Show MORMON BEDSTEADS The 1ioclie ICccord Suggests Their Introduction to Eradicate Erad-icate Polygamy The Pioche Record says A Mormon is having a remarkable bedstead made to order by a Milwaukee furniture firm It is 24 feet wide and has nine compartments compart-ments each intended to hold one of the purchasers wives What fun there will be in that bed The partitions can not be made of sufficient height to keep the women in their respective places The first night the women get into their little bunks of this big bed they will start in crawling over the partitions into one anothers bunks and inaugurate a hairpulling tournament and after a suf ficiency of the amusement of snatching each other baldheaded they would then take the bedslats and while away a few dreary hours by clubbing the old man to death This big bed racket will never work with the Mormons It would do more to knock their religion out of existence exist-ence than all the laws Congress could pass If Congress desires to eradicate the practice of polygamy among the Mormons let them pass a law making it compulsory for all polygamists and their wives to occupy the same house and bed A man is either killed or driven away the first time lie attempts it One attempt is Mifficient for any Mormon 111 |