The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-06
Since The Manifesto.


prevail of the church; that is final and fixed Every
such violation OF the law has the express condem-
nation OF the church'-Extract from an address de-
Ivered by Senator Reed Smoot in the United States
senate on the 10th of February, 1907.
AS from the lips Of Reed Smoot so also from the
lips of politicians falls the time honored assurance
that there plural marriages in Mormon
dom and the Jack-Mormon verihes the tale of the
church with all those surface evidences of sim
certify that the money and the promises of the
hierarchy inspire in the REASONABLY inclined
members of party.
Woven into these petty fctions of politics is the
thread of the life story of Christina Jenses Mr..
Anderson, Andrew Johnson and Annie Hansen, all
of Bear Lake county, Idaho, immigrants from the
fatherland of Denmark into the jurisdiction of the
church of Latter Day Saints.
1t many years ago that Christina, step daugh-
ter of MAIDS lenses, then a girl of IS years, be-
the third wife of Mr. Anderson saint in good
standing in the community Of St. Charles Bear Lake
county, Idaho.
After two years of toll, trouble and dsappoint-
ment, Christina dislusioned and sought res
toraton to the condition of single blessedness. She
left her fraction of a husband returned to her
mother and declared that she would not go back to
Mr.. Anderson who not grievously bereft, thanks
to the generosity of the Mormon custom, which left
two wifely substitutes within the domain of the
household
Christina remained reca1citrant in the dread
presence of the doom of heaven and the hierarchy.
She refused to return to her abandoned home pre-
ferring to sit with the damned and go down to
eternal torture in the abode of the imps of Satan,
whose everlasting mission it is to punish the faith
less wives of the anonted of the Lord. That Mr..
Anderson might not be embarrassed in his future
relations with the Mormon establishment, the church
granted him divorce from Christina.
A few years later she yielded to the wooing of
Andrew Johnson of Ovid, Idaho, who comes
upon the scene as one of the actors in this domestic
drama Mr.. Johnson greatly blessed in his
possession of Christina for she became the mother
of sixteen children
But it was not altogether unmixed blessing,
for his prolific consort was still the celestial wife of
the first husband and the second husband could not
claim possession of his offspring in the hereafter I'm
less he too sealed for time and eternity to
some fair daughter of earth.
This was the burden upon the mind of the sanity
Johnson when, some nine years ago, he was called
to missionary work in Denmark, leaving the de-
voted Christina slave at the washboard, that he
might be provided with the wherewthal to make the
Journey and prosecute the work of the Lord among
the unregenerate peasants of his native land.
1t was in Denmark that the absent husband of
Christina became acquainted with Annie Hansen,
maiden of mature years. and she inspired within
his afectonate heart solution of the problem of the
hereafter.
Returning to his Idaho home Mr.. Johnson found it
impossible to pluck the image of the attractive Dane
rom it's mental setting Finally he prevailed upon
lis brother Nies Johnson, to advance the money
hat would pay the passage of Annie Hansen to the
mountain home of her sanity admirer and she
rrived at Montpelier six years ago.
Since her coming she has been employed
domestic by many Montpelier families and Andy