Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-10
A WOMAN ON UTAH.

One Of the false impressions the
anti-"Mormons' have endeavored to
create Is this. that all non-"M ornluns"
In an are in sympathy with their
despicabie plots This Is far from
true Many men and women here,
though not belonging to the Church,
are sick and tired OF the strife that
was started In the interest OF personal
ambition. They realize that the con-
tinuation of the crusade Is against the
material interests OF the state. They
condemn the underlying motives and
the methods as unfair ana unworthy
OF American gentlemen.
We are again reminded OF this fact
by correspondence from Eyans,
Utah, published In the Dallas, Pa.
Post. Of Nov 10. The writer is
pon-"ATormon lady who has taught
school In Utah, and who is as well
qualified to explain the conditions
here, as any of the tools that are paid
for disseminating falsehoods. The
ley In which she lives is the lack Of
farm-laborers, but this condition. she
adds. cannot last many years more.
Then she continues.
after thinking people have had
time 10 look into the real animus OF
the Smoot persecution, IL viii be found
that, like other religious prosecutions,
II has set the people who are progress
siye, generous and kind hearted be-
fore the world IN their true light.
am non Mormon, and / have lived
here most OF the time for four years,
and | say In all candor that II Is and
has been for sixteen years just as hard
to take II plural wife with the sane
ton OF the Mormon Church In Utah
as II would be to take q plural wife
with the sanction Of the older ortho-
dox churches in Pennsylvania. Big
amy surely exists In all the other
states, and ! suspect II does not always
skip Utah.
1T Is true that the women Tall now
getting toward or beyond middle age)
who were plural wives previous TO 1890
have chung tenaciously 10 the fathers
Of their little ones. and that being the
case, the fathers would not cast the
have housed, clothed and fed them all
and educated their children, and giver
them the right to n fathers name, ;
fathers protection, and a fathers
means"
The correspondent then reminds he
readers Of the Pollard Brecknridg
case, and asks whether the country 4
cognizant Of Fourth avenue in chi
cago. and equally dark blots In othe
cities. She speaks OF the lisht-col
ored negro children that are born
yearly, and the traffic in girls" ant
then says:
and yet the whole artillery OF tn
United States government. and th'
yeritable wagon loads of womens pc
titions have been turned away from
the terrible crimes, horrible and eve
increasing crimes mentioned above
and trained upon n fast passing ava,
remnant OF old men and women, al
the men over fifty and many pas
seventy
THE many rewards OF large sum
offered and guaranteed by men o
great wealth for proof Of any plura
marriages sanctioned or performed b.
the Mormon Church since 1890 are al
unclaimed.
"As the government said. polyga
nous marriages must stop. and q
they surely have stopped, why air tn
has been mistakes of this Churc
any more than the mistakes of tn
Puritans who hung witches, outlaw
cd Catholics and Quakers and Danish
cd the good Roger Williams?
Utah Is a good land. and fire.