The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-02-06

world, or the devil.
The association with the Gentle.
is raising hob with the institution
and rising generations Of the FIRST
fruits from the tree OF polygamy will
be the death Of Mormonism; for 1t is
apparent to al that the children Of the
first and lawful wife look with con-
tempt upon the "polvg FRUITS and
the latter feel the degradation Of the
situation.
To illustrate how this thing is brew
ing here | will state . few instances.
AT one Of the ward schools, when all
the children were Of Mormon parent
age. two misses, too small for young
ladies and too large for little girls, got
into quarrel, and said ell the mean
things about each other they dared
to. Finally one Of them ..got away"
with the other and came of victor by
saying, swell, FAINT = polyamous
brat, anyhow" which silenced her
adversary.
That remark signifies = great deal,
coming from whom and when it did.
The pride Of Legitimacy will be cher
ished in the bosom Of one Of those
girls, while the shame of ps.lygamy
will rankle in the hcart Of the other.
Again. A little boy, the son Of =
second wife, was, one evening, in the
house Of Gentle who lived adioin.
ing. He went in to play with the lit
tie Gentle boy. During the evening
the father Of the Gentle boy came
home with presents and fond greet
ings for his son. Il was the week
which the Moraon parient was
spending with some Of his other spous.
es. The little Mormon boy returns
to his mother with fearful eyes, after
seeing the caresses and joyfulness
with which his little playmate was
greeted, and says to his mother,
"Why did not God make men enough
so that we could all have \ papa
apiece?" Think Of that. What a
feeling of anguish must fill that little
heart 10 force from his lips such a re-
mark, and how that anguish will in
time subside, and the gcntleness of
youth sour and turn bitter until hs-
tired that cannot be fathomed, fills his
heart and controls his future life; and
that venom be directed at the institu-
tion that kept from him his papa.
] have seen little boys of six years
old who would hang their heads and
onswer with choked voice, when
asked where their fathers were, and
had to say thatthe were 1t ''the other
family
Revelation cannot hold the thing
together though another generation.
No matter whom the revelation comes
from, nor through whom. Besides
all this the fond mothers like to have
shoes and stockings, bonnets and
boots, dresses and coats for their little
ones, besides occas,onxlly . new rag
for themselves; and when the f,oter
familias is l,ater tanai9ias too much,
he has too large contract to 6ll to
keep up the supplies Of these little
articles; and hence, the thought will
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that if he had not SO many
women and young ones, he could al
ford to keep his family respectable.
Here let me assure you, that it is not
alone those who are rich that go into
FOR the truth is that Hoop
er, delegate to Congress, Jennings,
md many others of the richest men
here are not in it; while on the other
side, every poor cuss, but rich in
mind and animal vitality, receives the
revelation with JUNCTION, and "doubles
lp." Many of them make it useful
IS means Of support, making their
work faithfully for wages
which they pocket-all for Christ's
AXE.
This principle Of working their wo
men. they all believe in. A young
yiri who worked for ncighbor Of |
'urs last summer, was quite recently
married. to an old codger, who had
previously married the girls sister, ut
he time having ''his old woman" by
whom he had six children. The old
woman died, and the young one had
hard time to support the old cuss,
or he was very poor aud decrepit.
iowever, BY much persuasion, this
'oung girl, aud sister to his wife No.
}, was persuaded to marry him SO as
0 help the family along. There you
zee is another sacrifice Of the tender
hords and most precious outfit Of
heart, more grand than the
Of an Evangeline-and this,
90 was all done for Christ's sake and
o obey holy revelation from God.
Again: Our washer woman last
ummer was plural wife from down
outh who come up to the City to 60
'ut to work to help the family along;
Ter "'usbxnd' and his other woman
emaining at home. About week
go WAS out looking up washer
woman to- come 10 our house, and by-
he-by, they are very scarce and hard
o find. l went out to one Of the
Yards, and after finding several who
we're engaged and could not come, l
vas directed 10 the wife Of the Bish-
# of the ward. After the Bishopess
went, and found her, her husband"
nd his other woman at home. It
vas Sunday and the washer woman
vas invited for the next day. The
5ishopess was solid substantially
'uilt woman Of foreign birth, but un-
ortunately she could not come on
ionday nor Tuesday, a. she was en-.
aged TO wash at other places on both
hose days, SO l had to look else
where. | pondered over the subject
n my own mind as to how my wife
'ught to entertain her in case she did
ome. 1t was very nice question Of
iiquet'e with me, whether she
hould be treated as common wash
Woman, or entitled to the distinction
t Bishopess, or whether it should
re "half and half" and whether she
vas elevated by being the wife OF