The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-10-09
BR1GHAM's THEATRE.


BR1GHAM's THEATRE.
I went to the theatre, I went on
pecting to be disgusted. but I wa
more than that. There were wome
all around me, and / would see on
man here and another there, and eacl
bending over. ten or fifteen women, an
was told they were his wives an
as looked around and saw these VIC
men and their degradation, such
sense of shame and despair came owe
me that I cried, "Oh ! God, let me di
where I stand y and then the secon'
thought came. and I said, "Oh no, le
me not die, for that would be cowardly
indeed, but give me strength to with
stand and do battle against this"
NAUGHTY GENTLE VISITORS.
I came out to Salt Lake City will
the best men in the country-men whom
the country delights to honor and rev
erence-and. as we we'll knew we were
coming to Salt Lake City, we naturally
talked great deal about it, and what
do you think was the tenor of thest
mems conversation. Why, after I hac
listened some time, I thought l should
pray for deafness or cotton to put II
my ears They thought Mormonisn
a fine institution; it must be a jolly
place where man can have dozen OF
two of wives and yet be respectable
1t must be jolly to live in a place where
divorces can be had for five dollars, and
where, if you get ired of your wife, you
can tack on pretty little Mormon and
no one can say word to you. Nice
conversation for respectable men, and
all of them married but two, and they
were the best behaved of the lot. "Oh,
it was only joke" Well, suppose it
was a joke. Supposing a lot Of respect
able ma ried women were to talk in the
cars and say" Oh! its fiue institution,
Mormnnism. You can have a dozen,
husbands, and get divorced any time
y"u want to tor SIS. When you get
t Fed of your husband get rid of hun,
shave him to one side and get the best
locking young mormon you can fnd.'
Now, what would people think who
,.ari them speaking that way, even if
1T WAS a j'kr"l Why. they would
I'ink them women who were lost to all
S nse OF dignity and honor.
EASTERN sPEECHMAKERs.
When got to salt Lake City they
were srrenading. 1t wasn't me they
We're doing it to-(langh'er)-but they
We're serenading some of tho big-wigs
that l.ai come along! and then those
" respectable men got out ard made
speeches! They didn't know I was list
ening to them, but we women hear a
great deal more, and are sharp enough
to be awake great deal oftener, when
is going on, than we get cred
it for. was at my window listening to
Them, and there I heard one honorable
and well-known Repre-
stand up and pledge himself,
and pledged his companions. to their ut
most tessupport and care for the inte-
resrs Of these people.
AT BRIGHAM's TABERNACLE-A WELL
KNOWN CLERGYMAN AMONG THE M)R-
MANS.
went into the Tabernacle, and I ex-
pected to be disguised there, too, and I
was. There, seated in the midst of a
lot of " elders" was a reverend gentle
man, well-known and much talked-of
divine with a white necktie-the Rev.
Thomas Todd-and while I was there
this reverend gentleman stood up and
he made speech. and he told little
story in which, if be didn't directly H.
lustrate it, at any rate he gave heinfer-
ence that Mormons were just as eligible
for heaven as any one else, And all
this was just type of how the world
outside treat of Mormonism and gloss
over its abuses.
SHAMEFUL INDIFFERENCE OF CONGRESS-
f. Congress has no time; its committees
have no time. But they have time to
scamper across the continent, and spend
public money in seeing sights and doing
And there are the newspa-
pers, they have no time their columns
are filed with any trash or stuff, bu.
not word on this And iu the pu'pits.
day after day, the clergymen who filled
them speak on religion aud reform, bu
not word do they say on this. And
the women of the land, they know it !;
they know how their sex ara debased
and degraded in this second Sodom. and
with all the influence and power that
women. possess, if they only choose to
use it. they do nothing they sit in ele.
gance and comfort, and they say not a
word. .......,.., ..... -. .............., .-.
I'D SLAVERY OF MORMON WOMEN.
I asked why, and simultaneously with
the question came the answer and |
saw why. In This second Sodom-this
Salt Lake City-is sanctioned openly