Show WEDLOCK A CHAPTER FROM BRIEF NOTES OF or A gessile IN UTAH BY nenny CROUSE A great deal of ado fuss and fury is habitually indulged in by the opponents of mormon wedlock especially by those who are strangers to the people here and ignorant of the peculiar faith motives and objects object sot of the mormons cormons Mor mons and their thelt system of religious marriage it would certainly be more compatible with equity and common reason for fori such buch captious critics to acquaint themselves of the various leat leai urel of mormon wedlock I 1 the mormons Mor Wor mons system of religion marriage need be offensive to llo ilo i virtuous us manor manon woman plural marriage to the mormons cormons is ia simpli the institution of holy matrimony enlarged i wife number two is JJ i M much uch the beloved the honored ennobled equal to the husband and her religious religions community as wife w number one no man has need to covet hh bli neighbors wife because sho hai nap I 1 pens to be number two any moie mote than he has hay need to covet her because she happened to be te number one no man who does not just woman because sho eho la Is good looking will envy a mormon for having baving burdened himself with the cares and incident to the exercise of hla hig re belief the cormons mormons are honor bonor honorably ably united to their thein connubial companions they honorably protect support and provide for their children they furnish them with food and raiment with lodging and fuel with schooling and trade with professional and business occupations cupat ions aa as promptly and willingly as other of other religious or non pretensions it la Is a fact prove dby seif belt confessed testimony that ninety nine out of every hundred persons who are inveterate enemies of the mormons cormons religious system of anial marriage after an actual resl rest deace cence of ono one year in utah are unblushing adulterers either defalto or volem volens or wolo voto wn non valeo it would be more compa with honor duty virtue justice tor loi to require every man to elleg evo dlo lo 10 his hla family and to every member ot of it uthan than to tear husbands from their wives to make tramps and vagrant vagrants 9 and prostitutes and grass grasa widows of women and to their children childred for an unprejudiced person to view polygamous wedlock in the light that monogamous marriage contracts are commonly entered into to gratify the impulses of the passions to revel in legalized licentiousness polygamy must of course appear doubly degrading adulterous and loathsome but t he the mor mons lofela to he be impelled by a nobler more mom exalted motive a sacred duty duly to with m mortal ortal bodies themy ompre ot pre embodied spirits whom the mormons cormons believe are the divinely begotten offspring of god the father of the spiritual natures of all human beings and to be ceaselessly importuning mortal creatures to invest them with mortal bodies and thus fit them for a more exalted sphere of existence the sphere of immortality than they could otherwise attain in their pre angelic state beuce the mor mons mona have no confidence in the pseudo enlightened theories and gmt scientific do doctrine of over pro auction of the human species nor in overproduction of any of the truly necessary comforts or desire able luxuries which can blesa bless any honest laborer or leal teal creator of wealth cormons mormons do not enter into a covenant of polygamous or monogamous wedlock unless both candidates for matrimony first obtain a certificate of good moral character from the presiding elder of the stake blake or bishop of the ward wards of which t he the candidates candid atea are residents resident s the united consent of all parties concerned wife number one as well as prospective wife number two or any other number must findt be obtained and produced in writing or in person before any additional marriage covenant Is solemnized all mormon marriages are required requited ox ux expected to be solemnized in a temple by the holy priesthood matrimony to a true adherent of mormonism omaia ia is claimed to be no more nor less than a holy sacred right not hot to bo be contracted from any unhallowed motives to gratify mere carnal carmil desires mor mons believe exaltation and immortal crowns of glory in a future state ot of existence will be dependent on a numerous and righteous posterity they believe it to ba be their solemn positive duty to obey the full measure of Jehova hs command to be fruitful and multiply the mormons cormons Mor mons it would beem seem have reasons to feel that they merit the thanks instead of the censure of the genteel aristocracy for taking upon themselves the burdens and responsibilities I 1 ties of obeying this command the yo tanies of enlightened science marry iby lay entering dato into civil contract unions oda but they spurn the cumbersome inconvenience of raising children compare the mormon anxiety to thue rhue children this solicitude to command to be with the pae pseudo udo chriss practice which iole lole tolerates rates in M necessitates idour our enlighten ia web tulea the horrible social system in sch which altaire bare Ar sare taire born and gung pung nun hun into th id tigi tibi am the bradlo ans and na ag to the grave rave r ave h tib parent parents Bl shame to cs 03 cape the disgrace of their adulterous Inter intercourse coursel but gentility and the enlightened wisdom of lawmakers and judicial wiseacres wise acres have decreed that and infanticide and promiscuous concubinage ardmore honorable than the deluded faith which prompts a mormon to procreate nurse educate love and be proud of his bis children it must be admitted by all unprejudiced minds that this mormon wedlock is in the highest degree honorable noble and sacred compared with the prudish virtue and assumed sanctity of the votaries vot aries of pseudo christian concubinage the carpetbag carpet bag officials accustom ed to live in pride and ex extravagance too lazy and too ignorant to employ their strength to create any kind of productive wealth clamor for prosecutions as the stepping stones for fees they make the g crime of polygamy the sham ini sincere pretext for their persecution their real motive la is to acquire a mercenary profit and taking into account their immoral characters deduced from their self seif confessed 9 guilt no fair minded person can feel that they are aught than uhe the most contemptible hypocrites the imported carpetbag carpet bag officials als ais are virtually aliens of the locality and to the people because the interests of the officials are alien to or antagonistic to the interests te rests welfare and prosperity of the dominant residents ot the territory the feeble minority rule rob iob and malign the majority the imperious official backed by the sovereignty of governmental dictation who has baa left his genteel wife behl behind n d in other climes for fear of having her disgraced by contact with the humble humbler mormon women is subject tte beet to unpleasant annoyance by the presence of polygamy be causo he ia Is denied oie the desired opi port unity of gratifying his i ous oua appetites for mormon women are taught in the their religious irreligious books of instruction to regard connubial infidelity after the first offense aa as an unpardonable crime cri crl crimens mens meas as revealed by their revered modern revelator what virtuous man and woman do not feel that it would be a blessing to mankind to have every member of the human far family tilly cherish truly and sincerely this thia peculiar belief and to feel it to be their sacred so solemn emu duty to obey obes hence these blatant professors of virtue sanctified champions of hypocrisy seek to have the mormon voters chased the mormon children bastardized zed the mormon husbands torn away from their wives and sent to the penitentiary and mormon women made vagrants by judicial violence and converted into convenient prostitutes then with all the public offices in their hands bands unrestrained control of the local treasuries mormons divested of the right to sit in a jury box and stripped of the privilege to cast their votes in a ballot box the heroic champion carpet with no families to support and all their licentious boasts ap appetites gratified could indeed boast bolst of being perfect masters of the situation i it is hoped that the rea ren reader render derwill will remember ember that mere pretended faith is neither commendable nor efficient it does not compel any person to do right nor constrain any auy one oue to do wickedly hence nii ali although hough mormonism inculcates moral purity and the practice of all the cardi cardl cardinal nii nil virtues and to enter into their covenants of holy wed lock from sacred motives only the teachings are not always exemplified by its professed adherents adhe rente licentious lito cent ious lous rous ious mormon elders are to sometimes as guilty of lewd and criminal conduct as are adulterous d dea doa eoas coas A mormon bishop is as prone to for aalke thel path of rectitude as a holy divine or as the lascivious hordes of metaphysical scientists whose only guide to moral conduct is poll policy ay opportunity and their various passi passions ons |