The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
Edited by Clyde Elliot

! HoheSo ny My NC Al1AOIL
and not MI every letter you write hei
With accounts of them.
OF course am always anxious fol
! your welfare and eager to learn of youi
lnbors and pleasures In tho great metro.
polls OF the Gcntilcs And L would indeed
| feel sliGhted and neglected should you
fail to conlde in mo all that YOU expert
ence In .he field of religion and the realm,
I OF society. Be sure, dear, In each letter
to give mo all the news.
Emma Bell, l now presume, has rival
IN the person OF her cousin FOR the hcart
OF my husband. Queer does all this seem
to me, that YOU would in one letter write
afrcctionutsly Of Emma Bell and I'm the
TSrS next disclose a passion Tor anotner
woman whom you had just met, Strange,
very strange. | cannot SEQ what object
you would have in this rash behavior un-
less-oh, Cod | cannot say lt-unless YOU
ere contemplating plural marriage with
enc OF those women, and are undecided as
TO which one 1t shall be, or perhaps IT is
tnat YOU have designs on them ooth; h0u
leave me In doubt; doubt in my rolislon'
niyself, my husband, in everything!
DOUBTS EVEN GOD,
l am so worked up ] almost doubt that
there is a God at all; almost realize that
everybody in this world is a worShiper OF
self that men arc but beasts, and women
but fools If they surrender their selfish,
or natural feelings TO long-sufterng here
below for en exalted sts lie in the vague
mystic uncertain hereafter, To me,
women's position on earth is too limited
and mans too vast to bring about per-
feet affinity OF the sexes. When man
has full. license OF his natural incllnations
and woman absolutely none there cannot
exist oetwlNt them Il peaceful state In
MARRIAGE
Your arguments for plural marriage,
the same as those | have often read In
the Doctrines and Covenents,' have
failed to make the desired impression
upon ma or 10 remove from my MIND the
thought | still maintain TO be the most
arr "
given by n Mormon to his Wife before
marriage Is as binding and holy as any
one, or all. OF the Ten Commandments
If YOU havo honor as man, whether
Mormon or Gentle. YOU cannot and VIII
rot break that promise never to wed an
ether" No religion, no philosophy, no
soDhistrY is worth much that commands
a man to break a VOW given to the woman
OF his choice and heart the companion OF
his life here and hereafter.
HOLDS TO THE PROMISE.
Think you that Gen. Washington or
Abraham Lincoln or our own beloved
anything. even death warrant influence
him or compel him to bgeak promise
given. superior d companion or an IN
ferior? These men were not Latter-day
Saints, blessed In the possession or the
true gospel, and consequently wcro not
expected To have so high concept OF
honor rs oJr men, yet, II history speaks
Alright. their lives teach greater.
noolcr lesson. not alone upon the battle
field or in the forum, but in their family
affairs than that which your ambition To
realized-will teach our little Mary in
years 10 come. When she Will have de-
Veloped into womanhood. with woman's
heart and Toman's feelings Her mother
q victim OF II system of relentless tyranny
"a noble lesson!
or IL tie lives of our countrys three
most illustrlous citizens are insufficient to
q waken your soul to its true sense OF
q At he hiGin nf nm
learned In books and society, but who
knew in his rough, backwoods way the
difference between right ard wrong and In
knowing it never faltered in choosing the
light In Tennessee a man who is loved
by all alike for many valiant deeds, but
most of all for tho promise he made his
mother carly in life, and kept until the
moment of his death
Said the mother 20 her son the day he
went forth into the world. BE sure your
are right. Davey, then go ahead"
And Crockett made answer IAN right,
mother; ] promise you. In whatever 1 do.
TO do right"
Pass oSer MS history of stirring events
to the last page, and there Will be read
in his or any history. AT the Inflated
cattle of the Alamo. where he and a few
resisted for days The attacks
II 7000 Mexican soldiers Crockett fell
lid not fear death, because he knew he
was right and the MeXlcanS drong. He
typt the promise made his mother, pre-
'erring 10 die rather than break 1t.
GOOD ADVICE TO HIM
Ard now. Orson. think long upon the
story Of David Crockett IL the back
@oodsman could keep a verbal promise
given his mother. keep 1t unto death, can
not an enlightened follower OF an en-
ightened Prophet keep a promise made
@ tho wife of his youth, even unto death2
riis religion and education are not worth
much IL he cannot.
Since receiving your last letter / have
ocen thinking over and studying the sys-
,cm OF polygamy Now ] fail TO see IL
n the same light that ] once saw It,
since your mission in the Bell home com
ncnced that portion OF our religion has
aken on an entirely different aspect The
lore | study IL the further ] drift from
ny former belief. And at last | have ar
lived at the conclusion that | cannot and
vii not accept II When ! knew myself
secure III my husbands love I believed ;.
n Il, but now that he has divided his
affections | renounCc and lcathc IT,
II polygamy ia Il divine Institution why
$ the whole world against 1T? Answer
hat question please
] Will look forward IN suspense TO re-
'ciYine next ,me mcrc loving and
oVable letter than the last. Lovingly
ALICE,