Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-22
E.VOCA MARK EFT.
Brigham and Wives Multitudinous.

The Rev. /. DE Nv 1t Ialmadge CO itTlo-
utes the following to the Independent:
brigham was away. We are tod he
always is away when trouble is expected !;
and collision between the United States
troops and the Mormoms was likely to &C.
| cur. But still Brigham had left his insti-
Triton behind, and all his wives and chill
dren; for no trunk that was ever m1nn-
featured would be large enough to contain
the wearing apparel of seventeen wives
and forty children. So very inconvenlent
would 1T have been to take them.
''The temple of granite is slowly rising
7 will cost three millions of dollars, and
be more glorious than Soloman's-so they
tell US. One of the elders informed us
that the architecture was an especial rev.
citation to Brigham, and that, after mlny
thousand dollars had been expended on
| the structure, the President appeared on
| the ground and told the masons that the
foundations must all come up. The work
| m II protested; but Brigham's revelation
must have it's way. The foundations
were lifted, and 10 under them was found
a OGDEN roller, which after while would
have decayed, and let down the whole
structure. "Now," says the elder, you
must sec that it was divine revelation to
Brigham, for no human judgment could
have guessed the presence of the roller J.
II find no difficulty in explaining the
philosophy Of MormoniSm. There is a
large class of people all the world over
who seem to delight in being deceived ;
the Mormons have merely turned gullibi-
ity into religion.
"At eventide, on the hill back of the
CITY, we met an intelligent Englishman,
who had become Mormon. We intima,
ted to him that we thought that the Pa
cific Railroad and the large influx of Gle =
tiles to the newly discovered mines would
DO Mormonism no good but that the To-
connective would run over it, and the Gen
| tiles spade undermine it. No, no ! he
said. This Prolific Railroad is to be tn
highway on which all people will gather
to our church Mormonisn was never so
strong as to-day p
"Qaestion-'W What apology have you to
make for poly gamy?
"Answer-'The Gcntles are a corrupt
generation, and that race will die out.
0 ,r object is to fill the land with rapid
Embarrassing generations Of Mormons, who
W II be superior race, physically as well
as spiritually. | would have no hope for
the triumph of our church except through
! olygamy.
"Turning to his boy, that stood by him
he nut his hand under the youngster 5
chin. and said to us: Look there See
hat an eye that boy has, and what a
outside of Mormonsm The fact was
that the child looked like a half breed In
dian and gave no promise OF ever being
| bright enough to learn his letters. We
saw two boys of about the same size and
promise at the Holy Communion, of which
they he'd just partaken in the Mormon
Tabernacle, making spit-balls of the con-
secrated bread and throwing them at each
other
Nothing impressed US more in Salt
Lake City than the LONELINESS of the wo-
men, 1t may be ungallant to mention it
but, as every one that goes there thinks
it, here goes the statement Of the fact.
Now, LONELINESS of feature is not always
a disadvantage. There is a handsome ug-
illness, and pious LONELINESS but with
these Mormon women it is vicious and
outrageous uncomelines, indicative of NOR
al Disagreement The Tabernacle was
alive with them. Thy made US shudder
1t is assault and battery to have them
look at YOU What Brigham or any ott
err man would want of seventeen such
looking creatures cannot imagine. One
Of them | think, would be great horror.
Such diSocation OF noses and misplace
ment of mouths ard ruin af eyebrows are
not gathered together in any other place
on this planet. There must be good
many witches among them. We would
not have been much surprised to see them
riding home on broomstick. The only
excuse we can see for polygamv is that it
would take at least fifty such women to
to make one wife"