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Show rff 4 Xct cirri; VOL. II. jjhvi have li: owif jtpf, anil get turn jlt'nman hare Iftr aim fjnAaml. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH;; NO .gQST, 1 bravest to walk calmly up to the grim that is my opinion. Have not the of America: Let every happy wife and mbther who monster, and yet, hundreds of broken people of God a right to carry out that hearted creatures have said regretfully, part of the law as well as any other reads these lines give her sympathy , why did I not choose death before portion of it? It is then right to bapprayers and efforts to free her sisters this that I have endured! Sometime tize a sinner to save him, it is also their Let all . we propose to give the readers of the right to kill a sinned to save him, when from this degrading bondage the womanhood of the country stand Standard a partial list of those who he commits those crimes that can only united for them. There is a power in have been ,,put out of the way for be atoned for by shedding his, blood. If 1 Miould Die To-nig- not only refusing to practice polygamy but for simply disavowing their belief in it as a divine ordinance, and the number will astonish even the most skeptical, for there are thousands yes hundreds of thousands who do not. believe that the doctrine of Blood Atonement is a leading feature of Utah Mor-monis- If I should die My friends would look upon my quiet face, Before they laid it in its resting place, And deem that death had left it almost fair; flowers snow-whit- e And laying against my hair, Would smooth it down with tearful tenderness, And fold my hands with lingering caress. Poor hands, so empty and so cod tonight! If I should die My friends would call to mind with loving thought, Some kindly deed the icy hand had wrought, Some gentle word the frozen lip had said; Errands on which the willing feet have sped The memory of my selfishness and pride, My hasty words, would all be put aside, And so I should be loved and mourned to-nigh- m. t, George Q. Cannon was interviewed not very long ago by the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Oceaand in response to a question bearing upon blood atonement used the following words; there has been a great deal of talk about the doctrine of blood atonement. This talk originates in the fact that we do not believe in hanging. We think that if a man sheds blood his blood should be shed In Utah Territory a by execution. criminal who has been sentenced to death can elect whether he shall be shot or hung. This fact has furnished a basis for all the talk about blood atonement. It does not follow that because wre believe a man who kills another should have his blood shed, each mormon is going to be the executioner, It is a process of law , and has no reference to any Church ordinance . Now for the benefit of those who may credit the statements of this geeat and smooth liar, to quote from Brother Brigham, we submit the following extract from a sermon and a preached by that prophet, tonight. of in which was the published peport Deseret News of April ioth. 1856, only If I should die Even hearts estranged would turn once one year previous to the Mountain Meadow Massacre, that tragic event, more to me, as well as hundreds of other dark and Recalling other days remorsefully. The eyes that chill me with averted bloody crimes since perpetrated in Utah will shqw the reader that Brigglance as me of ham Would look upon preached to some purpose. yore, perchance, What disposition ought the people And soften in the old, familiar way, to make of covenant breakers? Why, For who would war with dumb, un- says one, forgive them. Very good, conscious clay? but what did the Apostle say? He toall of rest I So might forgiven says they are worthy of Death. I am inclined to believe his decision was night. a just one. Then, what ought this 0 friends, I pray who keep the commandmeek Keep not your kisses for my dead, ments people, of God to do unto them? Why, fl cold brow. The way is lonely; let me feel them says one, they ought to pray to the Lord to kill them. I want to know now; if you would wish the Lord to come Think gently of me, I am travel-wordown and do all your dirty workt When My faltering feet are pierced with many a man prays for any thing he ought to a thorn. be willing to perform it himself. But if Forgive! 0. hearts estranged, forgive the Latter Day Saints should put to I plead! When dreamless rest is mine I shall death the Covenant breakers, it would not need try the fhith of the very meek, just and pious among them, and it would The tenderness for which I long tocause a great deal of whining in Isnight. rael. I wish it were in a situation favorable to our doing that which is Blood Atonement. justifiable before God without any The Mormon doctrine of Blood contaminating influence of Gentile Atonement is as great a libel upon re- amalgamation, laws and traditions, that religion as the doctrine of polygamy, the people of God might lay the axe and the two go hand in hand, the one at the root of the tree, and every tree having been most potent in perpetu- that bringeth not forth good fruit was believe ating the other. Any one who has hewn down. What! do youand keep ever been a Mormon knows that the that people would do right of laws blood atoned, has the God, by actually putting to fear of being rushed many a poor sorrowful woman death transgressors? Putting to death into what has proved worse than transgressors would exhibit the law of death. But it is difficult for even the God, no matter by whom it is done to-nig- to-nig- to-nigh- t, n, n, 7; 2. PRICE 1881.3 To the Women combined enlightened sentiment and sympathy , before which every form of injustice and cruelty must finally go dozvn. Harriet Beecher Stowe. or. not kill a man of course , unless we killed him to save him. Do you think it would be anv sin to kill me if I were to break my covenants? Let I for man am himself, every preach preaching my own faith, today. Do you believe you would kill me if, j broke the covenants of God, and you had the spirit of God? Yes, and the more spirit of God I had, the more I should strive to save your soul by spilling your blood when you had committed sin that would not be remitted by baptism. But, says one, will not Uncle Sam play the devil with you? We are next to him. Uncle Sam is a part of us, and we are Uncle Sam; and it is us and Uncle Sam together. We have a right to worship God according to the dictates of our own concience and have a right to carry out our religion , and there is nothing in the Constitution and laws of the United States to the contrary. We will take another occasion to give some examples where this right to carry out our religion has been exercised. V ERITA We would The Beauties of Polygamy, A Tribune reporter lately interviewed Mrs. Raleigh the petitioner in the suit of Raleigh vs. Raleigh, whom he describes as an intelligent, fine looking lady, and the following facts were elicited in regard to the beauties of the divine ordinance. It may be premised by way of explanation, that Mrs. Raleigh has brought a suit for divorce and alimony against her husband who is a Mormon bishop of the finest and most unadulterated type. Mrs Raleighs story is like that of a great many of the women who have married into the Church. She first went into Mr. Raleighs family as nurse to his former wife, who was on a bed of sickness from which she never rose. She declined to accept the proposals of marriage when first made, but in obedience to the mandate of Heber C. Kimball, then one of President Youngs counsellors, and to whom disobedience was worse than contempt of court, she at length acceded. Her honeymoon was not a particularly bright one, but she took upon herself the care of her husbands children by his first wife, and was a mother to them during many years that followed. She was allowed to work all she pleased, and sometimes more, from the beginning, and as stated in the complaint aided in every way to build up the fortune of her lord and master. As a specimen of what was expected of her, one instance may be related alone, Shortly after their marriage one of the cows died, down in a pasture lot on the edge of town, it was supposed from having in some way become poisoned. She was sent with a Danish boy to skin the dead body, which they did, and Mrs. Raleigh carried the hide to the house over her shoulders, her husband, meantime, standing by with a linen duster on and walking cane in 10 CENTS. his hand, superintending the work. ' In the course of time new wives were added to the, household, the num- ber eventually reaching eight, and at one period six of them were occupying onehbuse, and working and eating together in one small room, which served as kitchen, dining-roo- m, sitting-roo- m and parlor. Each had a separate sleep, ing apartment. They were all expected to earn a living, and if they wanted anything special in the way of clothing, etc., they bought it themselves from money made at washing or otherwise. The head of the household bought his supplies by the quantity, and kept them under lock and key, dealing them out with a sparing hand. He was suspicious always that his wives were trying to rob him, and on one occasion, when he thought he missed a dress pattern off of a- bolt of common heavy goods he' searched the .apartments of his wives, examining the bedticks, looking in small drawers that would not have contained the bulk of the dress, and when urged sarcastically by the plaintiff even peered into a pair of stockings which were hung up in the room. The plaintiff says the finest dress he evergave her after their marriage was one of a common material which would probably cost about a bit a yard now. One of his wives finally brought a suit for divorce, against him, Which ' was settled by compromise, and the result of the present suit will be watched with interest by some of the others, who will follow suit if Mrs. Raleigh succeeds. As an evidence of the love felt for him by his children it is said that when he had been absent in England on a mission and was returning, they saw him and one of the boys exclaimed there come that old scoundrel, whereupon they all hastened to conceal themselves. He was called by some less tender and respectful names at other times and all his life as a husband an father seems not to have been a happy one judging by the re- -, spect inspired in his family. - . A Word to Parents. There is solid sense in the subjoned extract from an article in Blackzvoods Magazine. Parents are sometimes too strict in keeping children indoors. Better let them soil their clothes by playing in the yard among dumb animals, than run upon the streets and mingle with wicked associates who will stain the soul- - VVe too say: Let children have free, open air sport, and fear not though they make acquaintance with the pigs, the donkeys, and the chickens they may form worse friendships with wiser looking ones; encourage a familiarity with all that love to court them; dumb animals love children, and children love them. There is no language among them, which the worlds language obliterates in the elders. It is of more importance that yon should make your children loving, than that you should make them wise. Look at the notice marked Em?w and see if there is a blue mark on the margin opposiet that notice. It the duty of every wife and mother, to aid in circulating the y Standard. Anti-Polygam- is |