Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-25
AUNT POLLY HAS HOT ROAST
FOR DIVINE REVELATION MAN

Los ANGELES, Aug. 23-[E Editor
Herald: w. b. thinks he has settled
us women folks on the suffrage ques-
tion by telling us divine revelation is
against it. So he's alive! Sonny. 1
guess you don't know what hard job
you have tackled. You see we have
heard that divine revelation story so
many times that we are beginning to
look the man over that tells US about
1t. and try to find out what kind of an
ak he has to grind.
When Joseph Smith, the Mormon
prophet, wanted to start a new religion
and incidentally break the laws of the
land by setting up q harem with
whole house full of plural wives the
first thing he did was to find a divine
revelation that a woman didn't have
any stand in with the Almighty at all,
and her only chance of getting into
heaven was to take a fifth, sixth or
twentieth interest in a man by be-
coming a plural wife. The poor de-
luded women believed it because they
listened to the words of the Apostle
Paul instead of to the voice of the
Almighty within themselves that told
them there was something wrong with
that revelation about polygamy, even
If they were obedient to their hus-
bands.
You see that blind obedience has led
to whole lot Of trouble, and lot of
wickedness has grown out OF it.
The United States government has
had dreadful tir1e for upward of
fifty years trying to break those poor
deluded women away from that obedi
ence business, and convince them that
1T was only man made revelation
after all, and that God wants people to
obey the law. The women have been
the chief sufferers In trying to get
things Strengthened out, and many of
the poor creatures haven't got any
husband to obey or to vote for them,
seeing they only had piece of one to
begin with.
w. B. is so fast to- tell what the
Apostle Paul said, but he better read
his Bible and find out what the AL
mighty said direct to the woman, and
the promise that the head of the SER
pent should be bruised through her. 1t
is nineteen hundred years since the
coming of the Christ to redeem that
promise, and yet the mass of mankind,
even including the Apostle Paul. for
gets the woman has paid the debt for
her transgressions and still holds her
in bondage to man.
Don't you think, Mr.. w. B., that it is
about time man paid some of his debt
instead of constantly reminding his
helpmate that she once owed one7
Don't you worry, sonny, about how
woman stands regarding that divine
with the Almighty and has taken her
punishment and the future holds great
things in store for her, even including
equal suffrage. You men folks want
to look to your laurel wreaths that
have crowned your masculine heads all
the time that woman was paying her
debt. For as sure as you are a live
man the woman of the twentieth cen
tury is advancing more rapidly than
the man, and II you don't keep running
instead of spending so much time look
ing backward to make faces at your
helpmate she is going to outstrip you
in the race for honors and wear that
laurel wreath you have called your
own so long. Run along, sonny, and do
something truly great for the honor OF
your sex, and don't worry your head
about any divine revelation regarding
the woman.
God still rules and He will take care
of that problem better than any man
can. AUNT POLLY.