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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- Y STANDARD. pie. Like our neighbor, the Tribune Ui Mfanthrtl, we can also furnish names to the who The Mormon Conference which skeptical, and can give to those SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JNOV., 1881. was held in Salt Lake City in the are sufficiently interested to inquire of why the ofOctober, was very large- some other instances part early Sal come to Conference. jsg 'Entered at the second-clas-e s inmail ly attended, and as going to Con- people Lake City , Utah, as ference, is partially regarded as matter . test of loyalty to the Church as well George Q. Cannon believes that the as an evidence of a religious spirit, Mormon Church holds the power of . esued month'y by Tub Standard Publishing be apt to regard blood atoning any person who apostawould outsider an The Orgau of the Women's National it, and that it is an act of the Mormons as a very faithful and tises from Society. merit to shed the blood of such apostates . religious people. But the initiated TERMS: See the next number of the Standard. all as that Ono ear, in advance a and know proof better, Six months 5 Three months the people who come to ConferTHE DEITH OF ORSON PRATT. 'WHY nti-(1g!M- PEOPLE COME CONFERENCE. Post-Offic- Compa-NT- y REMITTANCES: Remittances may be made by draft, 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 reedpt or the subscription tent us. Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates, and should reach us on or before the 15th of each month, to insure insertion In the succeeding number. Address all communications to The 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. Anti-Polygam- y Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, of Battle Creek, Mich , is the general agent of the Standard, and is duly anthorized to receive subscriptions and contract for advertisements. Officers of the Womans National gram Anti-Pol- y Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sabah A. Ccoke, President. Jennie A. Fkoiseth, Ann Eliza Young, Elizabeth Lockley, Marcan Ciiisletc, M. A. Hamilton, Lucinda B. Chandler, J. Ellen Foster, Margaret E. Winslow, Frances E. Willard. the pilgrimage to the prophets shrine for the pur Orson Pratt Sen. commonly called pose of renewing their covenants the Apostle of polygamy, died in and refreshing their spiritual natures, Salt Lake City on the 3rd of Octo our readers are referred to a para ber, at the ripe age of70 years. He graph in aryMher column clipped obtained that soubriquet on account A of his fanatical devotion to the from the Salt Lake Tribune. pegreat many old people, whose bigot- culiar institution of the Mormon ry and fanaticism are not to be Church, and the earnestness with shaken undoubtedly came to receive which he always advocated the docspiritual consolation, but there is trine. Mr. Pratt was an American no denying the fact that the majori- by birth and joined the Mormons ty come to have a good time, and before he was twenty years old, and that too in their aum way. A number as a writer in the Salt Lake Tribune of instances similar to those men- says his boyish folly in this respect tioned by the Tribune have come to into a monomania as he adgrew our own knowledge, but they are vanced in years. But although he deso a that disgraceful absolutely was misguided and perverted, yet cent journal could not print, nor res- he was not corrupt or hypocritical ence, plural wives are said to be weIKdyr posed young people, who would have been ornaments to society if they had been born under brighter auspices. Several of them have apostatized, and many others are weak in that faith, which made a wreck of their fathers manhood, and reduced him to be the slave of others who were far beneath him in intelligence and natural good qualities. But he has gone where ne will be righteously judged and awarded accordingly. do not make V What was the fate of Adolph the Jew who made affidavit of the fact that Geo. Q. Cannon counseled him to blood atone Almon W. Babbit. See the December number of the Standard. TO THE FRIENDS OF THE CAUSE. ANTI-POLYGA-M- Y At its first regular meeting for the season, held on the first Tuesday in in October, the Womans National Society laid out a plan of operations for the coming winters work, and in which they earnestly and cordially ask the coman operation of every in and woman the country. These plans will be unfolded in the Standard at the proper times, commencing with the next number and large extra editions of these numbers issued, copies of which will be sent to all interested parties at half the regular price of the paper. The December number will contain an appeal to the women of America and the Society most earnestly asks all friends of the cause to do their utmost to brin this appeal to the notice of those whom it is desired to reach, and" to urge that "its provisions be carried out. Auxiliary Societies, and all benevolent and reformatory associations are asked to co operate, and any person in whose hands this paper may chance to fall, who desires to assist in the work will please send for a copy of the Standard, or address the Secretary of the Society, Mrs. W. F. James at this city. To our own subscribers we make this special offer. In addition to esn ding thorn estrs copies for ?q cents eieh, fe? ten copies ordered, we will ourselves mail five mere to any desired address. We do this for the purpose cf the inner z widely as pn3. sible and interesting new localities in this particular work. All of our subscribers have undoubtedly friends in many States and Territories, and if each one would be instrumental in sending a few copies in different directions, the work-wou- ld be widened very materially. Send us the names, and we will assume all the labor and responsibility ot mailing! Anti-polygam- y law-abidin- g . And like so pectable people read them. many of his associates, and the worst of it is that the most fla- he deservedly bore the reputation grant cases of immorality are fount! of being perfectly sincere in his suEXECUTIVE CO.U3IITTEE. among the young people but perhaps perstitious adherence to the MorLaura C. Douglas, Julia A. Kimball. this cannot be wondered at, as from mon faith. To Mary A. Li oyd, Cordelia A. Smith, quote from the writE. M. Fisher. Selina BouKOFrKY, earliest childhood their are they er above mentioned. Womans National Society. Meets on First Tuesday in each month at Independent made familiar with vice in its lowest Mr. Pratt was naturally an honHall st3:30p. m. and most indecent forms. As one est and just man ; and aside from his in the illustration of which maimer PLEASE ATTEND TO THIS. acceptance and promulgation of this the of youth Territory are Mormonism and his polygamic relaOccasionally we receive an order to discontinue the Standard from a subscriber who is in arrears we give the following in- tions in obedience to its for a number of months, or perhaps Avho has not brought up requirepaid, the subscription at all. Of course persons have cident from which we have elimin- ments, his natural instincts were a right to stop the paper when they choose, but it is the worst ated for features those numbers also only just that they shouldpay and He right proper. they have received. For the information of such parA of and ou decisions men this ties we append the Newspaper girls, never made a speculation out of the party young matter. No I. Any person who takes a paper regularly about ten in number started trom business, as did so many others; he from the Post Office whether directed to his name one of the remote settlements to was kept by Brigham Young in the or anothers, or whether he has subscribed or not is responsible fr the payment. attend Conference, to get their en- most abject poverty; and as he No. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may con- dowments and some of them to be showed a willing spirit in turning tinue to send it until payment is made, and collect married. They were on the road sev- over to the head of the Church the whole amount whether the paper is taken from not. office or the eral days, and when they camped for everything he ever had of any value, How to Stop This Paper. he nightj each of the boys would pro- of which no refusal is on record, he It is not a difficult task to stop this paper. If it comes beyond the time desired, you can depend up- duce his whiskey bottle, and a moddied a poor man. He was not in on it the publishers do not know that the subscriber est pen could not describe the scenes favor with the Brigham Young dywants it stopped. All you have to do is to pay and notify us by letter, and the paper will which foil awed JOne of the girls, nasty, which, however, availed itself be stopped. x the nlafcor of tin incident, whose freely of his talosta without reccin' Strangs stories of scandalous as- - sense of decency was not entirely peuse. TTijs life may be sud to have id doings during the late destroyed, tried to keep herself alof been that of a man of ability, whose as much as possible, and when she mind became perverted in youth beConference come to the Tribune, too filthy to print. Yet if the Mormon arrived in town she refused to marry fore it gained its full strength, and Church people insist that their the young man to whom she was whes weakness was taken advancrowd are pure and chaste, we can engaged because there were two or tage of by designing schemers to give them instances, with names, three girls of the party who could help them in a huge speculation in which would totally upsetany theory legitimately compel him to make the benefits of which they never based on the purity idea. The them his plural wives. permitted him to share. Church leaders profess great satisHe was much loved by the MorWe heard of another case where faction with the late Conference, as a young girl was in company with a mon people, who saw in him the betit was good for their business. It good elder and his family, coming in ter ideal of their faith. Where there was also good for other peoples to attend Conference. She had was so much grasping avarice and business. Salt Lake Tribune. lived in the city before, but had tricky selfishness, he was guileless been home on a visit, and was re- and unselfish. So much we deem it Where is the justice of sending George turning in order to bo married to a due to the truth to say; and while Smith to prison for having two wives Saint. But his suspicions deploring the result of his labors in in any other part of the United States , young A bill passed by the House of so much to build up a fraud, Represand sending George Q. Cannon to Con- were aroused by some strange act- helping entatives June 16, 1874, distinctly says ions between her and the elder, and and hating that work with a perfect gress for havingfour in Utah? See the that a bigamist or polygamist is not elithe end of the matter was that in- hatred, we mournfully confess that gible to a seat in that December Standard. then , stead of being married to the young we consider the deceased to have this exception in the body. Why Geo. of Q. cyse There were more intoxicated peo- man she went back again as the bee'n misguided only and not inten- Cannon. Sec the December Standard . ple on the streets of Salt Lake City, third" wife of the old man, the youth tionally wicked. It is also only justice to say that Ministers and Societies who have during the last Mormon Conference, declining to interfere with anyone women as well as men, than has who already rightfully belonged to Orson Pratts family seem to have made arrangements for distributing been seen before in a long time. another. And these are the people escaped some of the evil consequen- the December and January numbers Numbers of the Saints certainly en-- , who will go to every meeting during ces of polygamy, which have demor- of the Standard, will please send in and in listen with a alized almost mouths Conference, other in themselves, joyed their orders immediately. Spiritual every family Copies wide outside while a of Tabernacle. the the The gaping children of his of these numbers mailed to open, way, corrupt Territory. any adand licentious priesthood prates of first wife are well known and respec- dress for $5.00 per hundred, corresthe purity and holiness of this peo- - ted citizens, and the offspring of his Read Mrs. Paddock's new book. ponding rates for a les number. Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker, Vice Presidents. Mary A. James, Recording Secretary. Harriet K Bane, Corresponding Secretary. Jeannette C. Lawp.ence, Treasurer. r Anti-Polyga- rmj cir-w:2t- , , f ;rg |