Show FROM WITHIN THE BARRIER the new york sun of august il A has baa the following editorial we publish today a very striking article by mrs susa young gates a daughter of brigham young in which she describes the practical workings of mormonism and polygamy in utah and especially as they affect woman and children mrs gates frankly announces herself as a polygamous child of the great giest mormon president of whom she he speaks in affectionate praise and admiration recalling in particular his grace and dignity of a ki king ng and his graceful pirouetting in the manji man dances of her childhood the 91 picture r e cate she gi gives es of life in the multitudinous I 1 n and polygamous oue household exhibits it as delightful in its harmony and spontaneity she puts in no dark colors and shadows of jealousy between different wives and different broods of children they are all happy ha py together according to her 1 11 I adore my mother she says idolize dolze my M tether er love all my fathers father 6 wives and am devotedly attached to every one of my numerous brothers and all this runs directly contrary to our notions of a polygamous family and the frankness with which this daughter of brigham young defends ilef ends polygamy is fairly startling she tells us that there is even romance in the polygamous unions and in all respects the story which we lay before the public is the most interesting the freshest and the most candid statement that has ever come from inside mormonism and hom from a woman born and bred under polygamy this is the article referred to above andee and we have copied it headline and all verbatim our homespun has made the sun to shine with W more than common brilliancy provo utah aug 5 A certain num man had h planted a garden upon a level hilltop in it were many luscious fruits on high and arching trees hung cherries ripe and sweet but the foxes that sometimes stole made junde could not reach them and co soto to all who asked about the strange garden they declared the fruit was sour oar and bard sometimes the man would come outside the wall and call out the virtues of his fruit none would listen helen they beat him back with sticks for had not all the foxes declared deo lared them sour I 1 am a mormon I I 1 am a polygamous child and was brought up in the he house with a number of wives and many children badore I 1 adore my mother another reverence and idolize my tether mer love all my fathers wives and am devotedly attached to every one of my numerous brothers and sisters aters al now that I 1 am grown and see things as they really are I 1 cant say that ti at our bringing up differed from emny other childrens it k our kour meals were served regularly 7 IL a m 12 m and 5 p m with five anve minutes variation winter or we passed through the az various experiences of childhood blossomed out with the measles blushed with the scarlet fever choked with the whooping cough acquired double chins with the mumps slid down the long smooth bannister rails when mother and aquties were out of sight bumped our heads worried our poor school teachers bald headed and gray raced over the hills for the first buttercups butter cups and bluebells bluebelle blue bells dug bigos 11 played pomp pomp pull away and six sticks waded the ditches hiding our shoes and stockings under the bridge and walked on the top of the eight feet high stone walls in t the h e game of back out in the winter we popped corn made molasses candy indulged in sliding down the ley icy hill path behind the school house at all hours of the day if in the forgot we were out roosted roasted applies on the big stove in school eating them half cooked with winter appetites had amateur fairy theatricals while the boys blacked their faces and entertained us with negro Degro minstrel jokes ancient and rusty drummed the piano instead of practicing our lessons quarreled occasionally in the old fashioned way and made up in the equally good old fashioned way we passed through the gymnastic fever with great bolat ec swam in the big wooden summer front provided for us and rode in the huge ale sleigh h in the winter when we got tte the chance but best of all were the family parties down at fathers farm outside the city whew its cold but put on your woolen socks highnight high tight shoes and draw on a pair of oll oli woolen stockings over them wrap u up in shawls and come out to the sleighs sleighs here are two or three common sized ones for the mothers and the older girls and here best of all is the great big family sleigh maddon on purpose drawn by six horses and piled high with sweet smelling hay and buffalo robes this is the sleigh for us you and me children that we are now are you all tucked in whiz goes the long whip as it cuts through the frosty air jing asat in jing go the tiny bells on every horse it is 4 in the afternoon and you will be there in half an hour asit as it is only five miles from home oh look there are two young youn 9 men in a small cutter joining our party and at that a buzz of whispers flies around among the older children that they are marys and dannys beaus beaus asks a six year old oh beaus answers logical ten year old and what do they do persists six year old spark and get engaged answers ten years engaged I 1 oh dont ask so many questions mary and mark eire are engaged engaged six year old silenced determines to pursue the subject for herself heiselt at a future day here we are the great farm house roofed many spacious perched on every side is alive with crackling log fires in every fireplace and decked gayly witti with evergreens ever greens and berries mary and fanny are gallantly assisted out of their sleigh but the other older girls scramble out unaided while the mammas seek their little ones and lift them carefully over the snow into the fire lit rooms then such romping and games brothers and sisters join in blind mans buff simon says thumbs u up P button button and cross croas ques eions and crooked answers meanwhile mothers aud aunts have all been in the other rooms some preparing the splendid supper which is gaily eaten at ac 6 the children contentedly waiting for the second table such suppers I 1 chickens roast meats and all sorts of pies puddings and cakes are there any cooks who can equal the genuine yankee cook now for the dancing I 1 the fiddle is produced some one accompanies on the organ choose your partners calls out one of the older boys who acts as floor manager then it is that father with the grace and dignity of a king leads leads out aunt mary ann or mother Y 11 as she is affectionately called by us the lads choose mothers and sisters and then to fill up the long floor girls merrily choose each other flying around in couples to fill up every set did you ever see such graceful pirouetting as fathers father sP P see that masterly pigeon wing as he be gaily turns to balance on the corner sometimes Sometime sone one makes a mistake amistade happy the laugh that goes round lumping boys of ten are dragged round by mothers and elder sisters trying to do their awkward best cala AU promenade adel such merry g giddy addy glee as marinda tries to go around on the inside for she is fan nys partner and dannys beau ah courtesy demands that he shall dance his first dance with dannys mamma and little six year yea ro old watches with childish hungry longing she has no own brothers and and her half brothers must necessarily dance with all theia own sisters she sits with patient face and drumn drumming ling feet only to dance one dance just one the long hours wear on and still wearily watches and longs the little one toward midnight when the merriment is at its height she spies coming to her corner her eldest brother johnny the biggest handsomest and nicest alother of all he is looking at her and coming straight to her hai can it oh can it be will you dance with me little sister will she no after thrill of pure delight will surprise or efface that glow 0 w of happiness she hops off her vi high g h seat with birdlike swiftness and to still the restless hurrying steps to match his big leisurely quiet race then oh the joy of movement and music what though the tune be the arkansaw traveler and her brothers easy steps are sadly out of time with vivid restless six year olds olda the interval between the two co billions til lions is filled to the brim wi with alth happiness for does not johnny treat her as if a duchess in years and dignity and does he be not fit his talk graceful as that talk is to six flix yeats years understanding and a rare treatie treat in j pioneer loneer days does he not fill her I 1 K bands ands with raisins plump and rich ali ah me all things must end and six years yearns step is more demure her face is quiet now as she walks by his side to her seat for unto her the gates are closing and all left to her will be to once more stand without and gaze between the bars upon the inner inder glories no not all for her little heart is charged and surcharged with memory and gratitude the midnight hour drives sleepy six yearns up to bed Upstairs up stairs there are beds in in every corner beds on cots and beds on floors babies on benches chairs and windows six year earold ear old falls wearily down on the cd bed her mamma spreads for her and sounds and dreams are all mixed up until utter weariness shuts out everything but deep repose oh I 1 could paint such scenes for hours for they are drawn upon the fadeless faithful memory with all the tints of childish woe and childish glee yet are they not much like your own my reader so 1 say we were reared much as other fortunate happy children are I 1 have seen polygamous and monogamous nog amous families have traveled and ana in my three years sojourn across the seas I 1 have known some mo monogamous n families of the world A and n ola are polygamous wives ever happy let le me first ask you a question before replying are monogamous nog amous wives ever happy generally you answer and then as memory jogs your arm you change it to sometimes just so I 1 answer your question generally sometimes jf if a wife is a good wife kind affect ti onate and a woman who understands and respects her womanhood making her husband do likewise she will be the same in monogamy or in polygamy it is no DO use saying that this order makes bad women worse and good women bad for I 1 know that it does not good women become nobler and weak women who still have k the strength to struggle up become better and stronger every way polygamy make a silken purse out of a pigs ear nor does mono gomy so far as I 1 have seen f there are woes boes in polygamous marri acres so there are in we have no letters patent on misery out here in utah I 1 dont know of any one who gets up and inveighs against matrimony because many people are unhappy in it life at its best beat is full of care and anxiety and yet it is just what we make it I 1 think I 1 am justified in saying that I 1 am and have been intimately acquainted with the families of most of our leading men our first presidency and apostles likewise my experience has led me up and down among the masses of the people of utah the people I 1 say for we have no higher and lower classes among us for we are or try to be as the heart of one and I 1 have seen and keown more genuine old fashioned comfort and content among the wives of one man than where there is one man and his one wife A selfish meanly selfish man live in this peculiar relation he may sometimes act selfishly men are men you know all the world over but if he be a thoroughly selfish man he cannot live in it either he will drive away his good wife or wives keeping the poorest one or they will all leave him one by one until he is left alone this I 1 have seen in all my childish days I 1 never heard a family quarrel that is a quarrel between my father and one of his wives or between the wives themselves there might have been differences and misunderstandings doubt doubtless leps were but they were wise enough to keep them from childish ears seldom indeed was there a word between the children to be sure the boys would jump from dark corners try to scare us with pumpkin faces ask for a bite 0 of f our precious piece of pie causing with that bite all of the pie but the outer shell of crust to digap disappear ear and one was even mean enoude enough to spoil his bread and butter lest some one would coax him for it all this and much more like it but nothing really low nor degraded our honored father and mothers were too anxious to rear us aright to allow a spirit of discord to be engendered when we grew older we had beaus and parties only that at 10 every gate was waa locked and whoever came in after that hour was severely scrutinized and afterwards reported by the watchman who kept the gate and whom did we m marry most of us girls are wedded to single men A few to married men A II 11 of those who married into polygamy have clung to their husbands through all this recent persecution but 1 I 1 cannot say the same of the others drunkenness and debauchery make more aching hearts fill 1111 more cups to the brim with genuine woe and misery than ever can this bugbear polygamy T who know say this we were trained in the strictest school of sobriety and honesty our boys were taught that as men who were to become husbands and fathers it would be far worse for them to commit crimes or vile sins than it could be for women so that girls here know when they marry their companions are as pure as they we are an affectionate rather clannish community our peculiar differences feren ces from the world help to hele make us so we speak of t these ese things with quiet patient words for we are so used to calumny and misrepresentation so when some one who has ventured venture dout out returns saying the world calls all our cherries sour and bitter we braue and go on picking the sweet fruit knowing that time will some day tell the tale in all its truth history will deal more justly with us such examples of heroism loyalty as these last years of judi persecution have shown amol among 1 women I 1 could tell you 70 ou cwi wwi waw love and joy or love and woe H romance of life is ever bright 1 utah for the sorrows of our p pie are the sorrows of inn innocence innocenc ocene jl ignorance perhaps but never of or crim crime e like clea cleaves veti to like liap to light and when one of us da himself to sink into that wicked or filthy he soon drops fla the tree as unripe or rotten arul freih this it is which foxes gather ur up 4 hold out to you as samples of aul au tree contains talk about polygamy making god of danl man A man can never bhe so much about his weaknesses as faults aj a when he has tw two 0 or ciuffi plain spoken wives holdin holding up wi mirror of nature contina continually bew his eyes As one lady friend laughingly B marked to me the other day why you know I 1 always that the man has the hardest tj aimel polygamy for the woman has ol 01 one her ausband Lus husband band to please wk A he poor soul has two threes three even four to please and sat satisfy isly of them critical exacting a and cw so sor rious lous A man must be a good man indeed to make all these them men happy f I 1 know the reason the world callo calto 46 OAl hard nam esIt is because they do BO cannot understand the force w which holds together men and women in such peculiar relations the w has become wise witty selfish flak aop sordid it is every man for himself you may add the rest of the 0 ola saw it is about true every waa seems in a hurry to get money 1 spend it to find a set of people who care only for money in that MS assists them in their effort sto reacel higher plane than that of be self ag grandi why the world can not u understand uder such an anomaly 0 in this enlightened one or more individuals ml might t bb forgiven for having such notions but a whole commune my friends the foxes we are right we will at once go up 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