| Show IS THAT UTAH GIRLS WANT VANT FOR HUSBANDS 11 1 1 aifili rne ine above sentence Is the closing one of an editorial in the salt lake tribune the article in which it appears Ts an attempt to belittle mormon formon 91 ine men in the eyes of mormon mordou Mor mon mou women aomen and by implication to hold up for utah girls to gaze at and admire the superior virtues of gentiles as husbands and protectors a sample paragon conof ot whom was probably surveying 1 1 himself in a mirror at the time he wrote the article heaven knows we have no desire to detract from any excellence real or imagined which persons of this class cin can can legitimately or conscientiously lay claim to they need all the credit and a little more inore than their merits call for boutwe but wo would remind them that such queries as the tue one propounded by their favorite organ are a good deal in the nature of a two edged sword liable to cut in the direction least intended we are not at all afraid af mid that any sensible mormon girl if by chance she canle came upon the article in question would manifest any undue eagerness to snap at the gilded bait of sophistry so jilstry I 1 which hides the hook intended for tor her capture utah girls are very aatto apt to be innocent perhaps in a guileless sense too much so for their own good but not many of them are born fools their eyes are open in part to the character and real motives of the conspirators spira tors who put forth such crafty pleas to delude them they come of af fathers and mothers who have tried to the core and sounded to the depta the rottenness and hypocrisy of a gen en aeration era tion witti with which the crime stepped steeped antediluvian races the denizens c of if the doomed cities of the plains or those who peopled earth when the son of god GOO was crucified would almost appear whitey brown by comparison latter day saints with a correct understanding of their duty and the inclination to perform it have not been slow to teach their children the why and wherefore of their coming out of a world already crumbling beneath the weight of its crimes I 1 and of being separate and touching not either by intermarriage ter or association I 1 it the h e unclean awn thing whose breath is a pestilence anaa and whose throat is an open sepulchre those who have not so warned gods children who call them father and mother here on earth will see seethe the time when the blood of responsibility will be found cl clinging ingin to their garments and the souls of 01 those trose who were sacrificed on the altar of their n neglect will rise up in judgment against them the daughters of israel know for there have been examples enough to teach them what it is for a mormon lorr lort oell girl particularly the daughter of a poly polygamous amous wite to unite her lifes destiny with one who regards her as an inferior and despises her birth her parentage and people even if he be able which is by no means jn variably the case to present to her the same unspotted purity of mind and body which he expects to find and unlike her runs no risk in finding even if lie he desert her as many of his kind have done as soen soon as the lust is gratified gra tilled which impelled him to woo I 1 and win her even if he surrounds her with luxury seeks to anticipate her every wish placing her upon a tal of worship and giving her the adoration which belongs to his god if he does all this and yet looks upon her marriage with him as an act of generosity and condescension on his part and of self seif emancipation on hers if he casts opprobrium upon her birth regarding her brothers sisters and ana herself as bastards her father as a le cherolis lecherous man and her mother as a fallen woman if he forbids ner her frie friends ads the house or treats them with a i coldness that is equivalent it he reviles her religion reli reil elon eion ridicules the tile sacred ordinances of bf the gospel and clasps hands with those who persecute betray and ride rampant over the liberties of her people if heedless of the lying promises of neutrality friendship and goodwill with which lie he softened and overcame parental objections and won her as his wife he now turns her whole life into a hell of cruel torment all the more gore bore cruel if she loves him because forsooth he hates bates the fountain whence bhe she sprung the tile people with whom she affiliates and the god whom she still adores ills Is it such material that utah girls want for husbands or it he be not one of the cleaner kind and her married home is the home of the drunkard and the debauchee if the man she calls husband and has sworn to honor and obey until death forever parts them is a libertine a seducer of innocence a betrayer 0 of virtue the and harlots and a of the brothel and the dram if leaving the haunts of sin he staggers home at midnight with his veins on fire of hell to share tor for the rest of thee tha night the marriage beahe bed he has defiled wit within in the he h hour our leaving e ving the arins arms of a prostitute t to to lay his head upon the bosom of h his is wedded 1 wife I fe his drink maddened brain a lace course I 1 of unbridled passions and his body a lazar house of disease transmitting its fatal germs to his crippled and degenerate offspring and not to her who is the hapless sharer of his life of shame and the victim of his loathsome embraces Is it such material that utah girls want for tor husbands if so the choice is open to them as open as the grave to which it leads but to realize it go beyond the bounds of mormonism 1 1 istra struggle le upward to those proud heights whereon stand these would be reformers of utah who are reaching out their eager hands hanas to lift you to their own degraded level T the he mormon husband with a plurality of honored wives and a numerous healthy and intelligent posterity pos is more than the peer of the childless child legs leis lepers who hate bate min him f for sor or the cleanliness of his life a and nd the general uprightness of his course I 1 mormon men are not perfect nor do we know of any who even pretend to be but sueh as they are aney have every reason to feel satisfied with the result of bf any comparison made between them and those who W ho struggle upward up ward as they may roay will never reach the plane requisite f for a birdseye berls birds eye view of those whom they secretly envy and would only be too happy to despise |
