The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-03-22
sight in twelve months, who carries the

the cOnSclenccS OF his followers ABOUT
| with him and the crimes manifold, di-
rectly due and instigated by him, who
| has entered under his name list OF
| forty-three women, whom he claims as
his wives and lives with as such, rob-
| Der, an adulterer; n murderer this man
goes to Washington, and Senators and
Repres cnatives and Cabinet memb rs
call upon him and pay their respects 10
him, and invite him into their houses;
and women-wives and mothers, too,
give him seat at their table and
place besides their daughters. Reserve
the case; suppose it was a woman who
stood in Brig ham Young's place-nay.
suppose it were even one of the forty
three wretched dupes whom he has gath
cred in his home. suppose that mot
supposable case" say you: quite an
other thing, a very different matter"
No, it is not The laws Of morality and
the laws Of God recognize no sexes,
whatever paltry or infamous distinction
you or may seem fit to draw.
Looking at all this, she said WIZ
Beyond tnis speech and this action. why
such silence-why such silence of the
press, of the pulpit, of society, and OF
the government; and to the question
came the answer, because after all Salt
Lake City is very like every great city
| under the sum-, Because things there
are sanctioned that are elsewhere tolerae
ted Because in Salt Lake City a man
takes half a dozen women to the we'd
ding altar, and goes through species
| of marriage ceremony with them, ana
| calls them his wives, and lives with tn ein
! as such; while in Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago and other cities man does the
same thing precisely without any such
preliminary service. In Salt Lake City
tiey call it religion. In New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, they call
it, net precisely religion, but even
necessity-a young man sowing his
wild oats. Because things here go un
covered and brazen faced that elswhere
move masked, say you; l don't see pol
gamy, I don't see incest, / don't see
illegal abomination :? But the under
lying theory in regard to the proper
place, work, duty and office Of woman
in the world, wherein this whole system
of polygamy is reared and Strengthened,
it is precisely the same in Salt Lake as in
every city in Christendom. 1t is the
theory that WON an is sent into the world,
not for herself, but for another, that she
is necessity to man, that she was net
put here as entity, as an individual, or as
another human being, but as finishing
supplement, an ornament or adornment,
an afterthought to some other human
being, and that other human being of
necessity a man. Tue rights and duties,
the work and responsibilities Of the
world are such, whether she be happy
wife or mother, just as man with the
responsibilities and duties has rights and
powers whether he be husband or q
father. ''Oh, no % quite Il mistake, We
are told by DR.. Bushnell, DR.. Hatfield,
DR.. Fulton and others. They inform
is that the sole and only purpose for
which q woman was created and sent
into the world was to be a wife and
mother Excellent cries Mormonism.
Every woman should be a wife and
mother, and until she is the gates of
heaven shall be closed against her, for,
says Mormonism, a woman !s sent into
this life for this purpose, and if she does
not repent and become wife and moth
er here, she will have an exceedingly
bad time in the world to come. This
, is logical, to say the least. Woman was
sent into the world to smooth and
soothe man and to adorn his
life. He is to spread, and glorify,
and magnify himself. In word, as
:
in a most scholarly way, woman is crea
I ted in the world for the purpose Of put
ting goodness into man. Excellent
! cries Mormonism, admirable! And in
that case, says Mormonism, the more
q women the better; for if one woman will
: put an amount of goodness in man,
I twenty women will constitute him a
saint. Stripped of all its sentimental
ty, and of all glamour-s stripped of II
delicate words and airy sentences, that
signify nothing, the actual theory OF
, these men finds its logical sequence in
q Utah. They may shrink from it, they
q may turn away their faces in horror
, from it, bnt their own theory, pursued
to its logical conclusion, has its end
. there
. Discomfort
= It has been said that these women are
: contented. So it can be said of the
women sold in Oriental markets, of the
. peasant women of Europe harnessed to
; the carts along with bruts, etc.
;, Miss Dickinson related a number Of
;, incidents, from her personal observa-
= ton, showing the general discomfort o.
the Mormon women, and remarked tina
neither are Won en- elsewhere, to whom
n fortune mas assigned klnuer pOItton
8 quite contented with what has been giver
O to them. And this discomfort is becoming
e so universal that the world comedies it
!. to support it or to fight it. 1t spring
, from no woman's rights conventions. /
q springs from no so called strong minded
r appeals or harangues; from no discusso.
of legal rights or worngs or legal pow
3 ers or disabilities. 1t signifies that TIN
IS women of to-day are trying to keep stel
II with men Of to day. What lies at tn
d bottom of this SO called "Woman Move
d ment' of to day is simply the spirit o
a to day; a day wherein men cry p-ece-
h dents I'd the WALL wherein men are tear
n ing down the old and building afresh an,
y better. A day wherein men, in societies
It in communities, in church and in Stat