The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-05-15
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The Mormons are fleeing from
American persecution. They have
taken up their line of march to Chi
huahna, Mexico, pretty much in the
same style they did from Missouri to
Utah. The leaders state they are not
opposed by the Mexicans, but they are
going there to avoid the prosecutions
in the United States. In the mean
time their missionaries are at work
proselyting vigorously in various por.
tions of the South.
Polygamists are receiving severe
chastisement at the hands Of the law
in Utah, and mob violence threatens
them on every side in the South. ED
Morgan is at Chattanooga again with
other missionaries. Chattanooga seems
to be an inviting field for these mis-
sionaries. There are said to be 100
missionaries now in the South, drum
ming for recruits, and fifty more to be
added soon. This is certainly alarm
ing. Our Legislature meets soon, and
it is onr earnest wish they may pass
law 50 stringent that we will be able
to keep them away from the ignorant
class Of onr population. The law de-
claros, or ought to declare, their praca-
tees crime, and it is within the power
Of each State to protect itself from
these Mormon missionaries and prose-
lyters. Let's have more legislation
against the Mormon.
Below we clip an extract from a let
ter in the N. O. States
HMr. G. g. Goodwin, the editor of
the Salt Lake Tribune, who has been
urging Legislation for the suppression
Of Mormonism, in an interview on the
subject gives some interesting gossip
about plural wives. He says that the
idea that it requires a wealthy man to
be q polygamist is o great mistake.
Polygamists, 1T appears, do not in
dnlge in $27 spring bonnets and $500 |
seal skin coats. He says: If yon
walk mile or two into the country
from Salt Lake City any day, you can
see an old dane sitting on the fence
smoking his pipe, and Ills half dozen
wives shaving like horses to support
him. Tn the cities a man who has
several wives visits them in different
honses, which they maintain and sup
port, but in the country they are often
jnmbled all together. tits a bad plan,
however, and doesn't work well. 1t II
ised to DO the way in the cities, too, h
mt now the several wives are very
eldom lodged in the same hut. Even
Brigham Young, when be used to try I
be gregarious plan, acknowledged q
hat be could not keep the various n
ives from tearing each others faces ot
nd abusing him. The law Of the !,
nurch fails to eliminate from Nor = =
ION womanhood the common princi- "
d Of jealousy. Far from it When in
mormon takes INTO himself an addi- IN
ienas spouse, fhe other wives already !,
u hand, having no remedy. resipn z
themselves tn tAAelF fate. Rnk 4hsp "
seei y none the leaa j heard nv, s II! II
men talking on The street conner. He. 4,
other day shout d man who aaa IA gte4, \
smother wife. How DO you know 4 !.
WAS asked the woman who nade GIG
assertion 4 could aee tile ieasorsv
written ID leF faoe, VAS Viz reply frc
farrimg To tho face III The first wifal.
The church does not attempt 70 at. I
vorce the first wife Of any man, but
divorces Ill The others al will. Thia
IA vantage ii al offset against the dis
tinction 1T being 1 later choice and
therefore lasorite. The LAW recog-
nisas The frat marriage, but does not
recognize The asibsequentones. 4 gou
meet i woman ii The country she win
18Th Won lie ii the first wife af spsand
*. and Il you meet d hoy be will alac
81 nas0ful fo IT'D you b. h The son of
|hls father frat wifi. They eRn pre-
Won't iii sense ef she disgracp n pr
lgaatisy slsosylEg isseasr agz
Hn toWa IF Raygille, In Z over
flowed I'D he back WIDER