| Show THE FAMILY HERALD AND AD THE WOMEN OF UTAH A writer in a recent number odthe of the family herald a 9 london weekly journal says bays some pretty good things upon a subject of vast importance and worthy of far higher consideration than as a beneral thing it is fashionable in these ays to accord to it the of motherhood we should not in all probability have noticed the article in the berald herald because the principles therein advocated are well understood and honored by us as a people had not the writer gone out of his way specially to make an attack on the I 1 mor mons 11 he is evidently no worshipper wor wo r shipper shippen III lii epe ppe r of the so called strong minded min d e d women with which our age is so 80 much troubled neither a believer in the bome n I 1 s rights movement he says the feeling and desire to be something they are not and to occupy a different sphere from that in which providence has placed them is common to nearly all men and women As for women there is scarcely one whom you may ask but what would sooner be a man if she could he refers to numerous instances in which women have attempted as far as possible to carry out this morbid d disposition tion and inclination by assuming I 1 ng th the e garb of men and acting for years in th the e capacity of coachmen grooms and other callings essentially manly he however thinks that with all the real or fancied disadvantages under which the sex may labor they have still some advantages and privileges and that if they will use the power with which nature has endowed them and act in the sphere to which by providence they have been assigned as mothers they can exert all the influx ecce ence in thib this i old world oid tewy they ought to and much more than they ae ave apt to ima gine the writer evidently attaches great importance IM I 1 ortance to the maternal relationship ang ana and writes as though he believes that to be a mother is one of the greatest glories of woman the truth of such a proposition will be readily accorded by all properly y constituted minds but I 1 in n our day it unfortunately happens that among thousands of women such a notion is becoming unpopular that I 1 is beyond all ali a I 1 question the reason why the marriage tie is becoming so irksome and why the most unjustifiable and unholy measures afe resorted to that its responsibilities may be avoided if women were to view this subject as they ought and as its importance demands they would not sigh for more power but would be content to labor in their proper sphere what higher more holy and more important octant trust and pe can any human uman being exercise or enjoy than that of a parent and especially that of a mother As the writer in the journal referred to says if woman rightly knew what power ower is she would be proud enoude enough of what she has and would scarcely demand more for it is she who moulds the mind of the tle the child whether for good or ill and consequently it is woman who to a very greab great g reat extent moulds the destinies of the world the herald man then proceeds to show that great as is the honor and glory of womanhood and widespread wide spread as is the honor to maternity still the sentiment requires cultivation when women are intellectually vigorous and are held in honor they become good mothers but bit when they are degraded mark the word as they are in utah and other parts of the earth where polygamy is ip practiced they degenerate in this holy office his description of the women of utah though no doubt thought by him to be extremely racy and intended to be specially severe serves only to betray his intense prejudice and consummate ignorance he very dogmatically tells how shy and sad they are that they are of the lowest class there not being a lady amon amongst ast them and as a climax to his tissue of falsehoods and absurdities his readers are aro informed that they are so deficient in affection for their children that they scarcely deserve the name of mother this is the treatment the people of utah are in the habit of receiving from the world in general every contemptible penny liner allner a thinks things to make capital by maligning mali gning and traducing the kat lat ter day saints but in endeavoring to achieve notoriety by a tilt at the mor imor mons these vile panderers pander ers to the morbid appetites of the vicious and impure do as traducers traduce rs always have done go too far and so defeat the very en end d they seek to attain what a tissue of absurdities the wives of utah shy and sad The mothers of utah careless of and without affection for their ch children in fact neither wives nor mothers and not a lady in our whole community the people of utah are none too good we readily admit not near so good as they are aiming to be but in any capacity they fearlessly clIal challenge lenge comparison with their so called C christian aristia U friends in any portion of the world confident that the result will be largely in their favor it may be that the women of utah in every instance do not possess the most ladylike manners but in their capacity as wives and mothers we maintain that they are above abote reproach roach in fact unexceptionable reproach rei rey in n conclusion we advise this contemptible temp tible scribbler in the family herald a christian of the strai test sect well warrant to be less dogmatic in his future essays to write upon subjects he comprehends and that come within the compass of his very narrow and prejudiced mind |
