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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y 75 of religion whose cornor stone fatfard. graced, and when the mystery of InfitpJngamn polygamy led to so much decep- her fate is revealed, it will in all tion and crime. Is it any wonder probability be the record of one Dear Standard: In a late num that all the christianized world more woman lost. Some other time ber of your journal I learn that nu- cries Reasons why the Christian women of the out for its downfall? God I will give you some more incidents United States should support the merous correspondents hadinquired we may seethe end of this of polygamic duplicity and treach- Standard. that grant why Leonora did not contribute now lustful church! ery. to the columns of the Standard. Loenora. Old Mormon. The only excuse for not doing so The Standard is the only paper in the United Dec. Salt 1881 Lake, States devoted to the suppression of Polygamy. has been the press of domestic duEds. Standard: The article of J. ties requiring all my time. There is another cause which may be A. J. in the December number of Eds. Standard: In your article Polygamy, as it exists in Utah, is not underIn your valuable journal, entitled The on Female Mormon Missionaries in stood pleaded in apology for silence. by the people of the United States. a life often years in Utah, one sees Way they do it, reminds me of an the December paper, you mention and learns so much of the horrors incident which illustrated another Sister Zina Young as being East It is the mission of the Standard to enlighten of polygamy, and encounters so phase of polygamic life, and shows lecturing upon, and advocating polythe people of America in regard to the workings many incidents of its brutal and de- how young girls are blindly inveig- gamy. I have an authentic inci- of this monstrous system of inquity. will show sisdent to relate-whicmoralizing effects, that when we at- led into the shameful relation. These girls are caught in the trap ter Zina s private views on the holitempt to write, the memory is crowded so full, that one is at a loss before they are even aware of their ness of the celestial doctrine. A It is now more than thirty-onyears since to know which to choose first. danger, and their whole future lives friend of mine, some years ago, was Polygamy was planted on the shores of the Great An incident related at the last blasted and destroyed in conse- in great anguish of mind, and went Salt Lake. quence. The case in point is sad in to Sister Zina for comfort and admeeting of the Society in your city, wherein a mar- the extreme, and the saddest of all vice. Her husband had taken a During this time Congress has utterly failed to ried woman had secretly married is that it is not by any means ex- second wife, and she was experi- enact efficient, or enforce existing laws for the the bishop of her ward, recalls a ceptional, as many can testify to encing those horrors that only a lov- abolition of this great crime. circumstance which shows the pow- their sorrow. ing wife can feel who sees herself A certain elder in Zion who had supplanted in her husbands affecer of the piiesthood over votaries of never taken such a degrading three wives was sent on a mission tions by another woman. She was andPolygamy has the Church. debasing form in any nation, or among any He still a good Mormon, and anxious to A lady was raised in a New En- to one of the Eastern States. people above the condition of savages, as in was a fact concealed he do the of all that her as was that Utah. required gland state, with such religious have in more sacorder to such, even if it involved heavy teachings as she could gain in the married man, orthodox church of her parents. She success in making female converts. rifices, so she said to Zina, tell me It i3 degrading to man and woman, a curse tef received a nsrood education, and be- Among these was a young girl honestly, for you are so much wiser children, and destruction to the sacred relations came qualified for the profession of a belonging to an old Puritan family, and holier than I am, does the fault of family. teacher. But she soon married and who was even more infatuated with lie in myself that I am so miseraa man much older than herself. the fascinating elder than with the ble; or is the system to blame for We call upon all the Christian women of the Her family were it? I have prayed long and earnest- United States to join us in planning and executTime sped by and the twain had new religion. measures to arrest the further progress of bright and intelligent children who greatly grieved over her course, and ly for submission, and if the trou- ing were one by one taken from them when expostulations and entreaties ble arises from the wickedness of this evil. by death, after growing almost to failed to change her mind, harsher my own heart, I am ready to die, if The mother measures were resorted to, and she necessary, to expiate that sin, for I We also call upon them to assist us in keeping young womanhood. She cannot live in this agony any lon- public sentiment in agitation against an abominabecame discouraged, and was in was locked in her room. that peculiarly oppresses and stigmatizes that peculiar frame of mind, ready watched her opportunity, however, ger. If the system is the cause of tion woman. to grasp at any faith that would car- and escaped, started for Utah with it, then I need not be tortured with ; ry out her sorrows. Her husband a company in charge of our Elder, the pangs of an accusing conscience 1 entreat Polygamy is a sin most especially against wo before that time, had become infat- who married her somewhere on so answer me honestly as it desecrates the home and the fireside, Zina replied, Sister, you man uated with the doctrines of Mormon-ism- , the way in order to silence her re- you? and renders mutual confidence between husband and he and a mormon mission- proaches of concience for leaving are not to blame, neither are you and wife an utter impossibility. was ex- the only woman who is suffering ary then in that locality, persuaded home in that manner. lie the wife that in that church wa tremely devoted on the journey, torments on account of polygamy. found rest of soul, and Utah was the and she was supremely happy in the There are women in this very house Consequently it is only right then that woman be its most uncompromising opponent, true Zion. Against the earnest enjoyment of a young girls first (Brigham Youngs) whose hearts are should of love. Hut imagine juU of hell, and in that room yonder, and work for its complete abolition. pleadings of friends, the husband sweet dream and wife, with the smaller children, the rude awakening, when upon pointing to a door, is a woman came to this Territory. Here they their arrival in Zion, she discovered who has been a perfect fury ever It istrue that nothing more fully attests the failed to lind that happiness and that she was not the object of a pure since Brother Young married. Sister progress of a nations civilization than the posia Amelia Folsom. Brigham Young tion and character of its women. prosperity promised, but iu their and tender affection, but simpl a f or she would brutal room enter that to not victim the dare passion stead, poverty, deception by brethren and regrets sprang up that they wicked deceiver. Not having been tear his eyes out. It is the system that at no period of the worlds The reared in the Mormon faith, and that is to blame for it, but we must It is alsohastruewomans had left their eastern home. work of love among her existence wife upbraided the husband for early taught that her souls salva- try and be as patient as we can. own sex been more signally blest. her being sealed And yet, Sister Zina who has seen a bringing her here, and he retaliated tion depended on she took an en- house full of women with hell in by accusing her of persuading him to some good Saint, in coming to Zion. The missionary tirely different view of her position their hearts on account of polygaConsequently, we call upon women to aid us her with accordance frethe in around and puritan my, goes now country in this work of charity, trustihg that our labors whom they had met East was a a as herself Mothers may also be crowned with success. she considered preaching the doctrine. quent visitor at the house, and his training and betrayed creature, in- of America, for Gods sake, shield actiou arroused suspicions in the ruined 2nT breast of the husband. The wifes stead of an honorable wife, as he your innocent lambs from these deThat this system of iniquity should be trunk was left unlocked one day, tried to persuade her that she was. coying wolves! under the name and cloak of religion only A Mother. when she went out to a neighbors, But all his sophistry failed to eradiadds to the enormity of the crime. that the mind her from cate truth, an and this afforded the husband the con- marriage is possible only between opportunity A large number of yearly suband one and one though mail revealed letters woman, of roll tents. A of That these unlawful and unhallowed alliances issue with this scriptions expire the most are termed celestial marriages makes the system the sad secret. The missionary in she was in heart as pure as we hope our all the more and the Standard, revolting to our common Christian his letters to the woman, spake of virtuous wife in the country, yet friends will renew without furany principles. her. being so much younger than she felt that she was in reality a lost ther notification than that given her companion, and plead for a sec- and degraded woman, who had them by the blue mark, and thereby Consequently, we ask the cordial and shame upon disgrace she that to brought ret marriage might him, much trouble. A number of and concerted action of the Christian women ef honorable household. While in save us an and world this in enjoy happiness three months subscriptions also ex- our land. her of frame this been mind, position be saved in the next. It has pire, and we trust these friends are revealed to him that she must enter became known to some now suEciently interested to subher with assist By the continued agitation of the subject, we to offered who to him with ladies, alliance into such an six least for at or for a scribe year, Wy confidently hope that the great crime of insure blessings here, and an en- means to return to her New Eng- months. And will not each sub- polygamy will be abolished. trance into the joys of heaven. land home. She left Utah, but as- scriber try and send us one more havThis was too much for the husband, there is no record of her ever name with their own. The Standard is only $1 per annum. Subeven if lie had accepted the doctor-ine- s ing reached that home, the correct remorse and is that scribe for it yourselves and recommend it to your pride of the Mormon Church, with inference the Scnd one dollar for 20 copies of friends. 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