Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-09-15
beautiful daughter.in-law. and is fond
of terming her our "little temperance
reformer," little being pet adjective
of affection solely.


Ogdcn Pilot
Yesterday when the Union Pacific
train arrived, bringing fifteen carloads
of Mormon emigrants, there was much
hustle, and people were seen running
hither and thither in search of expect
ed friends. Many scenes of interest
were witnessed, where relatives met
and shed tears together, after sepa-
ration of many years. But there were
other meetings less affectiOnate and
more in the shape of business. One
case will illustrate how the old po!yg-
amists enter INTO the business of bar
tering for the transportation and pur-
chase of young girls to become addi-
tiOns to their harems, and enter into
polygamy and a life of wretchedncss
in the name of religion. Missionaries
are sent by the church to proselyte in
Europe for converts to the shrine of
MOTmoniSm. When a sufficient num-
Der are persuaded to leave the low
walks Of their native homes and come
to Utah, where they are promised an
earthly paradise, they are gathered to-
gether and slowed away in vessel and
sail for America. Their trip across the
ocean, and thence by cars from New
Y ork to Utah, is made under the direc.
tion of some of these missionaries, who
look after the matter of transportion
and keep, if possible, the members of
the crowd from straying These mis-
Sionaries are of the shrewd class, and
know how to act the part of shepherd
over the flock and at the same time
make the most out of the business.
They, too are very accommodating and
ready to take charge of special cargoes
of girls. When the train arrived yes.
terday that old reprobatc polygamist
| living down Weber river had no trouble
in finding the returning missionary
VINO could point out to him the four
teen-year-Old Swedish girl who had
been imported especially as an addi-
ton to the harem of this old gray-head-
ed saint. Going up to the girl he greet.
ed her in a very business-like manner
and taking her by the hand went wan
dering among the crowd and around the
depot. The girl was not especially
pleased with his appearance and pre-
ferred not to accept him as her frac-
tional husband; but then her fare had
been paid all the way from Sweden by
him and she had been shipped on con-
dition of being his upon her arrival,
and she felt that she was bound and
must accept the situation; the old brute,
in his attempts to console her and make
the situation pleasant, put his arm
about her waist. This was too much
for the young girl, and in her innocence
she broke down in sObs and tears. The
last seen of her she was in Il wagon
with motley crowd, and by the side
of the old sinner, travelling toward his
home, and we presume she is to-day
more of a slave than ever was any of
the colOred race in the South, for the
breaking of whose chains came the
long and bloody war of the rebellion.
Such cases as this, we presume, are far
from being uncommon, but the actors
in most of them possess too much dis
cretion to permit a public expose,
When girls are selected in Europe in
the same manner that fine stock is to
be shipped to America, as was the case
in this instance, it is time that the ma
ton should arise and crush out the
hellish system which carries on its dis
gusting business in the name of re-
| ligiOn.