Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-08

night amended section - so as to |
require the Supreme Court to sit at |
Sacramento. The report is COM
pleted and will be presented in q
day or two. The Committee on
State Institutions tonight con-
sidered various propositions. 1t is
probable that they will recon-
mend provision for the election of
State Prison Commission.
Dividend Declared.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 7th.-The
Standard mine has declared a
dividend of one dollar per share.
sionry Market.
SAN FRANCISCO, November T.
Legal tenders, 99s bid, 99a asked;
Mexican dollars, S9} bid, so asked;
trade dollars, SO bid, 962 asked.
half dollars 9si bid, 9s4 asked.
Aapea, of the Grns,Ie Women OF
| Utah.
SALT LAKE, Nov. 7th The fol-
lowing was adopted at a meeting
of non Mormon women of this
city to-day,
To Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes and
the Women of the United States:
1t is now more than thirty years
since polygamy was planted on the
shores of Great Salt Lake. During
these years Congress has utterly
failed to enact efficient or enforce
existing laws for the abolition OF
this great crime, and we believe
that more of these unlawful and
uuhallowed alliances have been
consummated in the past year
, than ever before in the history of
the Mormon Church. Endowment
houses, under the name of Tenn
Piles, are being erected in different
: parts Of the Territory, costing mil
lions. 1t is impossible to ascertain
the exact number of polygamous
marriages, for they are consecrated
in these Endowment Houses, an
institution no GENTLE Is permitted
to enter, where brotherhood and
sisterhood are sealed and bound by
!, oaths so strong that even apostates
will not reveal them, and rather
: than mention which witnesses on
> the witness stand unblushingly
perjure themselves and jury.
men violate all considerations
= of duty and their oaths.
, Considering all our surroundings
. and that polygamy has never
taken such degrading and debas-
ing form in any nation as in Utah
that 1t is degrading to man and
9 woman, u curse to children and
. destructive to the sacred relation
of the family, upon which the civ,
ilization of the nation depends;
that there are things which cannot
. be repeated or printed, that reduce
the system to the lowest form OF
indecency; that it should DO prac-
tised in the name and under the
: cloak of religion; that an apostle
polygamist with four acknowledged
wives is permitted to sit in Con.
grass, not only adds 10 the enormity
of the crime but makes it more re.
voting to our common Christian
principles. Our Legislature is
composed almost entirely of polyg.
amists who have thrown
around polygamy every possible
Leg SlsldtiNt shieS udtu III tuelr
power and the right of dover has
been abolished to break down the
distinction between the lawful wife
and the concubine. The Mormons
are rapidly extending into Arizo.
ma, Idaho, New Mexico and Wyo-
ming. They have tho balance of
power in two territories and are
without doubt plotting for it in
Others. We cali on the Christian
women of the United States to join
us in urging Congress to empower
our courts to arrest the further
J progress of this evil and delay the
admission of Utah into statehood
until this is accom- plished, and we
ask you to assist US to publish our
appeal. 1t is our purpose to ask
your names to the petition designed
for Congress, and we hope also
that every Minister of the Gospel
will commend it to the women of
his congregation and that all
Christian Associations will do
what they can to obtain sigma.
lures. With the cordial co-opera-
tion and concerted action of the
Christian women of our land, we
may confidently hope that the
great Elm of polygamy may be abol.
ished.