The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-31
MORMON WIVES.
Bill Arp on Joe Brown's Mormon speech
-f,lanta Constitution. &H

They say that Governor Brown made
a good speech against the Mormon bill
and | reckon he did. But if he pulled
it down he had better build up another
one that will regulate them fellows. I've
no respect for the Mormops. I've,been
reading about them and thinking about
them for u long time, and my conclusions
are that their priestn ere knaves aud
their followers are fools. The whole
fabric was conceived in sin and brought
forth in iniquity. Joe Smith, the found.
er, was vagabond and sheep stealer,
but neither Joe Smith nor Rigdon nor
any Of the first set, ever set up polygamy
as part of their pretended revelation.
The first Mormon Bible saiL "..S ..l....
shall have but one wife," Polygamy
was never established until that lecherous
old rascal, Brigham Young, cot to be the
head man and then ho announced new
revelation which said the priests and
apostles should seal as many sisters as
they could maintain, Sc as TO get 'em up
higher i'll heaven. 1t was all to ele.
vate the dear women and make archan-
gels of them The old hypocrits and
deceivers imposed upon the credulity aud
superstition Of the women and they are
doing it yet.
Mormonism is humbug and fraud
and their leaders know it. Webster says
that the word Mormon means humbug.
Wives and tithes is their confession of
faith-their selfish creed l don't care
anything about their tithes, but the poor,
deluded, helpless women must be looked
after. Where women is degraded no
government can prosper. Turkey 10
called the sick man, and Turkey has her
harems. The eastern countries most all
encourage polygamy and they are far bo.
hind our civilization. Why, there is not
but one woman for one man anywhere in
the wide world, and there never was, for
there are 5 per cent moro males than fo.
males born into the world, and if it
wasent for wars and accidents there
wouldent be q woman apiece. Just think
OF young, likely, vigorous feller going
abou: weeping and wailing because there
wasn't woman for him. What misera.
Gle creature. Well, if these Mormon ell.
ders and apostles and leading mon who
have fa:tened off of the poor are allowed
to seal Is or 20 wives apiece, somebody
will be left out in the cold and have no
wife at all. Suppose that all of our rich
men in Georgia were to do the samo way
what would cur young men do2 What
greater calamity could befall our good
county of Bnrtow if DR.. FELTON,, and Colo.
mel Howard, and Mr.. Dobbins, and Mr..
Neach, and Mr.. Munford, and Tom Lyon,
aud General Young, and Mr.. Jones should
suddenly turn Mormons and take notion
to about twenty wives apiece and seal
'em to the Lord. ! don't think that
some Of these gentlemen would need that
many, but maybe they would think they
did and that would be just as bad, if not
worse.
Governor Brown says we must guaran-
tee to Utah republican form of govarn-
ment, and therefore we must let them
regulate their own social and ecclesiasti-
cal relations. Now my idea of repub-
lican government is that what ia crime
in our State ought be crime in all.
There was ar officer from Ohio in Atlanta
the other day hunting for man who
had two wives, but if the feller had run
to Utah and taken dozen it would be
all right. Well, there is no good sense
in that. Our government ought to do
all it can to insure strong, healthy chill.
dren. We do that much for our horses
and cattle, and hogs and dogs,
and the best way is for one man and one
woman - mate together and go to rsis.
ing { }. That is nature and anything
that is against nature is wrong. The
Turkish harems don't turn out any good
stock. II Thihet and Tartary they re-
verse the engine, and one woman Is al.
lowed to marry several men, and she fire..
quently calls for all the brothers in
family and lives with them time about,
but the government don't depend on
those sort Of marriages for its soldiers,
for they don't come.
There surely is no happiness for wo-
man when her husbands affections are
divided with another woman or O half
dozen women. There is no loving union
devotion no tenderness. It is all ami.
NAL on the one side and woman 10 moth.
ing but machine on the other There
is no such song in her declining years
as
Now we must totter down, John,
But hand In hand we'll go
And sleep together at the foot,
John Anderson, my Joe."
There is no record anywhere in history
of o happy married state whore o man
had more than one wife. Lamech had
two, but the scriptures say nothing moro
about him. Adam dident have but one
and Noah one, and they started the bust.
ness of peopling the world. Old Father
Abraham had one, and when he took
another Oh, the sly old Aunt Sarah got
after him and she frailed out the second
with thrash pole and run her Of. Jacob
had two, and If ever man deserved two
he did; but they dident got along we'll,
even though they were sisters. Moses
dident have bu. one. King David bad
several, but he was curst with 'er., and
actually committed murder TO get one OF
'em, and lived in anguish ever after, for
he said, "my sin is ever before me-"
Old Solomon must have had an awful
time Of it, for he had a thousand, and
they kept him so harrassed and be-
develled that he flew TO his inkstand and
wrote that he had found one good man,
but good woman in thousand he had
not found. Of course not. How could
woman be good when she was only
thousandth part of wife. But Solomon
repented of his folly and naid it was sll
vanity, and advised all men to Give ioy.
fully with the wife whom thou lowest"
and to "beware Of strange women" I
never think Of these surplus wives who
are sealed to the Mormons without q
feeling of sadness and pity, for every new
one causes the others pang of shame.
They are aii in prison and their depen.
dence is like that of the Gagged bird that
tamely looks to its keeper for food.
There is no escape, for woman is o proud
creature and will suffer in silence rather
than parade her folIy to the vyorId Did