The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-04-13
A WOMAN'S VIEW OF TT.
What Miss Emily Faithful Thinks Of
Polygamy in Utah.

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New YORK, April l2-MiSs Emily
Faithful, the English advocate of female
improvement, arrived in New York two
days ago, after completing an extended
tour through the West and South. Dur
ing her stay in Utah, she made u special
study of Mormonism in all its phases, So
cial and political. A correspondent
called upon her yesterday at the New
York Hotel to learn what conclusions she
had arrived at with regard to the allah
sorbing problem. She said that only TOT
very slight extent can the world see into
the true nwardneSs Of MormOniSm. So
cialIy the women assert themselves as be-
ing perfectly happy, but one can not look
into their faces without realizing
the painful struggle going on,
and the assertion, "kissing the
Lords rod, switch is always on their
lips, is pathetic betrayal of the heart
aches experienced in the efforts to accept
practically the doctrine taught them that
woman can not hope for eXaltatOn in
the life to come save through the man to
whom she is married or sealed The diff
ference between these two terms is that
the first wife is legally looked upon as the
wife, the succeeding being only sealed
and known as Mrs. Kate or Mrs Mary
so-and-so. The President OF the Com
munity is Mr. Taylor, who has two coun.
seors, Geo. B. Cannon and Joseph Smith.
"The proSelytes, when they arrive, are
the most ignorant people you could meet.
Whatever may be the moral effect OF
their Joining the Community, 1t is
certain that MormoniSm greatly i'm
proves their material condition. Be-
fore they are brought here they are
NEVER TOLD ABROAD
| about the pOlgamy doctrine. They are
| taught that when they get to Utah The
sealed women do not dare to speak their
| feelings They are hemmed in by sur.
rounding conditions and would derive no
satisfaction. They, however, live very
simply and are very frugal. Nothing
could exceed the courtesy extended to me
" I,
Mr.. Taylor, got up large luncheon party
in my honor at the Guarde House, once
known a. the Amelia Palace, which was
built by Brigham Young for his favoritc
thirteenth wife. Brigham street, named
after him, is filled from end to
end with residences of his widows
and children. Two of the houses are
occupied by his two daughters and their
families. Both these women are mar
ried to one man, who lives alternately
with each of them. When man marrcs
fourth or fifth wife be is supposed to
| support his children by all OF them; but
| how can one suppose such thing pos
| sible when in the Gentle world a man
| finds it hard enough to support his
| family by one. How best to free the
women from their moral and social
| degradation Is question puzzlng the
greatest minds of your country to-day.
| occasionally HOmcn have been found
| brave enough to take their families and
| 90 out into the world from their homes
where new fayorites had suppanted
| them
IN THE HUSBANDS FAVOR,
| but no pen can describe the deprivations
and suffcrings they encountered No
one has greater respect than for
| the free and unfettered practice Of re-
ligions, but pOlygamy, as practiced in
| Utah, is such a crime against CiviliZa-
| ton, and against nature itself, and in
| wolves such terrible degradation, that
| those who have at heart the inter-
ests of human morality, not to SPEAK
| of womanhood, should not rest until
| they have destroyed this worst system
that the heart of man had ever instituted
on religious or any other ground"
| Miss Faithful leaves for Europe on the
| Scythia on Wednesday. Upon her arrival
home she proposes to complete "A volume
| upon which she is now engaged, entitled,
"Three Voyages to America" telling of
her travels through this country and deal.
ing with social problems, especially those
| relating to women and wOmen's work.