The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-02
HUBBARD WRITES
OF MARRIAGE

In an article written to a Denver
paper few days ago Ebert Hubbard
justifles polygamy as formerly prac-
ticed by the Mormon people as against
that which he proclalms prevails In
the world in another form. He ex-
presses the thought that the polyg-
amy OF Abraham was quite permis-
sible, but that that of Solomon was
reprehensible Mr.. Hubbard said
That man and maid should wed
is beautiful and right
Every man who has accomplished
much in the world of art, literature.
architecture, finance, has been aided
by a good woman.
A man alone is only half a man.
Men and women inspire each other.
They put each other on their good be-
hayior
group of men alone are roGues.
Women alone are silly.
There is nothing more divine than
the comradeship of a man and woman.
mentally mated.
They double their joys and hslve
their sorrows by sharing them.
Moving at a like pace. they move
forward hand In hand.
Under these conditions everything
is beautiful to them. Even hardshlps
take on a new view and become oppor.
tunities for heroic endurance.
Only lovers laugh. Others grin and
bear it, and some there be who bear
1t and are unable to grin.
When you relax and laugh you elm.
mate dead tissue. When you Gluten
and hold. you harbor toxins.
Yes. men need women. and women
need men. And the lack of equality
in their occupations has worked for
wrong to a degree no person can COM
pute To make and be loyal to your
mate is divine-also, 1t is natural
For that which is natural is divine
The divine manifeSts Itself through
nature
Promiscuity Is perversion. and its
end is dissolution, disease. death and
the grave.
The penalties that nature places on
promiscuity are so frightful that one
Is aghast that some men refuse to
learn the lesson.
Outraged nature in her wrath seems
intent in snuffing out the race.
two sorts of polygamy-one the polyg-
amy OF Abraham and the other the
polygamy of Solomon.
Abraham was a dweller on the
plains, in a Sparsely settled country.
Under pioneer conditions. tempered
by poverty, polygamy Is fraught with
good results.
The plural wife on the plains tolls
and economies and brings up her
children to be useful Soft luxury Us
far from them. Self-indulgeDce Is not
In their code In great degree such
woman is free. She IS not subject at
critical periods to the Tyranny OF the
male man
She is respected and she is protect
ed at a time when she needs protec-
ton
The polygamy of the Turk is a to-
tally different thing from the Polygamy
practiCed by Brigham Dung. The Turk
buys his women In the market place
and disposes of them as he wishes,
idleness. ignorance and vanity play
big parts in the herem. The Utah idea
was based on religious concept and
loyalty. frankness. truth and work were
its watchwords.
AS | write there comes to my mind
two sisters married TO a Mormon apos-
tie. These women are alive and we'll
today. One is seventy years old. the
other siXty-seyen. One sister is the
mother of twelve children. the other
of ten.
All of these children grew to ma.
turity All are splendid in health, no.
Ia IN I'M
erage.
No one who knows Utah ever had
the temerity to say that the children
of plural marriages are at a dIsad-
vantage when compared with children
of homogeneous marriages in the east
ern states. The real fact Is they are
away beyond the average eastern
product
In communities closely settled this
problem would not be so: in fact, po-
lygamy disappears with the growth of
the town and city
As the cities increase and succeed a
leisure class is formed, and vice be.
gins 10 flourish. supported largely by
married men
The indissoluble marriage tie-the
one thing for which the clergy fight
then becomes "a fostering sore on the
social body polite" | use the phrase
applied by certain bishop to divorce.
That which God has Joined together
should not try 10 rivet together. To
no man can put asunder.
That which God has not joined. man
do so is to breed a condition which Is
worse than polygamy at its worst;
and worse than polygamy at its best
This condition to which ! refer is
that of the marital steam roller. a con-
dition which certain men regard as
right and holw. Tho rule
of tho steam roller is that form of
marital Tyranny where the man re-
duces his family to a degree Of dis
clpline where love. hope. JOY. aSplra-
ton and ambition die a.borning
Imagine a So-called intelligent man,