Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-14

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In that city the Gentiles are only one-third Of
the total population, but the mass of en- arr
grown men, capable Of voting, whereas the
Mormons are cluttered up with children.
in the township and the control of the policy
OF the city. the Mormons will have to back down
considerably. They're bound to 20 before
long. My own notion il that it's the Older
men who keep alive the feeling Of opposition
to the Gentle and all his works The younger
ones, spite Of all the elders tell 'em, will mil
with the Gentiles and read Gentle books and you
bet your sweet life there's holy influence work
ing toward conversion in the kiss of an aver
age GENTLE, specially when the girl knows that
load the house up with other women folk.
guess the younger generation are giving sore
trouble to the elders. What's that You say
about polygamy? It's q penal offense now
under bill passed not long ago. The Mormon
has to elect one wife and keep to her. II he's
caught visiting any of the others-waal, dc
You see that cool and restful brown-stone build
ing way over there against the hillside? That's
the penitentiary. He is sent there to consider
his sins, and he pays fine, too. But most Of
don't suppose they are too hard on their
friends. i presume there's good deal OF
polygamy practiced on the sly. But the chief
trouble is TO get the Mormon to see that the
Gentle isn't the doubly damned beast that the
elders represent. Only get the Gentiles well
| to 60 to pieces in a very little time"
FAMILY JEALoUsIEs.
And the wish being father to the thought,
"why, certainly" said I, and began 70 take in
the Valley of Deseret, the home of the Latter
Day Saints, and the abode, perhaps, of a.
much misery as has ever been compressed into
forty years. The good folk at home cannot
understand, but you will. what follows. You
know how in Bengal to this day the child-wife
is Taught to curse her possible co-wife ere yet
she has gone to her husbands house. And the
Bengali woman has been accustomed to
polygamy for few hundred years Yet she
has thoroughly feminine hatred Of her rival
You know, too, the awful jealousy between
mother-wife and barren behind the purdah-
| the jealousy that eliminates sometimes in the
poisoning Of the well beloved son. Now and
again an English woman enjoys a high caste
Mussamani dhai and in the Offices Of that hire
women are apt to forget the differences Of
color and to speak unreservedly as twin
daughters mutually under Ewes curse. The
dhai tells very strange and awful things. She
has, and this the Mormons count q privilege,
been born into polygamy, but she loathes and
detests it from the bottom Of her jealous soul.
And to the lot of the Bengah co-wife-"the
cursed Of the cursed-the daughter of the
dunghill-the scald head and the barren mute
(you know the rest Of that sweet combination
service lone creed, Of all the white creeds to-
day, deliberately introduces the white woman
taken from centuries of training. which hive
taught her that it is right to control the undi-
nat,raI rahoi,;or .ha. 80 qaone aa nel . n n
tastic tumble Of Accommodation, the Mosaic
law and imperfectly comprehended fragments Of
Free Masonry calls to its aid all the powers of a
hell conceived and elaborated by coarse-minded
i.y Anu ui'oners' ~ Sweet Vie"' sn
49,. In. 0lAoi'oA sAhAhi.
All the beauty OF the valley could not make
me forget it. And the valley 10 very fair
Bench after bench of land. fat "A . t.bl.
an.;ns. .ho e.,L. =, a.. In
,ybara a. Gal, IaLa ,as.aJ INNS ularhs
lansa fror, an ;1aIoS - ~. WINE IN us COL
lbs auI ,h;r. , h sec D nAe nity miies
hap.h aN I'll, ~ onUaa D ;.r long tnese
,,.nsa,s. .h VII W h;S 1eu WIN houses Az
on the dead fat Of the VALLEY Yor - - =
a hundred times how the streets Of Salt Lake
CITY are very broad and furnished with rows of
slade trees anu cutters OF Iresn water This is
1 rue, Iu' s.,ucA .ne town IN season OF great
havoc with the herds of Montana. The trees
we're hmp ana the THIS OF sparkling water that
one reads about were represented by dusty
paved courses. Main street appears to be in
naDteu py the commercial GENTLE, who has
maze OF II Dusy' Dusthng thoroughfare, and
III tne eye Vi tne sun sWl8s the ungodly lager
ana SMOKES the improper cigar all day long.
I "Hen M NM, ~ tne neao Oh main
street 81 s'aha tne lions OF tne pace videlcet, the
IemPie anu tne iaoernacie' the utning house
anu tne houses OF brigham ioung, whose por-
trais Is on SAFE IN most OF tho booksellers shops
ihcioeh.any II may Dc mentioned that the late
ameer Q, otah Goes not unremoteiy resemble
MS hlgnness ,ne ameer OF Afghanistan,
whom these fortunate eyes nave seen: And
nave no Gesire 70 IAN into the hands OF the
ameer- Inc nrst tning 10 De seen was. Of
course. the temple, the outward exponent of q
creed. Armed with copy OF the book Of Nor
mon, Tor better comprehension, went to form
Tasn opinions. some day the Temple will be
nhisheo. IL was only begun thirty years ago
ana up TO date rather more than 8, SOC, 900 have
Deen expended IN its granite bulk. The walls
are ten feet thick, the edifice itself Is about a
und h Leet niSn anu i's 'o"efs VIII Dc nearly
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-. - - ui''' you onooso
" in'Pee. moro oioseiy' elwsys reading the
BOOK OF Mormon as you walk Then the won
drous puerllity OF what 1 suppose we must call
the design becomes apparent. l am wrong;
there Is no design. These men, directly in
spired from on nigh, heaped stone on stone
and pillar on pillar without achieving either
dignity reiief or interest There Is over the main
door some pltlful scratching In stone, represent
ing the All seeing Eye, the Masonic grip, the
sun, moon and stars and, perhaps, other
skittles Ihe hatness and meanness Of the
thing almost make you weep when you look
at the magnificent granite in blocks strewn
abroad and the skill that Is, GOO 900 could have
called into the aid Of the church. It 10 as
big, tne house-fner than any house that ever
WAS" and in that desire had lahoriouslv