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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- happened in the year 1881, and which are- being multiplied in the Salt Lake and St. George EndowInielligent Am- ment Houses every monJh in the do not become year. Oh, how long will the Christian this is so often world permit this great wrong to we see such in last ? Leonora. $om&$on&nt Pear Standard: f - ericans as a rule good Mormons, and the case that when the membership of the Church, we are apt to look for some special cause for their being there. When this Territory was isolated from the outside world, to live in peace here it was necessary to become a Mormon and pay tithing to the Church, but in this age of railway communication things have changed, and it is so rare hat converts are made among the citizens that when one is drawn into the Church it at first is a matter of surprise until the impelling force is discovered. An instance in point will illustrate this force, too often the case. Brown was an American of pleasing address, and, to to the outward world, a man of pure habits. Thirteen years of married life with a lady whose whole soul seemed centered in love for her husband and child', en had been an existence of unalloyed happiness until he a few months ago, when made the acquaintance of a Mormon widow, who became an inmate of his house as a servant. Soon the positions of wife and servant in that home were almost reversed, and the wife became the slave of the house, while the widow was the mistress. This drove the wife from home, and she found an asylum in the house of a friendly neighbor, and trfe days and weeks went by, while she mourned the loss of a husbands love and the separation Her sorrow was from her children. too great to repeat, and she tried to stifle the sobs and tears which came unbidden, and she was heard to murmur: Oh, God, to think that woman should have the custody of my children! There is no chord so strong as that of a mothers love for. her children to draw her back to even an unfaithful husband, and this tie brought Mrs. Brown again to her home, after her great sufferings had made her an object of pity. Once home the cunning husband began his pleadings for both to enter the Mormon Church. He plead religious duty and conviction, while his real object was to become identified with an organization that would protect him in his crimes. The husband and wife were both baptfzed into the Church which has , but polygamy as its corner-stonewho can truly believe that the wife can ever look with anything but hatred upon the evidence of crime against woman ns it, will g prattling about the house calling her own husband father. If Brown had not become one of the lustful Church, he would find a place in a felons cell for bigamy or adultery, but in Utah, with its courts and laws, and with a whole church tq perjure themselves in his behalf, he is safe from justice and will remain another example of the most disgusting relic of barbarism. tell us that people are not polygamy now in Utah, and yet this is only one of the hundfedl simar casos which Politi-calbriskste- entng STANDARD. Y rs 83 preparing for his work. So much for B. Y.s nonsense, for as the old saying is, There no royal road to learning. J A L. -Reasons why the Christian women of the Jnited States should support the Yet us then try to see this fair Territory after even a year of civil Standard. war, every canyon bearing witness to the struggle, every river containEd. y Standard: The ing the dead, and its waters deseJanuary number of the Century crated by carnage and blood, each beautiful valley ploughed by shot Magazine contains an article by a Anti-Polygam- htdnrd. fnti-ob$m- ng Anti-Polygam- y XT , The Standard is the only paper in the United States devoted to the suppression of Polygamy T and the land naked, desolate Polygamy, as it exists in Utah, is not underJudge) Sedgwicke, in and shell; the dead and dying alike a prey stood by the people of the United States. which he pretends to know someto the wolf and the carrion crow. thing of the Mormon question. If his statements are law, how would such Our fairest cities destroyed by fire It is the mission of the Standard to enlighten have suited in 1861, when the slave and artillery practice, your husbands the people of America in regard to the workings and sons, brothers and friends killed of this monstrous system of inquity. power presumed too far on the good nature of the people of the United or maimed in the struggle, and bethis for we cannot disguise the States, and the It is now more than thirty-onpolicy had yond years since been adopted, what would have been further horrors of war when all the olygamy was planted on the shores of the Great the results ? Apply the same sys- evil passions of men are roused, of Salt Lake. tem here and we shall have the same the terrors of lust, rapine, murder result a civil war do you ask for and massacre with their accompanysad though it be, the During this time Congress has utterly failed to for horrors; ing analoenact efficient, or enforce existing laws for the proof? Well, reasoning from too victorious soldiers often disgrace abolition of this great crime. gy and that history repeats itself, it is just as impossible for a Gentile their victory by orgies, worthy of to hold any elective office in Utah, a fiend himself, and the honor ang as for an man to hold chastity of women and even' yound Polygamy has never taken such a degrading is crushed under the excite- and debasing form in any nation, or among any any State office in the South. The girls of people above the condition of savages, as in ment a conquest. is Utah. preu f enough present legislature WOMEN OF UTAH. of this. Ther, if asked their political proclivities, would, without It is in your power to now com- It is degrading to man and woman, a curse to if and each doubt, say, Democratic, pel these priests, who so lord it over children, and destruction to the sacred' relations to asked candidly state their relig- your husbands and yourselves to of family. ious views, would answer, each for stop this polygamy from going any and believe that himself, Mormons, We call upon all the Christian women of the further, by saying: Teach us Chrisis to to divine us. But States to join us in planning and executUnited polygamy tianity, and we will believe all that show that their Democracy is the and onward ; all that ing measures to arrest the further progress of points upward under-strat- a for the present of their has taken woman from and this evil. slavery Mormon belief, we notice that al-bondage, and placed her as God inthough this Territory contains not, tended ;the help meet of man, and We also call upon them to assist us in keeping sentiment in agitation against an abominaless than half of its Gentile popula- not as his slave all that has helped public tion that peculiarly oppresses and stigmatizes tion who are Democrats, and manv raise women to honor, to the place woman. of whom are dyed in the wool of love in Jthe home, all that has Democrats, who never aid and never made her loved, respected and obwill vote any other ticket ; yet not Polygamy is a sm most especially against wo eyed by her children all that has man as it desecrates the home and the fireside, one of those tried friends of Demo- helped to make her a blessing to and renders mutual confidence between husband cracy is offered a position in the mankind; but this polygamy, which and wife an utter impossibility. Legislature; not that I can believe robs us of our rights to the whole any (of any standing) would de- of our husbands love.and honor, of grade themselves so low, as to be at the respect and obedience of our Consequently it is only right then that woman the beck and call of this crowd of children, of the esteem of the world should be its most uncompromising opponent, abolition. its polygamists; but it shows plainly and of our own self respect, and and work for complete the feeling of the Mormons, and makes us slaves to your lusts, and establishes the fact that their claim merely brood animals, we will have that nothing more fully attests the politically, is but a blind, to try and no more of it. No more will we It is&true of a nations civilization than the posicatch the favoring airs of a Demo- enter the Endowment House, to be progress tion and character of its women. cratic Congress. bartered to any man, or to consent But a revenous a nos inoutons to such being done, for in Utah by In such an event the last census were 74,000 men It is also true that at no period of the worlds of a civil war. who are always the greatest suffer- and 69,000 women, and with such a existence has womans work of love among her own sex been more signally blest. ers; not the men, they may endure resolve on your parts assisted by hardship even to Anderson or Libby, over 20,000 Gentile men, why are but it is the women and children you afraid to take your own parts, Consequently, we call upon women to aid us who suffer most in the region where and stand up for your God given in this work of charity, trustihg that our labors the actual conflict takes place, or rights ? God help those who help may also be crowned with success. where the devastating armies of themselves is a true saying, and you either side march or bivouac, need help now, for as a woman with The power to arrest this civil war womanly feelings, hopes and joys, I That this system of iniquity should be pracwhich must come if the leaders still know that in fully nine cases out of ticed under the name and cloak of religion only of the crime. insist in forcing this thrice accursed ten polygamy is to you a fearful adds to the enormity doctrine upon their ignorant and burden. Yours for right, deluded followers. I say ignorant E. C. E. That these unlawful and unhallowed alliances for although Brigham Young said, are termed celestial marriages makes the system Ogden, Utah, January, 1882. all the more revolting to our common Christian That God could give a saint more principles. knowledge in five minutes than all A State. Healthy jA-of the learning colleges in Consequently, we ask the cordial years, or words to that effect, as I do not now remember the exact senPeople are constantly changing and concerted action of the Christian women ef our land. tence, yet it is a fact that such their homes from East to West and knowledge never has been given. from North to South, or vice versa , Moses took 40 years to prepare for in search of a healthy State. If By the continued agitation of the subject, we ot the exodus and 'war. Paul appears they would learn to be contented may confidently hope that the great crime will be abolished. to have passed 14 years in' retire- and to use the celebrated Kidney polygamy ment in Arabia after his conversion Wort when sick, they would be much The whole system can before ho began preaching, and the better off. The Standard Is only $1 per annum. Subcondition in a healthy by scribe for it yourselves and recommend it to your Saviour himself did not commence be kept effectual remedy. friends. Address, Standard, his ministry till he was ?0 years of this simple but Utah. P. 0. Box 385, Salt Lake City, age; he evidently spent his youth See large adv. Mr. (Query I let-alo- ne e O anti-slaver- L y A. V . XX T jA. XT D. Anti-Polygam- y |