Show A pleasant beok be ok on the mormons cormons Mor mons WASHINGTON june 1 I 1 have just read a book which makes me think that our government had bad best let alone the vexed qu question estion of polygamy my aa practiced practised in in utah says saya the writer when advocating to a mormon lormon A wife that congress should forbid any more polygamous marriages bit legalize those that existed and secure their social position the woman repeated after hir hi r secure my social position how can that satisfy me I 1 want awant to be assured of my position in gods goms estimation if polygamy is the lords cords order we vve must carry it out in spite of human bunian laws and persecution if our marriages have been sing sima congress is no DO vicegerent of god it cannot forgive sins nor make maka what was giong right hard for me mb if polygamy were abali abolished hed without making some provi provisions blons for women situated as I 1 am yes but how much harder to bring myself to accept such a law jaw as you speak of and admit that all I 1 have sacrificed has not been for gods sake I 1 should foi fei foll fehl 1 as if ff I 1 were agreeing to look jook upon my past life as a as a worthless womans woman wo mans Q upon which 1 I had never had his blessing id rather die dle before reading this little book I 1 looked upon mormonism in the abstract and wondered how bow our government could tolerate such an abomination but 1 T now understand tand that it must be left alone for it N w ill only duly thieve upon what would be looked upon as a religious persecution the tile little volume from which I 1 have quoted was written by a lady whose husband being in delicate health took her and the boys for a trip to the vacille coast mr T th the tho 0 husband of the writer seems reems iii t to 0 have been an army of fleer officer and to have had some previous acquaintance quaint ance anre in sia sit alt it lake bake city brigham young was about making hla hia hi annual tour or of inspection and invited the T party to accompany him hlin mrs mr T t tates that the journey was undertaken in the early earit earl part of december she kept notes and wrote letters to lier iier father who 1111 iq a mr win woods of yow now york banker her father thought so It highly ilis I 1 lily of othen other her views and statements statement that lie he caused them to be published 11 for fur private circulation hoping that much good mi might lit be effected thereby sll sli she e gives very tere terne ter e but inhere interesting ting accounts or of the different homes she slie visited and aud recites some gome ballo of the tho most borrine horrible indian endian stories which were told her by her entertainers ta provo was the first settlement visited and aud the description of the hospitalities enjoyed there makes one long fo the same experience mormon 7 women appear to be famous housekeepers housekeeper the manage ment of all domestic affairs seems to devolve upon them and I 1 should think it ie would take several women whether w A ives ves or hired lifted help to per form the duties required but mrs T seems beems to ba have havo ve seen the very brightest nde ade of this hou bou household sebOl eco economy humy hums trie e women seemed to be happy and contented and the ho u eloids harmonious hatmon ioUs lous in con trust to the industry neatness and of the mormons cormons Mor mons she mentions coming across a gentile gend e habitation kept by a woman above her house was exalted a pole bearing a lid ild on which was vas painted oid old id segars 1 upon theist the thel ilof lyof ot lay liy old boots and shoes reluctant to be reduced to the rank of fertIlIze if but giving token of what was to le be f seen een feen inside the windows window were so fro dirty that they di dia 1 not need curtains and anti the tile woman was as rough aw and rude as the Bo orbun she advertised r in another part of the book she mention 1 dad d ad of I 1 indians and a toy htoy t that was told lier her about it a band coniti ig up gop one sunday while the dior Alor mormons cormons mois were in church one or of the he braves stripped himself and aud went dancing into the church he thought by so doing that be would excite the tho congregation to an angebrand gerand anger and the manifestation of it would be his its lis excuse for murder and for his comrades to run to his bis assistance si sih six tance but the mormons cormons are as wi wise e as serpents and the preacher took no llo notice or of the Int intruder nider but went on with his gaud gadd praying the savage left and the entire party withdrew without molesting lesti the settlers the writer that the Ta tience of the mor mons inous with the indians surpasses any anything tiling we reail read of the th e quakers or Moravia ns you never hear a mormon boast of prowess at the tile bava sava savages ess ets expense their whole tone is different dif dlf from ours our thy they talk tik for instance of the tile duty auty of avoiding tempting them by traveling alone or unarmed the mormon elders will not hear of vengeance on a tribe or band for acts committed by an individual member of it they think ill ili highly bl of the indians sense bense of justIce justlee inz anz ant unless an outrage committed committe dean can ean be fully traced to some previous offense of a white for which it is a reprisal they obstinately attribute it to some bad indian whom his ehler chier would be quite as willing to punish as we would one of our white criminals her account of the Ste erforth family is intensely interesting bat I 1 must not continue further extracts from the book booke which is all good and will well repay peru perusal al I 1 will however trient mention lon ion one interesting family where the husband was blind and his wives worked for his support as well as that of the children in addition to household and farm duties a portion of one room was given up for a telegraph office one of the wives being the operator mrs T mentions ment meni fons lons that it was wag more tidy and comfortable than a man would have kept it but that women operators had bad one fault that men were not guilty of SometIme sometimes Some times timea 4 a call would be made to the next station w without ith out any response being made for mrs would go to meeting this thi 4 book is called cc twelve mormon homes vil ViI visited ted in iri succession on a journey through utah to arizo na DO fay in zie die courier |