The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-07

of the Senate, and to all honest hearted
people elsewhere.
Must the ''Mormons' be mute, when COM
passion is weeping?
And sorrows unnumbered are right at our
door?
should "The daughter of Zion'' be quietly
sleeping
AS if the dark day of her bondage were
o'ers
Our wrongs and our cares
Must we welcome as sweet?
Orwalk into snares
That are laid for our feet?
Like whirlwind approaching, vile laws now
are pending,
1fpassed, all the pillars Of Freedom Will
will shake;
sour cause is most just" yet it claims such
defending;
1.-THE Women of Mormondom" needs must
awake.
Thus, we humbly petition
Columbia's nation,
To frown on oppression
And harsh legislation.
Our foes trouble little, or nothing to men
ton,
For "poor Mormon women" or down trod
den wives''
Were polygamy only the bonelof contention,
The ''Mormons'' might vote all the rest of
their lives.
Our foes may not count us
Smart, sensible folks;
But we see through their purpose
Contempt it provokes.
y, We pri.A not their pity, whose aim is to
plumber
A people who strictly to peace are in
clined;
If the "dormons" lose patience need any
one wonder.
Who considers our wrongs, by the crafty
designed.
Yet they'll havest disgrace
Where they hope for renown,
Who for power or place
Thrust the innocent down.
We appeal to the people in freedoms do
minions-
To the fair minded millions who love what
is right;
Must the "Mormons" be robbed for their
faith and opinions
Crush'd and ground, 'twixt the millstones
of greed and of spite?
Is it needful or lawful
To wrest freedom from us
For what we believe,
Or for what we can't promise?
Our honor is priceless, our rights are all
precious,
Our affections are sacred, our households
are dear;
Our husbands are heroes, in spite of the
.specious-
And wonderful ~ rulings Of Judges so
queer,
Who shift their decisions,
Around, and around;
Till for "Mormons'' verdict,
Of Guilty" is found.
'The world loves its own, but it "hates u.s.
and fights us,
Our rights are withheld, and our friends
are in prison;
Yet, we never are comfortless, always, the
righteous
Through much tribulation" to glory have
risen.
Let the spirit of fairness,
Quench bigotry's fire;
Then, the 'Mormons" Will reap,
All the praise they desire.
Foretold was our fate, of a truth "men
revile u.s."
disguise;
Their black hearted falsehoods, will fail to
deile us,
But the masses are misled, by plausible
lies.
Alas that such hbels,
So stript of the truth;
Are read more than Bibles,
By thousands, forsooth. f.-
If the vex'd Mormon problem" must have
a solution, 1
liz hODASA lAfiNS
should be tried;
Sure, the Enormous" have suffer'd enough
persecution, 7f-,,-- --s
Yet sustained by their faith, they have
lived, they have thrived. II
The more they are slander'd-
And hunted and driven
The more they are prosper'd,
And fayor'd of heaven. I'll
Pralsel Surely is due to the stout hearted
Who resou'd from barrenness, Utah's
i- broad vales;. eds r
Who built all the bridges, and leveled the
ridges -oi tr
And braved all the hardships such settling
entitled.
God blessed our endeavor;
He rescues us ever,
Though ev'ry thing fails, t-.f \
Shall we doubt Him? No never.
Dur homage we yield to the Lord, our de-
fender,
For manifold mercies, what less can
we do2 ra -aL 1l |
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