Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-08
POLYGAMY.
An Appeal From the Women OF Utah t.
the Women OF the Whole Country.

AL appeal From the Women OF Utah to
the Women OF the Whole Country.
SALT LAKE, Nov. THE following was
! adopted at meeting of non-Mormon women
of this city:
70 Mrs. rutherford b. Hayes and the women
OF the United States: 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 I'M
lawful and unhallowed alliances have been
contaminated the past year than ever before in
| the history of the Mormon church. Endow-
ment houses under the name of temples are
pe1ns erected In different parts of the territory
costing millions. 1t is impossible to ascertain
the exact number of polygamous marriages,
| for they are consecrated in these endowment
houses and institutions. No Gentle is permit
| ted to enter where the brotherhood and sister
hood IRE sealed and bound by oaths SO strong
That even apostates will not reveal them and
| to mention which witnesses on the witness
stand unblushingly perjure themselves, and on
Jury violate all considerations of oath and duty
considering all our surroundings, polygamy
! has never taken such degrading and debasing
FORM IN any nation or among any people
ABOVE the conditions of barbarians, is
III Utah. It is degrading to
man and woman, a curse to children, and de-
| structlve to the sacred relation of the family
| upon which the civilization of nations depend
| and there are things that cannot be repeated or
| printed thar reduces the system to the lowest
| form of indecency. That it should be practiced
IN the name and under the cloak of religion;
| that an apostle polygamist with four acknowl-
| edged wives is permitted to sit in Congress,
| only adds to the enormity of the crime, and
makes it more revolving to our common Chris
tian principles. Our legislature is composed al
most entirely of polygamists and members of the
Mormon priesthood, and they have thrown
around polygamy every possible safeguard in
their power, and the right of dover has been
abolished, to break down the distinction be-
tween lawful wife and concubine. Murmons
are rapidly extending their settlements into
Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and Wyoming.
They have the balance of power in two terri
tories, and are, without doubt, plotting for it
IN other. We call upon the Christian women
OF the United States to join us in urging Con-
gress to empower its courts to arrest the further
progress of this evil, and to delay the admit
lance of Utah into stateshood until this il ac-
complished, and we ask you to
circulate and publish our appeal in order to
arouse public sentiment, which should be
against an abomination that peculiarly OPP
presses and stigmatizes woman. 1t is our pur-
pose t" ask names to petition designed for
Congress, and we hope that every minister of
| the gospel will commend it to the women of his
congregation, and that all Christian associa-
tons will do what they can to obtain sigma
lures. With the cordial COO; Grafton and con-
certed action of the Christian women of our
land, We may confidently hope that tho great
SIN OF polygamy may be abolished.