Year: 1873

A GoodT Look at Mormonslom Through

 the LOrgnette of Mrs. Eliza Webt | Young.

 An account is printed of an interview

 with Mrs. Eliza Webb Young, the seven

 teenth wife of the pillar of Mormon

 dom, and it will interest all who either

 have entered, or are about to enter, o1

 are anxious to get out of the married

 state. The description which the inter-

 viewer gives is not complimentary to

 polygamy as it exists in Utah, and IS

 emphatically unfavorable to Brigham

 Young. The lady from whom the facts

 are gleaned speaks with an energy evi-

 de1Bly inspired by suffering. At the

 early age of twenty-two, when Brigham

 Young first met her, she had already been married and divorced, and, heed,

 less of several suitors who were anxious

 to claim her hand, led retired life with

 her father and mother in Little Cotton

 wood. Here she was sought by Brigham

 Young. If we are to receive Mrs.

 Eliza's account without questioning, he

 was inspired more by vanity than any

 other passion, and sought her hand be-

 cause it pleases him to display to the

 world succession of new, young wives.

 Exuding at once that unctuous palaver

 and magnetism for which those women

 who have come under his influence claim that he is5renowned,h ,he enticed her ear with ''good counsel" and per- suaded her that when she married again she should marry, not for love, but for the sake of having some one at hand who could give her sound advice. We confess that this is a way of looking at the object which would never have oc- cured to us. A woman sometimes marries man on account of his beauty, but on account of his capacity to lec- ture her, never 8'Ht EE-'l Y '.t

 Having proceeded thus far, Brigham next endeavored toprove to his victim that he was that wise man upon whom it was prudent for her to fix her affec- tions. He then introduced other in- ducements, in the shape of the offer of house and one thousand dollars per year pocket money. He reminded her that his only object was the salvation of her poor, perishing soul, and her eleva- tion to #queenhood. Meanwhile he got the better of her brother in business negotiations, and got the whole of Eli za's family so under his thumb that (still following the line of the lady's ac- count) she resolved to. sacrifice herself and become his wife, in order to save her brother from his machinations and to please her parents. The upshot was that they were married, the triumphant bridegroom presenting her with three dress patterns and fifty dollar note as Q wedding gift.

 A few months after the marriage the programme was changed. Brigham not only left off visiting her, but even sent her and her mother to superintend one of his farms. Here he left them in al- most total neglect, so that Mrs. Eliza | counted herself happy when she could get five pounds of sugar, quarter of a | pound of tea, and few candles-beau- tiful fulfllments, these, of the ante-nup-1 tial promise of pocket-money to the | tune of one thousand dollars @ year. Finally she took to keeping boarders, and amid all the troubles of one of the most trying vacations on earth, during which all she obtained from her hus- band was two calico dresses, she was at lacked with pleurisy. Resolving to ap- peal to the humanity of Brigham, since Ill appeals to other feelings seemed like y to be wasted she managed to reach his office and made known her wretchedness md needs. Instead of ordering her medical attendance, and supplying her with every comfort an invalid in her could demand, he directed his 'ommsssary to give her two bits worth of fresh neat" and sent her 'n her way. This time her sense of outrage was strungto the highest point. She sold the goods which the house by auction, and resolved o quit forever man who had done lothing to justify the name of husband 'xcept make promises he had never full filed. Whether successful or not in Ter aims, she resolved that, for the sake 'f other women who had suffered like Ter, she would make every effort to dis associate herself from one, of whose af- ection she could only claim the one- eventeenth share, and who had even lisowned that share by treating her with every tyranny and meanness.