The New York herald., 1878-01-10

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Friends in New York. $50
$50 90
Total receipts. .............. S., $50 60
Amount due treasurer January l. 1877..... $2l5 o.
Salary Of secretary leleven months........ llOO 10
Clerk hire ......................... 3l3 90
Office rent 3oo w
Printing. onice expenses Sc.............. ZIG %
Total expenditures. 697 y
Balance Oh hand. $l33 33
The total number OF annual members Is 290. and lie
members, "a.
SOCIAL CONDITION OF UTAH.
Mr. Frank B Sanborn, secretary oi the association,
lin submitting his annual report said an appeal has
peen made 10 the ASSOCIATION within tho past year in
behalf OF the women OF Utah ana their children by
OF their number, whose letters. addressed 1rst TO
one OF the directors. living IN a Western State, and
recently 10 the secretary seem To present case
worthy of consideration at this or some subsequent
meeting. The writer OF these letters is person whose
opportunities Tor observation have been exceptionally
good though she has stood somewhat outside OF the
religious community by which Utah is inhs bitcd and
governed In her hrst letter, written last summer,
"wli you be kind enough TO enlighten mo us to
whether ii includes witnln It's scope the discussion Of
such question poygamy? The need OF nep Is
very great, anu It seems 70 me II your association
docs consider such evil 1t is best TO agtate IT, IL
could be aone more eibciently by talking than any
other way havo ability as a lecturer, but II
10 mo that the way IN which most thorough
conception Of the evil could be obtained would be oy
series OF conversational where questions could be
lsEod."
THE LEGISLATION NEEDED.
"F,rs-A secret ballot Under our present open
system the elections have been entirely IN the hands
OF Brigham Young, and there is very large propor
tion OF the Mormon community proper who would
avail themselves OF an opportunity to quietly work re-
forms. -Four years ago there was an attempt TO get
such law in tho Mormon Legislature, and had It
been allowed to rest OH its merits, without undue
church influence II would have passed. The samo is
true, In substance, Of the nc1t need, viz -
.'Seeond-A compulsory tree school Law. Tho dom
sity of The ignorance here Is incredible There IS
large foreign population from the lowest classes
Nv 0habI dandy ia atr
own language differently but not ours Tho English
copvers rue, can neither read nor write and the
same Is true OF large minority OF the American
saiuis. feel myself thoroughly qualified to under
stand their point OF view, wh ch rs desirable lcgis
ixion Is to be truly remedin, as well as corrective.
'srhesc two laws wou Dc mot with approval ny all
Mornous except Brigham Young's personal party,
and mat is only minority OF tho Church. He was
botn hated anu feared by tho Church. but Submission
to tho priesthood has been the habit ol their lives and
they cannot SO lar get back 10 their manhood as TO
oiner openly but think they be depended to
see tnal two such laws are enforced
''Whea you come TO enforcing United Statos law
of 1856. II is an entirely dicrcnt matter II would bc
resisted by every slratagcm possible and the rule OF
evidence would have TO be OF the most stringent
turo 10 prevent evasion. What that rule would bo
.rheIe is one lning whch should be said about the
number children IN families where thero three
or iour mothers Fifteen and twenty under fifteen
years OF aye is not an unusual number, aud know OF
In tho mission schools where there were forty
TOUR under twenty. Many OF them arc now attaining
thcr majority. They are illiterate in remarkable
degree, much so that an attempt to reach them
through the press would bo a decided failure. They
are without zeal OF their parents, feel the r IL
legitimacy very kecnly. Their position IS hard one.
Apostapy throws them oil tho social ranks Nor
mons and brings them against the OF mono.
gamic civiZation. They arc generally without edu-
cation trades and smarting under their birth. /
hear good deal about tho good - be hoped for from
Gentle residents, but III practice II does not work
Tho vital difference III polygamc and monogamic SO.
cieiy deep that .hc barrier seldom crossed II
takes high social position and great ndcpcndeccc oil
character Tor GENTLE to visit in poly ygamc Mormon
families. IL Is as nearly Impossible as 1t would DO
some cities Tor fallen women anu their children be
received into society. THIS works very oppressiveiy
on their suffering Children
SOCIAL HoRRoRs OF THE INSTITUTION.
The same lady, IN a letter written only few days
ago continues ner observations. Referring again 10
educational matters, she says
s.Brigham Young rascd flty- six children and John
u. Ice raised many, thirty Of whom sons md
where there are three or four mothers fifteen and
twenty children under htecn years IS the average.
This makes private education impossible. Food and
shelter are oi such ncagrc quantity that
childhood is out Of tho question. Matters Ill
complicated by tho iact that the fathers gcu-
orally elderly men with wives much younger. Thesc
dylDg oil until We seem 10 have community y
of widowsand orphans
ain OF the wards oil this city, wzvd which ID
ol the less populous. there are sixty widows ia
be provided Tor oy tue charitable The children grow
up in homes where privacy, dclicacy and modcsty
impossible They have none OF incse safeguards oi
virtue, and the natural result follows. Two-thirds
,nc marriages are OF necessity, nor IS marriage for
this social disgrace. They keep their place
IN society, as matter oi cour<c Tor are they all
right now y settles the question
vorce law by Congress, Que when Will operate alike
a the country and IN her conclusion she appeals
Ia most touching anu palntIvc manner to the
ciation 10 do what II ca to avert the evil OF poygay
and rescue from miserable existence the poor
aud children suiicrrg from its terrible
Secretary Sanborn IN his report suggests general
paper on AormoDsm from the writer oi the foregoing
letters, and IL is likely one Will be furnished by her at
the Cincinnati meeting next May
MUNICIPAL ASD STATE INDEBTEDNESS
Au Interesting paper, prepared by Robert T. Porter,
OF Chicago was then read by Sir. Gamaiici Bradford.
n faYft nj nutl,I Ia
parent ignorance OF It's enormous increase during the
past ten years. addressed letters last summer ljO
OF tho principal vi the United states, containing
the following 4uestions:-
Total indeb edness eud Of fiscal yoar, 1s,G-ls66?
Total assessed value ot properly Ia the CITY, 1876
lSG6y
Total amount raised by taxation, ls76-1S66t
In selecting the cities The map. not the census re.
IRON $50 cities represent kcOgraph icay, The wholo
country rbe city debt OF 1865 IS reckoned ms being
exactly Quo tbird OF that o lS16 tto VALUATION and
n ration lor 1866 rreKoncd as Being exactly han
wnnt II was IN 1876 In obtaining the population The
recent reports have been used and whero
aus hs been taken 1870 the methods have
tosu used. Tho aggregates are as iolIows:-
uup,c,ps, debt. 1so cities sasI 600 so44 SIS, ,ssa
Assessed value OF property 6,l750S 15S
An pua taxation o samc... 04Ot0,0as liz, Ill, ,275
Population Of same........ e,eIo,9l4 S,510,249
From this II appears thst nc oeo' o. Tue cities OF
mat dcbt has increased during tie last dccenniaI
ncr,sd $40 OOO 00O annual ncreasc OF s42 OO0 0DU
with these facts staring Us IN tho face VI Is not
rxsgrsratcd statement 10 say tbat ne cities ol the
III, Inc sum oil the national dcbt--an annual cxpcnd.
NJ f110 600 O0O within $40 900 00o OF tns national
sxpsnscs: iisbil.tles incrcasipg 81 tho rate oi