Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-11-11

and many OF you pre5euts bafe oooA
Taught from boyhood that the time
would come when this constitutional
would be overthrogn. IL
seems that the time 10 fast approach
ing"
In discassing the necessity OF putting
polyramisfs at the front. and keeping
In tbe rear "men without manhood
enough to embrace all the gospel and
live 10 70 the higher Law that bad been
delivered 70 the saints." Angus III. Can
NON said that Mr.. Caine, the Deie9ats 70
Congress, who Ii not polygamlst, was
not 4 d. man for the place. Person
ally.- he continued, " think Mr.. Caine
has done az we'll In Congress as any
man could do under the circumstances,
bot DO does not represent rs. de does
NOT represent the people. / feel IL an
Insult heaped upon MIR. Caino to ask
him 10 90 70 Washington as our Dele
gate, bsoauss be will have 10 tell Con
ereas that be believes in the highest
law known to God and man. but has
not had the courage 10 live mp 20 it.
I hope he will soon sac the error OF
his ways and embrace the whole gospel.
1 had rather see colored man sent to
Washington. because be IL not capable
of receiving the highest priesthood and
can never reach the highest celestial
glory OF the kingdom of God, whereas
Mr.. Game il and can, but we must have
somebody who will represent all tbs
kingdom Of God"
Saint Penfose, one of the disfran-
chised polyeamists, said the young men
ought to take counsel of the elders In
- - 80 hax al hsR
The old men ought 70 be represented
In all the political affairs OF the Church.
He felt that tho time WAS fast ap-
preaching when the higher Law of the
kingdom would have TO be o5eyed, and
he warned young men against perslsting
in any foolish opposition to the plural
marriages.
President John Taylor read many sta
tistics of crime in the Eastern States,
at which the brethren were greatly
shocked, some of them giving vent TO
ordinations of horror. "Oh, Lord
God of Israel, have mercy on themf'
yelled one old sinner when the figures
relative TO infanticide In New England
were being read. Let the devil fly
away with them," observed another
These ara the people," said John Tay.
lor. with whitening sarcasm, "who are
80 Mortified at the immoral situation OF
affairs I'm Utah, and from whom come
our would be reformers. Boston is the
center of this debauched population,
whose civilization brings forth more
child murderers, adnlterers, seducers
paupers and idiots than that of any
other people on the globe, and IL Is from
these that you may expect the men and
women who are 20 reeenerate and Chris
tianize yeu!''
The loves of the saints continue tc
enbroil them In all manner of troubles
George Cheshire, who has lived twenty
years with one wife, took homo another
the other day, and wife No. began 10
CRY. He thought the storm would blow
over, but IL did not, and the newcomer
was at length removed TO another house
Tue first wife has brooded over hel
sorrow antil she appears to have lost
her reason. She is al object OF commits
seration to ali her noighbors, who dc
what they can for her. but her husband
and the new wife appear 90 be indiffer
ent TO her woe.
John Birmingham lives about ten
miles out. lie had only two wives until
the other day, when he spisd hand
some widow who lived on the road which
be bad To travel TO reach the city, and
they were married at once. His three
wives now live In separate houses alone
this road, and, rs they are all pretty
good farmers. he is doing "a land of
foe business He does this market.
ing for all. aud, though they never meet
they do not appear to DO in any way
hostile.
Edward Brain, an official at the Tab,
srnacle. married his nth wife, n gar
of 20, last week, and when his first
wife, an elderly woman, was introduced
10 her, she hit the young woman on the
head with vet mop, and then chased
her half q mile. screaming like Co
manche.
Thomas Parker hss three wives, two
of them living In the same house. All
are women under 80. Both of the wives
whe lived together had fonr children
but the little ones of one ofthe mother.
siokened and died one after another
After this there was disagreement be.
tween the two, and the silent suffering
OF the childless mother has become the
talk of the nsighborhood.
Several assertions from the faith have
occurred during the lasf two mouths,
due principally 20 the pressure that has
been brought 10 bear upon the saints
with enc wife 20 induce them To take
other wives. No outsider can easily an.
derstand the fury With watch these on
slarRhts have been made. They have
been fortified by all the terrurs which
the Church and i,s masters could con
iure up. Old wives have been pleaded
with, eoAxcd and threatened. and the
brethren past middle life Who have been
slow to act on the suggssttons of the
elders have been spared the trouble OF
picking out wives. Young and attract
i've damselvs have been selected for
them and appropriately introduced. The
aim of the Church authorities is 90 band
the whole community together in a COM
moa cause. Some being under the ban
Of the Federal Lag, the determination is
10 bring ali into thai attitude. The de-
serters have been quiet aoout their
movements. exeeps in one ~ two cases,
sslllag ous and leaving the country with
out word.
Que couple Who we're interviewed here
last week had corse in from abs south
cru part of the Territory. They were
country people Who had tad few aiyAa.
tAges. bat they were honest, aeceni.
aud full Of affection for each other. A
they sat IN the depot, hsaA-in. hand,
the wife's face agiow With health and
happiness. aud the husband hooking
comfortable, they talked freely of their
past and future. They hsd corne from
Indiana slx or seven years ago. and bad
promised each other that they wenld
have nothing 10 do wlsh the polyeanoas
feature ~ the faith.
We kept oar agreement said the
woman; didn't We, Joshgs'
Every sime. grinly observed the
man.
And old IniiAnay Il good enough
for a.. amt IL, JoshFH she eoafinusd.
IL Is, that, Mandy. u &c Kin ever
msks fcE 10 git back thar"
Oh. we'll Set there. never VOC fear
she observed. It's Us what has ban
away. Old Inilanny il there iusa as We
left II"
They SeFe not more than 80 years old.
and when they boarded the train thew
we're IS happy as tao children iust
delivered from s4onze greatly dreaded