Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-01-12
MORMON WOMEN.
Their Delightful Condition in the Land
of the saints.


\ poycrty-strickcn Norman is fire.
quently the possrssor Of three or four
wives. They all live in single Int and
the children that are brought into the
world are early taught sensuality and an
utter disregard OF moral iaw. The
thrifty saints, however, have an eStab-
lishment for each wife and can live very
comfortably off them. The two wives
spin, wash, scrub and farm, and in that
manner secure enough of the worlds
goods to keep their lord and master
without work. 4 bishops wife did
the laundry work for my family. 81
am compelled to wash for the Gentilcs
while on EARTH" she would often say,
"but in Heaven they will be servants to
me-" John Taylor, the President OF the
Norman Church, had five wives in 1860,
but since the passage of the Edmunds
law he has put all but one away. At
the last general conference OF the church
he was twitted about his cowardice and
told that he should obey Gods law
rather than mans.
The women of Utah are not beautiful.
As a class they are very homely. The
missionaries who travel in the South
succeed in gaining many female con-
verts, but as rule they get nothing but
the fools of the village who, besides be-
ing dull of mind, are homely OF face and
form. In Europe, however, some very
pretty peasant girls are picked up, who,
as soon as they get to Utah, are appro-
priated by aged saints and toothless
bishops. The church is doing all i'll its
power to get converts. John Morgan,
the President of the mission in the
South, has made the assertion that he
expected to capture | ZOO men and
women this year in the South alone.
The converts from. this section are sent
to Colorado, where large colonies are
springing up almost daily. The Eu-
ropean victims are settled in Idaho,
Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico
In salt Lake City the Gentiles are to
the Mormans as one is to five. The
business there is almost entirely in the
hands of the Mormons. The municipal
government of the city is Mormon. The
Mayor, Common Council, the police
force, the city courts, and the Fire De-
partment are all Mormon. The only
hospital in the city is sustained by GEN
tiles. The Mormon poor, and there are
many of them, oftentimes die in the
streets. One-tenth of what each Nor
mon earns or raises upon his farm is
given to the church, ostensbly for the
benefit of the poor, but in reality to be
divided among the leaders of the church.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars are collected in this manner an
nually. A part of that sum is used to
corrupt officers of the government and
legislators, while the balance goes to-
wards the support of the twelve apostles
the Presidents of stakes, the elders OF
seventies, the patriarchs, and the high
priests who from what is called the
Meichizedek priesthood, and the bishops,
deacons and teachers who constitute
the Aaronic priesthood. The patriarchs
also bless children at 81 bless, and as
it is all profit make money by the trans
action. The bishops, deacons and
teachers advise the members of the
church in temporal affairs; tell them
how to hoe their beans, make their
frocks and cast their votes. The method
would suggest for the suppression OF
polygamy is a law compelling the pub
lcity Of all marriages hereafter per-
formed in Utah. Let the ceremony be
public, and let the records be kept in a
public place. As it now is, the saint
takes a girl to the endowment house,
and after four hours ceremony is
welded to her. The record of the pro-
ceedings is guarded jealously and every
one connected with the ceremony sworn
to secrecy, the penalty of disobedience
being Observation-Disclosures Cleveland
Leader.