Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1884-04-24
Yours in trouble,


Yours in trouble,
This is more than we bargained for,
but it is a mean man that will go back
on a poor Mormon girl, so here goes.
Jane, come here. You solemnly
swear that you are a Mormon girl,
honestly, that is in earnest, and not
trying to fool the old man and get
him to give lot of advice and then
get killed by the Danites. You swear
1t, eh? Ali right. Now, We don't
know what the consequences will be
in Salt Lake, if you decline the offer
of the president of the Mormon
church, and take up Gentle, but If
it is nothing wore than instant death,
you freeze to that Gentle so quick
that it will make his head swim, and
if old Taylor goes to kicking up a
muss about it, you yell for the police
so 1t can be heard all over the earth,
and the boys will come out there from
all over this fair land and thrash the
ground with those Mormons. This is
supposed to be free country, and
no girl eighteen years old has got to
marry a seventy-fve year old cuss
with seven wives already, unless she
wants to. You do not tell what kind
Of fellow your Gentle clerk is, but
If he takes the Sun regularly, and
has got grit enough to marry you in
the face and eyes of the whole Nor
mon church, he is thoroughbred,
and you will make no mistake by
taking him into camp. When John
Taylor comes around you next time
with proposition, you listen to him
intentively, and then tell him you ap-
preciate the "honor" he would con-
fer on you, Of placing you over his
flock of wives. but you have made
different arrangements. If he seems
mad about it, or attempts to place
his trembling old hand on you. OF
tries to pucker up his old tripe lips to
kiss your eighteen-year-old lips, slap
him across the mouth. Then if he
gets wild and attempts to force you
to accept him as your husband, pull
a revolver, that your Gentle lover
will have given you, out of your pis.
tol pocket and make tin skinner oi
John Taylor, with seven holes in it
and charge it to the Sun. But yot
won't have TO shoot. An old man O
seventy-five years, clothed with pow
ler, as he is, who would compel poo
little girl to be his slave, is q coward
and he would run away and Leave hi
hat when you pulled the pistol. The
Iyou 60 and marry that Gentle, In
Christian church, il you can find one
and if the United States governmer
will not protect you it is u might
. mean government. But you have gt
, to he reconstructed some. You sa
you hate polygamy, but believe in Ii
Mormon religion. That is all bosl
1t is said the Mormon church teach,
that polygamy is right. You ha,
got to go the whole hog or none.
e you marry the Gentle, and remain
:. the church, you will catch the vel
devil. If you marry him and lea,
;, the church, you are all right, and yc
q cau find lots Of other churches th
will stand by you. Don't be afra
about the ''buffetngs OF Satan.
u Satan isn't around buffeting fol
: If they attend to their own bushes
!. aud do the square thing by all.
II the Mormon church would turn hs
10 its female members over to the ..bu
l. fetings Of Satan," whatever that
u and not marry them 70 people tn
do not want to be married 10. tb
J. could marry a huaband apiece 81
m not be buffeted by Satan half as mu
IN IN as they are. Don't you ever feel u
IL you are sacrificing anything by ref
ID ing to be John Tayior's assist.
~ wife, and don't let the loss Of
high position in the church bot
;. you. Your high position would !
We until John found smother girl thst :
zee zee handsomer than you, and then )
would have to get down OF the lad
n Al