The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-23
TIE MAN WITH FIFTEEN .W1r:Es.
Bragham Young ON the Poly@ q my
Question -He> says ne has q Dozen or
Fifteen Women HEserhaxs q Few NfOrc''
He Gtvesh thc Bachelors Little ASa..
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AT a meeting held recently in the Taberna-
Gle at Salt Lake City, Brigham Young delivered
himself to the following effect:
have thought great many times would
like to ask the sisters o question upon another
subject entirely-that subject they are always
have thought o thousand times i would ask
the fe male portion OF our community whether,
If 1t were left to their opinion, they would re-
or whether they would have Il obliterated.
want 10 tell them little about it--uamely, it
is principle that always has existed and that
- LOOK At new yoax.
An argument used by men and women
against plurality OF wives is, THAT there are
about as many ms n as there are women. Sup
pose that to be SO. Acknowledge that propo-
men say sfe
should have wife. What OF it : Men will
not DC righteous. and women arc left to desc.
lation and destruction Read the statIstics Of
such matters in our Eastern cities. In New
York, for instance, from eleven to fourteen
thousand young women, from sixteen to twen-
ty-one years of ages perish annually in the
cutters, on the sidewalks, on door steps, or in
the novels around. This is no worse than it is
IN other places where prostit 1tion prevails.
Many would. like to prostitute the women Of
Utah. but pray they may never be able to do
cerned, I do not care whether I have one, a
dJzep, or forty.
HR THINKS HE HAS DOZEN OR FIFTEEN WIVES.
A great many ask me, how many wives I
have, but to tell the honest truth I never
thought enough about it to stop and thlnk
but VIII getup the facts OF the case and tell
everybody SO that they may stop asking me
these questions. ] suppose have dozen Or
fifteen that am taking care OF; perhaps few
more, do not know, and care nothing about
tN1,f a. In x0<>1 y l>..,. ~ ~
PIE and say do. not let a lady come to de-
strGction. 1t is grievous o me to think that.
right In this city, there should beanA necessi-
ty tor ladies' to marry wicked men, which they
their duty. 1t looks MS though our young men
are indolent and sothful aud do not under-
stand the principles Of life. As an excuse,
however, they will say MY dear friend and
it get me wife'she wants carriage to ride
IN, o hIrei girl to wait upon her, and piano
~ the parlor to thumP upon when she pleases.
and cannot sustain it." l am sorry to say
young women, tell the young men you will
work and help them to live; tell them SO that
they may marry YOU.
SOMETHING WRONG soMrwHERE.
There are; a great many single men in
onr midst who ought to have wives, and q
great many young women who ought to
have husbands. There is q radical wrong
somewhere. =
Young man, 20 and get you o pAEtner; get
you Q lutte house, then. plant ont your shade
trees ana frtnt trees. Land is plenty here
you can get. 1T without money and without
price" You have the privilege now. if you are
Q citizen OF the United Atates Of taking np ono
hundred and sixty acres, and it will only cost
you ten or hfceen dollars. Canssnot you get
home? Yes, yon can, right hers insthe midst
OF the saints. Then go aud do 1T, antfsaao not
neglect the frat mmandment given tOsAdam
anu Eve-to repleaish, subdue and hyHdtifv
- te Sa
WHAT SHALL BE DONE?
Now, sisters, what shall we do? Sha1l We
take more wives than one, or shall we not? II.
we do not it wills not help the case w,th those
who 90 not take any; they Will not get any be-
cause we have only ono, and we should see
hundreds and thousands Of our females with
no hone, nobody to protect them. nobody that
they can call husband. and they would wander
off. Shall we do this or not If the mon will
be righteous, all will be right.
CHALLENGE TO THE YANKEES.
They have SAID great deal in Washington
with regard to our having more wives than
that it they will cease their wickedness, and
each one get wife md be true to her and
strictly virtuous. and then will cause til q nat ION
to take the same course, We Will submit to their
wishes and will have but one witc Here Is
bargaln-lt you will h,ve no more than one
woman we will not. But the thing is here
they want women, but 10 wives. We take
many women, but we make wives and mothers
or them and they arc not cast off; and their
children have She privilege Of bearing the
names or thcir fathers instead Of beng cast eff
l say God Will damn tho man and the nation
that will act 80; Goa will damn the nation in
which women, with no arm to shield and pro-
tect them, are seduced and left to mourn over
their lost, fallen and degraded condition. Goa
bless you. Amen.