Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31
VEST ON POLYGAMY.
WOman's Religious FanafIcism tie
Bulwark of the Hierarchy.

| From the Debate on the Appropriation OF
$1,000 for The Utah Industrial Home.l
Mr.. Vest. | saw 3 statement in q
paper of Salt Lake U do not undertake
| to say to what faction it belunged) that
there had not been from the begin ing,
since this institution was establish he'd
at a cost OF $50. 900 to the people of the
United Stairs, dozen inmates wom-
| Ell and children included.
Now the matter is presented to the
Senate in this gufs.: We are asked. af-
ter giving $4,000 to this Utopian,
| moOnshine arrangement, to now make
an approp- iation of $4,000 year for no
| other purpose whatever but to pay the
|alarirs OF lot of people who have
managed to obtain these positions I'M
| Ter the appearance of philanthropy.
This was start d as an asy lum for the
| poor deuded Mormon women who
wanted t" escape from polygamy. 1t
| seems they do not want 70 escape. 1t
is notorious fact. every man who has
been to Utth or near il knows it to b.
the truth. that the women of Utah to-
day are more opposed to doing away
with polgamy Than the men. Every
intelligent man knows that the OppO
>iilon to-day to doing away with
polygamy is among the women, and it
| is very easily explained.
1t does not come from any Sensuality;
| 1t does not come from any degraded
| feeling; it comes from tn ir religious
sentiment. If you want to find the
| hon. of absolute religious fanaticism,
| you will always find it among women.
Ii there is any fault about it it is in the
great Architect who made them, and
| constructed them that way. They are
| 81 f.,f.
| are dependent, The essence of the fe
| male nature is dependence in this
world and the next. Th erefore you
| find our churches now. no matter what
the creed, no matter how erroneous.
| full of women, not of men. 1thas beer
50 since the begiUDing of time, and will
be so until the world is wrapped in
milIenuial glory.
When you go to Utah you fluid the
women devoted to polygamy, because
| it is a part Of their religion. l asked u
Mormon woman in the vicinity OF Og-
den, Are you plural wif? Eyes;
1 am plural wife; the third wife"
Said /, do you believe in that thing?"
"Why, it is the Bible" And she
pulled out her Bible to show me where
| it was. She said, 1T is the Bible. My
husband could not go to heaven If he
| did not practice the plural system.
When he is able to take care of SO
many women, it is his Christian duty
| to do it; and | believe in it," 1t was
her religion.
Now, we have had a strange expert
ence with this female nature out in
Utah. At one time Senator POmeroy
invented the Idea--I believe he was the
author of jt-that the poor women of
Utah ought to be given the right of
suffrage so as to escape from pogamy,
and he appealed to Congress and To the
Christian women of the United States,
and of couIs Sc, God bless them, they re-
sponded with all the influence possible,
as they always will for anything of
this sort. So we gave them the right
of suffrage by a large majority, ami
what was The result? Every one of
them voted the polygamous ticket.
Then we turned around under the
Leadership of MY friend from Vermont
and took the suffrage away from them.
1t was found that their votes were the
bulwark of the hierarchy.
We have now put up all asylum for
these poor deluded creatures to escap-
to, and they do not escape worth cent,
and they never will escape. The re-
suit is that here now under this apDro-
pristion We are payieg $4,000 year to
somebody to go around in an ofhclal
capacity to protect lot of women who
will not be protected from the bier
archy.