. 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 . persistent po-lygamists in Utah, and he has nothing to give his wives fortheir maintenance. They struggle on as best they may,striving in every way to earn a scanty sustenance for them-selves and their children. Some of them live in the mostwretched squalor and degrading poverty. He, in the meanwhile, goes on foreign and home missions, and gathersthousands of unsuspecting victim,s to Zion. Poljgamyis his favorite subject, and lie
. 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 . persistent po-lygamists in Utah, and he has nothing to give his wives fortheir maintenance. They struggle on as best they may,striving in every way to earn a scanty sustenance for them-selves and their children. Some of them live in the mostwretched squalor and degrading poverty. He, in the meanwhile, goes on foreign and home missions, and gathersthousands of unsuspecting victim,s to Zion. Poljgamyis his favorite subject, and lie grows very eloquent whilediscoursing upon it, quoting Scripture freely in support of the glorious system, — which,by the way, is the only sup-port he does give it, or thathe feels it his duty to he has once convertedand married a girl, she is leftto shift for herself, or tostarve and die of , at least, have met thisfate, — one a very prettyEnglish girl, who wasstarved, body and heart, andwho, with her little childrt-n,died from exposure, while herhusband was at Salt Lake, being entertained by someof his rich brothers in the The Apostle Orson Pkatt,The Charapion of Polygamy. THE LITTLE KINGDOM OF THE PROPHETS BROTHER. I5I He is still the recognized defender of the gospel of poly-gamy, and is quoted by every one as an authority ; his numer-ous and more pressmg duties prevent his caring for his family,and nowhere in Utah are the wives more wretched or neg-lected, or children more ignorant and uncared for, than thewives and children of Orson Pratt, the eloquent expounderof the beauties and glories of a polygamous life, and thebest educated and most able man, intellectually, in Utah. Another polygamist of the same stamp is Joseph Young,brother to Brigham, and President of the Seventies. Hehas busied himself in building up his kingdom ever sinceJoseph Smith gave him that precious piece of counsel inNauvoo. When he was a young man, he married a gi
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