| Show HOW OW A LADY editor S WAS hoodwinked IN IH UTAH tun comans womans journal has bien been devoting considerable consider able abla apace space to the question including poly gamy and woman one of tiie tile editors visited this city a short time ago and give gives a her of what glin ghe saw and an account of a great deal that bhe she heard beard and repents repeats to some me of the stories that wore told to h her er by parsons persons who designed to dm deceive alve her and who to some extent at least suo suc ceodes tho the journal also aiso contains an appeal from persons Into interested ested jn in the tho publication of a scandalous monthly montey periodical in his this hia city who desira to obtain money for tho the pur of pure purchasing hasing busing presses and print crip to their paper we propose to give these matters a ittle lttie of our attention gentl on in describing her visit to this city A B S B saya anys concerning the tho company bwy with which bhe sho traveled rhe ahe the roamed about with oyes oyos open and oms oars pricked up scean a information informs alon ss that la Is he condition of most or of the spend a fe utah they have heard so many monstrous mons troas things about the themon choi mons mona that they nie are no not only ready bit anxious to get hold of bome some thing to correspond with their im prejudices they the y are rire prepared ft tho the tales taleb of the wag wags and tho the malig ners nors thy thay chy for their information from those who may be expected to speak against the tho It mon Mor mons and their institutions if they go to tho the tabernacle or the assembly hall haij they look 1002 around and make a mental noto note of every coarse face and countenance and conclude that the bright looking people are gentiles and the dull or homely folks are mormons cormons Mor mons ss and in m their reports repeat the stupid remark that the mormon 1 men inen look bron bronah broU ah and the mormon loon roon women aad sad or it often happens that thad the very individuals picked out by them as degraded Mor mormons mons are vi visitors altora from the east or west webbs attending like themselves out of curiosity andone party the other and vice verda versa it if there are any more homely and unintelligent looking people in this territory than boms bome wo we have looked upon hailing from boston and other atlantic cities we wa should bevery sorry for them although perhaps they would not bo to biame blime toz foz their appearance but bat these casual visitors often lump jump I 1 ump at false conclusions and make mae many ludlo ludio roua mista mistaken kea about the tho people whom they bee see in our oar city A B S 13 teus tells of a mormon wo man who after meeting scolded one of the tha raymond excursion party for coming to tho the assembly hall hail aitto to mose mook and decoff at our ouk solemnity and bada bade her to get out of the building as fast na as possible it the excursionist behaved as rudely ns a somo kome eastern persons persona of cui cutchaw cul chaw and bup eup tiloi breeding that we have sean se an during divine worship in this city wo we think bhe waa properly rebuked it Is no certain that the tha woman who censured hor her waa was a mormon our oun people usually pass paw by these exhibitions of iro christian hristian refinement and eastern polish with silent contempt being baing accustomed to such buch civilized misbehavior from that direction the sources to which A S B ap ap plied for information on the but buo r rage and polygamy question were such parsons persons as mrs urs sarah A cooke cooko mrs jennie jennis A frilseth Fr and mrs A 0 JAd baddock dock fe this would ba sufficient for people hereto know linow the kind of information that was received but abroad lettla la Is known kno wn of the individuals named their per alstedt or faeo b view a of the wor MOR h or B bw wp fa id the tha comans womans journal mrs cooko cooke it la in said told the story of her conversion to mormonism and wont wont vont on to state as follo folio we what first really shook her faith however was waa the treatment which the husband of an intimate friend received recelle d at the hands of the church this was waa mr J X a rich became a convert and emigrated to isalt sann intake with his hla family he had lent brigham young a large sum surn of money on the promise promie that it should be repaid him after he reached utah the time appointed for payment had long passed brig ham made no rete refe reference renco to the money and finally mr J T asked him for it he got only a severe rebuke rebaka for wanting anything back which laid on the lords altar 12 and the assurance as that ho he was wab a tery teny vry try wick ed man for lor dreaming of repayment there was wag no red reea nut nat B ut mr J naturally felt resentful and began to meditate renouncing mormonism and going back to england wis his became known the avenging angels ang elps eiss were sent to hla hib h Is house to kill him he escaped jost in time and wont to the house of a government official lelal omm off to whom he lie appe appealed ailed for protection tho mail man replied replie d that he was a miserable apostate and deserved to have his throat cut cat from ear car to ear car as he hopsy it would be beford morning mr J managed to get geh out of the tb city hid among the rocks till daylight sud and than made hla hia way to camp douglas Dong doug lag meanwhile the emissaries of the church which was adorned a with mirrors orbo orso aud and handsome furniture brought fron from england luxuries which noy now possessed posse med mod in those early day dayd thoy they tho the y smashed tile nair rora and pic pie pictures tanes tunes chopped up tho the furniture and ani made msue maue a bonfire bon boa dire nira of it set et the housa honee on fire and aud held heid a oid eid ha wino wiro eo 80 that she bhe could not go up stairs to get got hr her young children out till they thought the firo fire was so eo far under way that she could not control it they then let her go she rushed the tho up staf stal stairs fi and succeeded gotting in getting children out ont and afterwards I 1 m extinguishing the tho rire fire the th next day she ahe showed mrs choho cool 0 her hor hot hands dS burnt macj and gad bad arst booso beau bean to suspect that a r religion which authorized zed such buch crimes crimes was not of god the mountain meadow massacre gave the finishing blow to her faith mrs cooke was glen given the charge of the two oldest boys saved from that massacre and heard beard the account of it from them the story Is too well known to need repeating here hero the emigrant train was the wealth wealthiest lest iest which had then crossed the plains the spoils amounting amounting to were carried to tilo tho tithing yard BrIg brighams hamb hams wives wore the gold watches taken from tho dead dea dand jand brigham himself fon ton devas after drove the finest pair of horses there had been in tho the train a span which had attracted attention when the emigrants posed through the city and wera were eagerly recognized now we never heard of this rhod rood omon tado about mr J in all the years that we have lived in utah and our inquiries among the tho oldest In inhabitants habitan ts f fail al I 1 to eife elle elicit it in support of the story if mrs cooko cache told that yarn and the stuff about the mountain meadows mas sacre 11 she imposed upon A 8 B most mosi mos t shamefully everybody here mormon and gentile s knows that it is grossly incorrect A woman was introduced as sis bis sister bister H who years ago was excommunicated and delivered over to the of satan for attempting to vote the gentile ticket if the pale ne nervous ryous ivous elderly woman whose great dark eyes have a world of sorrow in them thom 11 told that story to ABB A abe bbs bes 1 her li lips ps are aro as aa untruthful as her eyes are dark and there is no won der that they are full of sorrow to be if its own no one should be happy who falsifies the truth and imposes on tho the unwary traveler even it if the tourist Is ia greager esger eager to learn bom som something 0 astounding about mormon iam lam 11 people are not so eo excommunicated and delivered over etc for voting any kind hind of a ticket and it Is 13 impossible under our system for anyone to know what ticket a voter casts from the de scrip tion given we conclude that tn the sorrowful sister la Is a woman known as aa a spiritualistic crank in the habit of rolling her large dark eyes for the purpose of making m I 1 impressions I 1 pres upon the 9 lepe jac cyana tyana anon anan goud mut mur f DR out oat imas marv I 1 in regard to her experiences ing fag g to the mormon falth faith an unmarried woman cannot be saved 31 cihat that a woman may have been a devout mormon a dorcas for fox good a theresa for piety but if her hus bus band does not choose chowe to call her she bhe cannot rise in the resurrection that one can bo be even murdered by proxy prost if one can get anybody to not as substitute i in support of the was wag gra A wife waa accused by the church of a crime which had really been committed by her husband and waa was sentenced to death she appealed to brigham young he told rier her that even if bhe she were innocent Inn she bhe ought to be glad to die for her husband all ali aleshe she could obtain wab was permission to choose her own ovva mode of death BS as that to which bhe ehe had been condemned was peculiarly hor hoy she chose poison thinking it would be an easy death but she expired in great agony begging her slater sister to lot people knows know after she bhe was dead what she had suffered again the wife of a mormon mis flonary committed adultery in his absence and he was sent for to come home and shed her blood for the r re in mission I 1 aaion I 1 of her sins he loved her so eo much in spite of her unfaithful ness that he be could not bear to kill her and offered onni ered to die in her stead the lead head of the church accepted the offer but told him he should not be sacrificed until he reached a certain age when his days dayo of usefulness would bo be over and there the matter rested it ia 13 remarkable that women pretending to any respectability would or repeat such guch falsehoods ss as the tho foregoing and still more remarkable that a lady of the intelligence Intelli genco of A 9 B could credit and publish t them em bat we must remember that as she bhe sh states estates these persons persona found her eager to learn all she could 12 and so eo accommodated her berwith with sensations novi novt thebe these women are the creatures making on an appeal to the for money one of the chief deceivers of A B S B is notor notorious lom in this city as a defrauder frander de of ditmor mormon landlords store batore women milk dealers vegetable ved ped diere hired girls etc eta if the domans journal Tour ranZ bibbea bibbes to help people to sate gate sath gallic up babbs cash wo e have nothing to bay say except that it Is th in very poor business the tha paper for which they desire aid is simply a monthly depository for antl mormon r candall a mess mebs of unsavory gossip a collection of stories many of them manufactured entire jy others worked up from a very small fragment of fact into a large bundle of fiction the tho whole for outside use and effect as it is a positively without a particle cio eio of influence in this territory where its existence Is unknown except to a very tery few A S B is a prominent advocate of worm worn an suffrage bhe she was told by these person persons fo eo she the bays that the minor girls did vote that in fact the mormons cormons voted every chick and child they had in order it impress this untruth upon her to appears that the utah statute on woman bund budd suffrage was misinterpreted to hen her so as ato to make it capable oi of authorizing a wife widow or daugh tir of a citizen to vote at elections if if those ladies ladles made the statement charged 3 they almuly lied this may seem a hansh harsh words word but bat it is the only suitable one it was no mere more mistake there ther e 1 is 11 a law jaw that was not cited to A S B which bettles betties the point int it is the registrar tion act ander under it no one male or female females can tote vote who does not swear to being twenty one years of age and a resident of the territory and precinct for given periods the women named know that this is a fact further earther they know that the last registration was under the control of non mormon registration officers and that although no man or woman ever connected with polygamy was to lists were not diminished dimi in the th first place the law is so strict on thib this point that minors cannot register and in the next place the last registration proves that the charge that minors have registered is utterly false when they told that atory story to As A B 8 be they said that which they positively knew was untrue if they did not say to BO the question of veracity lies between them and the writer in the comans womans journals burnal 7 and we ask A B B 3 seeing that I 1 this voting story told to her Is faa a falsehood whether it is not quite mikaly that the sensational acau stuff to which she the was treated by women who are aching for dollars from the east esst is not likely to bare nimr nabie habie hab liable nab Je and further whether she loulu altu tt ft J sor som lady eager for information anz 7 on the g general e question tion of moman woman suffrage to t 0 make her inquiries of persons bi bitterly opposed to it in principle and practice and making their living by burlesquing and misrepresenting it yet this is the course A B S B adopted in re lation to mormonism niam from many remarks we perceive that bhe she h one who thinks for herself and draws her own conclusions on many points in this instance she like many other trave travo traveler leres b hag as sought for her information from sources that were in n the very nature of things prejudiced and unreliable and thus placed herself in ii the pos position of one who would go to the pharisees Pharis ees eeb to enquire about jeam and ask about his from hinc who urged upon pontius phate to deliver him unto an death if the wombs journal wishes to maintain its high character as af I 1 the advocate of homans womans cause it should be careful about printing statements concerning womans woman a status socially and politically in utah made by the very people who have been trying to take from the women voters of this territory Terri toy that brivil ege which has haa become a right by long mage usage that the tb e J journal ro urn at I 1 a struz gling to obtain for all the he t women of the nation |
