Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-07-14
Beauties of Mormonism.

extracts, in regard to the horrors Of poly
gamy, will open the eyes of the public t.
this peculiar institution of the Saints"
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Polygamy," says Mr.. Ferris, lis in
PRODUCING a new style of building at Salt
Lake City. 4 man with half-a-dozen
wives builds. if he can a long, low dwell
ing, having six entrances from the out
side; and when he takes in new wife, if
able to do 50, adds another al artment.
The object is to keep the women and ba-
bics. as much as possible, apart, and pre-
vent those terrible cat-iights which some
times occur. with all the Accomplishments
of Billingsgatc. torn caps and broken
broom-sticks As the divine institution
extends. these buildings increase, and in
a few years the city will look like col
lection Of barracks for the accommodation
of soldiers Some have separate build
ings in parts of the city remote from each
other. and others have firm houses AMI
the wives are thus kept separate. the hus-
band dividing his time between them all
EXPECTS OF PoLYGAMY UPON THE PoPU-
LATION.
"The effect upon population is decided
IL deleterious. The prophet Joseph had
forty wives at Nauyoo, and the rest OF
the priesthood had various numbers, cor
responding to their standing and inclina-
tions; indeed, it is alleged by Mormons
that not one was taken to Utah. Brig
| ham Young has thirty children, ofwhom
eight are by his first and second lawful
wives; the remaining twenty-five arc by
his 'spirituals' He has about fifty wives
and some of whom are widows of Joseph
Smith. and are probably past the time
of having children; but, supposing him
to have thirty who are capable of having
/ issue-which is be,ow the true number
the TWENTY-FIVE children would be less
than one child to a concubine. If each
of these degraded females could have leen
the honorcd wife of one husband, the ag-
gregate number Of children, according to
the usual average of four in a family,
would be one hundred and twenty, show
ing a loss in population of ninety-eight.
The children are subject to a frightful
degree of sickness and mortality. This
is the combined result of the gross sens
uality of their parents, and want OF care
toward their offspring. As a general rule
these sanity pretendcrs take as little
care Of their wives as of their children
and of both. less than a careful farmer
in the States would Of his cattle; and no
where out of the Five Points in New
York City can a more filthy, miserable
neglected looking and disorderIy rabble
ofchildren be found than in the streets
of the Great Salt Lake City. The Gov.
again. whose attention to his multfarious
family we are bound to suppose greater
than the average. affords fair llluStra-
ton. lie was twice lawfully married,
and has eight legitimate children, who
are all living. He has had large num-
Der of children by his concublnes--no
one knows how many--it is only known
that there are only twenty-five surviving.
These females do not reside III the Gov
ernor's house so called, but in different
establishments, from one to dozen III a
place"
PROGRESS OF INDECENCY.
Their system of plurality has oblitcr-
ated nearly all sense of decency, and
would seem to be fast leading to an in
tercourse open and promiscuous as the
cattle in the fields. \ man living in..com-
mon with dozen Arabs, whether he call
them wives or concubineS cannot have Il
very nice sense of propriety. 1t is diff
cult to give true account of the effects
which have resulted from this cause, and
at the same time, preserve decency IN
language. The Saints are progressive.
+ Last year (lS52) they seriously discuss
IL. 4; ,,+Y n .,
into the Church by which the wives of
abSedt missionaries might be sealed to
Saints left ut home. There are num-
Der of cases in which a man has taken a
widow and her daughter for wives at the
same time. One has a widow and her
two daughters. There are also nStan-
ccs of the Liece being sealed to the uncle,
and they excite no more attention than
any ordinary case. How far the plague
spot is to spread in this direction re
mains to be Sccn.-BrighaIR Young stated
in the pulpit, in 1852. that the time might
come when, for the sake of keeping the
lineage Of the priesthood mbroken, mar
riagcS would be confined to the same
families; as. for instance, the son of one
mother would harry the daughter OF
another by the same father. There has
been some talk of going even beyond
this, and allowing the father to seal his
own daughScr to himself"
rHF HAREMS OF THE PRIESTHOOD.
THE high priest dignitaries of the
Church are exceedingly skillful in pro
curing young girls for wives. They in
culcatc the idea that elderly members
who have been tried and found faithful
arc nearer instruments of salvation than
the young. who may apostatize; and as
!; marriage 10 one who remains Steadfast
t. the end is essential to escape from
the fate Of being mere angels, great
many Young women are fooled into it,
bubbling and seething Cauldron of pros.
, ttution. Elder MILFORD Woodruff, one
of the twelve apostles, has regular sys
TEN Of changing his harem. He takes il
one or more young girls. and 50 manage:
atterhe tires of Them that they are glaC
, to ask for divorce, after which he heat.
the bush for recruits. He took a freSl
one. about fourteen years old. in Marcel
1858, and Will probably get rid Of her il
the course of the summer. These ma
=. noeuvers are praticiced more or less b!
the whole gang; the girls discarded b.
one become sealed to others, and so trav
el the entire rounds, and when they arr
ready to start anew. they have profound
. " realizing sense of female modestv. tc
say nothing of some gifts adjuncts."
THE MORMON WIFE
A lcye, in Utah, cannot live out hal
+ her days. In families where polygamy
has not been introduced, she suffers al
. agony of apprehension on the subject