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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- Y STANDARD. 5 As for me, I am sometimes at a loss enormity of the crime and makes Dared with the sacrifices made by erable failure socially, and that the how to define myself : often I think I it more revolting to our common some of these women, and the sor- Gentile ladies fully appreciated rows endured by them in silence and the influam more demon than human. I have Christian principles. evil and degrading In the closing chapters of her alone. Is there not a whole volume ences that have made the Mormon two lovely and interesting daughters, both honored wives and mothers the work, My Life in Bondage, Mrs. of tragedy expressed in these sim- women what they are, when they, rest of my children, thank God, died Ann Eliza Young makes this elo- ple words of a wife who had been wrote these words, Polygamy has in babyhood, and in Heaven, if there quent appeal for assistance to the supplanted in her husbands affec- never taken such a debasing form And you, tions by a concubine, They say I in any nation or among any people is one, there will be no slurs cast upon women of America. their birth and, although I was so happier women, you to whom life has am dying of consumption, but it is above the condition of savages, as in of its best and crowned right only my heart that is wasting away. Utah. I also purpose to prove that heartlessly beguiled into the system, given Travelers and strangers in Utah it is a curse to children, and de- can you not help me? The yet sometimes I can scarcely help re- royally of my suffering and sorrowing have often asked the questions: struction to the sacred relations of garding them as children of shame. cry What is the cause of the Mormon family, and that those who practice sisters sweeps over the broad praiBefore I came to Utah, I was a trustries and asks you, as I ask you now, women being in sucha degraded con- it under the cloak of religion are in d ful, girl, and in religious can you do nothing for us? Wom- dition? Is polygamy the entire cause reality those who have outlived evfervor almost a devotee. Now, I am ens pens and womens voices of it? I have studied this subject ery vestige of pure religious feeling but a poor, miserable apology for a pleaded earnestly and pathetically closely for years, in all its. phases, with which their natures might once woman. I have no belief in anything, for the abolition of slavery. Thou- and believe that I understand it have been endowed. I purpose to in faith no in no confidence humanity, I have heard the sto- prove in addition that the really sands of women, some of them thoroughly. simI God. am in no hope religion, your country women, and your ries of scores of the women them- good men' among the Mormons, are other of like thousands a ply wreck, equals in moral and intellectual selves, both good Mormon and apos- those who have neither ever entered women, whose lives have been blasted worth, are held in a more revolting tate, which perhaps is the truest cri- polygamy or who having done so, under this cruel system. The system that terion by which to judge. It is on- have ever afterwards bitterly reslavery it There, ladies, is my story ; take blights every womans life who en ly a woman of marked intelligence, pented the step that their better if you will, and tell the women of ters it, ought not to remain a curse courage and strength of character impulses told them was death and America what polygamy has done for and a stain upon this nation any that will acknowledge the real ex- destruction to all the qualities that One Woman. longer. It should be blotted out so tent of any delusion under which go to make a loving and lovable completely that even its foul memo she has been laboring, especially woman. As one old Mormon said The Women of Utah. when that delusion has been accom- to the writer, My wife was almost ry should die. It is partially in response to this panied by a despotism strongenough an angel until I took a second, then NO. I. appeal that the writer hereof has to intimidate and crush the bravest she became a devil, and this anecWhat is your opinion of Mor- been induced to pen the present se- spirit. The results of that despo- dote applies to hundreds of the mon polygamy as a religious tenet? ries of articles on the women of tism has no doubt deterred a great women of Utah. Atiiena. was asked of an eminent divine up- Utah, and with the earnest hope many who feel deeply the degradaon his return from a visit to Utah, that the labor shall not be entirely tion of their position from giving full Lady Thornton carries out her British where he had spent several weeks in vain. If nothing else is accom- expression to their feelings, but the ideas in Washington. She declares emin investigating the system, with plished, I can at least make the testimony that has been given is that by her consent her guests It women of America better acquaint- strong, abundant and conclusive. phatically eyes, ears and heart wide open. shall not be criticised through the press. may be good enough for a certain ed with the degrading position of And by this testimony I purpose to Whoever attempts to describe the toilets class of men, was the reply, but the deluded and down trodden wom- prove that what the divine said was worn at the British Legation does so for the women it is a damnable doc- en of Utah, and this in itself, is one true, that polygamy is a damnable without the sanction of the hostess, and trine. Religion was designed by step in the way of ameliorating doctrine for women, also that the having once transgressed in this particular the Creator to satisfy that longing their condition. It is a favorite philosopher understood the system will not get the opportunity of doing so for infinite good which exists in argument with Mormon enthusiasts well when he said that it was a mis- again. some degree in every human soul, in defence of their doctrine of poand a system which tends to de- lygamy that their women are so grade any portion of humanity is much happier and contented than but a libel upon the sacred name of any where else in the world, and for true-hearte- to-da- y. , M. H. religion. The best resources of our language cannot supply me with strong enough terms in which to denounce this doctrine of the Mormon creed. And how do you consider Mormon polygamy as a social system? was inquired of a philosopher, who ignored all creeds and dogmas, and believed only in what he termed natural religion. As a social system it is a miserable failure, was the answer, because its tenets are founded on the law of retrogression, which cannot be tolerated in this advancing age. Whatever degrades The woman, degrades man also. future of our race depends entirely upon the character and position of the women of our country. If we make them slaves, how can we expect that our children will be anything else than children of the bondvvomen, and slaves, like their mothers. In the address of the Gentile women of Utah to the women of the United States there appeared this statement. Considering all our surroundings, polygamy has never taken such a degrading and debasing form in any nation or - among any people above the condition of savages, as in Utah. It is degrading to man and woman, a curse to children, and destructive to the sacred relations of family upon which the civilization of nations de pends, and that it should be prac ticed in the name and under the cloak of religion only adds to the this reason they claim to have discovered the true sphere of woman. This is the class who in reality hold their wives in about the same estimation that they do their cattle, and who pretend to be the most indignant wrhen the Gentiles call the poor slaves the down trodden women of Utah. I reiterate the words deluded both indignantly and -- LIPMAN, HAS JUST RECEIVED THE- - down-trodde- n and sorrowfully, and I know that they cannot be gainsayed ; indignantly, that such an expression should be applicable to any inhabitant of this, our boasted land of light and liberty, and sorrowfully, when I think of the many broken hearted women lying in the dreary Mormon cemeteries, victims of this monstrous GOODS, system of iniquity. I know that those words cannot be gainsayed, because they are truths which are to the casual observer as well as to the calm, dispassionate West of the Rocky Mountains, which he offers at 'ten per cent, less than any other Clothing House in the City. philosopher who has studied all phases of the question, disregarding all prejudice; truths which can be verified by all those who have been identified with the delusion, but who have outlived it, women whose finer feelings and womanlv instincts could cvxv cavw, c cow.vuceA not longer submit to the degradation Co owVvftv into which their superstition had led them. The lives of some of these women have been more pathetic and full of tragedy than any of which the muse has sung, and the desolation cf the lonely nun or the immolation of the Hindoo widow are not a feather in the balance, when c om FURNISHING self-eviden- HATS, &C. t, uWe 155 & 157 MAIN STREET. 2T. IT. G. G. |