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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y 51 The Insult to Womanhood. Our Christian Women and Mormonism. piece of property to be bought and has its just limits. Let the Chinasold in the .market like any other man build his the Jew The Unitarian instinct for tolera- merchandise. That we admit At a full meeting of the Presbyhis synagogue, the TurkTiis mosque, any We honor is and tion very strong. such slur upon womanhood into our he II i his temple wherever in terian Sabbath-schoo- l Assembly, would We for it. if fight it, in held respect Asbury Park, New paper is only because we wish to his free country he can buy the lately it were invaded, and as quickly for petition protest against the shameless degra- and and pay for it. But if the Hin- Jersey, the subjoined a Mormon as for a Jew or Gentile. dation of the bv was a read, and, rising vote, was system which makes it. doo woman asks the privilege of It is in deference to our friend j Mr. That Mr. Kimball could restrain his casting her children into the Mississ-pp- i, earnestly approved. This petition Kimballs love of liberty, and his or the Jew wants to stone to is being circulated by a. society of indignation at this justification of desire to defend a weak cause so Mormonism is stronger proof to us death those who oppose his religion, Christian ladies, and they desire not weak that his friendly pen cannot of his of heart than anything or the Chinaman asks prostitution only the names of individuals to it, charity sureasily make it strong that we. he has said in its favor. If poly-gan- y may be legalized in religious wor- but also the endorsement by vote of render liberal space for a farther can be defended on the privi- ship, or the Turk wants to intro- all public Christian assemblies. CopMorche to for Justice appeal lege of the man to enrich his affec- duce his harem, then the govern- ies of the petition may be had by mons. tions indefinitely according to his ment of the United States, which is writing tc Mrs. G. C. White, 124 No facts have been presented to means, polyandry can be defended but the authoritative expression of Amity Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. show that the principle of toleration the will of the American people, Further information, too, may bo by an inversion of the argument. We case. in deserted this has been But, turning from the indecent may be forced to say Thus far, but obtained from the same source. do not ask that it shall be ignored To the Honorable, the Senators of the Mormon leaders no farther. plausibilities in the legislation that we urge. Jus- to the This is what wre ask the United and Representatives in Congress of plain historic record, which is tice is consistent with toleration. not a matter of we know States government, in the interests the United States of America, obscurity, be Let both exercised where they The petition of the undersigned well how polygamy, was of order and justice, to say to the perfectly' incibelong. It may be remarked introduced. It was the work of a people of Utah. This is first of all respectfully shows: not Mormons have the that That your petitioners view with dentally We use a civil and social question, and our gross and vile deceiver. Joe been a very tolerant people. these terms not in the language of correspondent has failed to give a alarm the rapid growth of a system Smith and his band razed to the passion, but simply of description. single argument why polygamy recognizing and encouraging as a office ot the the newspaper q00(j adjectives will not describe a should be permitted in a Territory religious institution, the revolting ground to protest jjacj man Smith introduced it that ventured in Nauvoo that and degrading vice of polygamy, of the United States. against the introduction of polyga- ke might justify his own immoral To argue that the licentiousness bestializing woman and brutalizing intolerance his L was own It my. mcUct. The Mormons were then which may exist under monogamy man, a practice not only subversive his death. him Ihere caused that Its is a reason for making licentiousness of love, honor, duty, loyalty and all hjvjng Nauvoo, in Illinois. Mmto the believe that is reason introduction rnet with great opposi-mon- s legal under polygamy, is an ingen- the higher feelings of mankind, but are tolerant now only because Ljon The ciders of the Mormon ious application of logic to morals. destructive of the sacredness of the the because cannot help it; they church went so far as to issue this Whatever the libertinism of front conjugal and family relations, upon the to unlocked Utah of are gates repudiation of the practice: aInas- - iersmen, they are not accustomed to the inviolability of which the 'vrld. parity of a civilized State must their immorality wch as this Church of Christ has been except But the main question in this dis- - repiroachedwith the crimes of fornication the strength of their own pend. That the fast increasing popula-Jo- e be cussion relates to polygamy. declare we that ice and polygamy, passions. It is one thing to sin as origin is a simple, plain matter of Ipcve that one man should have but Smith did. but quite another to Uin of Utah renders probable its history. Mr. Kim- - 0ie wife, and one woman but one ball ignores it in his replr, and gives husband; except in case of death, 111 wlnctl two opinions of Mormon laymen, the either is at liberty to marry is the wmrst. event, the legalization by ality is we think which cannot value of The great mass of the Mormon the new State, of polygamous again at all increased by the fact tha they are made abroad, the at- - tracts would, under our constitution, followed in the Young Brigham have peier before been in print. wake of and succeeded in tractions of emigration being often entitle such marriages to judicial Smith, Mr. Kimball does not indoise these substituted by the missionaries for recognition and support in all other jm p0Sjng the system upon his to u will not expect and Many States of the Union, 0WPrSj some 0f wnom were only too the attractions of religion. indorse them. IIis own opinion That social and political evils, willing to be imposed upon by a converts are utterly ignorant of the Mormonism, which our leaders must reveation which gave licence to polygamic phase until they are plan- - which, when young, can easily be not identify with his charity for it, their passions. The simple-minde- d ted in Utah. Polygamy is not per- - cured by legislative action, finally is that it is a mistake and a folly, of the Mormon converts, mitted in the countries, England, reach a stage in which they become credulity Who that carefully reads these in- anc their blind faith in their leaders Wales, Denmark, Sweden, whence organized institutions, and either consistent and ridiculous Mormon on the one hand and the culpable they so largely come. That it is successfully defy all attempts at to with agree explanations can fail difference of the government on permitted in Utah is not only the eradication, or else so modify the our correspondent this conclusion, the other, the way for the fault of Smith, Young, Taylor, Can- - feelings, customs and laws of soci-noprepared Me are not surprised that Mormons establishment of this oriental vice, Orson Pratt, and Heber C. ehy, as to make themselves a should present such arguments, for practical legislation cannot overlook but the fault of the Con- - idsed feature of that society, they are the only kmd they nave the origin of the evils which it at gress of the United States. It is Wherefore, your petitioners to offer. Our surprise is that Mr. time that the wfill and con- - nestly pray the enactment of to remove. And the fact tempts Kimball should considei them of stan(js out as people in this matter, utes: plain as day, that pol- m Cir E Providing for the prevention value was introduced by a sensua among many others, were respected ygamy u e i en se . and suppression of polygamy, and the ssssseam list, and imposed upon the Mormon in thenational Legislature. discrimination people by the designing ingenuity The insulting To admit Utah as a polygamic punishment of such persons as shall which is made against'1 motherhood 0f their leaders. That the majority State with polygamy would be os contract PbT8araous marriages. The enactment of laws c in the argument is 0f the Mormon women accept it on bad as to admit Montana as a slave and providing for the worn- a fair illustration of the grounds may modify the State. Slavery and polygamy are religious with which Mormons seek to justi- - national feeling towards those who both repugnant to civilization and en and children in polygamous fy their position on rational grounds. ure its victims; but it canno ob- - morals. To be indifferent to them ihes who desire to seperate from and The sublime masculine egotism SCure its origin or justify its contin-wliic- h is a misfortune, to legalize them is a Rave the same, 3. The preparation and enact suggests the confidence that Lance. The American people can- - crime. Christian Register. ment of an amendment to the Con-It- s the human race is to be socially and 110t be accused of intolerance if they stitution of the United States, mak Aclion is Sure and Safe. physically improved by this system refuse to regard as a virtue what is parallel with the fanatic intoler- - the Mormon elders of 1845 agreed ing polygamy a crime to be tried The. celebrated remedy Kidney-lan- d ance of Brigham Young, whom we to stigmatize as a crime. Freeman, punished in all the courts of heard make the assertion in the w10 is now confined at Danvers, Wort can now be obtained in the the United States, And your petitioners will ever Mormon tabernacle that, strange had a revelation from heaven s usual dry vegetable form, or liquid it seems, it is only through Mor- - dering him to kill his child. It was form. It is put in the latter way pray. Presbyterian Home Mission. monism that the world can be undoubtedly just as genuine as any for the especial convenience of those It did seem strange to us; that Joe Smith reeived in regard who cannot readily prepare it. It Women that have been pro saved. and, so far as the majority of Amer- - to polygamy. Is it intolerance or will be found very concentrated nounced incurable by the best phys-an- d will act with equal efficiency in icians in the country, have been ican women arc concerned, wo firm- - injustice to send Freeman to the ly believe that they would rather be madhouse, or must not organized either case. Be sure and read the completely cured offemale weakness by the use of Lydia E. Pinkhams damned several times over than to society interfere with men sane or e new advertisement for particulars. Send to Vegetable Compound. saved in the Mormon way. sane who strike a blow at its founda- - South and West. Mrs. Jjydia E. Piukham, 232 But the insult to womanhood tion? Is Guiteau to be turned over man dies, people inquire ern Avenue, Lynn., Mass., for pam-whreaches its climax when the right to the missionaries, or placed in a property ke has left behind pHIets. of every man to win as many wives position where lie can no longer him. Angels will ask what good as he pleases is defended on the point his pistol at the government? Subscribe now for the Standard. Political and social intolerance deeds he has sent before him. same ground as if woman .were a joss-hous- e, o -- . I , I pros-excude-throu- j well-authenticat- se gh ed con-conver- ts fol-opinio- ns, n, recog-Kimba- ll, ear-hig- h stat-qienceoft- he pscudo-scientifi- ill-succe- ss or-a- in-b- West-WiiE- I -- Na at |