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Show 20 ANTI-POL- tndrd. Y GAMY STANDARD. UTAH AND ITS PEOPLE. All the way from the Missouri to Salt Lake Valley, the is A pamphlet with the above title strewed with the bonesground of the SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE, 1883. has just been published in New York martyrs of polygamy. Polygamy is purporting to be written by a Gen- hell, the hearts of the women who Post-Offiin Salt tile, an ex-S. official, It ive in it are full of hellP jgjfp Entered at the mail claims to be Facts and Statistics Lake City , Utah , as second-clas- s Mrs. Pliebe Woodruff bore testimatter . Mormon on the Problem, mony as follows : bearing If I am proud is in but it reality a tissue of delib- of anything in this world, it is that The Standard Publishing CompIssued Jtoi--J lesitate to openly brand them as such. We could mention a score of familes, not excepting that of Smoot, where the most deadly quarrels lave occurred on this very account. We could prolong this list indefinitely, and show by their own words diat these women who, in their slavish observience to the priest-loomonthly by malierate and misrepresentations National Anti of Womens the I the Polygamy art. The Organ are the strongest in extolling accepted principle of plural cious falsehoods, evidently gotten Society. marriage, and remained among the mlygamy publicly, are the most bitTERMS: up under the direction of George Q. people called Mormons and am er in denouncing it privately, or One Vear, In advance $1.00 Cannon for the purpose of changing numbered with them 50 Six montlis where they think it Safe to do so. 'J5 Three months that public sentiment which has Two or three of Ilebcr Kiin-.al- l days after that A daughter-in-laREMITTANCES: been aroused against the lately Remittances may be made by draft, money order or once said to him, I think polymeeting, an old friend of Mrs. abomination of false Its Office In address at our Post Give risk. full, polygamy. letter, Woodruff said, how is it Sister gamy is a, vile and demoralizing Including County and State. statements and deceive specious may Woodruff that you have changed The receipt of the paper may be considered the receipt I dont care (with a oath) few a and for the subscription tent ut. ignorant unthinking per- your views so suddenly about poly- what you think, so long as you sons, but candid readers cannot fail ? I gamy thought you hated and either keep still or say what you Advertisements inserted at reasonable rates, and should to understand its and see aniinus, the loathed teach us on or before the 15th of each month, to insure institution; I have heard are told, was the reply. Who can its sertion in the succccedlng number. sophistry, consequently through curse it scores of times, even jc in doubt of the ennobling Address all communications to Tus is sure to defeat t ho end you it more strongly, than. I myself have of polygamy on the people Standard, P. O. Box 385, Salt Lake City, Utah. which it was for written. For of the in all women from solicited parts Correspondence Witness done. Mrs. Woodruffs of Utah Territory, which must have the name of the writer, not this reason wre do not think it I have not changed, I loath necessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. worth while to waste words upon, reply: DInTINHIJISHED visitors. the unclean thing, with all the Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, of Battle Creek, Mich., is the not even to give the lie to its low of my nature, but Sister, I general agent of the Standard, and is duly authorized to and malicious insinuations against strength receive subscriptions and contract for advertisements. Salt Lake City was favored last have suffered all that a woman can and honorable men and pure women, endure. I am old and and month with a visit from Miss Lucia Officers or the Womans National helpless, is fault that their lives I would rather stand F. F. Kimball of Chicago, whosejonly Superingamy Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. up anywhere, have been consecrated to the cause and say anything commanded ofine, tendent of Juvenal Temperance of truth and justice. We should not Sabah A. Cooks, President. than to be turned out of my home work, and Mrs. Alary E. Barrows notice it at were it not all, that by in Lucinda B. Chandlxr, J innib A. Froissth, old age which I should be Green of Olivet. Mich. Airs. Green my Ann Euza Young, J. Ellin Foster, show desire we to it the women of most was no stranger in our midst, havElizabxth Lockliy, Margarit E. Winslow, I if refused to assuredly obey Willard. Francis Marian Chislitt, the country how the infamous MorM A. Hamilton, Mrs. J. W. Shoimakkr, ing been endeared to very many of counsel. Mrs. Jinnii R. Lionard mon leaders compel their poor deMrs. Hannah T. King said: Mart A. Jamxb, Recording Secretary. I us during her previous stay in Utah, luded victims to publicly advertise Harriet K. Bans, Corresponding Secretary. felt that its (polygamy) laws coin- and she was warmly welcomed by a Jeannettk C. Lawrbnci, Treasurer. their shame and degradation. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. cided with the laws of my nature ; host of friends. Aliss Kimball had Laura C. Douglas, Julia A. Kimball, ? The author from some been quotes for some time, and as Mart A. Lloyd, Cordelia A. Smith, E. M. Fisher. Selina Boukofbkt, Mormon women to show what their my daughters entered into the or- her expected as a der in all their youth and beauty, reputation lovely Christian Woman's National Society. Meets on First Tuesday In each month at Independent opinions are in regard to polygamy educated as had been in all the woman no less than an ardent workHall at 3:30 p.m. women, in whose ostensible inter-3s- t refinements they of the world, and have er in the temperance cause, had prethe present crusade is being ever honored it, and been an honor ceded her, our people were prepared THE CTAH COMMISSION. waged. to it, and to the Church, whose to greet her also with a kindly welbe here incidentally reIt may Our Eastern readers are kindly left their home and come. There was only one drawthey principles back to the pleasure afforded us requested to peruse attentively, the marked that these opinions were all its attractions to obey. by visit of the these article in another column from the taken from a published report of a it was is true Mrs. too ladies, It that Kings daughSalt Lake Tribune entitled Con- mass meeting of Mormon women ters entered the order in all their short, hut the influence they exheld at the Theatre in November, and beauty, but for the fate of erted during their brief stay will gress and Utah. They will see youth that the Edmunds Bill from which 1879, to remonstrate against the ac- one of them the reader is referred redound a thousand fold to the good so much was hoped for the regener- tion of the element, in to the article by Mrs. Ann Eliza of the cause. Miss Kimball delivered three of ation of this Territory is practically petitioning for Congressional inter- Young on the first page entitled, A a dead letter, because the House of ference with the crime of polygamy. Martyr of Polygamy. When we her eloquent and powerful lectures, This was meeting engineered by Geo. saw Mrs. King in the Tabernacle on visited the majority of the schools Representatives persists in ignoring the bill providing for an increase of Q. Cannon, who instructed the that occasion, and heard her make both Alormon and Gentile, organsalary for the Commissioners. We speakers as to what they should that speech, we wondered if she ized a very strong Territorial Wowish that President Arthur was not say, and who stood on the platform had forgotten all about the lovely mans Christian Temperance Unioiq so averse to appointing citizens of behind a curtain, ready to prompt young girl who was so barbarously and placed it in complete working order. This Union is auxiliary to Utah on that Commission, for there if the instructions had not been ob- sacrificed, and if her mother-hear- t are men in this city who are every eyed to the letter. had ceased to bleed for the child the National Association, and it is Mrs. Eliza R. Snow Young (who who had been ,so way qualified to serve, and to whom cruelly murdered hoped that local branches will bo the increase of salary would be no claims to be a widow of Joseph in the name of religion. What organized wherever possible in the object, men whose integrity, capa- Smith) said : I am proud to state more pregnant illustration of the Territory. The lectures of Miss Kimball bility and honesty of purpose can that I believe in the principle of demoralizing influences of polyganot be questioned, and who would plural marriage, just as sacredly as I my could be offered. Can any one made a profound impression on her be willing to give their services believe in any other institution which imagine a mother whose idolized hearers, and caused many people who without any compensation for the God has revealed. had hitherto been has been in killed careless or a drunken boy sake of seeing the work of Amerito indifferent the the be Let foregoing subject to look on compared brawl publicly asserting that drunkcanizing this Territory well begun. with the following statement of the enness is a divine institution? And temperance work in an entirely new We cannot see why the President same lady and others, made under yet one case is an exact parallel light. Her arguments in favor of a should hesitate to appoint citizens oath a short time before the death with the other. National prohibitory law against the of Utah when we can claim as such, of Joseph Smith: Mrs. Margaret T. Smoot : I am liquor traffic were sound and conmen like Henry Lawrence, C. C. We, the undersigned, members of the wife of. a polygamist, his other vincing, and 'she presented facts ami Goodwin, O. J. Hollister, R. N. the Ladies Relief Society, and mar- wives and his children by those are statistics showing that the signs of Baskin, J. R. McBride, A. G. Camp- ried females, do certify and declare just as much a part of his family as the times were more hopeful than bell and a dozen others who have that we know of no system of mar- me and mine, 1 being his first wife; ever before for obtaining such a law. e Aliss Kimball and Airs. Green are in try- riage practiced in the Church of and his other wives are just as lawalready spent half a ing to bring about what little has Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, ful and honorable in the sight of to he congratulated on the results ot been yet accomplished. What a save the one contained in, the Book God as I am, and his children I con- their labors in this Territory, and pity that Senator Edmunds did not of Doctrine and Covenants; and we sider to be just as lawful and hon- we hope the time not far distant understand what he was about in give this certificate to the public to orable as any children born in wed- when we shall see them here again. the first, and make his bill what it show that J. C. Bennetts secret wife lock. I believe these are the feel- We cherish most kindly rememshould have been. The action of system is a disclosure of his own ings of this whole community. brance of the brief visit made us by Mrs. Smoot conveniently forgot Mrs. J. Ellen Foster two years ago; Congress now looks as if that body, make. Mrs. Zina D. Young said : The when she was making those remarks we have now had Aliss Kimball, (to use the identical words of a Mormon) were ashamed of having principle of our holy religion that that there is scarcely a polygamous when shall we he favored with the passed the bill, and were doing all is assailed is one that lies deep in family from Brigham Youngs down- presence of Miss Willard ? in their power to atone for the wrong my heart. ward where the first wifes children On another occasion Mrs. Young do not consider the polygamous offSubscribe for the by trying to prevent it from becomto remarked a in this city: spring as illegitimate, and do not Standard, only $100 lady now ing operative. per annum. ce U. d, to-da- y. w regis-.tere- d doe-min- e. in- in-lucn- Anti-Polyga- ! . Anti-Pol- y . . Anti-Polyga- non-Mormo- n , life-tim- Anti-polygam- I. :tr" y co |