The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-04-12

| t&8& kA04A& &RtN tuV8E &t10tH nt is supposed to be a free country. and ns girl eighteen years old has got to marr, a seventy-6se year old cuSs with sever wives already. unless she wants la. No, do not tell whz, kind of a fellow you, Gentle clerk Is Su, If he takes the ,SsA regularly. and has got srit enough se marry you in the face and eyes oi the whole Mormon ohurs h, he IS a thorough bred, and ,ou ~,li make no mistake in taking him into camp When John Fay Tor comes sroGnd ,ou next tune. wl;h aIs proposition. you hSien to hun respect. fully. and then tell hIm you apprte iate the :" honor he would confer on you. ol placing you over hts flock of wives. but you have made different art Engagements. l II he seems mad about H. or attempts To place has trembling old hand on you. ot
 tries ,o pucket up h1s old uipc lips to kiss eur eighieen-year-old lips, slap h,m across the mouth. Then If he gets ~,ld as your husband, pull a revolver, ,ha, your t,ent,ie lover will have gwen ysu. out ot your pistol pocket and make tn skimner of lshn Taylor. with seven holes m II. and charge !, ,o the .>ss. Hut you won | have to shoot. An old man of seventy -hve years, clothed with power. as he is, who sculd compel poor l.ttlc gull to be his slave. is a coward, and nc would run away and leave hIs hat when you pulled the pistol Then you 70 aad marry that Gentle. m d Christian church. ,fyou caR mo one and fl the Ualied States goVetament wIil not protect you s a mtgA'y mean gosctnmeni. Hul you have got to be fceot s'ruCtcd some You say ysu hate palA gamN. but believe ln the
 Mormon rehgion That IS all hoSh IL, Is said Inc Mormon church teat hes that poly eamy Is right. You have got To 20 the whole hog et none. II you mary the .'entlle. and rem.un ,n tnc church, you ~s.l catch Inc ,e,y den,. II you mary him "nd leave the church. you arc
 all iiaht and ycu Can md los oi o,hcy churches that wiil stand by you Don't be aiiatd about the haiietings ct Sa. Ian satan ,snt around hutieting folks lt they attend io then own business, and do the square thlng by all If the Mor
 mon ehur, h would turn hall it's female members over ,o the huitetngs oi Sa- Ian, whatever that k, and not mary them te people they do not want to be mairivd to. they could marry a husband apiece anu not be huficted by satan halt as mush as they arc. Don't you ever feel that you arc saerlicIng anything by refusing 'o be John Tayiot's assistant wife. and dent iet the loss oi the hlgh position m the church bother you Your high position would last until John found another gui that was handsomer than you. and then you would have to get taan eti tie ladder and le, the new ono cta"t 0p there. ard you would look around lar yoar Gebuie, bui he would be othef~ise engag ed. Ii you are like gitls oni easi here. al >anr age you want a young t'entiie who @lll love you entuely
 and ee you tIil youl cotsets will break
 and no, an old waking cemetery, whose kiss viii be divided into eIp ht equal part. and whose every cafcss will seem io you lha, yan are hugged hy your great Prandtaihrr. 4 Aau go on and marry th at Gentle and be | good ~lie ,, him, and
 f tohH layior seens to lay II up against you, and goes ,o being mean, you tell him that he better look ou, ot the Snn will bring regiment of Chicago news boy GU, there. and tear down his darned old house. Then he will let you alone
 Johr knows the power of great pIout ncSspapef as well as any of the boys. And then, alter von marry that Gentle II he does mol treat you nke a h,tlc queen, and love you better every day, for sAcrihcing your religion for him. we will send the Bad Boy ou, there and maui hlm ~rhin an inch of his life II ~e have go, to run this whole country people have got io do ,heI part io make
 II sue eess. Good day, lane. Give our love ,o hrtgham Young. IT.. and ( annon