the last days. It can only he treated as a roligious question. They are quite ready to discuss it upon scriptural grounds, contending that it had the direct sanction of the Lord in the days of the patriarchs, and in the times of Israel's great power as a kingdom; and that Christ, while fully condemn ing man's abuse of power over woman, such as casting her oil' when he had once taken her to himself, nowhere condemns him for plurality of wives, which he must have done, if it had been criminal in tho sight of God. They claim that the great sin consists in the fact that man seeks gratification ' without rendering the due equivalent; ' that instead of honoring woman as his ! wife, and desiring to raise up children to i bear his name, and to honor the Lord, he takes from the woman her honor, and seek?? lo destroy both her 1 and the offspring of his hidden rela-I rela-I lions. They claim that suelt sins are I unknown among tliein. They are so ! thoroughly versed iu all these questions, ques-tions, that no novice need hope for huc-1 huc-1 cess in any tilt against thcin, I think even Dr. Newman failed most inglor-iously inglor-iously in consequence of uinJerestimat-ing uinJerestimat-ing the capacity of his antagonists. With the masses, it rests on positive revelation. Believing Joseph Smith a true prophet of the Lord, they claim I to act in direct obedience to a com-1 com-1 mand given by God through him. Tlie 1 women accepted it as one of the trials I of their faith, by which ihey were to crucify all sollish all'ections and desires. 1 think I have never met euch unselfishness un-selfishness among any other people. Said ono of these women, when speaking speak-ing of a younger wife, "What n comfort com-fort it is to her to know that her children have a good, noble, Christian father, instead of a poor, diseased, j drunken wretch, whom they could never honor." And this same woman was the first wife, and the children of tho second marriage would inherit their share of the estate equilly with her own. I could not but eay to myself, my-self, "1 havo not found such faith, no, not in Israel." SHALL GOVERNMENT INTERMEDDLE? I would say decidedly, not (ill we have satisfactorily solved the problem ; of the 41 social evil." Then we may say, "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone." iiy that time, this question will have adjusted itself by natural laws. The equality of births of the sexes, the ability of each man to havo a wife, and the natural desires to build up a family for himself, will conspire con-spire to set this mailer right without violence, or what thoy will claim to be religious persecution. This would eon-firm eon-firm the idea, while, left to itself, it will, in good time, vanish from among them, as it has from the christian world in general. In ihe meantime, these people are carefully studying the laws of life, and with a faith and zeal unknown to other people, are asking the Lord to direct their steps. As it is the obedient spirit that is at the boMoru of all right, we may I rust ihut lht;y will yet be led into living Iruih. In speaking with some of them, I .suggested that it might sood appear that there were as many good men a3 women, so that the original order could be restored that of one man and one woman, created in the image of God, ihe twain constituting constitut-ing ono flesh. The reply was, that they looked forward to such a time, and believed that in the fullness of all things this would come, and that Gnd would reveal it to them when He thought it best for their present condition. |