The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-20


ness to God that they too might be in their
grayes. She had looked into the houses and
saw half q dozen rooms and half dozen
wives in the theatre, where one man would
be attended by score of women, all OF them
his wives where the half circle would be
crowded with young girls, the daughters OF
one man, but the daughters OF forty,
three different living women. She heard
stories bendied about the streets that
Brigham Young would admire girls
and afterwards discover they were his own
! daughters: and about Brighams son Joseph,
| who excused himself from the society Of
United States officers on the ground that he
wanted to 90 and make love to one OF his
mothers. She had met gentlemen-not IL
! literate creatures, but men OF honor ana
! responsibility. trusted and lifted into the
high places of the land by the consent OF the
! people about them--who, in speaking OF
| Utah. made remarks which were particularly
pleasant to q woman who loved her own sex
! to hear. They thought Salt Lake capital
! place separations were easy and divorces
| could be had almost for the asking. How
would these men like their own wives when
off on a summer vacation, to speak and act as
| thew, their lords did? One circumstance
that happened to her was amusing The night
she arrived in the city a serenade was given
to some one in the hotel--it was not meant
for her-and after while some one
cried for Miss Dickinson A dispute took
place as to whether it was Miss or Mister
for these prople were III the same difficulty
respecting what are termed strong-minded
people as the Americans were, and so the pro-
blem was solved by some one shouting,
Bring it out. On Sunday she went to their
Tabernacle, and saw there sitting in the high
places, well met, well received John Todd
heard him preach sermon wherein he apos-
trophized all these people as 'fellow-sinners
and brethren = She heard him tell story
wherein it was stated that differences of
creed notwithstanding, all good people we're
sure of eternal salvation. He did not say
Mormons by word .ut if not by implication,
then what was the story worth? and why was
it told 4? and why in the presence of those
people did he say that there was nothing ne
cessary to their salvation but faith in Christ
Who were the men before him ? There was
Bishop johnson, whose wives included four
sisters and two nieces, and George ID. Watt
church reporter. married to, among others,
his own half-Sister, and Bolton. having
mother and daughter among his wives. and
host of men who count their twenty end
more wives. These were the men with whom
this man claimed kinship and brotherhood
John Todd, minister and divine, with such
filth about him. did not cry out, so God!
where are Thy lightnings?' but looked at the
case in all its loathsone bearings, and passed
by it. The affairs III Salt Lake City were
very much like the condition of affairs in
every other city, with the exception that
vices were not tolerated in one place whilst
they we're in the other. Bra2en-faced things
went openly on the streets in Utah that else
where wore masl-that were covered up in
some way; the underlying theory of saint and
gentile of Mormon and Christian, in regard
to womankind, was very much the same in
both places-that n woman belonged to a
man, body and soul. and was to serve him till
God released her. but the Inen were not so
bound to their wives. The theory was that
women were to help men, to derive their
existence, SO to speak, from them,
but not TO perfect themselves, not
TO make themselves strong, and then to
give them what aid she could. A woman was
a mother to his children. not her own. Her
business was to be a wife and mother, and
not woman. That theory was as rife in the
highly cultivated city of Boston as it was
among the God-forsaken heathen in the desert
plains OF Salt Lake. John Todds theory, a
theory not only found in John Todd's mouth,
but in the mouths of millions of people in
America, was that the only duty of woman
was that of motherhood-not at all a matter
i'll spiritual or mental sense, but physically
This was theory entirely approved of by the
Mormons. Stripped of all sentiment, OF all
glamor, of all delicate words and exquisite
sentences, such was the read state of affairs in
Utah. 1t was being stated that women were
in favor of the system of polygany. They
were. So We're the women of Turkey and
Persia in favor of their system of
selling females from the shambles. So
were the women of this land in favor
of being considered the weaker and irrespon-
sible portion of mankind. She had got into
conversation with the first wife of a Mormon,
who had been legally married in England,
and who then loved the man of her choice
dearly, and could bear that no one should
come between them, but who now was so
callous, so stolid-loolling, that she apparently
did not care how many wives her husband
had or if she cared at all about the matter,
it was that the more he had the better she
would be pleased. and she had drawn this
woman into conversation and painted to her
her happy English home, and asked her if
! she had any idea OF her husband ever taking
to himself another wife if she would have
married him. Then she saw the real woman;
her heartstrings had been touched and she
wept bitterly Women bore the system; they
did not love it, Speaking of the Mormon
women led Miss Dickinson to speak in a
! lengthy manner Of American women. She did
not see why woman should be borne down
| by trammels of custom and antiquity as she
was. She (the spea!ler) wanted to see women
! as we'll educated as men, who claimed that
privilege because they We're going to some
profession. Had men ever any duties to per-
! form that could compare with those of wO-
men Did not woman form the. character of
the human race and for such work as that
she required, if anything, finer tools and
more skilful hands than man. The absurdi-
ties of custom, She had seen men enjoy
themselves among the Sierra Neyadas on
horseback; she had seen that they could leap