The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-19

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Someeastern journal remarks that.
if the Utah bill 0 pending in the
Senate shall become flaw, cit vii!
put q stop to the Importation o.
fools" That certainly would be de
sirable, writes Mrs. Paddock to the
Philadelphia Press, but we can hard
ly hope that any act of Congress will
be so far reaching in it's effects. Il,
however, it shall be found practicable
to put a stop by legislative enactment
to the importation Of women designed
for Mormon harems, we will keep out
one class of immigrants who q
scarcely be considered sane enoughto
be responsible for their acts.
Ever since Brigham Young took
possession of the Great Basin in the
name Of the Lord, and organized the
state of Deseret, this importation has
been going on. In the old days of
wagon trains and handcarts these
women had an opportunity to find
out something about the slavery into
which they we're sold before they
reached their destination, and, as the
saints themselves say, the plains were
strewn with the bones of women who
proved too weak to bear the burdens
of polygamy. Now, however, they are
hurried along SO rapidly by steamer
and railway that they have no time
for reflection or repentance. Wives
who have been in duced toleave their
husbands and gather, whit the saints
at Zion," mothers so completely UNI
der the influence of fanaticism that
they have abandoned their little
children. and young girls who have
been decoyed away from home, are
shipped to America and transported
across the continent to Utah with
such dispatch that they are landed
safely in Zion and aresealed to some
gray haired saint before Uncertainties
know what has become OF them.
Threeyears ago, in response to a
pitiful letter of entreaty from the be-
reaved parents, / made an unavailing
search for two girls who had been
brought To Utah by Mormon mis-
sionaries. While looking for these
girls / found two young English wom-
en-, sisters, who had stolen away from
husband and home and joined the
latest Mormon immigrant company.
They had gone to the seaport from
which this company sailed, under the
p~retense of making q visit to q rela-
tive, and by the time that their hus-
bands began to expect them home
they were halfway across the Allan
tic. Each of the women had q little
child in her arms. and the husband
of one of them alter he had found out
where his wife had gone, wrote to her:
eff you are resolved never to come
back, if you will not even write a line
to let me know why you have left me,
at least let the baby make a mark on
O. sheet of paper and send it to me, SO
that / can kiss something her little
hands have touched"
Another woman, who had all the
details other fight arranged for her by
the missionary who converted" her,
was hurried away from home by
night, leaving q nursing babe behind
her. She said she did not realize
what she was doing until the ship on
which the immigrants embarked had
set sail, and then for the time she
lost her Isason entirely. She became
a polygamous wife as soon as she
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from all hope of returning to her
home. She surely w2s not sane at
the time Of her flight, and she cannot
be considered SO now. She says:
Ever since the dreadful day I set my
foot on board that ship, I have heard
my baby crying. / cannot get ths
sound out of my ears. Ihear it every
where and always"
A woman who lived in my family
as a domestic told me she was per-
'suaded to steal away from home in
her husbands absence, carrying with
her her little boy, their only child.
The husband and father never held
up his head after the day that he
came back to his desolated homs,
and six morths afterward died, as
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