The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-11
"But this changed when he took anothe
wife2"
Eyes, no Mormon wife but suffers

Yes, no Mormon Vile but suffers
INDEsCRIBABLE AGONY
when husband takes new wife, unless
she has occasion to rejoice that it is inhict-
ing the grief she herself has undergone on
some later plural wife,"
"You speak of your adherence ofpolvg-
amy. Do you not expect it will be abolished
through the enforcement ofthe United States
law2'
The law as at present framed is prac-
teal nullity. According to its provisions
unless polygamous marriage ceremony can
be proven within two years nothing can be
done with the offender Now, the elders
and rulers can always fix it so that no mar
riage ceremony can be proved. The first
thing that began to shake my faith in the
Mormon Church-for | was firm believer
in their faith-was that / heard several
Mormon elders take oath that they knew
nothing ofany polygamous marriage cere-
monies being performed, when they had
performed that very day fourteen polyga-
NOUS marriages in the endowment house.
Until this law is chsngedso as TO make mere
proof of living together in polygamous rela
lions sufficient cause Of conviction the law
will be dead letter"
SIS there any considerable feeling among
the Mormon women in favor of the enforce
ment of
LAW AGAINST PoLYGAMY?
"Among a great many there is intense
anxiety for this, and they are organizing and
working against the admission of Utah as
a State until polygamy is abolished; but a
great many Mormon women really and con-
scientiously believe that polygamy is di-
vinely ordained and revealed institution, and
the suffering i. necessarily inficts on women
is necessary for their sanctifcation and to
enable them to enter Heaven. | know this
is so, because look at my own case. now
sometimes ask myself, since my eyes have
been opened, how l could possibly ever have
regarded the horrible and licentOus practices
of which l was aware and the terrible things
which l have witnessed, with anything but
horror. And yet l was raised to consider
| these things all right, and 1 thought nothing
about them-just as 1 suppose children who
are raised where human sacrifices are offered
learn to regard such sacrifices as right, and
| to look on them with Indifference"
Here the interesting lady seemed TO lapse
into a kind of reverie; then she said: Il do
wish that the Anti Polygamy Standard could
be circulated and read in the States 1t would
| do more to inform the people of the really
horrlDle condition OF affairs In Utah than
anything else. 1t is little paper published
by an association of women at Salt Lake, who
are determined to fight this iniquity to the
death, and large portion of its columns are
| filed with the true stories of polygamous
wives and children. 1 know that the paper
is reliable 1t is only 81 year, and only
wish there were funds to food the States with
it. believe that if people generally read ii
they would rise in their might and crush out
the infamous institution. l wish especially
that we could get the women who live in the
States to read it,and know what their How
women are suffering in Utah, and how they
are being degraded 1 think their opinion
would have great weight in helping to urge
men to legislate on the subject"
The lady is going back to Salt Lake City
on business, and then expects to come to
some Eastern city and make it her perman.
emit home. She describes the intense delight
she felt in seeing all the strange and wonder.
full and beautiful sights which she has wit.
messed during her journey and stay in
Eastern cities. The whole world is new tc
her, and seems like paradise.