Anti-Polygamy Standard | 1881-02-01 | Page 4

ANTI.POLYGAMY STANDARD: 84. ' . Standard, Government once show them that it ment of tithing, grinding the faces cles carefully with their Bibles in dare meddle, and that it will not of the poor, and other tenets of hand at the same time, and ponder them well, we feel positive that they permit the fair fame of the nation Brighamism. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEB., 1881. to be sullied any longer by this foul The History of Polygamy has will not be so certain that God and that defiance on the part been published in the Saints Advo- - either commands or sanctions poly-cate in Salt blot, Entered at the of the fanatical Mormons will speedthe organ of the Josephites. gamy. Lake City , Utah , as second-clas- s mail ily subside. Indeed, we believe, as We. reproduce it in the Standard by matter. we have asserted before in these the request of some Josephite are warm columns, that the majority of the friends who Issne month'y by The Standard Publtsuivo Compsupact. The Organ of the Womens National will Numbers of people, among whom gladly conform to the porters of our paper, and we desire people ciety. law, and become good, loyal citizens, to recognize all efforts in the Anti- - are some of our national represent-polygam- y TERMS: 'there is already a disposition among cause, no matter by whom atives, seem to have imbibed the One Year, in advance $1.00 50 Six months many of them to let Cannon shift they are made, independent of their idea that polygamy will die of itself 25 Three months for himself, and a great reluctance, other beliefs. The Reorganized jf tet alone, as the people of Utah REMITTANCES: not Church believes that Joseph was a are gradually brought more into Remittances may be made by dra money order or regis- if not a positive determination, Office Give address Post in onr at risk. full, tered letter, to allow themselves to be bled for prophet; with this we have nothing contact with Gentile influences and Including County and State. of money which to do, still we cannot or will not The receipt of the paper may be considered the receipt the large amount Babylonian fashions. Some of them for the subscription sent us. he will require to carry on the con- ignore their efforts to purify give this as a sufficient reason why test. has featbeen on It stated from its most good debasing legislation should not be enacted Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates, and should We he has reach ns on or before the 15th of each month, to insure that authority telegraphed ures. may belitve that poly- airainst it, and they are even averse sertion in the snccceeding number. that he will require $800,000 to en- gamy did originate with Smith, but to continued agitation of the sub-thAddress all communications to The sure him success. This is a very need Standard, P. O. Box 385, Salt Lake City, Utah. prevent us from ac-- ject, believing that local evils should Correspondence solicited from women in all parts of the sum enough to buy a good knovvledging the fact that his sons Territory, which must have the name of the writer, not large necessarily for publication but as a guaranty of good faith. many average Congressmen and are laboring for its abolition. we understand that a system of exWe desire to call the attention of To the Pastors of Christian Churches: tortion has already been commenced the women of Utah to these artiIf this paper should fall into the to compel the saints to contribute cles. You know that Abraham is hands of any Minister of the Gospel , to this fund. The Standard has a always cited as an example to prove that iY the Gentiles had treated at court by whom it was in-- 1 that polygamy was sanctioned by lygamy with indifference .and conwill he kindl y give it to some energetic lady of his congregation , and ask her to formed the other day that the Relief Heaven, but did you ever stop to tempt it would have done more have already begun their think what was Hagars real posi- - warc eradicating the get up a club for it. Will he please call monstrosity Your polygamous masters than the enforcement of penal her attention to the appeal at the head of work of levying on the poor. These tion ? said our friend, will divest delight in extolling Sarahs faith and utes. It is the ist page, addressed to the Women of very sad to those who exhave lived here and understand the America. Let this subject be kept in the poorest class of people of every religious devotion, but do they available egg and ounce of butter pound so fully to you the truth in situation, to see how men of intelli-undagitation until public sentiment shall y penalty of excommunication, regard to Hagars condition. And gence and experience are so force the enactment of such measures do than will more that, they if you credit one part of the story, taken in regard to the machinery of that will tend to the total abolition of will oven take the bread out of the you are bound to credit the rest, the other twin relic of barbarism. polygamy aud so utterly ignorant childrens mouths to cast it to the Read carefully the passages of scrip- - 0f its workings. Sadder still but dogs. ' Corruption fund, Ms truly ture quoted, and see if you cannot equally true, it is the influence .of UTAH IN CONGRESS. an appropriate name for this money discern in them another meaning such men, who are perhaps perfeet-whic- h is fairly out than that taught by your poly- - My sincere in their views but mis-o- f Gov. Murray has denied a certisqueezed and blood of gamist masters. Is not the position hea(j by ignorance, which has done the ficate of election to Geo Q. Cannon, body misguided on the grounds that he is not a citi- these poor people, of Ilagar typ fled by every poly- - as much toward retarding proper zen of the United States, and also There is undoubtedly much truth in gamous wife in Utah to day, except legislation for Utah as Mormon gold is a polygamist living in defiance of these remarks, and now is the time by those few who may chance to be pas in other quarters. The Poland as originally drafted, contained the laws, ami consequently is not for them to rebel against the extor- - the temporary favorite ? And if eligible to office, and has issued it tion. Let them assert their inde you can only realize the fact that several provisions which would to the Hon. A. G. Campbell Of pendence, and absolutely refuse to God himself called Hagar the bond pave beeil 0f great value to the course, the Mormon papers are very give their hard earned pittances to woman, and sanctioned her being caUse 0f justice, but it was amend- severe on Gov. Murray, and their try and gain a position for Geo. Q. cast out, you can then realize in Ld by Senator Sargent to such an columns teem wiili denunciatory Cannon. If he wifi indulge in the what degree he sanctions polygamy. extent that the Mormon press boast- A woman said to us not long ed that all the sting was taken articles, but this was to be expected. luxury of lour or five families, let the troubles arose in our from it. The Gentiles, to a unit, are glad him labor honestly to maintain them, since, But the Standard has always that we have at last a man in office Or if the money must be raised, let fampy I was third wife because, alwho of those have come h wanted the rights aud privileges maintained that, notwithstanding out who has some knowledge of his it duties and responsibilities, and is ready grown rich Irom the tithing 0f a wife. I was not asked to enter the fact of some Christian influences fearless enough to perforin them. fund, and are more nearly interested the family as a servant or to be a having been brought into the Ter-i- n Cannon s success or failure. A. G. slave to the other women, these ritory, polygamy, instead of being The press of the countrv with a few exceptions ratify the action of Gov. Campbell will represent the interests vvere not the requirements of celes- - on the wane is actually on the in-the people far. better than Geo. Q. tial marriage as explained to me. 1 crease, and, furthermore, that it is Murray, if for no other reason than that now the question of polygamy Cannon ever did, and will not ask Was quite willing that the others not a local evil, in the way of being should have their rights, but I also confined to Utah. It is true, per- will be brought up in the House, one dollar for it. A first wife also haps, that few of the principal wanted mine. and coniiot be evaded by that body to remarked OF polygamy. us; polygamy inon leaders have openly taken new any longer. It is the general feelis a dreadful trial of course, but it wives very lately, but the poorer ing that Cannon will not abandon We commence in this number has not been quite so hard for me.' classes are doing it continually at the seat he has so long disgraced without a severe struggle, that the the publication of a senes' of arti- - for my husband has always made the the bidding of their masters, and it This is constantly taught and preached contest will bring the matter to a cles with the above title, by Elder other v:omen keep their places climax, that Congress will be forced Charles Derby of the Reorganized woman resides in a handsome house, to the people. We assert that a Saints. For has all comforts and luxuries, while good Mormon must believe in the to assert its own dignity, and by ex- Church of Latter-dacluding the polygamous delegate, the benefit of our Eastern friends one plural wife with her three chil- - doctrine of polygamy, even if ho show the Mormons that at last Gov- we will state that the Reorganized dren occupies a little hut in the rear does not practice it. Witness the ernment intends the national law Church is familiarly called the of the mansion, that is barely habit words of a prominent Mormon branch of Mormonism, able, and it is a matter of history op, who was recently interviewed in shall be respected in Utah Territory Union. Con- because it is a faction led by the that more than one has left him be- - New York by a newspaper reporter, . as in other parts of the gress has been universally censured, sons of Joseph Smith. The Utah cause he did not provide them the He said that polygamy was a in contradistinction are merest necessaries of life. In Baby- - ciple of their religion, obligatory and very justly, too, for permitting a notorious law breaker to partici- termed Brighamites. The Josephites ion, the majority of wives would con- - upon them, and whoever said to the pate in its deliberations, and as claim that the original principles of sider this treatment good enough contrary know nothing about the Some men, he Cannon was sent to Congress by Mormonism, as revealed to and for a woman who would place her- - Mormon faith. Brigham Young in pursuance of the taught by Joseph Smith were per- - self in that degraded position, but it said, make their consciences easy threat that he would thrust poly- verted by Brigham Young, who seems rather inconsistent in Zion, with one wife, on one pretext or gamy down the throat of the Ameri- usurped the place and powers of where celestial marriage is regarded other, and doubtless in some can nation, his sufferance there has They repudiate thedoctrine as such a holy institution, and vidual cases polygamy is improvi-o- f seemed to the ignorant and deluded polygamy, which they claim did where first and plural wives are sup- - dent or perhaps impossible ; it is not. Mormons a convincing gproof that not originate with Smith, and they posed to be equal in the eyes of compulsory, as there are no penal-als- o Government dare not meddle with wage warfare against the as- - both God and man. If the women ties, but it is obligatory as a part of their peculiar institution. But let sumptions of the priesthood, pay-- 1 of Utah will only read these arti-- 1 our religious faith and it cannot be I e, Post-Offic- 1 Anti-Polygam- y Mor-monis- m in- is Anti-Poltoa- nt 1 I po-frie- stat-ghoul- nd s, er mis-The- I of I Mor-HISTOR- V . y bish-Joseph- itc prin-Mormo- ns, indi-Josep- h.