The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-01-30
MORMON WOMEN.
Their Delightful Condition in the Land Of
the Saints.

/ Fne Sa1ntss
A poyerty-stricken Mormon is frequently
The possessor of three or four wives. They
all live in single hut and the children that
are brought into the world are early taught
sensuality and an utter disregard of moral
law. The thrifty saints, however, have an
establishment for each wife and can live
very comfortably off them. The wives
spin, wash, scrub and farm, and in that
manner secure enough of the worlds goods
to keep their lord and master without work
A bishops wife did the laundry work for my
family. :" | am compelled to wash for the
Gentiles while ON earth," she would often
say, g but in Heaven they will be servants
to me-" John Taylor, the President of the
Mormon 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 God's..law rather than mans.
The women of Utah s-e not beautiful. As
class they are very hoanely. The mission
aries who travel in the South succeed in
gaining many female converts, but as a rule
they get nothing but the fools of the village
who, besides being. dull of mind, are home
ly of face and form. In Europe, however,
some very pretty peasant girls are picked
up who, MS soon as they get to Utah, are ap-
propriated by aged saints and toothless
bishops The church is doing all in its
power to get converts. John Morgan, the
President of the mission in the South, has
made the assertion that he expected to cap
ture / 200 men and women this year in the
South alone. The converts from this sec
ion are sent to Colorado, where large col
onies are springing up almost daily. The
European victims are settled in Idaho, Wy
omlng, Arizona and New Mexico. In Salt
Lake City the Gentiles are to the Mormons
rs one is to five. The business there is al
most 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 Department are all Mormon. The only
hospital in the city is sustained by Gentiles.
The Mormon poor, and there are many of
them, ofttimes die in the streets. One-tenth
of what each Mormon earns or raises upon
his farm is given to the church, ostensibly
for the benefit of the poor, but in reality tc
be divided among the leaders of the church.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
are collected in this manner annually. A
part of this sum is used to corrupt officers
of the government and legislators, while the
balance goes toward the support of the
twelve apostles, the Presidents of states
the elders of..seyenties, the patriarehs, and
the high priests who form what is called the
Melchizedek priesthood, and the bishops,
deacons and teachers who constitute the
Aaronite priesthood. The patriarchs also
bless children at 80 bless, and..as it is all
profit make money by the transaction
The bishops, deacons and teachers advise
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 polyg
amy is a law compelling the publicity of all
marriages hereafter performed IN Utah. Let
the ceremony be public, and let the records
be kept in a public place. AS it now is, the
the saints takes a girl to the endowment
house, and aft ~ four hours ceremony is
welded to her. The record of the proceed
ings is guarded jealously and everyone con-
nected with the ceremony sworn to secrecy,
the penalty of disobedience being disem-
bowelment.- Cleveland Leader.