Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-03

woman had a baby in her arms. saw
large pasteboard card hanging in the hotei
labeled ssUtah's best crop" Being In seareh
of information, and presuming that might
learn something to my advantage, L turned
the card over On the opposite side were the
photographs in miniature of about ooo
babies. There is no humbug about the mat
ter. From center to circumference Otan
has babies The Mormons differ from out
siders on various religious points, ana are
lied about as a matter of course.
1t is claimed that the Mormon women car
~ look of blank dispair because OF the ex-
istence of polygamy in this territory NAT
statement has been manufactured TO order.
The Mormon women are not as intelligent as
a class as the women Of American States anu
Territories, for the majority Of them outside
Of Salt Lake City. are poor European emil
grants or their descendants. The country Is
not developed. and educational advantages
are not what they should be. The Mormon
women are cheerful however-just as cheer
full as anv monogamic wife who puts her hus-
bands salary on her back every month and
sails down to the matinee. Ii has been
claimed that Mormon babies are not up to
the Gentle standard-that they LOOK weak,
punv and spiritless. That l. another mere
invention. The race OF people in the Salt
Lake VALLEY NAV some day not he so vlgor-
ous as the peorI- of some other distant sec
tons. but the distinction will need be a!trlb-
uted to the miliness of the climate and not
to peligamy. / am no friend to the peculiar
institution; ablor it: but don't believe it
can ever be extinguished by lying
AsIwas taking a stroll one evening | over
heard two saints earnestly chatting at street
corner. ITO think of going back to one
! 1. l. liz I'D; xfl,r tfpY nf on
/ of the polygamic pair. They appeared to
! regard with horror the idea of tying man
down to one wife \ man pointed out
| to me on the street the owner of one wife
and three brevet wives. No. was a bloom
! ing girl of lG. The owner of these four wo-
men was a man fully 81 years of age, ma
tive of the State of New York, and educated
and intelligent. In Salt Lake City. and in
most portions of Utah. women are spoken OF
as ''ladies.' mans wife is his ''lady,
and his wives are his ''ladies.' Many of the
dry goods clerks in Salt Lake City have three
wives apiece. GLOW the deuce DO these fell
lows support so many wives: In California
a man who supports one does amazingly
we'll" This | said to an old resident
.sWell. /" he replied. lin a multitude of cases
it's the women who support the men. Old
Brigham used to prea h to the women that
they must make themselves useful as well as
ornamental. They sew. take in washing and
work generally. II they like it. what bust
ness is it TO people a thousand miles away!
| have seen much of poligamy; | have so
journed with thoroughly married men-witl
men who have as many wives as many &
monogamic wife has devoted masculine adj
mirers; l have mingled with Mormons il
every part of the Territory; have partaker
of their hospitality, talked and franternizet
with them; have seen their virtues and de
fects and know their aspirations and absurd
political dreams. 1t is impossible. however
to get the whole thing into one article.