Show FRUITS OF MONOGAMY HERALD many of like myself hail acom the proud of their birth place and education as being first in the ranks of civilization progress and civil government to ece this grand old alato which baa ever been to the country as was the count rys father first in war and first in peace contributing largely of ablo men and master minds tor either going to its moral and intellectual ruin compala one to inquire after the cause of apparent results which aro 0 o fearful and threatening in their future promise its lately revised give the state a population of and in tha statement of sex reports the number of females to bo in exceed of the malo population male population one invent ako for causes vill never marry in alic state and numb er to the already ox cea of feniolo population and we have more bian females in the state who have no possible hope of ever entering married life or attaining to honorable motherhood ahe question arises why is this vast number of females subjected to condition and are thereby exposed 0 o be conie a prey to tho justs of men whoa retho lawmakers and are responsible for such a condition the answer is monogamy rubles the stale she has not n statesman who dares to oner the only reasonable remedy for thu constantly growing evil by advocating the propriety and rightfulness of polygamy under more id rules ot morality than now protects the marriage relation under practice the proportionate onate number of divorces to that of marriage in that state indicate that it is a most inviting field for mony inconstancy to luxuriate in should every malo person live and enter the married state as a necessary condition to social influence the perpetuity and development of honorable society this vast amount of female element would not be utilized would have no opportunity port unity of filling the measure of its creation or contributing to the family circle which is the foundation of all that is most desirable so wonder the women of the state clamor for suffrage which would be one step gained toward their rights this would place tham where their majority in the state donld enable them to correct some of the legal wrongs to which they are now so inhumanly subjected it is ft wrong which no state has a right to inflict upon such a great number of their subjects it is the duty of every state and government to provide ways and means ator the enjoyment by its citizens of all their natural and god given rights and to protect them in the exercise thereof these rights may not always be enforced by human enactments they are rights of agency for the exercise of which man is accountable to his maker god but no state can safely assume the responsibility of depriving any human being of those rights god placed man upon the earth i and commanded him to be fruitful i to multiply and fill the earth and no law ot man roust be enforced that will prevent any one who chooses so do so from obeying the law this is as positive a rule as when ho said thou shall not kill no law must say thou shall kill in view of keeping this law sA fairce irce me apostles urged that every nan have his wife and every woman her husband men and women do not honor the law of god nor answer the end of their creation without entering into relation what condition is more degrading than old bachelorhood or moro to be deplored than advanced maidenhood the scripture rule was younger women to marry Tear children and th ehouse and little state by law to boic than of its citizens they shall do no such thing is an outrage upon humanity is in defiance of tho order of god and adia regard of the obligations of christianity ti anity as taught by the sacred scriptures and this is what the state of massachusetts frays to tho inhabitants of that state by enforcing monogamy to the exclusion of polygamy there are no good reasons for this the one can be as factually regulated by law as the other and a door be opened for alie honorable release of many who are now without hope this state of things thia deplorable wrong this departure from gods ways and divide law is the rule in many other elates where the female population exceeds tha mae in number and conclusions in relation to thia my native state are applicable to many others of the sovereign our union tha people of utah have proposed a remedy and admitted a rule of action in relation to marri ago which if rightly observed would place every man and woman in a position to be justly held accountable to gods law and the order of for their conduct but the pressure brought to bear against them indicates a determined persistency sis tency in wrong and deprivation to mankind and a defiance of di ano laws and rights that roust eventually culminate in a condition far more deplorable than that of sodom and gomorrah and make it more tolerable for them in tho day of judgment than for the aco pie of thu great nation who by f urco of law would destroy tho aco pits that honor and live the bial order of marriage aid legislators becaro of their judges do no injustice in judgment for the immutable law giyer from whom there 13 no appeal has decreed the mete shall be measured to you again R |