Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1860 — Some of the Evils of Mormonism. [ARTICLE]

Some of the Evils of Mormonism.

The women especially are slaves, with the exception of a few favorite first wives. The subsequent wives are servants—one cook, another chambermaid, each_ one. performing some . particular household duty. They are poorly clad, without' education, without gentility, and infinitely removed from the exalted position held by their sisters in more favorable lands. As might be expected, the children are little cared for, have few educational advantages, and grow up accustomed to every scene of vice; such abominably dirty children as swarm the streets of the Mormon villages arc to be nowhere else seen outside of the filthy alleys of our fast cities. The mortality among them is unusually great, although this Territory is remarkably healthy. Otj”The Lafayette Courier anounces a strike among the tailors in that place. Something of the kind was hinted several days ago. Now it has come. All the “jours” stopped work on Friday until the “bosses” will agree to pay the bill of prices copied below, which the “bosses” say they will not pay, Fine dress or frock coats. ,®5 00 Fine business coats 4 00 Coarse. “* “ 300 Fino overcoats. . . 5 00 Sack “ 100 Coarse sack overcoats 3 50 Summer coats 2 50 Linn 11 coats 1 50 Fine pants $1 2.5 tot 75 \'ests—all, around 1 25 Work by the week 9 00 Work by the hour... 20 OJT’A colored preacher was once describing to his congregation the process of Adam’s creation. Said he: “When Gbd made Adam, he stooped down, scraped up a little dirt, wet it a little, warmed it in his baud, and squeezed it in de right shape, and den, lean it up against de fence to dry.” “Top dare!” said a Universalist darkey, “you say that are de fust man eber made!” “Yes—in course!” “Den, jes tell me a fellow whar dat ar fenpe come from!” “Hush,” said the preacher, “two more questions like dat would spoil all de foolology in de world.”