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Show What a iloriuou Wife Tbioks. Salt Lake City", June -4, '79. Editors Herald : Please ftcklofflede through ibe columns of your paper, which ifi widely circulated, the appreciation felt yeuerally by Mormon wives, for . tiie mauly couduct of Mr. Oeorge Ilynolde. He was csavicted and aeutenoed for marryiug two wlvea; he neither denied nor dodged the truth, but went to Driion for hie conscience sake. A man who places women in this position must be a coward indeed, if he will not acknowledge acknowl-edge them in it. Mr. Reynolds might have said aa others have, that he married one of these wives, and m-ide a ch.irch arrangemmt with the other, thereby availing himeelf oi a legal outlet to an entirely morai question in which the obligation waa mide equally with both wivea. There ia no manly attribute more highly appreciated by women, than courage, and with the "courage of their convictions, con-victions, " cornea at leaBt a demand for respect for these convictions. It ia women utually who have had to accept the hardest part when a social controversy cornea before the public, but in the domestic anomaly of tbe Mormon question of polygamy, ii ia to hi most devoutly hoped that ibe ilormon men will "nuil their colors to tbe mast, and etand by them to the last." Their wives and child rcn cannot flflud anything lees tbiiti thi, and a man who will tnke a courto diflerent from Ibis will learn by dear bought experience, I fear, that "the way of the trausgreoBOr is iiard." A man'a theories are one thing, his practices another; the theorelic.il polygaruiat cau live in sweet rest scd contentment with hie one wile, although a staunch Murmon aod believer be-liever in polygamy. But let him once reduce his theories to the practice prac-tice ol polygamy, committing the lives and happiness of others, and he has but one honorable course left and that is to equally provide for and protect these innocfint women wo-men and their children. In this view all right-thinking people who have the good of society here at heart must agree. Do you mean, give tueni bo much money, and discharge the obligation, ob-ligation, conforming to the ideas of a few of the citizens ol Salt Like City? No! I mean nothing of thia kind. I mean (hat these families need and should have the presence of the husband and father, and unless un-less some gocd reasons esist, and those emanating from the wife, I would say that families are better held intact than disintegrated, and if he who would do thia is to bo punished for his devotion, let bim serve his time and then come homo to his family a man of integrity, tiue to the rtspousi' bililks he assumed in the name of his religion. Such a man will receive the support of the Mormon people, and theitapeot of good peoplo eveiy-where. eveiy-where. So let no poiygamist be frightened and run home and tell one of his wives that "she must deDV her relationshiD to him. or he will have to go to prison," for it might be the best thinji that ever happened to him. It certainly would ba the beat place for the man who could bo suoh a coward as to make this request, It is a common remark with tho Mormon Mor-mon people: "Our net has drawn in all kind of fish." True, and so there might be some even among the Mormona who would act dishonorably, dis-honorably, and to protect the women wo-men and children against buou le-suits, le-suits, ia certainly the desire of one Mormon Wife. |