| Show A alvord for Mirmon mo rmon doni dom t I 1 I 1 cleveland ohio march 3 1886 mrs emelene wll of suit salt lake city who Is a anost gifted and prom anent defender of polygamy gamy and in utah arrived at ab the hollender hollander yesterday and paid k a visit to the mormon is temple mple at kirtland she Is one of the four wives of uniel wells the leader of the dan lies ites who was the Coun counseller siller of brigham young and who is at present in europe to evade arrest ile he has performed more polygamous oui marriages than tiny any man in the world having fur for many years been justice oflus pence peace and mayor I 1 in n stilt salt lake mrs wells well denies that the canites were blood mur borers but soya that in view or of the cruel manner to in which joseph smith wms vim murdered it would not have been strange if they had formed plans plan of vengeance MM alta wells wella had been in washington to work against the edmunds polygamy bill which has hag paused passed the tha senate and la Is now be bei fore the committee on judiciary of the house she said tho the law would bo be a great injustice it would bernus precedent in the confiscation olour of our church property created by our own honest labur if tile the government has the right to our property it has hai the power to take ethl the church p property 0 of CU catholics olics or pro te stants to tanta the cry of the anit poly Is that they are opposed to polygamy but that is more mere pretense they rhey want to got get control of of the territory and its profitable local boffl goicoa s which are now la in the tha hands handi of mor mons the present anti polygamy law Is unjust and despite president Clove Clevel landa andla promise that it should be impartially administered it Is not fairly administered I 1 and my iny hus bus band are dis franchised by it because we have practised practiced and countenanced plural marriages from puro pure religious motives moll ves bile any wanton woman or dissolute man la in the tha Jarri territory who has not dot practised practiced plural carrl age aga has the right of suffrage thelah the Th law elaw has haa already bad it a depressing effect on our territory duttge injustice that we have buffered and the grater injustice threatened has set those hose who havo have been apathetic I 1 in in regard to mormonism and polygamy to 10 investigation and the passage of tha he threatened law instead as tead of eradicating our church would scatter I 1 it I 1 moro more widely aud ami in tile the end and make it more powerful the stories that kate field tells give eive a false impre aslon ol of Morro not nearly all of them practice polygamy and among those who do few have more than three wives yes I 1 believe la in plural mar ariage I 1 will not dot say aay that it is entirely unattended with unpleasantness so BO far as lovo love Is IR concerned coa ernel I 1 do riot not believe that tho the love of it a bus bua band can be divided mrs wells Is favorite wife of her hust husband arid and the ad anitress edl treis itress of the exponent a mormon femali female suffrage lui frage organ new york herald |
