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Show 4 ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y random from some we have coine deliberately and stand be- tween me and that personage, you must not blame me if you get hit SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL, 1881. sometimes. this is, in brief, Lhc of the Standard. Its aim e in Salt position Entered at the to expose wrong, honestly, Lake City , Utah , as second-clas- s mail is ly, truthfully, yet fearlessly; but if matter . people will come and stand between Issue ! month'y by The Standard Publishing Compa- us and that wrong, it sureiy m not ny. The Orgun of the Womens National our fault it they get hit. Society. jf tmidard , served. Anti-Polygam- y $1.00 50 Three months 25 REMITTANCES: PRESIDENT GA.ICFIELI) OX The women of Salt Lake have a sensible and excellent thin0, in organizing the Woman-- Xatiuna? Society, and they are anxious for, and ought to have, the eaniest am corj;ai co.0peration ()f women of the United States. The Standard, pub- lished in Silt Iviko yUy, IUimsnes lull information regarding their aims s kind-knti-Polyga- TERMS: . -- I Post-Offic- One Year, in advance Six months pre- - Anti-Polygam- PO- - y r , lyoamy lyoamy Standard, devoted to the task of doing away with one of the worst frms of moral rot with which a community of human beings can be affected. No person who is in a normal niJ0( can read its sorrowful descriptions of polygamous life in Utalb and repress a feeling of indig- natl0n that t!lls monstrous evil ?h?uld ,haVe s.0.!on?en allowed to infest the land. The Oswego Times. y and objects, and any woman who w E are ln(bted to the We note with great satisfaction desires to forward this good cause courtesy 0 bro;einor of Idaho, for a fteil, the attitude assumed by President can be kept fully informed as to its Garfield in relation to polygamy, progress, and can do something to copy of his special message to the And in addition to the public utter- - help it on by becoming a subscriber Legislature of that .territory on the : au i m i i.: subject of polygamy. In our next issue we shall publish it entire, and I Remittances may be made by dra't, money order or registered letter, at our risk. Give Post Office address in full, including County and State. The receipt of the paper may be considered the receipt for the subscription sent us. Advertisements Inserted at reasonable rates, and should reach ns on or before the 15th of each month, to insure insertion in the auccceeding number. Address all communications to Tue Standard, P. 0. Box 385, Salt Lake City, Utah. Correspondence solicited from women in all parts of the Territory, which must have the name of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. . ' I 1 1 Anti-Polygam- y Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, of Bitte Creek, Mich, is the general agem of the Standard, and is duly aurhorlzed to receive subscriptions and contract for advertisemints. proper legislation ior Utah. But if Congress still continues to disre-gard the wishes of the country in this particular, the President has the means of redress in his own 1 hands. It Officers of the Womans National Anti-Po- l Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sarah A. Ci orb, President. I Hamilton, 1 JSNNIS A. FROISiTH, ( Vlte reBltLLt8. .Mary A. James, Recording Secretary. M. A. Harriet K Jeannette Bane, Correspond! in S icretary. Lawrence, Treasurer. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Laura C. Douglas, Mary A. Lloyd, Juliv A. Kimball, Cordelia A. Smuh, Selina Boukof ky, Worn n's National E. M. Anti-Polygam- Fisher. Society. y Meets on Fi'St Tuesday in each moutn at Independent Hnl Ht3:30r. m. may not be out of place perhaps, for us to remind President Garfield, that the great party, of which he is the representative, is pledged to exteipate the remaining twin relic of barbarism. We may also remind him that Slavery, the other twin relic, was not abolished by legislation. No act of Congress was passed to cause, or assist in its downfall. It was accomplished by one act of one large-heartegrand- d, thee patriot. Our contempary, f Sa'3 rcal,3e ho"' agressiuo Jlor- monism is, and the which ing it may be instrumental in res- - menaces the Nation danger if its inroads cuing the women of Utah from the are not suppregged 0ur rea)Jers curse of polygamy, lad Uayne, how se0 ;t coincides with the hid., Christian Age. expressions of Mrs. Ann Eliza We have had placed in our hands Young. a ve'-- nea readable paper, bearing y We h ave received an the title of Standard. exceedingly interesting and powerful commuiiica-tin from Mrs. Ann Eliza Yroun- -, fro tlm very stronghold of Mor- - which will appear in our next issue, its monism, representations can be showing how people are beguiled relied on. There is nothing exag-- ' into Mormonism. Ye wish that gerated, nor set down in malice, but copies of this letter could be scat-- a plain and faithful statement of tered to the four winds of heaven so iac!s conyeYed Jn language discreet as to warn the people and place them on their guard d an, couldeous becoming the against the of the noble wily serpent, whose sting is more fJ?r ar! reputation poisonous than that of the Adder. offirs bl.i I mission, hop a . I y Anti-Polygam- w j ' I char-soule- fike a evv RIBUNEj sa A very particular friend of Y7Ae J at be President Standard remarked the other day: daYs a0 Sometime in the near future we The Standard The course your paper has pur- - vvaits for Congress to act, he will shall correct some errors into which sued could not help but merit the ProbabIY wait in vain, because the makes its appearance. The paper Mormons are backed by the railroad begins well. It has undertaken a our esteemed friend the Colorado approval of all loyal and Antelope has fallen regarding1 the You have shown that C0111Panies and manY of tbe great noble work, and we wish it success. ed persons. situation in Utah. The Antelope wholesale merchants and iron works Morning Star , Dover , N. H. you were battling for a principle, is a bright, sparkling sheet, devoted tbe East. I here is absolute A copy of the and have fought bravely and nobly, y to the elevation of women, and as never defiling your pages with mean truth hi this remark. The wheels Standard is upon our table. The the Standard has the same have always been legislation object, is n con-ois personalities or petty spite. and paper ably conducted, Keep c we are &Sed in more ways than by the upon common in the future as you have done tributing powerfully to the effort to ground. working We are glad to see that it latent influence of Mormon blot out the accursed institution of in the past and i he Standard must become a powerful agent in settling Pblood money, and it will probably polygamy, which has so long been perceives the danger which menaces Colorado women be the same in the future. the extension The a standing the Utah problem. reproach to our republic of Mormonism intoby that State. and ,other Sreat This journal should be lg f In the first number of this encouraged has been of great pow by all the policy we meant to mmJun corporations . people having sympathy for , , .r, We congratulate the r in " the work in which it is engaged. enterprising any leif was clearly defined. The town of Ogden upon wlth the Pecullar The Post , Appleton, Wis. d?a securing at objects were to expose the hortoJHndod last a good, square, Gentile daily and evil effects of pluiul marriage, M?.T Mrs. Froiseth, editor of the Ihe y Standard paper. as wishes abun,d the 've bfo!'0res! and to be im organ lor the free wo- Standard, has just come dant success to the Pilot, and hopes Ins own hands in men of Utah and those who wished de,,t1haf Ppwer its bark may never be stranded to this city from Utah. The n ur a te lII sbal at to be free te rally around. On com- . 1le1 'I1 newspaper is an eight page upon any of the quick-sand- s should is-- a dUlt0Us manster; that meneing our second volume perhaps often beset with a proclamation, declaring poly- - journal, neatly printed, journalism in this Westenough few words on this subieet ern Western in its editorials to vigor abolished m United Stales country. not be out of place. It is our in- an amateur Mormon out of lention to follow strictly the course L1,emt0,ry he'uld be supported by frighten A7. Y. his boots. Methodist. I he letter from an old observer, tba etlre Publlc marked out for ourselves at first; to Standard is the from Idaho, is received, and will 1ame ,":oul11 be fight a system and not people; to i rolled in American history by the title of a live paper started in Salt appear in due course of time. Miss expose wrong not to show up side of Abraham and Lake City. Its revelations in regard Dillard's address arrived too late persons. No possible consideration would be immortalizedLincolns, or Plication in this like that of to polygamy in the could induce us to ventilate private number; also city of the the an One article President. emanfrom our valued conSaints are simply disgusting. We martyred scandal or revenge the personal freed our wish the parties inaugurating this tributor, Leonora, as well as other wrongs of any individual; yet, cm cipation proclamation the other hand, no possible consid- - ountry rom the ciirsc of slavery, movement abundant success in their interesting and valuable e same for the warfare against one of the blackest eration could prevent us from ex- -' et anotaer do curse of polygamy. crimes on our national record. posing wrong wherever it exists, The American Philadelphia Christian Woman, Kindergarten Mag- simply because some particular hallds ?f dividual would be affected thereby. thL The women of Utah are laboring br teacbera.nd It is to expose the infamous institution Perhaps our position could not be L ti. on better illustrated than by quoting e may be permitted without called pcr.lodi These cals of the kind plural marriage. an anecdote of an and its llshed, desire the aid of all their meriting the charge of egotism, on i object so to Methodist preacher, whose whole the commencement of our second honest and edug sisters soul was in his calling. He was, on volume, to that the u.!lliaren quote the opinion of the the whole land and they deserve one occasion, remonstrated with for press of the y The in regard to Standard andPolitip-- rrU1'LnCl1 IoliSuucountry some blows hard avoided. at certain the Standard. We have received a will doubtless be sent to all who flinging on Y vi per annum. members of his flock. Brethren, large number of kind notices from desire to see specimen copies, ileln tl0nS Subscrip reCeiVed at this was his reply, I am aiming at the both the Y. women. those, N. Ilerald. religious and secular and will if every time, you pers, from which we cull a little at We have received the Anti-Po- Look at our Premium List. -- Anti-Polygam- y hih-mind- Anti-Polygam- pY I I i i 1 f Anti-Polygam- Anti-Mormo- !"? T Anti-Polygam- y I 1? ; J old-fashion- ed - God-fearin- 1 Anti-Polygam- - d pa-dev- il I |
