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Show get YOL. III. NO. qvertj JJfnn have Women There is a power in combined enlightened sentiment and sympathy , before which every form of injustice and cruelty must finally go dozvn. Harriet Beecher Stowe. united for them. 810S 1JY SAMUEL ftUHRt. Y. NUFFIELD. red, red roses that I knew Roses that in my garden grew Beyond the fever and the fret 1 see, I breath you, growing yet! 0 The grass around was scant and dry; The dusty locust sang near by; The street with all its various din, Intruded through a distance thin. But red, red roses that I knew, Ye were not poor, nor faint, nor few; Ye made a glory in the spot Where other fragrance tarried not. So new, so true, so fresh were ye That I would turn me back to see, From other place and other time, Your beauty in your crimson prime: And often as I pass along Your breatli is in my fancied song; As, out of hard constraint and care, Ye bloom before me everywhere. And thus I sing of joy and light; Of arid nooks with roses bright; Of strife and fret, and toil and pain, Wherein such glory glows again. I keep some faded leaves IViff, mid get even i tyjoman have 1(er own gusbmtd. nr. 7: 3. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST, 1882. 5. of America: Let every happy wife and mother who reads these lines give her sympathy prayers and efforts to free her sisters from this degrading bondage. Let all the womanhood of the country stand To the Jfis owtj that still Exhale what makes my sense to thrill; And even now, it is not all For such a rose to bloom and fall. Christia n Un ion . What tltii Matter is Communicated. J The .excursion party made up of Illinois editors and their wives and daughters which recently visited this and incity was an unusually bright a retelligent one. They were given resiception at Governor Murrays ing the result of the diversion of the mountain streams from their natural channels on the adjoining land. They find the Mormons, not with horns, tails, or cloven hoofs, but just to all appear with the same ance like ways of doing business, the same forms in politics, much the same forms in religion, very similar laws, living in the same kind of houses, eating and drinking, farming, trading, generally industrious and sober, and they naturally wonder what the matter is, why such a fuss is kept up. Members of the press association of Illinois, at least those old enough to have known of the Mormon expulsion from that State, ought to know without being told, that beneath all this pretty outside, this peace and quiet, there is something deadly wrong. As Govenor Murray said to them, blither the Mormons are wrong in their inmost main principle, or the people of Illinois committed a monstrous qrime in expelling them from the State. They made as pretty a town ofNauvoo as they have of Salt Lake. So they did of Kirtland, of Far West, of Carson. Wiry could none of those localities tolerate them? Let all of our late visitors ponder well this question before they make up a final judgment on what they have .seen. non-iMormon- I s, Slaves can be made to make a fine country. No one will deny to the Mormons the ordinary virtues that belong to any rural population in its early stages, before the acquisition of wealth has brought leisure and means to indulge wanton appetites. The Mormons, it must be remembered, or rather Mormonism, has never been put to the test of prosperity. It has been poor, despised, hated, driven from pillar to post, and has finally rested in a desert; for say what we will, not more than 5 or 6 per cent of the total area of Utah can ever under any circumstances be tilled. Practica'ly such a land as that is a desert. Take the whole area of Sahara, the great desert of the world, or of Arabia, 5 or 6 per cent of it can be tilled. Well in this desert, pretty as its oases appear, it takes hard work to wring a hard living from husbandry, especially if it is carried on as it is for the most part, by people without means, with little enterprise and less ambition and knowledge, on a very small scale, from hanc to mouth as it were, on little patches of ground, largely poor ground, anc in high altitudes, with short seasons, where both sky and soil arc stingy and sour. To these drawbacks must be added the fetters and shackles with which the people are bound, hand anc foot, whether of their own choice or not, makes no difference. A slave is none the less a slive because he takes the condition of choice. dence and also in the Hall of the Knights of Pythias, where they met many of our people, ladies and gentlemen. At this meeting several short speeches were made, and a Mormon daily said that one of the visiting that gentlemen afterward remarked the speeches were good, they gave the Mormons hell, etc. The truth is, very little was said about the Mormons, less, we think, than there should have been. The reception, it is true, was not intended as an occasion to discuss the Mormon question, but rather, for the interchange of social converse and form of The Mormons are slaves to asystem, courtesy; but after it took the libspeechifying it would have been well all alike; many of them are more enough if some one had explainedis eral than others; many of them have what the perpetual pother in Utah outgrown the absurdities of their crude faith and slipped its leading strings about. in a goodly degiee; many, most of them, at least, are not Strangers coming;for the first time probably into this valley meet with many sur- themselves polygamists, but as they upsaid. hold the system, they are all in the prises, as one of these strangers same boat. Where three men rob the They find not a desert, or if a desert one full of pretty and fruitful oases stage and two of them hold guns on with a peaceful orderly village in the the passengers while the third goes heart of each, these pleasant spots be through them, are they not all equal five-sixt- hs ly robbers? tain the sixth . If five men out of six sus- in marrying six women, are they not all polygamists, and of the six is not the one who does the marrying the most of a man since he is brave enough to carry out his ideas and take the consequences? It is .the system that is wrong, and men who disapprove of it must cut loose from it and so let it die or they are particeps crinninis. It is the system which takes from man his free agency in every single instant of his life, and of woman makes a mere chattel, a convenience. In politics it makes the church instead of the individual the unit, and this was why the people of Illinois expelled the system from their State. In business it deals only with its own membership as far as that is possible, moving heaven and earth to break up withthe business of all in the scope of its influence. In earlier times it went a good deal on the principle that the earth is the Lords and he has given it to his Saints; we are his Saints. That was why the system was driven out of Ohio and Missouri. There is no room for it in a free country. Numbers and a degree of success and perhaps the teachings of adversity have retired the practice of this principle into the background, 3ut it has never been renounced. What people not cranks can tolerate such an assumption? In the social world the system degrades and crucifies woman, and that in the long run leads to barbarism. We cannot be expected to argue this point. Every living person of mature years within the scope and pale ofehristianity knows it. The experience of mankind is that where woman is most honored there man is most manly, infinitely so. This land is a shining example of it, and also of forbearance toward those who ignore and disregard it by their acts and teaching, and against the peace and majesty of the grandest best people on the whole that ever existed, persist in the barbarous practice on the plea that it is a right of conscience. What kind of a conscience, in Gods name? non-Mormo- ns PRICE 10 CENTS. Mormons have advanced as fast as could reasonably be expected in the right direction since the era ofrailroads and mining in Utah. If this growth toward the light and health and freedom continues, the problem will come to a right and peaceful solution in time; we trust it will, we hope it will. But the system called Mormonism, as it flourished 25 to 15 years ago in Utah under Brigham Young, is in such deadly antagonism to the individuality of man; to that in other words which gave us free institutions, and keeps them free; to that which gave us personal freedom and security and scope to think and act; to1 that which gave us and guards freedom of conscience; that unless it can be left behind by those who profess it, one day it and they will be destroyed together. The system cannot be perpetuated in this country, and dont any one forget it. - Urtn. anl ... .Urs. Banes Tin Wielding'. Gen. and Mrs. M. M. Bane last night gave a reception, the day being the tenth anniversary of their marriage. Quite three hundred guests were present. At first the house was beautiful-- y decorated to receive guests, but before night it was plain that almost the whole structure would be filled with resents, and a myriad of lanterns were lighted on the ground, and shortly after eight p. m., the rule was to merely enter the house, pay respects to the General and his wife and then seek the cool air on the outside. The night was delicious, all the threateniug of a storm passed away as the night came down; it was just warm enough and just cool enough to be delicious, and a happier reception could not be held. In the front yard Olsens delightful band played the whole evening. At 10 oclock when the festivities were at their height the spectacle was most brilliant. The guests thronged the lighted gounds and outside the fence on the sidewalk there had scores of people gathered to look upon the company and hear the music. Ample But we are exceeding our space. A refreshments were spread on tables gentleman recently in the city was throughout the grounds. Of the number and variety of the kindly entertained and shown around by a prominent Mormon, but when he presents, or of the taste and ingenuity asked to be introd seed to polygamy so displayed in preparing them it is imthat he might examine its victims anc possible to speak except in random judge for himself, his entertainer evad- terms. On a basis of tin, art had ed reply and changed the subject. seemed to exhaust itself. It took inThis is the experience of all visitors to finite beautiful forms, and however Salt Lake, whether they know it or fortune may have treated others, there not. They see or are shown the out- is no doubt about General and Mrs. side, and in most respects, it appears Bane having plenty of tin. The floral fairly enough to the eye, tributes woven over groundworks of and no well bred person likes to look tin were most striking. The whole but they house was radiant with flowers and a gift horse in the mouth; do not get to see the inside. The iron heavy with their perfume. One oTthe hand of repression wears a velvet glove. most striking objects was a union of The lions claws are concealed by fur. hearts and a union of hands over a But they are none the less there. The Union shield, and all panoplied with Gentiles are not contending against flowers. This was the conceit of GenMormonism for fun, or for the love of eral Bane, and was slyly prepared for contention. Not a bit more in Utah his ten years bride. And by the way, than they were in Nevada, in Illinois, Mrs. Bane was fair enough to be a Missouri, or Ohio, where they drove it bride without the intervening ten years away at all hazards. It would seem that and the big boys who call her mothit cannot be again driven away. It is er. At up. m., the orchestra played the aim and hope of Gentile agitation Home Sweet Home and the; comto modify it so that it can be endured in a free country. They have not been pany dispersed, with blessings and without a fair measure of success, and it congratulations upon the hosts who gives them heart to continue the strug- had given them so much pleasure. It gle. A large element amongst the was a right royal reception. Tribune. non-critic- al . |