Connecticut western news., 1873-05-02
Brigham Young Interviewed.

A couple of Oriental princes are visit ing Utah, and exploring it's mineral re sources they are the Prince Man nockjee Poojiajee and Sir Chutney Jee ieebhoy. They paid their respects tt Brigham Young recently, and repor of the interview that followed is give1 Tn the Utah Mining Journal. It is sui fciently interesting to reproduce: | Brigham congratulated himself or the pleasure afforded by visit by dis tinguished representatives from peo pie in such happy accord with the Saints in many things, and especially plural marriages and social relations and expressed the hope that all of India would soon be fully received into the bosom of the Mormon Church. Devout missionaries had been sent to the East to convert its noble people.
 "The Prince-Mr. Young, no devout believer in our holy scriptures could be. come Mormon.
 "Brigham-Why not, Prince Dc you not believe in the blood atonement and in plural marriage?
 Prince-We believe in the full atonement for original sin by the blood of the divine Christina, shed once fo1 all, but no believer and doer of our holy scriptures would practice polyg- amy.
 "Brigham-But do not your people practice polygamy?
 Prince-With the blush of shame I confess that many of my poor deluded people practice that bestiality, but it is in gross violation of the divine Vedas. Our holy scriptures say: Every vir- tuous woman will have but one husband. and every honorable man will have but ono wife.
 Brigham-But you have always practised polygamy.
 Prlnce-Mr. Young, you greatly mistake our history, sir. For ages our people practised only honorable mono gamy, and respected women, and we were free and happy. But through long ages there grew up lecherous priesthood, who degraded women, and stupefed our people, and we are now the humble subjects and tributaries of the little homogeneous island of Eng land. The quicker way to make slaves of men is to degrade the women, and polygamy does this by crushing the heart and plotting out the soul of wo- man, and making her tears to flow. Our holy scriptures say: 'The tears of women will draw the vengeance of the gods on him who makes them flow. , We believe in the transportation of souls until they are fitted to enter the realms of Brahma. And the re-incarnation of souls on earth are through animals whose habits and passions the men have rssembled whilst living. For instance, wicked and vicious mans soul will be incarnated in the body of & tiger or hyena, because these are wicked and vicious animals. And the soul of a polygamist who has violated the divine Vedas will enter quadruped, and this incarnation will be repeated till it's cap- ral propensities are subdued, when it goes to the bosom of Brahma.
 Brigham-Sir, this is an insult to the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter day Saints.
 Prince-Be calm, MT. Young. I am giving you synopsis of our divine religion, and mean no disrespect to a man ought to honor his own faith only, but he should never abuse the faith of others
 '' Brigham-But we have divine revelation through Joseph Smith, com manding plural marriages.
 Prince-That may be so but I opine, Mr. Young, that had your prophet Joseph had less prominence behind the ears and more in front, he would have had no such revelatioR-a type, Inotice, of many of the chiefs here.
 "The conversation on the religious aspect of the Mormon people was here tacitly dropped, and after the Prince had invited Brigham to visit him in Bombay, promising him a hearty and honorable reception, the distinguished visitor withdrew"