Show NEW YORK POLYGAMY polygamy is not recognized directly by the laws of this state but any man may lawfully lawally f marry halt kalf a dozen wives and keep a harem if he does so under legal advice and is careful to comply with the law there are huna hundreds reds of men in new ew york with two to three legal wives and many have more yew york world yes there are more in the state of new york than in utah territory the surrogate court is full of proof that many of the best citizens of this city have had bad from one to seven women each of whom the husband cohabited with and introduced from lime time to time as his wife polygamy is nob not confined fo ti 0 the poorer class ceass in this city but exists among the rich it is safe sate to say that there are at the present time in new yo york rk city to exceed live thousand men who are keeping house with living with cohabiting with and raisin raising g children from one oue n e to three women each they have not been legally married but live kive e as did marcus cicero stanly singer the great sewing machine inventor owney geohegan and hundreds of others others who are noted in the religious business and political world as for years the oneida community was a regular strawberry bed of illaci cism and no one applied the law to tolls toils its breaking up at last the lire spent itself the relations that were once productive of happiness became irksome and the community broke up Poly roly polygamy amy is a virtue compared to the vic vice crime V sin in wickedness corruption robbing g etc etc going on in every condition of life in city and county in court yard vard and churchyard alike to single out the practice of poly polygamy which has been a leading tenet of society since the world began and pound one kanand man and two or more women who enter into relationships in a country where life liberty and pursuit of happiness are guaranteed by the constitution add and who are living in relations of peace virtue happiness and usefulness e f I 1 at no detriment to the one u wt who atsu assumes e a v virtue I 1 r t u c it he e d does 0 e s n not nol 0 t p pos 0 s I 1 dessir I 1 S a very poor way to secure respect I 1 sp et to the tile laws drick brick Pome roys D democrat no c |