The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03

and Norwsgians have made great weaisn ano
led happy lives In Utah tnat tney snnai ex.
S;sss 70 ne S., 1i "a '' SSsW Church has done for
them spiritually and materially. This mas
brought others, who In. turn rave gUso oaeA
TO Scandinavia and made new have their
greatest success In large cities, and we have
lately transferred many OF our eius, w. whars
10 rural communities 70 have more than
they can attend to, There Is good reason
for this difference between cry an mav SAINT
successes. The faith OF the LATER Da gS,rsssnd
and Sown.trodden more than any other belief
since the early Christian Church. Inc ten
tile faith Is all spiritual and has us pn,S te" sndd
we believe that Joseph Smith and Brigham
Young were told by Heaven how mans con,
dition here on earth might be cneeteo ana
made preparatory i fSs t rsIiSi lion and a means
to support ones family go hand IN nahu. aiu
that a mans piety Is not, complete unless ne
takes care Of his wife and chi,aIrm, ~ I.adars
ham Young and the early Mormon leader.
taught us how TO use Gods gifts to the suppo
OF the human race, and how 70 make poor.
shlftless men and women nnancialiy DETER
While We taught the way 20 noor. hungry
drunken men and women in the tenements
Of the cities they plan for their physicai Del.
terment as well as their spai,ua earns T's az our
religion and has his Jokes about plural wives.
A hungry, poverty. stricken man IN q sum
will listen to a missionary who mas a sGnehie
FOR his welfare here on ear'h az well ~ '"'
Spreading OF how Mormonism inculcates thrift
and industry reminds me e say sna' IN MOI dlI-
Cussing the profit there may be In growing
q new variety Of grain, or growing fruits or
vegetables, IRRIGATION and schemes for ths
ossS n sSs q st the Church ssTS,s ses 'rf' used to '' hear
upon SptS"t he proper pSaaa fodder spsds; for WSrmons 70 grow
In Utah, the sort Of bulls and heifers to bnyi
irrigating water from the mountains 70 the
thirsty acres in tho valley. Brigham Young
used TO say that thrift was practical piety
mon colony at Alberta, in Canada. We have
close TO the Rio Grande and. twenty miles from
= tss q, T Dss1sst n sts ,issn Rcsi ofise. ''H The G sHnreb
has a concession for some $1,000 acres OF iand
there la payment VI a MAMMOTH iTrisa,ins
canal The Mormons are 70 furnish to the lands
verts TO our faith who cannot endure the cold
climate Of Alberta or the attitudes OF Utah.
and who want to live in a Mormon cooperative
colony. That helps the sonora colony. There
are some 5000 Mormons In Sonora now and
We shall have many more there before the
year IL over.
There are no plural marriages sanctioned in
any way by the Mormon Church nowadays.
The young people In the Church will not tolerate
polygamy. / have twenty-seven children and
not one OF them favors the plural marriage idea
manifesto Of the Church when the Edmunds law
passed Congress forbidding .polygamy was an
honest law Of Christian, God-fearing men.
/, de q a a 9S0Iy siDr6r, nv aha iao th ssey WINS: wi Hns
with equal care amid equal environments. /
married my. first wife in 1858, and in 1880, after
weeks, Of thought over the doctrines Of or
Church, l came 10 the conclusion that ! should
marry my wife's cousin, a %forlorn maiden lady
who had no one 10, provide for her, My wife
and i prayed over il, and | took the cousin as
my second wife. Three years later i married a
widow with two children, at the request Of my
two wives: was a cattle Ianchman and we
lived at 81. George, Utah. then. ] had three
cottage homes. each the exact counterpart OF
the others. The houses we're about a third OF q
mile apart. lived a month In each home and
was always careful 10 give 70 no wife more az
tention than TO another. The wives went back
and forth, visited with one another, did family
sewing together and did church work IN har-
mony, On Sunday my three wives and / were
together In church. So careful was ! not 10
feelings, OF my other wives. that never LEI, any
wife ride on the front seat with me on those
drives TO and from meeting. My children
called n ths ,S. Own mother ,Mot hsol but uot the ,s 9,her
erous than in monogamlst families.
Very few children who have grown up IN a
p~olygamists home ever want 70 have a similar
home, The Scandinavia Mormon women
seemed to be better satisfied with plural wives
than any other women In Utah did. The Ameri-
land, revoited most az the law. Of the Church.
but they gradually yielded to the doctrine.
4 have heard that there are about fifteen
hundred men in Utah who 3u SUI haze We plural RAJ
two and three wives. One man in st. George
has four wives and over thirty children, ! am
proud TO say that we who have plural wives are
supporting our wives and little children as IN
former days, would rot in Jail before I would
cast on or desert either of my surviving wives.
/ married each In good faith forty, years ago. J
lived. Each wife has been O help and a cheer "a
me and a Christian mother TO my children II
would be dishonor and shame 10 desert either
now, and wont do II. While I am glad We have
l hope II VIII never even be proposed again. ]
will stand, by my promises to my devoted aged
wives. That's the way Nh. Roberts and all the
Utah polygamists, excepta few radical old foo
Mormons, look at polygaIny. The Eastern ed
tor who says that the Edmunds law il secretly
and commonly violated in Utah tells an un'
.'Do YOU believe that the world will eventu.
ally all become Mormon"
NO, ] do not. Some Mormon apostles be-
lieve that sincerely. I believe there will always
must hav some good In them or they would
not he believed. The Mormon is the best and
true religion"
How about the statement that the Mormon.
are irving to run Utah politically"
That Is not true. We do not pretend to tel
people how 10 vote. We try to separate church
all our teachings have been in this direction
We heve Mormon Democrats and Mormon
Republicans. Our principles provide that wher
: q, mar sGy + an ,S ofi sers of the he Church ds1Is'on he e. sh Ss Id,i ask
officers Of the Church as TO whether he should
engage In outside business or politics, If These
things are to AFFECT his work we should know II
One Of our twelve apostles. for instance. has
lately been engaging in real estate speculations