Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-26
'xLlSTENER's"FA REPORT,

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Nv Nllncho Of Minnesota journal
rallied Who Window Reporter, who
styles himself "1ho Lstcnor' recently
raid visit 90 Salt Lake CITY, and save
u very interesting aud racy wrilo.up
Of his impressions TO the Window pa
Iop After some humorous remarks
about endoayorIng 10 swap on his
rplondid wife for two or three ancient
Mormon ladies, ana learning from
them mat "polyglmy was abandoned
IN Utah ana everywhere else except IN
Washington" ~ remarks
'Bur seriously speaking, did MOI
lind much OF pOlyglmy w The cry
once IN while ! ran across u man
with two or three wives, ana Homo'
times | ran across some Of the wives
of the same mon-ono, two ana eome'
times three, bat they were also
rather antique with due respect to
The ladies whose antiquity was dlr'
covered last winter by Rev. NJ, ~,
Williams, the evangelist, IN Window,
THESE men were married before the
United states began TO wrostlo with
Mormonlsm. and ! am forced 10 re-
gard the continuance Of these mafl'
iol relations with good deal moro
lonlonoy than some Of those states
men mt Washington with whose h0b'
It's the country IN unfamiliar ll1V'
ing once contracted these marriages
IN good faith, and reared famil len, J
could only regard II OB the baaosl
cruelty 10 abandon the wives ana
turn them loose upon the country
without home or friends
"Chlldlon have BEEN born 10 these
Nnlonr and imagine that the
families have grown up 10 present
years about ae happily 40 the families
NJ most men 40 unfortunate aa 10
have but one helnmate. | talked
with several young people whose
brothers aud pletere were falhcrod by
one father ana several mothers, ana
universally they told mo that the love
existing between them III ~ tender ana
KIND rs between the children OF the
ramo molhor Coming from Sall Lake
20 Denver | met u Mormon lady OF
perhaps thirty years, possibly less, ana
her child. Tho father was IN Denver
keeping books but a faithful Mormon,
and the two were going there 10 join
him The lady was willing TO talk OF
the Mormon faith ana conditions Her
li'n'T Hlln lNo NlNN'' hNu lnsl' M'l'
several children by BOTH all of whom
lived happily together and were ue
friendly ng children OF one mother J
asked her n her husband had moro
wives than she, 10 which came the
negative answer and, she continued, Y
would not stand Tor C. How did your
father manage 10 live with two wives
and keep out OF Jealous ontango-
montsY lie treated Zach one alike,
living with ono wook and with mn
other week or some 1olnite time
with each, Hc treated each ono Justly,
md | mover saw or beard of any moro
disturbance IN his family than the III.
lie dls0groemonts ana differences Of
opinion that nriso IN tho families of all
other people who have but one wife
The wives lived In separate houses and
each wpa holp 10 my Gather But II
has become unlawful To i've IN nolyga-
NOUS relation, ana the younger people
nro trying 10 uutgroW the stigma placed
upon the Mormons by the dcntllcs,"
"Tho Ll0loncr" gives u graphic do.
terlptlon Of Ms visit 10 the Tabernacle
with two hundred people, conducted by
charles Wllckon, whom he describes ga
"a dgni0cd old gentleman rounding ont
something like sixty years" and who,
De says, talked as freely with us as
we would about our religion a. home
appears that desiring greatly 10 cn.
ter tho Temple he remarked that no
Wae a newspaper man. ma wanted ~
900 everything whom Brother Wllokon
responded "Iou newspaper men uro tho
worst liars Of nh and we don't want
you, above all others, 70 see the inside
Of our holy sanctuary Tho Listener
ndmils that tho laugh WAS NE hls OK.
ponec, as Il WAS when ho jotularly VI.
|crcd 10 Join the church $40 aa TO Get
inside the Temple ana Nug Informed
thai oyon then he would have 10 10 on
probation before he could mo likely to
bc worthy to De- admitted,
llo dofcrbcs tho olty ae oOnc Of the
abandonment In this country" ana de-.
olaroa ihnl It was 'llid out by u master
hand" he glyos fllr ana truthful
account of what was told him In ro.
pard 10 the travels and prosecutions Of
tho Lattor.day Saints ana their Great
work IN lubduIng tho desert and build.
ms homes and elites llo also quotes
verbatim me articles OF faith OF tho
Loltor-dly saints ana nys
"Tho people an seem happy and con.
tented, and are about equally divided
~ religion between MormOnp and other
faiths, Tho Mormuna have elegant
schools ana colleges ana the young
people AVorDpC with those Of any place
J have visited had too little Time 10
visit the university but II III a mag
nlncont structure, wholly under the
control OF tho Church, and the young
people ! saw surrounding II wero wen
behaved, orderly ana respectful 10 ev.
orybody They were aH proud u their
religion nH any Of our children IN WIN
dom, and perhaps moro proud, for they
have boon taught that their fathers
were prosecuted for their religion ana
have deeper interest Nm 10 chan our
children Soon To hoyc,'
lie writes good description VI the
different objects Of interest In tho city,
including the Tabernacle. Temple, the
brigham Young residences, etc., speaks
very highly OF tho Intelligence and ap-
poaraneo OF number Of young ladies
that he met nc the l., d, y, University
ana aoys furthcG
"Ono can hardly talk with these poo.
pie without a feeling Of sympathy, FOR