The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-24
EVIL PoLYGAMoUS WORK.

When the late Apostle Owen Wood.
ruff was down in the Mexican Mormon
colony Just previous to his demise he
told the elders there privately that
while the practice of polygamy had
been temporarily suspended the op-
portunity was again presented to them
TO take new plural wives if they so de-
sired, And this fact worked havoc
among young women down there, as is
illustrated in two cases of which The
Tribune has knowledge.
Elder Willard Guyman was one of
those who took willingly and delight.
edly to the suggestion of Apostle
Woodruff. For some time he had had
his leering eye upon young girl just
then blooming into womanhood She
was going to school at Juarez, being
near sixteen years of age The girl
was a Miss Lunt Elder Guyman, pro-
ceeding under the permission of Apos-
tie Woodruff. went to the mother of
the girl and presented his case, lay
ing particular stress upon the fact that
an apostle of the church had released
the elders in Mexico from their OBJ
legation 10 observe the manifesto is
sued by Apostle Woodruff s father.
But the mother would not listen to his
pleading and told Guyman that she
would not have him as son -in-law
even If he were not already married.
The mother having previously heard
that the elder was going from Dublan
to ,JuareZ. where the daughter was at
tending school, she asked him 10 CON
vey to the girl letter which she wrote
and scaled. In that letter the young
lady was advised to beware of Elder
Guyman and by no means to grant his
desire. Guyman went to JuareZ, car
rying the letter, but not presenting it
to the girl. Instead, he eudeavorcd to
entice her into a polygamous marriage.
Phe young lady, however, was keeping
company with another young fellow
and she repulsed Guyman, But he was
not TO be daunted, and he told her that
that she become his plural wife. After
about two days of wrangling and badg-
ering the girl, be finally got her CON
sent under the protest that it was not
because of love that she yielded, but
because she thought that she was in
duty bound to obey "the voice Of the
Lord as delivered through His servants,
the apostles - After the ceremony was
performed Guyman delivered the moth
er's letter. Today that woman is a
miserable wreck, her life having been
ruined by the polygamous elder, Even
after the marriage the girl pleaded to
be released, and her sweetheart went
SO far as 10 go to President A. +. Nc
Donald, who had performed the cere-
mony, and ask him to grant to her a
church divorce from Guyman in relief of
the misery that had already set in. The
young fellow offered to marry the girl
if the president of the Juarez stake
would order her release from the po-
lygamous tolls. But it was of no avail
she was bound and must remain
bouud-and another woman was cast in
to the unhappiness that had cursed the
lives Of thousands of her sisters.
There was another case, which for
the present shall remain unnamed In
II the man married two sisters. The
second wife was the younger of the
two, and her enslavement came about
in a similar way-that is. through obed-
ience to the will of an apostle, This
wronged woman now has four children,
but she declares that she does not now,
and never did in all her life, love her
polygamous husband; that she never
could and never intended to try. She
had simply been the victim of a mis-
taken idea of duty combined with the
lawlessness and the lying Of the Nor
mon priesthood. She declares that she
has suffered agonies, but she has made
no complaint because she knew she
had no right to alienate the affections
Of her sisters husband. She is sim
ply in misery, with no prospect Of re.
lief in this life.
] Here, are some of the results of Amos