POLYGAMY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2824, 13 April 1882, Page 3

POLYGAMY.

‘ The “ New Zealand Herald’s ’’ special! correspondent has visited Utah. While there he wisely, made, ;the '.acquaintance of some persons of repute, and spent a very interesting evening With ia wealthy gentleman who had two wives. The conversation the visitor‘had* with the' ladies is well; related, and the following extract will interest our fair readers “And now the conversation went fast and furious; and; the two ladies challenged us to say what fault we had to find with Mormanistn. I was sitting by the elder wife, “ Mary,” as l found her name to be, and I ventured to ask her whether she liked the system' of double wives, and if ,she would, not rather have Mr Young all to:, herself. . “ Well,” she said, “my natural feelings,would say yes, and it was not . without’a''Struggle yvith my natural feelings that I consented to his taking a second wife; hut then wahad an' object in it It is in accordance .with our/religipua principles; and;it wa3.'6htirely : with ll my consent, and hdt orrtj*my consent, but my Wish, that Mr Young married Emma.” li . And nowl asked, “ that you have .been in this Way li'ving-in : pdlygamy, do ;you not find it irksoraO,'?” '“ No ; .Emma and I live like two sisters ; iwe never ..have a word of difference. We live in ; the same house, sit at the same table; of course,” she added, “we .have our separate apartmeht's.’’ Ttiisf after remark, I may state, wad';tieC[ocptly. t |e.peated, ap if incidentally] during the evening in conversation ,by both the ladies, ’ and indicates that they resent .a, common libel of them‘ by 1 the Getnile scoffer, and ,which ;Hp.s,. expression in a caricature which appears in the .shop window of nearly every Gentile storekeeper in Utah, and which represents tfhe bed of the late Brigham Young as of giant proportions, . with seventeen disconsolate widows turning their weeping eyes towards the vacant nightcap in the middle. This X learn is a libel, *and hence, I have ho doubt, the remark so frequently made during the evening, “ OI: course we have our separate apartment.” ; .