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Show THE TRAGEDY OF UTAH. The Housekeeper, a magazine for women wo-men published at Minneapolis, with a wide circulation In 'he homes of the 1'nltcd States. Is making most aggressive aggres-sive warfare against "The Tragedy of the Mormon Woman." One e.f Its editors visited this State and. from investigations which she conducted con-ducted here. Is giving her views to the women of the country. Naturally, the editor, Marian Bonsall, treats of the domestic life with polygamy as the paramount consideration In her view. While plural marriage In not the most significant evil of the present hierarchical hierarch-ical system we at home must not lose sight of the fact that It Is a "tragedy." The young women who have been dragged Inlo polygamy during recent years stand imperilled of the destruction destruc-tion of all their hopes In this mundane sphere. Hundreds of them have been married, as they believe, unaer sanction sanc-tion of the church. For the sake of their faith they have violated law and all the sentiments of the country, and have set themselves in a class separate from the womanhood of the Nation. The only compensation, the only protection, pro-tection, the only hope which they could have in such a state would be In a recognition rec-ognition by the church of their status as wives, and a continued recognition of that status and of the sanctity surrounding sur-rounding the birth Of their children throughout all the generations of this existence. But that recognition will be withdrawn from them In the near time to come It Is true that the church sill soon be compelled to avow in words what it has avowed In facte, that plural marriages have been solemnized with church sanction since the manifesto. mani-festo. The cases are so many, and the knowledge of the circumstances surrounding sur-rounding these cases Is becoming so general, that the church will be compelled com-pelled to protect Its apostles who have solemnized these marriages by declaring declar-ing publicly that the revelation commanding com-manding plural marriage Is the authoritative author-itative word of God and that the manifesto man-ifesto is not a binding document And in making such statement in plain words and publicly, the church will only be declaring openly what Is put forward and thoroughly understood in private conversation But the : po. h "f recognition w ill not be a period of long duration. A short, sharp conflict will ensue and polygam will be once more abandoned or else the polygamists will seek shelter other than that afforded by the United States flag. In such event the church will repudiate the illegal unions, and the young women who have entered into that relation since the manifesto will find that they are without social status in the land of their birth, and they and their offspring will be. like Hagar and her child, sent into the desert of despair de-spair It is H horrible tragedy to go on under un-der our eyes day by day. Everyone knows what the end must be. All kind-hearted kind-hearted people must mourn that In the midst ( ah Intellectual and Christian people, such as Mormons profess to be, there can exist this shameful betrayal of womankind,- from the consequences of which they can not escape. Long before the majority of these girls can rc.H h middle life or old age the w hole system f plural marriage will have been abandoned by the Mormon church, and these women and their offspring will be of a class as designated by Dr Talmage, when he went to Washington and declared, by authority from th-Mormon th-Mormon church, that a plural wife since lv manifesto could not hold any hut illicit relation to her "husband" in he eyes of the church. It would seem as if Joseph F. Smith must have more to answer for than any other living leader of men. Day by day and year by year, to protect his own selfish relations, he has permitted young people to plunge into this abyss of horror, from hlch death is the only escape. If tin- crj Of their misery can reach the eternal throne an awful charge will await him When he stands at the judgment judg-ment seat of God. All his pretensions ol s. i hteousness then will be of no avail. The torture which he has caused, the tragedy which he has perpetrated in the iivrs of others, merely that his own Bin might have company, will appear ap-pear In naked deformity, and his sa-tanlt sa-tanlt Belf-satisfaction and self-praise will be of no avail In that dark hour. |