Show conference coal I Lainik bet ber ST nov yov E editor deseret X janews ems cus our conference commenced liori on friday the ath at 10 a ni I 1 un under der the direction of president E enow snow all were glad to see him return with improved health lie beia bela being a ion lon long tried enduring faithful ruis servant of f the lord on t this his mu mii sion slon the conference wa was held in the basement of our tabernacle the upper r story not yet being plas pias or permanently seated would have caused d a good deal of trouble to our workmen to infange it for our conference still we wen wele comfortable and thankful for the basement the first days services I 1 were wele well attended by our cithens eit cit kens who postponed their usual labors to attend the tile rne ine meeting eting w W iti a good representation from tile the adjoining settlement settlements on the second day the tho basement was crowded with at earnest and nud anxiously enquiring a i company of latter day saints as ever met together to hear what tilo the lord ie re quiren at their hands and what lie would reveal through his ills servants unto them the blessings of the lord were wele poured out upon the tiu people with power and all felt to acknowledge his land hand and antl grateful 1 in n their hearts that their past la a iol lol hois s were acceptor accepted 1 al awl their de do mi M i 1 qa l i leno 1 to servo serve the loid lord uni una I 1 i tu tv alfil his llis purposes where whore he or his hid servants inight direct in the tho evenings eve ninga priesthood meeting was held when the material odthe of tile southern mission were thoroughly canvassed and an interested spirit of improvement and duty was felt leit by all to open up the resources of our country for the mutual benefit of the people on sunday the third day of conference the basement was crowded to overflowing with as respectably dressed and good looking a congre au parts of the southern mission as could ouid be found lui iri any part of tile the earth the attention interest and good spirit which prevailed in their midst could not bo be surpassed it was truly a day of rejoicing for all who wiio favor zion the tile spirit bore testimony to the tile people that the tile teachings instructions and admonitions given by the bi ethren were dictated b by the spirit of the lord and will long be remembered with pleasure by the latter day saints saint our watchmen thy bishops of or this mission are determined ter that no evil of any kind shall bo be tolerated in our midst without exposure as has been evinced by their acts at conference in severing five live of the rott roti rotten 11 branches from tiie the main stem stern and 0 tile the whole people by upraised handstand hand hands and sand hearts backed packed lip up their actions with a determined desire desiro to preserve the tile principles they have espoused I 1 may also state that the tile doors on the upper floor of the tabernacle were thrown open between tilo the forenoon and wid afternoon ater noon sery services lees for the benefit of ren and sisters from the different lerent dlf dif rent settlements that they might see for themselves tile the work that had been done since our last conference in the interior of the tile building all expressed a high degree of satisfaction I 1 and I 1 pleasure with tile the pro progress gres s and workmanship executed therein of 11 resident president A F ivi IsI cDonald mcdonald the coal lately developed northwest of ot ash creek about z 2 3 5 miles from this tills place has lifts been organized into a cooperative company eliares five live dollars each an invitation was given to tile the brethren bretl iren of the different settlements to assist in open opening ilg up a road from ta the thu ic mine to the elie main traveled road for which they would bo be paid in coal at the mine mine I 1 or capital stock i in 1 n the company it is anticipated bhatti th that thab attl atti the 0 coal can bo be delivered at a much cheaper rate than we wo have here heretofore been ed to pay for our arewood under the super superintendence stenden ce of president it gardner the mount trumbull lumbering company is being organized capital shares 25 each the stearn steam 6 engine kirle hirie and appurtenances thereof which have been successfully run by bros brice burgess in grass valley are now w waiting here for t lie the of the company and immediately thereafter will bo be taken to the pinery which lies some 55 miles southeast south east of or this place and tile the general T expectation is that a superior class of umber lumber will be pro d uc ed and be a great gread reat benefit to all our settlements til THISTLE ISTLE concerning wives and children NEW YORK CITY nov 10 1873 3 editor deseret news will you kindly insert the following in your paper As as it may nat be U uninteresting ni lii irl to some sonic of your readers ei tj the tho lie iio subject being a primino prominent nt one at this thia time in your territory 14 what are wo we to do with wi th polygamy imy in ia Is a question that seems to puzzle the tho minds of the tile wisest vist rist st the intelligent intelli gent world is 13 not lot willing to accept a solving of an art important question which will injure a large majority however the petty few in uta utah h may decide that the easiest way to get along with poly gamy there isto is t legalize amans union with his hia first family and ignore the rest this may bo be the easiest way for disinterested parties but buschow jow low ls it for those interest edy and deeply so of marriage performed by legal authority in civilized coun countries tries i where polygamy ia is neither practiced practised abed I 1 need deed say my nothing it iti i validity is established which no after i marriage call can effect bul but how is it in countries where vile re poly nois polygamy gainy is practiced and an established fact la Is not marriage thele a local sacrament ia is it not considered a community idea of t the thu he relations of tiie ther sexes what was tile tho courso course of our christian ministers in pagan J ianis lanis ild jid did nid they seek to make valid majid onel onet portion of a mans danl is family there at the expense cfall of all ali tho tile forming that famil family y ills his idea had bad been one of perfect equality of which the tile members were aware and with which they were perfectly satisfied no they neither advocated putting away nor eating 0 but inasmuch ina lna as a man had bad conscientiously and an religiously taken upon himself responsibilities they advised that he discharge di them to the best of lils liis ills his abilities and bestowed their eit elT efforts orts ou on the future good of those heath heathe ens leaving the past as something 1 with which they could not interfere without doing more harm harin jhan than good shall ta the eAlor mormons cormons Mor mons boi bal treated with less consideration than ilea hea they went a longway longa way from civilization and endured huffier in ing and privation unrivaled in hief his account all for their religion and on their first entrance into utah territory they were beyond the limits of united states jurisdiction hence they were nott mot accountable to U shaws SI S laws aws for their practices and for many years aften after utah mas was drawn within that jurisdiction ighani brigham Br young was waa appointed chief exec exee tI tive of or the territory by congress lie was always chief justice to alo wio tho people goodal relation of the mormons cormons Mor mons was to bo be begu legu ie leu u jated late d bylas by U S authority autho rity it sho dad have been taken in hand while the child was young she is now cot lot ot age 11 and pa past stand and her liei hildren number thousands I 1 the future interests of these children dren are at stake und this is the motive which prompts this letter knowing the causes bauges and results that have led to the state ot affairs in Utah the the tho writer having been raised in saie bale lake city clay feels anxious for the future good bood of the youth south of this territory I 1 ird I 1 the least distinction ana in a almor mormon mans malis family the eb children ildren born to him were born under the tile same conditions he did not say to the mother of his ills first s set et of children if ir she happens to 40 be the firsa first woman with whom lie ho lived in the marital marical leia lela tiou tion which danof always the me case for some times the second woman ia is the first mother 1 I arn am yours and yours jours ls truly and your child children reiA rola shar shah 1 alone call me father but he lip told her he was wms i t a and n d might be the father of many children the husband of many wives if she accepted him upon the conditions chels just justa as much a polygamous ous eus wife as is no 8 or 10 hence there tc Is no lip union of Moir in marriage and that of persons where polygamy t is is not an all avowed fact and antl none noie should be bv attempted t the success of polygamy install is due is fixed I 1 law aw althe of the church which admits of no 1 distinction among 11 mormon lormon A wives dives what argument could induce a woman with two grains of common sense to marry a married man unless she felt assured heang he was no more married before than lie was after she married him women ma may from froin religious convi convictions chions belle beile believing vigg in in the divinity of polygamy Y practice M it but ta they ley would be inclined to question tile the divinity ofa of a god who would announce such buch a revelation if lie he were a tv respecter of time and mid pela persons song sons nence hence to make him a just god lie must be impartial comans womans nature is usually in the ascend ascendant but if she sho be inteli lutell intelligent gent she must be consistent and in accepting a share in a husband she may do so and aud be comparatively rat ively happy but she shu a illint shares are aro equally divided these being facts no po intelligent derson person can a dmit admit of adis abis a fihs ihs in ill mormon w aves ints or a pie preference terence among their childr eilf elif artl if aliey ley lej do this they do so at the risk of cruelly wronging thousands irs ies of Wilo innocent cent chialdi ji lind aind the inia lnla binary glit gill ary benefit to the tile fuw few w would ouid prove a curse A B |