Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-06-09
"WHE NO. 49,"

palatable business of local politics recent
ly, that we have neglected to call atten-
ton to the successful efforts of our friend
Col. GORDON, in damming up the spread
of Mormonism in this, our beloved coun-
try. He has left us a copy of the book, OF
which with the highest motives for good
and the extension Of virtue he has taken
the agency, and which bears the enticing
title Of "Wife No. 10, by ANN ELIZA
YOUNG" Within a handsome and dura-
BILE binding it contains many beneficial
and lasting lessons and, to use new ex-
preston regarding publications SHOULD be
in the hands of every person in the coun-
try In the brief review we are able to
give of tive can only give few OF Its
beauties. It may be laid down as an axiom
that the world is divided into two classes:
those who having no wife atall desire a
dozen, and those who having but one are
not anxious to retain even that one; good
illustration of the proverb that experience
is the wisest school master. If we may
Judge from the, narrative of ANN ELIZA
that much maligned polygamist, Mr..
BRIGHAM YOUNG, has not bed, or
rather beds, of roses, always provided
that the rest of his numerous family are
like the esteemed authoress. Her COM
plants are not altogether unlike those that
are heard against husbands in more civil
lized communities. The principal meat he
furnished his family, says this sensitive
woman was ''pork"' and his scant allow
ance per month for each family was ''tive
pounds of sugar, pound of candles, bar
of soap and box of matches" though, be-
ing fayorite wife ANN ELIZA was allowed
to draw sugar twice month. And worst
of alb for a high toned woman may be
safely starved, if it is made up to her in
clothes, sonly "a few yards of calico and a
few yards of both bleached and unbleached
muslin" was handed out to them every
six months. So, remarks this injured
wife, at which we are not surprised, II
can scarcely look back at those times
without a lowering Of my self-respect. :"
We should think not! A few yards of calico,
when it requires forty to make the plainest
dress It was enough to destroy any wo-
mans self-respect. Indeed, Mrs. YOUNG
remarks that during the whole time she
was BRIGHAM YOUNG's wife she never
learned to hate anything in her life as she
did the word economy" which "was
thrown at me constantly Thrown at
her constantly Who of us has not heard
from the partner Of his bosom that with
ering remark? How our remonst RANGES in
the tender bud, before they have hardly
crossed the threshold of loving lips, are
blighted by it How a suggestion that a
trip to the Centennial would be too eX-
pensiye, is nipped with the remark that it
is always Thrown at her," when in the
operations Of time it is impossible thatany
Centennial circumstances could have ever
been projected at her before! How our
protests against the childrens' noise, Sun
day evening; our objection to their staying
away from school; our suggestion that
perhaps the seminary commencement
might be managed without new dress
for Mary; our opinion that gaudiness in
female attire is not the thing-how, we
say, all these things are made to lose their
novelty and dignity and weight by being
represented as constantly ''thrown at h er."
Poor ''No. 1872 says she never asked for
anything that she was not ''accused Of ex-
travagance, and desire to ruin my hus-
band, and advised to be more economical. -
How like the other husbands in the world
is the wretched BRIGHAM! And what a
model answer is that of the oppressed ANN
ELIZA: 81 do not see," said that lovely
woman, chow 1 could be more economical
without denying myself everything, and
literally going without anything to eat OR
to wear" 1t may be useful to say here
that the aptness of this reply may be &C
counted for by the fact that when BRIG
had several years of practice, which con.
tributed to make her perfect. One of the
most remarkable things in the affair is
that her mother stood by. and saw these
little meannesses of BRIGHAM, and yet,
''strange to say, they did not shake her
faith in him"-a quality in mother-in-
law which is Of the rarest occurrenc. Need
we repeat after this much that the circu-
lation of this book will efectually put a
stop to the spread of Mormonism in Au-
gusta, if any such thing had been in con-
temptation. 1t is not likely that any lady
who doesn't want to have her self-respect
lowered by scant allowance of soap and
calico, will desire to enter a Mormon
household, nor that any man after reading
ANN ELIZA will want more than one wife,
if that.
Of the jealousies of the wives and their
"picking" at each other, and even rebel
lion against the pious BRIGHAM himself,
a sample of which latter is given in full
length cut of wife kicking sewing
machine down stairs, Mrs. YOUNG gives
the liveliest accounts. One of the wives is
described as "fair- haired, blue.eyed gill; y
in marrying whom BRIGHAM found he had
''caught a TARTAR" an animal which the
Prophet must have found he had also dis
covered in the lovely ANN ELIZA herself.
Her own hardships which combined to
make her leave him, were cruel indeed.
He refused to have butter and meat both
on the table at the same time, and in build
ing new house would persist in putting
pair of stairs where she said they
shouldn't be put. These, connected with
the discovery that polygamy was immoral,
induced this noble woman to fly.
The book is profusely illustrated, and is
extremely readable, and we wish it a large
circulation both in the interest of Morality
and Col. GORDON.
SPEAKER BLAINE made dramatic and
fiery speech in the House Monday, defend
ing himself against the S64 600 railroad