The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-31

MORMON WIVES.
Bill Arp on Joe Browns Mormon Speech
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They say that Governor Brown mad
good speech against the Mormon bill
and l reckon be did. But if be pullet
it down he had better build up anothe
one that will regulate them fellows. Pv
no respect for the Mormons. Ive,beel
reading about them and thinking abou
them for long time, and my conclusion
are that their priests are knaves ane
their followers are fools. The whole
fabric was conceived in sin and broug b
forth in iniquity. Joe Smith, the found
er, was yagabond and sheep stealer
but neither Joe Smith nor Rigdon mol
any of the first set, ever set up polygamy
as part of their pretended revelation
The first Mormon Bible said "no man
shall have but one wife" Polygamy
was never established until that lecherous
old rascal, Brigham Young, got to be the
head man and then he announced new
revelation which said the priests and
apostles should seal as many sisters as
they could maintain, SO as to get 'em up
higher in 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. I 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 is
called the sick man, and Turkey has her
harems. The eastern countries most all
encourage polygamy and they are far be.
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 per cent more males than fe.
males born into the world, and If it
wasent for wars and accidents there
wouldent be woman apiece. Just think
of young, likely, vigorous feller going
about weeping and wailing because there
wasn't a woman for him. What a misera.
BILE creature. Well, if these Mormon ell.
dars and apostles and leading men who
have fattened off of the poor are allowed
to seal Is or 90 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 same way
what would our young men do? What
greater calamity could befall our good
county of Barlow if DR.. FELTON,, and Colo
mel Howard, and Mr.. Dobbins, and Mr..
Veach, and MIR. Munford, and Tom Lyon.
and 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 govern.
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 is crime
in our State ought be crime in all.
There was an 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 ripht. 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 10 mate together and go to rais'
ing 'em. That is nature and anything
that is against nature is wrong. The
Turkish harems don't turn out any good
stock. In Thibet and Tartary they re-
verse the engine, and one woman is al
lowed to marry several men, and she tre'
uuently calls for all the brothers in a
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 NO.
man when her husbands affections are
divided with another woman or a halt
dozen women. There is no loving union
devotion no tenderness. 1t is all ami.
NAL on the one side and woman is moth
ing but a machine on the other. There
is no such song in her declining years
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Nov we must totter down, John,