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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- 18 Victims for Polygamists From Iceland to STANDARD. Y Utah. UtaVs Curse. Organize Clubs. I saw that something was troubling him, and the tears trickled year. Who would be free, himself must The Tabernacle was none too large down hicheeks as he advanced to- blow. After a siege of to contain the audience which gath-Si- r To the Editor of the New York Tribune: ward me; saluting me on the foro-jrd- v d of a century. Con- - ered last evening to hear Mrs. Eliza it will probably surprise head and presenting me with a tame ncarty d Youngs lecture, Utahs curse, and esf ias .Sun the majority of Americans to learn blue fox one of those gravolent The lecture that the net set by the Mormon jBis-- 1 foxes of Iceland which his son had Utah question. It the Edmunds- the Nations Shame. ficto the Was preceded by a brief concert by hops' to catch poor ignorant women sent me. lie then told me of his raw .a' Provcof unequal revolua peaceful (he Ilotclikin Family, consisting of has been laid completely over Ice- - troubles. Two of his daughters had complishmcnt l wc a'c assured that on 111 unique performances on various in- land, and the haul in theUltimaThule gone to Utah, in 1880, their eyes had . .7, n n I a n m .. hvf t has not been fruitless. In the first beeif opened years of my travels in that island I ed. , became aware that MormonBishops deg , s 011 wc hackaow exhibit-robbinthe la iavo the peculiar skill which she were fast making converts, and were ed me their letters, the last one say- from and the Congress C( drew forth much applause. The country husbands of theirwives and ling that his youngest daughter was inS entertainment also included two fathers of their daughters, among dying, presumable from a broken that we require. But laws do not enforce them- spirited recitations, by Miss Julia F. those simple-hearte- d people. Never heart. Tearful and heartrending I loughing must .be follovv- - Lee, of Utica. Mrs. I Youngs lecture before had I seen Mormonism put messages were sent to their little selves. before me in such a disgusting light, brother Gisli, and after begging cu by seeding and cultivation in deserves a careful synopsis, but lack I had come to Iceland for geo- - help to return, asking the good old order to secure a crop. Congress 0f space only permits us to say that also to priest ofStunnvellir to pray for them having done its part, shall we now jt was the earnest, sincere, well preresearch, and logical of the mon- - entreating and supplicating him not do 0l.iP' The active cooperation of pared efiort of a woman who seems some examine hberal-mindepeople of Utah is particularly adapted for the difficult strosities of the Icelanders phy- - to let any of their friends come away, the to the best and to any mission she has undertaken. She sical world. But I soon found my- - The broken hearted father begged indispensable been There has result. never self interested in the revolting mor- - me to see his daughters and bring spcdy graphically described the horrors of cim10 blood atonment in 1857 and al teachings taught the people by them back to him next year. I am 11?uc'1 political agitation in this men from my own country; men prac- - happy to say that I have been able ritry and no thorough organization 1858, and exposed in keen sarcastic of those opposed to polygamy and to communicate with them. stylo some of the frauds and shames tising under the guise of religion. in politics and business, practiced by the Mormon leaders The following incident will not church rule They were well rewarded in 1880, ar lcre ias been little induce- - upon their deluded dupes. She taking forty young girls, happy in probably be read with pleasure by The contest was too one- - ferred bitterly to the manner in pure Lutheran religion, inno- - one in Utah now. About three cent and ignorant of where they were weeks later I took the Mormon ques- - slde(L But this has been changed which the Government has toler-goinand thinking that they were tion by the neck literally. I had by the auspicious Edmunds legis ated this evil of polygamy, and the latin. The American people have slight measures which have been performing a religious duty, reveal- - just ridden up to the farm of Hals, ed to them by the knowledge of and was dismounting, when I saw unanimously declared that Ameri- taken to prevent its spread. She be established in Utah, concluded with an a superior people, which they were the farmers wife starting off with can aw eloquent appeal in But a a hazards. done. will be It behalf of the women of Utah. Mrs. wont to hear of in their old Sagas. my friend the Bishop; the poor be much easier and better Young is a modest I desired to show the Icelanders, farmer stood there in his door cry-- t in take done Americans Utah and dignified woman, and her upon my return the following sum- ing like a baby. I spoke to him, bold and help. turo wTas full of good points, and in a positive way what the re- - when he brightened up and pointed A few Club held the close attention of the aud-thi- s days ago a Liberal ligion of Joseph Smith was. I had to his wife and the Bishop, now one fact staring me in the face : some way down the path. I made vyas organized in Slatervillc in the hence from beginning to end. Cleve-I- f of simplest, most inexpensive manner, ianti into it is there volting and disgusting him one jump I . affair you make it, why does the my and mens we and we commend the organization of saddles, to the Ljberals in every The Ume never aendie"evcr American Government permit it up- - started after his wife. After entreat-- 1 sub a club a3 win be But I am happy to say ing her to go back, and telling her settlement, there should be a rres- wben tbe people ()f lhla or any otlcrcountry can on its Soil? that with the help of good Governor that I would take her to Reykjavik ent Treasurer, Recording Secretary, buy a gold dollar for seventy.flve cents. Neither and Corresponding Secretary. There canyou, dear reader, purchase an organ worth Finsen, and that prince of Iceland, the next day if she insisted on go- Usu 7 Geir Zoega, I was partially success- - ing, she returned with her now hap- - should be a central club at Salt Lake, allr . no li.jectf m u. all should make others the wbich ful in my efforts last year, and re- - py husband. I was now with the Pll)er people doing theif busineaa jUBt fta tbey obvious what stated is It see tit. We are selling a good, honest made reports. Govwho understood good ceived the hearty thanks of the Bishop $i85to $575, and a good, honest ernment at a Parliamentary dinner. American oaths, and lie got them, advantages would be gained by this Piano at from a In spite of their assiduity and renew- - I then compelled him to ride about bind of an organization. Each club VnnVi48 1? 4.75, f,11 nucleus of a form political ed efforts, the Mormons only took a mile to a large glacial stream, and would part o( tbe world oncstXina aXif, no nine girls last year, as against the drove him into it about one hundred thought, discussion and growth. pleaseeno keepee, as the Chinaman would say. I TI e stated meetings need not be For the past ten years we have sent both Pianos forty the previous year. One Bis- - yards, when I pulled him off his than monthly. Beside ord- - and Organs to every part of the world, and our hop did not return as dirty last pony and dropped him into about oftener there might be set instruments give the most universal, satisfaction, . , , , , , , year as he came, in consequence of a four feet of ireezing water, and then inary business, if you wish a good instrument, one that win al. anu mus wuub ior uit on and a stream m ueoait, one his rode a few topics in ducking wayg ast you we sball be pleaaed t0 8end you day glacial days gave most needed and a healthful maae our catalogue and prices; and if you purchase when I found him using too forcible pony to the proper authorities. How will one of the Thomas Brothers Silver Tonelmtm. In stimulus. many ways that arguments with the wife of the good the Bishop got back I never learn- wil1 what you require. ud one in. y Boer of Hals. For it is a fact that ed, but the farmers wife never saw readily sungest themselves they a 8C 9 us the husbands let their wives go, un- - him again. When I looked back at could be made profitable and pleas- - mor AddresH X pficesretX way8 The Church has a marvellous der the impression that it is their him, his face wore that look of half an and it is idle to think duty, and both wife and husband tear- - smile, half pain, as if he had been organization, with it successfully fully part bemoaning their lot. eating of the veritable Ilerba Sardon - t contending without the best kind of an organi- A word about how these Bishops William Lee Howard, zation that can be contrived. We get their victims, and one .incident do not purpose anything to stifle, to show how far this twin relic New York 1882. but on the contrary, .something to fightful country lying on the Pacific has gained foothold in Iceland, and i stimulate, individual thought. The coa.st, embraeing California, Oregon, I think I shall have said enough. Wh a i . Trs individual will bo best stimulated by Washmgton and Idaho Territories, we ? ttTT, , The Bishops arrive in the spring m recommend should regeneration and immediately leave the capital endeavor to circulate the TANDARl) touchmg elbows with bis fellows. .. for the more simple and primitive as i idely as possible. We intend to in The only weekly published by Disci- people every natives in the interior. They go fight it line until on the same form clubs for exclusively pies of Christ on the Pacific coast. It through the country getting up an the twin relic is crushed out so ment, is an eight page weekly of 4s columns, enthusiasm and sort of revival, and completely that even its foul mem- political agitation and establish re- wel1 printed, pasted and trimmed. lations with each other and with when everything is at a fever point ory die. s conducted, and nobly de- a central club at Salt Lake. It will off victims their amid the they carry be a Help to the commission, pu- - fends pure aPosthc Christianity, tears of father, husband and sons, Disease. (jnard Against Spccimen free b addressing the be- make all difference the haps find isher Subscriptions received at the like modern who all If you Deciuses, have yourself getting tween in and the office of the Standard. success failure sacrificed themselves. One night, head heavy, mouth foul, eyes I revolution now to beat- Price $2.00 per year. about a month after my arrival yellow, kidneys disordered, symp. peaceful was in the south country and had toms of piles tormenting you, take I tcmpted. Utah Coiimercial. Every woman in the country stopped to camp for the night, and at once a few doses of Kidney-Wor- t. was preparing to get some photo-- 1 It is natures great assistant. Use should read and own a copy of the the good old it as an advance guard dont wait new book, The Women of Mormon-- 1 era to the . graphs, when up rode Standard, See advertisement in another at only $1 each. Address, P. 0. farmer of Sturmvellir, at whose hut to get down sick. See large ad- - ism. column. Box 385. Salt Lake City-- . 1 had stayed fora week the previous vertisement. I one-thir- . I I I V . V 1 T" 4 1 1 I 1 1 , g I d I re-the- hnE ir g, I fine-appearin- g, lec-m- er I I , , 1 I I t if i I eral-minde- d bil-liou- till s, I Anli-polyya?n- y |
