The Nation's Curse

S.veral werks ago five of the daughter of lSrigham Vouük, laU; head of the Mor nam ehurch, were txjullrd lroiu thechurcl Tot the crime of h'aving gone to law wit! cortaJn of tho brcthron wljo atteinptód I nili ili.ru. A'flérward the elders, v.;; lin lu in.-iki' peacti wiili ihe cxpelled lit i ¦ iëni a oouple "t1 '¦ teachers " to ftiterviei th'ein. 'I'li. y r. .air. u fo the rfeidc'ncc o Miss Dora ïou'n. Whal dccitrred thét is told by t!io Salt Uke TrRmne, aa fdl Iows : '' VVe want to séc, gister Dora, ifyou wi! nol come back to us." " I havo recoived a note eallirig on m to appcar to answer a whnt wouU you do 1 " "Ou," replied IJrothcr Morris, [' I should go by all ineans- -by all mcans: " " Butlwon't do that," replied the hoir o.ss, " not for the world. " Oh, cnue nnw, star !))ra, don't say that. Lfyou havo done anything wroiin i will lio tbrgiveti." " V.'s, bttt f l):iveii'tdune;iiiylliiiiLr wrong Wllat IkIVI' I .1 .!! " You had a snit wilh your brothren didn't you f " "' Yes, and I wish to gracious I had nn other une." " Vfhat, with üïchnturu .'" " Yus, with tho Irethren." " Don't say that, sister Dora;- we don' want to hun jour feelings, but - " "And I don't waut you to liurt tuy feelings. If you do you'll go out of uiy house a good deal livclier thau you canie in. I -tood ust as ïuueh from the Mor mons as I intend to bear, and ifyou twoof fend me in any way you will po out of' tha door which a carponter put there for ius such people. "Oh, we don't want to hurt- " "Well, then, don't ask me to return to the church ; you enn't insult me worse than by requesting that." " Sister Dora, think of your father ani wother, and - " "Don't speak to me of uiy father, Mr Morris," she intorruptcd. " You and the whole church know that my father, proplie though you ca!l hini, broke many a woman's heart. lf it reijuircd of uie to break as many hearts and ruin as many women as my ('athcr iVhl, i thottld g" to perdition hi't'.iii! l would go back into the eliurch, and - " "Oh, sister Dora! " czclaimud the teachers. " It's a fact, and you know k is a fact. You know that manvof liis wivea die.l of broken hearts, and liow did ho leave the rest ? Look at my mother, and look at all the rest oftlu 111 ! A religión which breaks women's hearts and ruins Uieni is of the devil. That's what mornionisin does. Don't talk to me of my father ;.but 111 teil you one thing ; if' my l'ather were living at present you wouldn't dare to do what you are doing now. You wouldn't have stolen our money from us either. You prol regard my father as a prophet, and yet you have John Taylor standing-n my fatlier's shoes when you know he is the worst enemy my l'alhor luid on earth. And around hiui are gathered those brave apostles all swearing against father, while in liis lil'ctime, ¦ uldn't be servile enough. They aro bravo now ! " ïhe teachers were dunifouixied at the lionest estímate of her iather, Biighani Young, and said nothing. BEADTIES OF POIA'QAMY. l.c-ttcr in the Salt I.;ike Ant-I'olyK:ij Standiud. In SugarhouEC Ward, two miles south of Salt Jiake City, uves a good Damsh Mint, who, of conrse, loves Lis religión, and has several wives. It was the duty of one of the plural women to work on the farm and tako care oí' the cattlo and the mules. When not engaged in othur saintly avocations, it was the husband's custom to sit on the f'oiice lolding a horsewhip in his hand, likc a slave-driver, and oversee the woman when she was at labor in the lield. If sLe failed to perform the work aceording to bis ideas or in.-.truc'tioiis, he used to HU her like a ref'ractory horst' or mule ; in i'act he often vhipped her morí; severely than he would lis animéis, for he held a mule in rar hitther cptimation than he did awoman. " He ¦ould get anothor wilo any time, but itcost noney to get a mulo." Occasionally, when hare was not enough to keep her busy on the farm, he hired her out as a house .servant, and always collectcd her wages himaelf, asking quite a high priee for her serii-r. She happened to be hired to a neighbor of' mine, and oue day when he oame for her wages he dêmanded an extra dollar a week because ho had to hire a maa ,o do her cIioíuí iu the ücld. Thii saint elieved in polygamy, because when a wonan wore out or outlivcd her usefulness as i laborer, he could easily rcplaee her with a 'renh one. A few miles furthor from the house, on rhatis callfea Mili creek, lives another sainty polygamist, whose three wives are held o the strietest account for evcfy pound oi' jutter, every chicken or egg on the pUce, nd wou to the advonturous uno who daros o dispose of either without the consent of ïer lord and mister. Tho h'rst wife, who h old, and crippled with rhoumatis-in, ¦ JBgm for a sup of Lo:i, a luxury forbiddeu he wcuuuu, wbo aro required (o keep the Toni of wímIohi, aitbough the husbandfreueutly indulged in that and material comorts. Sho walclieJ an o"pp5rtunity when je was abneot and tradod a fow egg for the ivherewitlial to uiaku the coveted büverae, vhich ihoMÓdyed, ai .-hethuught, in Morefc 'he husband howevtr, foutid it out- a man n polygatay has no lack of tale-bearars- nd he dragged the puor old woman to the reek, plungod her ander the water and held her Uicre until he thought her sufficientiy puni.shed for hor sin in breaking tho word of wisdom, as woll as for meddling with hU eggs, and until she promised never to repoat tlin offense. I have suppressed the namcs in botli of the above cases, although I could have given theni, because I . understand tliat it is the policy of the Standard not to show u) iudividuals, but to exposé the workings and the debasiog efiFeots of the systein. The first incident shows in what ostimstion the majority of men hold the w.inan, and to what depths of degradation tbt vystoni can reduce a woman who allowa horsoll'to be placed in such a position.