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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y JUSTICE TO THE MORMONS. Under the above caption, the Rev. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPI, 1881. John C. Kimball, a Unitarian minister has written some letters to the e in Sal Christian Register in which he underEntered at the mail takes to plead for justice for the Lake City , Utah, as second-clas- s Latter Day Saints on the grounds matter. that the elements of our own liberal Christianity which demands gsned monthly by Tub Standard Pubumiimu Company. The Organ of the Womens National that every faith shall have a fair Society. hearing and a fair chance to do its TEEMS: work shall be applied to this as well $1.00 One ear, in advance 50 Six months He believes that as to all others. Three months REMITTANCES: polygamy which is so offensive to Remittances may be made by draft, money order or regisEastern civilization does have its tered letter, at otir risk. Give Post Ollice address in full, two sides, and should he judged at including County and Slate. The receipt of the paper may be considered the receipt the bar of reason rather than of Post-Offic- Auti-rolygam- y for the subscription sent us. crime. Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates, and should reach us on or before the 15th of each mouth, to insure insertion in the Mtcccceding number. Address all communications to The Stan baud, P. O. 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. Anti-Polygam- y Airs. Ann Eliza Young, of Battle Creek, Mich , is the general agent of the Standard, and is duly authorized to receive subscriptions and contract for advertisements. Officers of the Womans National Anli-lolj-ga- m Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Kimball staid a few weeks in Utah studying the Mormon faith and boarded in a Mormon family. He heard from themselves marvelous explanations of its origin and of their present reasons for its support, some of which he had never seen in print. One account was given him by a Mormon enthusiast born in Massachusetts intelligent and capable, but who saw everything in the light of a faith. This man and his wife were converted to Mormonism, years before But polygamy was everthoughtof. while at Nauvoo, he said we each began having revelations from Heaven night after night, saying that we must go back to the customs of the patriarchs with regard to marriage. snper-naturalis- ts A. Cooke, President. I M. A. HAMIIToN. 1, Jennie A. Fiwiseth, A1 Residents. Mary A. Tames, Recording Secretary. IlAnr.iET K Pane, Corresponding Secretary. Jeannette C. Lawrence, Trea'arcr. Sabah EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. JcLIA A. J.AlT.A C. Don, I, AS, Mary A. Lloyd, E. M. Fisher. KtM'iAT.L, Cordelia A. Smith, Selina Boukof'ky, Woman's National Anti-Polyga- Society. 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If it comes beyond the time desired, you can depend upon it the publishers do not know that the subscriber wants it stopped. All you have to do is to pay arrearages and notify us by letter, and the paper will be stopped. We are in receipt of the Agents Herald, 717 Sansom St. Philadelphia, edited by L. Lnm Smith. As its name denotes, this paper is published in the interest of Agents and Canvassers, and one of its principal objects is to expose the numerous frauds who advertise extensively all over the country, and who make it a regular trade to defraud the public. They publish a regular list corrected every month of persons conducting any so called business and all other schemes intended to swindle the people. It is only 50 cents a year, and persons who are in the habit of answering promiscuous advertisements or sending for goods to other than well known, responsible business firms, will be amply repaid by subscribing for the Agents Herald. The whole thing was so repugnant to us both that for some time we could not receiveit. The revelations, however, became clearer and more emphatic, and at last my wife ventured to communicate to me what the Lord had declared to her. This led to a comparison of experiences all around, and we found the same revelation had come to many; and hence it was received and acted upon as the unmistakable will of Heaven. Another explanation came from a cool, shrewd, business-lik- NewT Hampshire-hor- e n hard-heade- d, Yan- kee without a particle of fanaticism about him. Said this brother, the fact is while at Nauvoo, our missionaries abroad made converts among single women a great deal faster than among men. The consequence was that, coming into a new community where they had no homes or protectors of their own, we had to parcel them around among our different families. This, we soon found was giving rise to scandal and to possible illicit attachments; and as a matter of decency and morals we had to provide some way by which this excess of women could have some normal relations to the families where they were placed. Marrying them to theirheads with all the safeguards of religion seemed to us the only possible way: and sovsinq our com mon sense we took that as the will of -- the Lord!' Mr. Kimball insists that these two a monthly paper explanations are not inconsistent published in Cincinnati by Annie with each other, and says that of L. Quimby is at hand. It is a jourcourse it is possible to sneer atthem nal devoted to the various interests as it is at the doctrine of the miracof women, including the Suffrage ulous conception of Jesus Christ, well edited and is a The iEgis, bright, question, little sheet. Subscription price One dollar a year. Read Mrs. Paddocks new book. but such treatment is neither Christian nor philosophical. And without denying that the element of passionmay unconsciously have had its influence, lie' thinks that these two accounts suggest how the system at its roots was an honest part of their religious faith. But Mr. Kimballs egregious ignorance about the origin of polygamy, which is a plain matter of history, is only equalled by the. ideas he imbibed f its practical workings. There are doubtless some women who accept it against their instincts and as a sacwell-authenticat- ed -- GOOD TEMPLARS lNHINUHAM A lodge of this order was organized in Bingham, on the 30th of April last under the name of the Bingham Lodge I. O. G. T. No. 4. The first election was held on July and on Aug. 2nd the officers were installed by Worthy ' Lodge Deputy Frank Tolan. The naijies of the officers are as 2G follows: Judge L. B. Kinney, W. C. T. Mrs. L. B. Kinney,- W. Y. T.; vation, but, while its results might not be very elevating, he describes Walter Green, W. S.; Max Beaver, it as very different from the eccles- W. F. S.; Win. My rick, W. T. ; Strick-leiastical and mental bondage in which Chas. Conner, W. C. ; Wm: J. W. M.; L. C. Kinney, W. I G.; they are commonly thought to live, and not inconsistent with a fair de- Robt. Jackson, W. A. S. ; Miss S. Ifeaston, W. D. M.; Mrs. Johnson, gree of womanly delicacy and moral W. It. S.; Mrs Fanny Tolan, W, L; purity. He also quotes the thread- S. bare Mormon argument regarding At the installation which was' the immorality and licentiousness of the Gentiles as compared with public, a temperance address was their pure and lovely lives, and sums delivered by Judge Kinney, which is spoken of by all who had the up his defense of polygamy by the sentence by their fruits ye shall good fortune to hear it as one of the finest lectures ever given in Bingknow them, judge between them. Another statement made by Mr. ham. Walter Green entertained Kimball which exposes his ignorance the audience with a recitation which still further, or proves him to be a was also highly appreciated and at the close of the exercises a long list beliberate falsifier is this; The fact is, the experiment of of names was handed in as appli- cants for membership. We are polygamy is of no significance , in its rifice essential for their future sal- - y, its results , one way or the other. Out of seventy thousand men in the Territory, only a few hundred have more than one wife. The great body ol Mormons, and the most dan- gerous, ignorant and fanatical of them are strict monogamists, and polygamy makes hardly a ripple in their moral life. Then Mr. Kimball goes on to state how the question should be treated by the country at large. He thinks that if it were practiced as a mere vice, as is commonly supposed, if it degraded the women, or if they were opposed to it, philanthropy might demand it should be stamped out. But where a thng is being do e as an experiment in the interest of relU gion and morality it deserves a treatment quite different from what is given to deliberate and intentional wrong doing. And if the Mormons are really making such an experiment, lie asks that according to our should system of they not be left to work it out, exposed only to moral criticism and opposition, just as other communities are left to make experiments in dealing with the social evil, the divorce laws and the sale of intoxicating drinks? Alter reading such an article one scarcely knows how to class the writer, as a fool or a knave, whether he has been actually so blinded by his own egotism that he could not see the truth, or whether he is a paid tool of the Mormon hierarchy. In either case Mr. Kimball has proved that he has in him the material for making a first class unadulterated Mormon Bishop. In our next issue self-governme- nt, glad to chronicle that this Lodge though yet in its infancy is in a very flourishing condition and the prospects for its future prosperity are highly encouraging. A number of the members are youths of both sexes, and it is very gratifying to the friends of the noble Temper-rane- e cause to see these young people taking such a firm stand against the demon of strong drink, surrounded as they are with temptations on We hope that they will not rest content with saving themselves, and that they will not relax their efforts, but labor diligently until their influence is made potent in redeeming the whole camp. During our recent visit there we met one woman who had suffered the most abject poverty and who said to us, I might have a fine home of my own, and plenty of means to rear and educate my children as well as the best, but for the curse of whiskey6 fully two thirds of my husbands earnings are spent regularly for drink. And this is not an isolated case by any means, but a common occurrence. Let our worthy young every side. templars be thoroughly earnest in their work and Bingham shall yet be able to boast of many homes redeemed, and sorrowing wives and children made happy again through their efforts. lr FEMALE MORMON MISSIONARIES. We are informed by the Mormon Church organ that Sisters Ellen B. Ferguson and Zina D. Young have started for the Eastern States on a lecturing tour, and that they have been blessed and set apart under we will publish the editorial com- the hands of the first Presidency of ments of the Register on these ar- the Church. Some of our readers ticles, entitled The insult to may pertinently ask, set apart for what? We will answer this question as briefly as possible. They have Tiie mortality among children in been set apart, because they are Utah during the months of July and women of some intelligence and abilAugust was perfectly frightful, ity, to preach the infamous doctrine greatly exceeding that of any other of Mormon Polygamy to innocent corresponding time since the settle- unsuspecting young girls, to entrap ment of the Territory. them into a life of shame and misery, |