The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
SET FREE THE
WHITE WOMEN !!
FaIsity of the Idea That Plural
Marriages No Longer Exist.
DR.. ELLIOTT FLAYS MORMONISM.
= Their Elders Are at Your Back
Door, Tempting Your Servant
Girls, While Handing Tracts
in at the Front Door,"

lDr. Sarah j. Elliout of Utah, spoke
on uhe subject of Mormonism at the
new Century Club in Wilmington, on
Wednesday might. She sald "ItI
seems an immense question to talk of
altering the Constitution and three
years ago if asked if ii were necessary
10 have legislation ON the subject,
would have said, ne, education will
solve i.he problem. i thought like
ouners, that plural marriages were a
thing Of the past, but | have seen the
falsity OF this and the effects of polo
gamy on the Mormon women. The
Older ones among them who had gone
from Jhe Easf realized their condition,
buC had burned their ships behind
them, and they set their hips together
to bsar the degradation, though one
Could See they had suffered in the
elimination of their womanhood, and
each ones face was summary of the
tragedy and showed she was acquaint-
ed with grief. But the next generation
show they have grown more indiffer-
ent, and THE faces of The younger wo-
men indicate NO suffering; they are
used ITO it. This abnormal womanhood
means an abnormal race; there is
someuhing tremendous, awful in it.
The New Gospel teaches that by the
practice of Mormonism men become
gods and Gmeir idea of GOD is that he
is only another man like themselves.
Ii is a menace to the nation, for it is
rotten to the core.
'"The Mormons knew that only by
statehood could they really get control
of their State, so Ihey professed to
suspend polygamy and we really hoped
the question was settled and that they
were willing to give lit up. But the
very day after statehood came men
and women preaching of the divine
institution and the beauty of poly
gamy, and the plural marriages go on
They say, you have no court evidence
celebrated in the temple where even
no member is allowed to enter withou
a permit and the marriages are record
ed only in the historians office of the
Mormon church. Every man who
signed the treaty to give up plural
marriage broke it.
You ask, How are their homes.
their children? Are they differen
from our homes? Not all of Them,
ON the surface; ONE meets educated
people, apparently Like you, but the
homes are fauherless homes. They
say, we are no worse than men in
New York But there is this differ
ence, if a man has six wives in Utah
it means dedication for him; in New
] York it means degradation. Are we
going to let the children grow up used
Ito these conditions? They will not be
able no see harm in what they see
their mother and grandmother do.
Tine danger is worse than it was 20
years ago, for it was more subtle, less
apparent. AT your back door you
may find Mormon elders telling your
servant girls if they come to Utah
lhey will get four lines their present
wages, while at the front door they
are handing tracts to your daughters
They do not tell all their doctrines
but say, when we get tihem TO Utah
we will give them the strong meat oi
our word The contagion is spread
ing; you say there are only 100000 and
we are 100000 But do you recog-
nize that Mormonism has political
power in five States and partially in
nine? There is a Mormon temple in
Idaho In regard ITO the amendment
to the Constitution, I believe it is
necessary because the State laws can
not be enforced Senator EdmundS
law prohibiting polygamy in every
; State we will mot give them time tx
fill upk the States; we want to get tht
amendment before this Congress. Il
took time and money to get Robert:
out. We want you to sign petitions tt
Congress. You ask what is the use o.
women signing petitions. Because tht
voice of American woman has weigh
with American men; they will rise tt
her level; they will say, I can't g
back to my wife without I work fol
this.' If the MEN are the heads of th'
nation you are the necks that move th'
heads. You have frded the coloret
women of this country, why not fre'
THE white women from this slavery, TO-
lit lis slavery. 1t means the degrada