The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-15

| washington and Utah under the sam
flag Think Of i'll It's shame! TIL
Mormons tell us the reason bigamy an,
| polygamy is different is because blgam'
implies deception while polygamy doe
not. have had Mormon women come T.
me and tell me they thought their hus
hands had other wives, but they did no
know, and they dare not complain. The,
could not prove it; their husbands, the,
say, hide the fact, so that their guilt can
not be established IN case of prose
cution. You can't prove anything il
J Utah-that is, anything worth proving
The Mormon doctrine is that woman
cannot be saved unless married to somt
good man; yet she cannot be damned
The whole Mormon theory implies thai
awoman is hardly worth damnation
NO one can enter polygamy without the
consent OF the prophet of God; yet il
the recent trial of Rudger Clawson
John Taylor, the head of the Church
swore he knew nothing about
it and did not know anything
about the records. The case was dis
missed, and that same afternoon Claw.
son paraded up and down Main street
with his second spouse hanging on his
arm, and before this time neither she
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were both arrested, and upon the next
trial the girl testified that she had been
married to ClawSon, thus making John
Taylor convicted liar.
They say that only good men are al
lowed to go into polygamy. Bill Hick-
man, a confessed murderer and cut
throat, the hireling of Brigham Young
for years, had numerous wives. John
d. Lee, the only man executed for the
Mountain Meadow massacre, had nine
teen wives, the four last after the mas
sacre, two of whom were given him as
reward for his work in the wholesale
slaughter. A majority of the Mormon
women have to support themselves and
their husbands. Each woman is allowed
to take 100 acres of land in her own
right, and thus the old polygamous
Mormons acquire large farms. l have
heard them laugh to think how they
had got the better of Uncle Sam. This
shows the shamefully generous kind of
government We have. They say that a
Mormon's children are his glory, and
that polygamic children are healthier
and better than monogamic. Brigham
Young's favorite wife had no children
at all, while several of the children of
another favored wife have gone to the
bad. have seen children in Utah, and
failed to notice the superiority boosted
of. Instead of superiority, every sur
rounding and association tends to de-
stroy the love OF family, and begets
l myself have seen one
room with several families in it. What
must be the inevitable outgrowth of
such condition.
When asked if they believe ia the doc
trine of plural marriage, Mormon
answer yes, but will tell you
they dare not speak otherwise. They
will tell you it is bread and butter TO
them. and that to do or to say anything
which would tend to drive them from
their homes. Brigham Young once said
all his wives could be free if they wanted
to. He used to give divorces and
preached about it in his stand, saving
that with the money he received from it
he could do much good and help the
poor. He afterwards said it kept his
wives in pin money. He charged $40
Tor these divorces and kept on granting
them until the Gentle courts stopped
lim. a woman who had paid him for
0ne, to repay me for some kindness I
lad shown her, brought me u copy of
)ne of those divorces, and l have it mere
The giddy thing then showed piece of
paper pasted on piece of card board,
three or four times the size.) This is
signed by two of his clerks, David 0. !
is now dead, and a good
man, although a Mormon and poIyg-
John T. Game, the present
delegate to Congress from Utah. This
man, John T. Game, is sent here, not
because the people want him, but be-
2avse they cannot get the man they
want. If John 7. Game had any re-
;pect for himself he would not accept |
such a position. He is selected by the |
Mormons, and the government of the
United States pays him 5000 year to
prevent the open alton of laws in Utah |
while Eli II. Murray. the Governor of |
Utah, gets $2,6o0 a year for trying to
zee that the laws are enforced When
We think of this, we must admit that
We have an abominably magnanimous
government.
The Mormons have a ceremony of
Baptism for the dead. One old woman
ooaSted that she had been baptized 2, 900
lines for persons who were dead. This
proxy business is carried on to an alarm
ng extent. l am told that George
Martin Luther, Benjamin |
Franklin, Daniel Webster and Abraham
Lincoln have been all baptized for by
some admiring Mormon or another. 1
nave also been told, but cannot vouch !
or the story, that they had
thought of baptizing Henry
VIII, by proxy Think Of
t, you are all liable to arise in the
morning of the resurrection and find
yourselves Mormons whether you want
o or not. This possibility adds new
md unexpected terror to death. have
seen the grandmother, the mother and
,he child all the wives of one man and
Ill living in the same house.
The Mormons talk great deal about
he woman suffrage law in Utah, and
hat it is an evidence of Mormon
If that is so, why is there
no dowry law in Utah? Why no
law Why no statute against
ascivious Capitalization? The granting
IF the right 70 vote to women in Utah
was Mormon coup d'etdt. They granted
It because they knew the women were
lnder control and they thought they
could make capital out of it. 1t is said
hat all the vice in Utah is among the
9entiles: that the Gentiles, about one
fifth the population furnish over so per
cent of the criminals. This is an afro
cious libel. If the inside methods were
known the showing weuld be different.