Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-31
Brigham Young. !
RECENT urrtRAScEs 10 mrs PEOPLE

Ine DeScTeJ NetcS contains iull reports
of recent dsoourses by Brigham Young,
to his flock, quite after his usual STYLE
The Mormon leader apparently recognizes
the danger to which his church and com
munity are to be exposed by the opening
OF the Pacific Railroad, and his discourses
are largely devoted to urging Mormons
to trade with :hose of their own faith
only, TO found cooperative stoPies, to cs-
tablish manufactures, in short to depend
upon themselves for everything, and TO
have as little outside intercourse as posi-
ble.oI yIasi.p ,a8.sYH5-loi- l. .rI .-iot i
The following disquisition of Brigham
Young, to the sisters, is rather interest
ing: Ha tGp ,g-ua1'gst .p a1ntb
-a have thought great many tunes 4
should like TO ask the sisters question
upon another subject entirely--that sub
ject they are always thinking about,
namely, plurality of wives. have
thought thousand times | would ask
the female portion of our community
whether, if it were left to their option,
they would retain the practice of this
principle in our midst or whether they
would have it obliterated. / want to
tell them little about it, namely it is n
principle that always has existed and
that always will. Have we any reason
to assign Tor this /? There are many that
might be givena If from the days Of
Adam until now every man that has lived
OIL the earth hnd been righteous man
he would have fulfilled the first com
mandmeBt, and got him wife and have
done his part toward replenishing the
earth, and subduing and making il like
the garden of Eden, and ne would have
plant ed the standard iof righteousness in
his babitation, q, II this had been the case,
the millions and millions that have been
killed in battle could have takewithes fair
daughters of Eveilto Nifess,l Bot men
have not been righteous, they hayeabeen
just i1baut as they are now. They are
the lords ofrtbe earth, and they willrao
tevil and crafty the lusts Ofitbe sfesbj
and TREY will7not serve God. but, pro-
yided it had been otherwise, we, wO,ild
not have had the wars tbst have lteeD,
and all thee fine young tmen that bnse
died Thoroughbred night haveihad fam
lilies, and there, would mot shave been
much reason for amy mansto have had
| more tllan one wife. Another argument
| used by men,and women against plurality
of wives is that there are about hs many
men as there are womep.i Suppose that
to be so. Acknowledge that proposi-
tion 10 be true, and say that there are
no more women than men, and that ev-
cry man should have wife. What OF
it? Men will not be righteous, and wo-
men are lett.to desoation and destruc-
tion. Read the statistics of such matters
in our Eastern cities. In New York, for
instance, from eleven to fourteen thou
bsand young women from sixteen TO nine
teen years of age perish annually in the
cutters, on tho sidewalks, on doorsteps
or in bowels around. This is no worse
than it is in other places where prostitu-
ton prexailes. Many would like to prosti-
lstutc the women of Utah, but pray they
may never be able to do it. Solar as
the mere number of wives is concerned,
/ do not care whether have one, dozen
or forty. IA great many ask me how
many wives have; but to tel the hon
esttruth l never thought enorgh about
it to stop and think. But / will get up
the facts in the case and tell everybody,
so that they may stop asking ;hese qnes-
tions. suppose have a dozen or fif
teen that am taking care of perhaps a
few more, do not know, and / care
nothing about it, l try to do good, IA,
try to save the people and Isay, do not
let lady come to destruction. 1t is
grievous to me to think tina, right in
this city, there should be any necessity for
ladies to marry wicked men, which they
would not do if the "MorHon" elders
would do their duties. 1t looks as it our
young men are indolent and slothful, and
do not understand the principle of lie.
AS an excuse, however, they will say,
"My dear friend and brothG Brigham,
, can not get married, why,if get me
, wife, she wants n carriageto ride in, a
hired girl to owait upon her, ind piano in
the parlor to thump upon when she
/ pleases, and1 can not sustain it," | am
, sorry to say there is too mach truth in
, this. Now, young women, tAl the young
men you will work and hel lpthem to live,
tell them so that they may marry you.-
| There are great many singe men in our
, midst who ought to have wives, and a
great many yonng women who ought to
I to have husbands. THERE'S radical
Q wrong somewhere. 81, Now, sisters, what
0 shall we do9 Shall we TAX, more wives
n than one, or shall we not. If we do not
+ it will not hell the case with those who
$ do not take any, they will rot get any
] because we have only one, and we should
@ sec hundreds and thousands OF our fe
h males with no hcme, nobody to protect
: them, nobody that they can ,all husband
@ and they would wander OF Shall we
y do this or not. II tho men will be right
!, eous, all will be right. " a'erh .
! ",'" i''i' PROPOSITION. ''"1 10
i They have said great del in Wash
}. ington with regard to our having more
4 l'wives than one. / have sad in public
!, and have written, that il they will each
. one get q wife, and be trueto her and
? Estrictly virtuous, and then will cause the
2 nation TO take the same coirse, we will
+ submit to their wishes, andhave but one
4 wife. Here is n bargain, if'ou will hav,
? Mo more than one woman, ue will not..--
; But the thing Is here, they want women
fbatlno wives. 1--WE take many women