Show UTAH HOMES I 1 11 F IE 2 aff a ia 6 uta epli I 1 0 m c s ki k I 1 i litt little ie S I 1 do dlithe 11 sa the I 1 ee ba e people graat american reca 4 L lejk jj j J I 1 00 I 1 epli rall k nov about about utah ut g home the sensational storied sto ri i ea of domestic doro estic life among the 1 I cormons mormons Mor lo 10 rin mons 0 ns in this territory published by anti mormon mornion sheets or writ ten ten by transient visitors Li abo wa iivo have generally taken only a casual olier through plea two ss trec of OUI principle cities leave created some sime of the wildest ideas respect respecting ing the cami ly rand the tho peculiar a who d we 11 I 1 fer er t 4 P A J tilo valley 11 ey tal n c am may VS njg 11 fadd women who are oth otherwise erwis e in most ost sensible and intelligent gravely telling hat a bo hornblow ril ible place the Y ident aror 0 o a mairmon Ml irmon f i is for adwate Ay WAte 4 jaja 4 i must be W TO the i imaginations m a of these innocent stranger strangers who have been sa so badly impo imposed ed upon by absurd filthy stories a mormon homo li ia is a 0 gor gort of low grade grido harem aberer 1 ayo connubial bicke rings and beastly licentiousness cell ne ss make v a dreadful iid kind of domestic bell hell with such utter jy lib clous ii impressions as 03 ailiese sown abroad industriously by the local anti Mor Alo raon prebi it is no wonder that president cleveland z W self 08 L abil in hie his inaugural address when he dc do blared that polygamy was siye of the family 11 relation and rc ro e t bathe othe wo narral ras ra s ense of inah kind yet surely tho the blame in ghisi hf amatt cr docs not rest with the president nt but it rather must be charge di dito to hose s shameless prints which ulcerate in our midst and are re permitted by an ad indulgent providence to run tho the length of their clain e ere ie the ake najm nemesia es I 1 s of yate fat e overtakes abe slanderous scribblers scribble rs who are degraded enough to ohp give themselves up to a sedulous venal newspaper vilification of thealor the mor mons but gustand ju stand and implacable must naturally be the tb indignation dig dign nation tion and resentment of the people here who suffer such cruel and canton wantona I 1 guse without being accorded cordea ac the t ligo of under taking their own vindication through the universal preconceived prejudice of the press throughout this thi land saAd the average editor of the states is guided wholly by public opinion us as it asserts itself generally and is in fact entirely ignorant odthe of the true condition of bf the mor mons ho he sees a sensational article in some one ond of our local arres irr eg pon sible anti Mormon bontempo contempo ries which he be judges will suit the pala palates tei ot of hi hia s patrons and be he copies it bodily or perhaps comments I 1 upon it editorially with an owl like lik gravity and an erroneous stupidity which would be positively amusing were it not for the fact that hia his readers I 1 I 1 us ag atule know guite little asbia as himself concerning the animae averted upon and readily accept the roost most preposterous liea lies and aspersions as orthodox truth condemning tho the mormons cormons Mor mons as its most aw awfully fully monstrous creatures but we feel confident that if a majority of eastern journalists could take a personal survey of the bom homes es of the mormon masses th chev would be agreeably agree abl y surprised and thenceforth be careful how they retail ponderous yarns I 1 about domestic life in utah lye 0 o have a great and abiding faith in the candor and fairness of the american Anie public when it is supplied with facts a and nd noti misled I 1 or pr deceived and und therefore 11 we hayo have a right to ask that i those who disseminate intelligence through the presa press outside of this territory may give an equally I 1 largo argo representation I 1 to the ai mor kion mon as that given to the anti auti tl mormon side odthe of be controversy pending in utah As the family re gion arc are very frequently alluded to and usually with mistaken ideas as to the practices and habits of tf our residents we beg to state some facts iu in relation thereto which we do know from personal observation and which wo we are prepared to prove I 1 to any tty and all who may havethe have the Jei leisure sure and inclination aaion t to visit the territory from abroad in order to view the full effects of mormon Morra civilization in all ite its perfection fec tion it is absolutely necessary lo 10 go outside the three erfour chief cities of eid mote 0 or r less gentiles reside int into 0 ahe larger class of rural settlements where the be bes tenets of the mormon f faith have full and well nigh universal sway here may be found the genuine genuine mormon home it is not a pretentious or grand structure pel perhaps chaps but the 0 U enter its portals an ri impression of comfort and an air of industrious industrious peace and plenty strikes the observant mind all the members of the tho family are almost perpetually em m I 1 I 1 I 1 ploy bloyed pl oyed dd anif and V thia thid abw alone W one is 13 usually a PA 1 guar guarantee autee of thrift aud and hippi r I 1 12 eats ness i r it matters m att rs not how poor p v the he t family 1 may i be everything every thi 9 ier clean and tidy the multitude of children that grace nearly ayery household may perhaps have made sonic muss or put bo rac thing in d f temporary state estate of confusion con fasion burthe but the homemade home bome made carpets which cover dover the floor of the spare room and the little handmade hand bond made adorn ite 11 ll decorate the easy chair the mantel or perhaps a big lounge and thi alls of the diO dif lerent erent apartments I 1 attest the joving loving labors of contented nome Joving wives who wb 0 fill completely the exact sphere which god has designed for every ever y woman in in rearing carefully tenderly and solicitously a large and vigorous family of son and daughters it may be that the mother does not dress in the latest paris style it may o that she does not read the lates L revels m 1 it is very probable that elio ee hag has neglected some of the fancy studies mi accomplish ments it is quite certain that sho she is ii i ignorant 9 borant of tho 66 vice and 4 ai devoid evoid of the ahe distressing arro J gance whick I 1 Is i s a sad heritage en e a tailing endless sor sorrows rowson on a large portion of other her sister women outside of utah mali but she is maternal in in the best sense of that word constant attention to home duties and the entire absence of fashionable dissipations account for her generally I 1 imp apparent perfect 1 health and vigor jealousy s y and morbid passions have no pl place ace I 1 an I 1 n her heart even though she may be a plural wife her children I 1 may not be dr dressed e isad as gaudily I 1 as the P pampered little darlings of eastern wives but their health and and robust vitality more than compensate for the want of fine trousers or fancy skirts and then as a rulo there ia is a most I 1 wholesome affection and fraternal sympathy r existing between all tho the members m of a plural family polygamous fathers who are rais raise ing many arc are compelled to rustle to feed all the little mouths dependent od on him vices that creep into an idle brain are totally alien to kirn him his connubial relations are purged from the tho dross of licentiousness inseparable tle from irom nio monogamy no garny not by satiety but by the exalted belief that he be is fulfilling tho the high behest of heaven and abstemious ly y cohabiting with more than one wife only for the express purpose of begetting offspring to multiply and replenish the earth this relationship is still farther p purified u el rl e d and enabled by the ibe profound firm faith that in the life beyond the tile valley of death all his kindred will be reassembled around him to with him the everlasting felica ties of the blessed for he lie ardently ardell aly believes that true marriage and its fruits are eternal and thus what would otherwise become a meretricious indulgence is clean cleansed sedof of all its vice and evils by his high cons caption of the sacred nature and serious serious obligations of matrimony and und his pure motive in taking plural wives only to beget children to hallow the supernal home where he Q expects to reign with daem th k cm in hat that grand hereafter when heaven ind and earth shall hit have v e Ps passed ed away there can be little doubt d 0 abt that if ill it were not for the deep religious convictions vict ions of the cormons mormons Mor mons concern ing ng these matters polygamy would be ie surrendered by them at once because it entails greater exe exertion and greater sacrifices than monogamy poor fathers father s in the eastwoo east who have haven eared reared large families can realize of tile hardship imposed upon a loyal man who has to care for or clothe and educate many sons and daughters dau gaters but it is not true bat plural marriage as practiced here bere iere in utah is subversive of the amily fily relation on the contrary arv the mormon faith firmly held beld and aud i carried out in daily life sanctifies sanctified and fosters all the divine sen laments that should cluster around he the family altar |