| Show vvo AvO WOMEN lImN NOT WIVES A prominent member of congress said a few years ago ago t to the then delegate from utah 4 we do wot not care how many gomen tomen women you keep in utah what we object to is your calling them wives in his colloquial honesty he told the great secret of the antipathy that is so strongly manifested against the polygamy of the mormons cormons Mor mons to worm worra into the affections of trusting confiding women to abuse the e influence thus obtained rob roti her of her virtue destroy her peace beckher weck week her happiness and blast all the future of her existence and then ast cast her off aa as a worthless thing with social position name and prospects gone for ever to sink deeper and deeper in the awful maelstrom of degradation which has her would be all well enough christendom could bear that for it is common nay more it is fashionable I 1 in f act fact it is a matter of boast among men who have the entree to the best circles the greater the number of women who have fallen victims to their arts and have in trusting 0 confidence yielded their thain virtue a prey pres to the we might keep up with the custom odthe of the world and have a gregery flanked b by y a couple of brothels at every street corner with a number more moie crowded between we might multiply ladies of pleasure plea piea sunell at will revel in lust and corruption teach them and aid them in the transgression of every righteous law that appertains to the perpetuation of the human race and we would not bei bek particularly found fault with parsons whose sundays are devoted to preaching a gospel which inculcates virtue and righteousness and part of whose week days are employed in the devotional exercise of seducing their hired female help would doubtless offer us the occasional use of their pulpits editors wiio who imbibe freely enough on saturday to see fee the moon dancing a minuet with the north star for a partner r while their sundays give glee birth to articles arfi ai es on the tho evils of society mormon society of course would speak of us as an extremely good natured social community quite on a par with other civilized people and politicians P could allude to our social and moral condition without being seriously shocked in fact we would become popular as popular as the devil almost perhaps a little more so but to have wives oh horrible to tenderly care for them guard their virtue with sacred vigilance vig flance feed clothe educate and train up their children in the fear of god and honorably avow the paternity as holy men of old did under the sanction and by command of the almighty monstrous most monstrous what tender consciences they have truly it is not the act but the name that wounds their sensibility and why the polygamy of the mormons cormons Mor mons is a stan standing ding accusation against their corrupt and unholy practices great creator of man and his laws concedes to him the right of dictating in the marital relationship and communion of the sexes and forbids the indiscriminate illegitimate uncontrolled which is the practice of the loudest traducers traduce trado cers rs of mormonism on grou gron did we slink into the dark rob our ou r wives of that holy name an and be ashamed to own them give them up to the wanto ness of lust bastardise bastardize bast ardise our children and turn them nameless vagrants on the earth with shame sin and crime for their bilter bitter portion it would be hail fellow well met our wives would then be women shame on the word in the sense in which it is used the playthings of our caprice and lust and we would be an acceptable accept ible addition to the great family of jarring and discordant sects who are arc shocked at our obeying the commands command of god and our audacity in avowing it but few have the honesty to speak peak as frankly as the AL C referred to but the feeling if honestly admitted is general we do not wonder at it and sometime when in a moralizing moral izing mood we may reason a little more on the subject subjects |
