The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-10-29
Stalker and Dubois
CONCLUDED.

ballast. You would not ship cattle
that way. The opportunities of Utah
are pictured to them, but nothing. is
said about the rules of the church.
AS soon as they land in Utah the
church takes a mortgage on their
souls The church pays their passage
across the water, and the poor fellows
are never allowed to get out of debt.
1t is the purpose of the church to
keep them in debt. That is part of
the plan. A few poor rations are is
sued to them, another mortgage
taken, and the poor fellows are sent
out to work
Finally, one fellow rises above
his companions and gives promise of
amounting to something, and, per-
haps, breaking away from the church.
1t is then he is forced into mar
riage, and, finally, into second mar
riage. Don't you see how it works?
When "a fellow gets two or three wives
he is social outcast. He don't dare
leave. He is tied down forever.
Utah and southeastern Idaho are the
only places he can find companion
ship. 1t serves the purpose of break
ing his spirit. 1t kills his ambition
and destroys all his finer feelings.
"They tell you there is harmony in
big families have seen that bar
mony. They say one wife brings one
unit of pleasure and two wives two
units ;one child one unit and two chill
dren two units, and so on, but let me
tell you it works in inverse ratio.
My fathers first wife had IA chill
dren. My mother had seven children
and the third wife had the remainder
of %.
81 have seen the home of the first
wife and the little howell my mother
lived in. Where the third wife lived
/ have forgotten. l have seen the
second wife get up at o'clock in the
morning and slave and toll till after
dark. l have seen the children run
barefooted over the hills hunting for
wild berries to satisfy their starving
hunger. have cried because my
sister had a biscuit when | could not
get one. 0, the pleasure of big fam
lilies.
81 have seen the look of contempt
upon the faces of the children as they
saw their half brother or half sister.
! have seen the look of hatred. My,
how we hated each other. They
! "a He'd nCth Il
we called their mother an old some
thing or other. That is the harmony
of big families. have half broth
er living in little town in southern
Idaho, and though l have passed
through that town as much as half a.
dozen times year, never SO much
as looked out of the window of the
train to see if he was there.
81 recently met him by chance. IL
spoke to him. He replied and asked
him up to my room. We had LONG
talk and finally he said to me, BILL.
why should we hate each other-we
can't help it. Let us not hate each
other, but let us HATE THE SYS-
TEN.
'Polygamy destroys manhood. 1t
makes slave of the woman. Women
are regarded as little more than slaves
by the Mormons. They tell us there
is no polygamy in Idaho. How can
devout Mormon live by his church
without obeying the revelation of
Joseph Smith, which says he shall be
damned if he doesn't live in polvo-
amyY There is nothing in their book
TO dispute that they use the Bible
only to try to Justify polygamy. That
is all have ever seen it used for
The revelation says that if the
first wife give not her consent to her
husbands marriage with other wives
she shall be destroyed. To the read
ers of the'Bible the word DESTROYED
would mean something in the future
world, but not with the Mormons. II
means just what IL says, and many Is
the time have ran from the sight of
the destroying angels. those who had
this pleasant mission 10 perform. II
meant literally destroyed. II was
common talk around our Preside.
Near orande Ropde, Oregon, one
me day Mormon missionary APP
psefed upon the scene The people
were Informed that beet sugar fact.
ofy was 10 be started there, bot that
fof such . plant fhe people must give
a bonus ~ 800, 600 ghe mission.
sfg promised thai the plant would
ply heeif ~ ~ fou. TAe bonus eas
'pise9' Thou fhe missionary wanted
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