| Show A PREMIUM ON MARRIAGE A DENT in iowa hap forwarded to us a printed report of william brewster treasurer of a ISI MARRIAGE ARRIAGE fu FUND D association a society which has been organized in boston lostan for the correction of the evils which flourish in that pious region rellon it seems that there is a class of persons in that city who are afraid from all they see that the institution of marriage is liable to become extinct so to avert such a calamity they have organized a marriage mutual protection society in relation to the nature and objects to be accomplished by the society mr brewster says the growing tendency of our young men toward celibacy and the crime of abortion which worse than a pestilence is destro destroying ying the health of w woman oman ani and and giving to even those children that are allowed to live weak and debilitated or tiou tion 3 through which the soul can imperfectly develop itself thereby sapping the very life of the nation is arousing all thinking minds to the imperative necessity of some remedy that sh shall all ail reach this widespread wide spread and rapidly growing evil it is for that purpose that alis his society is organized to it belong minds that have given the best part of their lives to the consideration of this and kindred subjects they themselves have subscribed the sum of and intend to devote their time talents and money to promote these reforms and now solicit subscriptions from all who are interested in this work to check the growth of crime misery and pauper pauperism ism i I 1 and increase the population and wealth of our country mr brewster states the case very broadly and there is no mistaking his language the organization of a society in boston wit hsuch objects is 19 an admission of an utterly rotten condition of affairs there and we are almost surprised at the papers giving it any publicity we ave would like to know how many of the members of this society are desirous that the general government should take the case of the mormons cormons Mor mons in hand and crush out their beir peculiar institution if there are some members who have given the best aart of af their lives to the consideration of this and kindred subjects the institutions of utah must have come under their notice and some examination been made of their working and results and if so have they used their influence to check the persecution and abuse to which we have been subjected if the institutions of utah have not received attention from this society they should be examined by its members fo for por here we are entirely free from the evils which mr brewster describes and deplores Certain certainly lythe the means which are used here to produce an exemption from those evils are hot to be sneered at and deemed unworthy of notice iveel if celibacy and abortion are working out such dreadful results that thata a few philanthropists feel it incumbent upon them to exert themselves to make ma ketlie ta el fist I 1 of marriage honorable and have subscribed 10 and intend to devote their time ta talents on I 1 and nd money to 0 promote pron lote these reforms fo r m S th the e su subject abject demands il serious erious consideration id ratio and should be thoroughly 0 canvassed but who would bb believe belleve lieve if they we were re not conversant with what h has occurred in this nation that in iri the iamo iame samo same lic lie where this society exists the representatives senta tives of the people in congress assembled sem bled have passed an unconstitutional law which makes it punishable for men and women to enter into honorable wedlock as did abraham the father of the faithful and the friend of god and other holy and pure men whom god loved and iio lio honored nored with peculiar marks of his divine favor on the one ote hand the nation through its representatives exerting itself to the uttermost to crush out matrimony and make it odious and even criminal and on the other ty in the m midst i last of a city which is one of its acknowledged cenores of enlightenment holding out rewards to encourage marriage through the well founded fear that the institution is likely to become extinct the treasurer states that any one can become a life member by paying elther cither at once or by instalments installments the sum of one hundred dollars which entitles him to a marriage portion of five hundred dollars at the end of one year from the date of payment if married at that time or from the date of marriage if married afterward but none shall receive the until married as the purpose is to bring about a better social condition this is the reward that the So society clet cieT in boston holds out to encourage marriage in that region a marriage portion of just the maximum amount of fine which the act of congress says the people of utah shall pay if they marry more than the senators and representatives think is proper for them with the addition of an imprison ment meat not exceeding five years the members of the boston society see many evils in celibacy they wish vish them checked but in members dabers of congress do not they would rather see all the men and women of utah celibates than to see them married as they are no now how they would rather see abortion per pen performing formin its fell work than that children should abound as they do here but this mar riago fund association entertains a more reasonable view of what constitutes the life of the nation the treasurer says if both husband and wife are life members they receive at the end of the first year for each child born to them during the year with interest from the birth of the child and on the birth of each subsequent child there shall also be deposited or at invested by the association at the birth of each child the sum of in its own name to accumulate until it is of legal age and the parents shall receive for the support and education of each child born after the date of membership annually until it is ten years old these are the premi premiums unis they find it necessary to ofner offer to encourage childbearing A horrible c condition 0 of things to contemplate that a people who boast of their enlightenment and advancement in all the arts of civilization should have to be induced by monetary considerations to preserve the lives of their offspring el every very vers feeling so thoroughly deadened by the accursed practices and influences of the age that natures voice is stifled and cannot be heard can any one wonder that god seeing the depth to which degraded humanity has fallen should reveal his ris will and nd give his commands that a remnant might be saved and purity and virtue find advocates among men |
