ceremony that they dare not give testimony against their husbands.  Also, the jurors are two-thirds Mormons and these law breakers would never punish one of their own number, and no person could be convicted without destroying the rights of trial by jury.  Mr. Robinson, an Englishman who has lately written a book laudatory of the Mormons, makes the statement that “Many Mormon women could not be happy until their husbands took other wives.”  A lady who has written thrilling stories on the subject of polygamy, writes the following in response to Mr. Robinson of a friend of hers who was a Methodist and embraced Mormonism because she had been as she thought miraculously healed in answer to a prayer of a Mormon Elder.  Soon after reaching Salt Lake her husband took another wife.  She was an American and had been brought up in a Christian family, so she could not take kindly to polygamy; she thought, however, that it was something ordered by God and that she must be very wicked to have such bitterness in her heart towards the woman who had won her husband’s love.  She said, “I thought I would go for counsel to those who were wiser and better than I, so I paid a visit to a model family, two wives in one house who were said to live like sisters, and exceptionally happy.  I told the first wife my story and asked her how she attained her happiness.  ‘Happiness,’ she replied, ’I don’t know the meaning of the word, I have never seen a happy hour since that woman came into my house and never shall until I drop into my grave.’  The second wife said, ’for the sake of peace, I have given up every right both as woman and wife.  If it were not for my child, I would have thrown myself into the river long ago.’  Then I went to two of Brigham’s wives who were held up as examples.  The first to whom I spoke said, ’I have shed tears enough since I have been in polygamy to drown myself twice over;’ the other said, ’the plains from the Mississippi River to Salt Lake are strewed with the bones of women who were not strong enough to bear the burdens of polygamy, and the cemetery here is full of them; but every one of these women will wear a martyr’s crown.’” Women who give their consent to the death knell of happiness do it on the ground that their reward will be greater in Heaven, and that the few years in this world is as nothing in view of eternity.  Buoyed up by these hopes, women leaving large families at home with infants in their arms, accompany their husbands and give them in marriage to young girls who have grown up at their very doors.

They have often left their husbands and even their children behind them in foreign lands or in our own, to gain the coveted privilege of passing the remnant of their days in communion with the Latter Day Saints in the glorious State of Zion.  These deluded women get their deserved punishment for deserting the highest and acknowledged duties of life, by the ignominy and contempt heaped upon them by those who allured them from their homes.  Contact with this institution has in a few cases not only deadened all finer sensibilities, but has trampled upon instinct, when mothers coming with grown daughters to Utah not only marry Mormons themselves, but urge their girls to become polygamic wives to their own husbands.  Very few probably are of this character, and the majority are mere tools in the hands of a tyrannical priesthood.