. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . exposing him and his religious system,which he has not perused, from the title page to the con-clusion. He loses his temper every morning over the SaltLake Tribune, — the leading Gentile paper of Utah, — andlongs for a return of the days when one word of his wouldhave put a summary and permanent end to the existence ofthis sheet, by the utter annihilation of everything and every-body connected with it. But the time is forever past
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . exposing him and his religious system,which he has not perused, from the title page to the con-clusion. He loses his temper every morning over the SaltLake Tribune, — the leading Gentile paper of Utah, — andlongs for a return of the days when one word of his wouldhave put a summary and permanent end to the existence ofthis sheet, by the utter annihilation of everything and every-body connected with it. But the time is forever past whenthe unsheathing of his bowie-knife, or the crooking ofhis little finger, pronounced sentence upon offenders, andthe Gentile paper and its supporters flourish in spite of him. I remember once going into his ofiice, and finding himexamining the advertising circular of a book on Mormon-ism, written by a lady who had for a time been a residentof Utah. He commenced reading it aloud to me in awhining voice, imitating the tone of a crying , notwithstanding this attempt to make a jest of it, Iknew that the publication of this book annoyed him exces-. BRIGHAM YOUNG. PROPHETIC BEGGING. 521 sively, and that he was both curious and anxious concern-ing the contents, and the effect they would produce; for,with air his professed contempt for Babylon and its Gentileinhabitants, he is very sensitive concerning the opinionswhich are held concerning him by these unregenerate souls. Unscrupulous and avaricious, he has made even disastersprofitable to himself. After the tragical hand-cart expedi-tion, he sold the hand-carts that remained when the emi-grants had all got in for fifteen dollars apiece. This wasto go to the church fund, which virtually means Brig-hams private purse. It has been already related how hemade his improved cariiage scheme more than pay foritself several times over, although they did not survive thefirst trip. As Trustee in Trust of the Church of Jesus Chri
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