| Show expressions FROM THE PEOPLE COMMENTS ON ZANES RE BE AND BISHOP TUTTLES TUTTLE ES 18 PUBLISHED Sr STATEMENT ArE mormon plural marriage is not barbarism neither nelt lier are our women salavea SATT SAIT LAKE CITY march 30 1886 editor deseret news our oar very irreverent chief justice C S zane in his bid answer to the remarks made by brother abraham H cannon j just before passing sentence upon him tor or living with his bis wives used the following language as reported in your issue assue of the dinst I 1 this rell religion gion that you believe in is oneff one of the theli barbarisms barbari sms that have been cast away by humanity wherever it has been adopted and practiced it has dragged woman down to the condition of a slave in all ages and all lands where it has been practiced for any considerable length of time it is said that in primitive times it was not so but practices then were indulged la in that the experience of mankind have thrown away even abraham we are told went unto his bondwoman bond woman had child children reff by her and then drove her and her chaid out into the wilderness to starve he took his little buy boy with a knife and a pile and bound him and laid him on the pile to burn him in the name of religion lie he practiced this and there was no law against it at that time the patriarchal system wont do here it has been thrown away in these days these practices practices might have been proper in a barbarous gar barbarous barous and primitive time in crude times but they wont do now civilization has thrown them away 12 I 1 wonder how the religious worle world will relish these reflections of chief justice assailing jas las tado they do not on only ay the father ot ol the faithful withful but god himself for if judge kane will read carefully the history as contained in the twenty first chapter of genesis he will find that his application is not only strained to suit his bis purpose but absolutely incorrect WHO WAS HAGAR an egyptian a slave the bondwoman of sarah her individual property and according to the custom if biot not the law of that period was to all intents tents sand and purposes subject to her mistress acx and though the wife of abraham and having a child by him was wa a not deitner could she be the equal of sarah who was a free woman abraham recognized right and authority over hagar for it is recorded that just previous to the birth of ishmael hagar became haughty and arrogant and despised tier her mistress for be it remembered that saratt sarah though no at time and sarah said unto abraham my wrong be upon thee I 1 have given iven my maid unto thy bosom and when she saw that she had conceived I 1 was despised la in her eyes the lord judge between me and thee but abraham said unto sarah behold thy maid is in thy hand do to her as it plea seth thee and when sarah dealt hardly with her she fled ted from her face I 1 I 1 AN at this juncture appears upon the scene and he too seems to understand the relation between the mistress and her maid for he appears to hagar and says betnun to tny thy mistress and submit thyself under her hands he then predicts the birth of ishmael and his subsequent life it appears that hagar did return for shortly afterwards the child was born and Abia abraham hain gave him the name ot ishmael Ishi and when he was thirteen years old he was circumcised and on oil the same day abraham was wab circumcised also when ishmael was fourteen years old sarah gave crave birth to isaac and when he was weaned sarah saw the son of haidar the egyptian which she bad borne borao unto abraham I 1 loe A aud ad nhe mho said cast out this boad woman sud and her BOD for the son al ahlo bondwoman shall not be ba heir jaa and th 70 8 thin thing was very grievous in abrahams sight gb because of his sou son and god said unto abraham let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy bondwoman bund woman in all that sarah hath said unto thee hearken unto her voice it willbe will be perceived therefore that abraham did pot not send hagar and her child away until after GOD COMMANDED him to do so hence the responsibility of the act is traceable to god himself we lose from time to time all trace of ishmael until the death of abraham which occurred about seventy five years afterward sat which time we find him assisting his brother isaac in the burial of their father abraham from this one circumstance alone it would appear that the outcast son of this drie draven out bondwoman was recognized and his bis rights also by abrahams family and it appears also that abraham was justified by god for a prophet in sue speaking aking of him many cent centuries u ries afterwards declares that he abode ja a the law of god and isaac also and jacob and others did no other things than that which they they were commanded rl 11 the same prophet in speaking of abrahams attempt to offer up his son isaac declares that because he did not refuse to obey this apparently cruel commandment it was ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR FOK righteousness paul in writing to the hebrews justifies abraham and says because of chiq hia faith in god he offered up isaac in id view of these facts it is scarcely becoming judge zane to resurrect this ancient patriarch and arraign hambe himbe him before the bar of the third judicial district court of utah and pass j judgment upon dimand brand him film as a barbarian and all because abram H cannon had said that he acknowledged a higher law than that of man t even the law of god there is no relevance in the comparison made by the judge hagar was a bondwoman but the second wife of brother A H cannon is as free as his first wife and therefore her equal in every respect and if it was a barbarous act for the patriarch abraham to put away this bondwoman in in what way could brother cannon be j justified in putting away a free woman even at the bidding of the honorable chief justice of utah in speaking of ma marrying rain g women and then driving th them in away ahe court uses this language these practices might have been proper in a 9 barbarous ar barous and primitive times in i crude times but they wont do now and yet in the next breath he sentenced bother cannon to the heaviest imprisonment and to pay the hi highest hest fine not tor marrying more wil wives than one nor forgiving for living with more tl than ian one wife but BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO PROMISE i to abandon put away and cast 0 off ff his wife I 1 will quote the exact wor words ds the discretion of the court is quite extensive in these cases it may be imprisonment simply it may be fine simply or it may i be both for that reason I 1 gave you the liberty to sto state te it if it was your intention hereafter to be a law abiding citizen this you decline etc in the ahe future I 1 would recommend his bis honor to confine himself merely t to 0 passing sentence upon these amor mormon elders for whenever he be opens his mouth to speak he invariably puts Ms his foot in it 11 the many hypotheses which he seeks to establish in support of his bis position are invariably false and will not bear even a superficial criticism consequently there is no wonder that his arguments partake of the same incorrectness being in every instance illogical untenable and altha altogether alth gether eaher irrelevant I 1 would remind the judge that the most profound theologians have long ago abandoned all idea of further discussion of the subject being fully convinced that the mor mons have the best of the argument hence the clamor for special legislation and unwarranted proceedings by t the e of officers beers of the law to accomplish that which they have failed to accomplish by reason or argument in the language of I 1 BISHOP TUTTLE of salt lake make it hot and still totter hotter for them until they are formed forced to yield to our demands 11 what a noble christian sentiment to be sure I 1 rightly interpreted it means all fair means have failed now try foul means and the fouler the better this sentiment includes not only the imprisonment of mormon elders which invariably follows arrest but it means the sacrifice ot human life if need be to accomplish the object and is in exact keeping wit sentiment of other christian divines that powder and ball will reach them if nothing else will I 1 am ashamed of such men as bishop D 8 tuttle who have received nau ht but kindness at the of this people and that too for a long period of years and of whom he has said in his public utterances they were most excellent neighbors neigh when I 1 see them stoop so se low as to join with the rabble in the cry of mad dog 1 I for no ho other purpose to ae accomplish com comp liah their destruction was bishop tuttle ever disturbed on the contrary has he not been assisted in his attempts to establish schools and aid religious organizations in the interest of we the R episcopal escoval church in utah sad and the adjoining dj territories I 1 chy tt 0 10 Q lo 10 INCREASE THE HEAT of the already hot persecution I 1 suppose he would have it increased to seven times its present intensity and made equal to the heat of the furnace that was prepared for the three hebrew captives but the sequel proved that it was not hot enough to destroy them for god preserved them because of their integrity as he will this people if they will continue to trust in him in regard to the slavery of our women who have entered into hito plural marriage relations it merely exists in name without any of the horrors and miseries that divines or others have so dramatically presented to their audiences and letter writers newspaper correspond corre correspondents spon dents and editors have so elaborated and magnified into mountains of corruption and abomination have the women of utah made any complaint on the contrary have they not been and are they not still firm advocates and supporters of the principle and practice of plural marriage the women who have had the longest experience ed ce in plural marriage are its most staunch supporters reverence for the principle increases with expert ence 1 we have carefully observed and critically examined into ithe the character of the individuals who are ITS FIERCEST OPPONENTS and find almost without exception that they are among the most immoral and corrupt those who howl the loude A t about plural marriage almost invariably screech the debauchee apologize for the harlot smile at what they term the little irregularities of the vile seducer privately advocate feet icide and wink at infanticide and anen demand that we become like them if we do so we can ecca escape e pains and penalties we answer imprison imprisonment beut nay death itself is better than dishonor A plural wife g a slave indeed who forced her into bondage and if she afterwards feels herself hound who holds her down the prosecuting attorney has more than once anbe given the lie to this for he has many times declared they are the mo most st unwilling witnesses he ever met with were she the slave that divines and others would make it appear she is why her reluctance to testify aaa mst her cruel chel master when the law the courts and tue tae popular feeling all favor the S severing evering of the bonds that bind her such talk in the papers from the pulpit or from the judgment seat itself is so much CLAP TRAP and for effect merely A mormon wo woman man is the freest woman to be found on earth she fully understand sand voluntarily accepts all the conditions of plural plura marriages and shares with her sisters tire the joys and sorrows of this mortal life while the man who enters into these relations because of tile the commandments mand ments of god obtains power over himself such as a monogamist never dreamed of he learns how to subdue the baser passions of his nature and is in every w way ay better qualified to perform the duties of both husband and parent plural marriage rightfully entered into and practiced according to the spirit and genius of our re religion igdon must of necessity have an elevating tendency for every law that proceeds fro from god ard and enlargers enlar enlarges geTs h him im or 01 her who observes it in shore shoat it is the only road to eternal life A BIBLE READER |
