Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . d that the wasteof life is not because the chil-dren are weaker but largelybecause polygamy leaves toomany without proper will be considered moreat length when I treat of thepolitical economy of it to say here that thedeath-rate is abnormally mortality among childrenwas long greater in Salt LakeCity than any other in America,and the death-rate of Utahonly exceeded by that of Louis-iana. The Mormons explainthis by sa
Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . d that the wasteof life is not because the chil-dren are weaker but largelybecause polygamy leaves toomany without proper will be considered moreat length when I treat of thepolitical economy of it to say here that thedeath-rate is abnormally mortality among childrenwas long greater in Salt LakeCity than any other in America,and the death-rate of Utahonly exceeded by that of Louis-iana. The Mormons explainthis by saying that their peopleare generally poor and exposedto hardships., but much of thatpoverty is directly traceable totheir religion. Another sadfact is the general neglect ofmedical care, or rather a gen-eral tendency to run to wildand absurd schemes of doctor-ing. They claim that layingon of hands and the prayer offaith will heal the sick, and,yet, no people within myknowledge are so given toThomsonianism, steamdoctoring, yarb medicine, and every other irregular modeof treating disease. One day, during my residence there, three young children. 270 POLYGAMY; OR, THE MYSTERIES died in the seventeenth ward of scarlet fever. In neither casewas a physician called; the Bishop came and laid on handswith the holy anointing, and an old woman treated two ofthem with a mild palliative, such as is used for sore the patients live after such treatment, it is a miracle; ifthey die it is the will of the Lord. Two-thirds of thepolygamists do not and cannot attend properly to their Bishop of one ward had thirty children living, and nearlytwenty dead. Joseph Smith had a dozen spiritual wives; butthree sons survived him—all of his legal wife. When Heber Kimball was alive there were five men in thecity who had together seventy wives; they had, all told, fourhundred and thirty-two children. A polygamists grave-yardis a melancholy sight. One bishop had seventeen childrenbuMcd
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