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Once again, even across the distance of the great plains, Mormons felt the hostility of the U.S. people. Once more the cause was polygamy. Actually plural marriage was not widespread. Only...
...handsome Joseph exclaimed: "Whenever I see a pretty woman, I have to pray for grace." Sometimes grace failed. A Mormon apostate published a vitriolic exposure of Joseph's clandestine marriages. Then one day, after long argument with his (original) wife, Joseph announced a new revelation ; by it, plural marriage became a part of the Mormon code, remained so until...
...British Government complain of a hostile U.S. press, asked Winston Churchill last week, "when we have here in this country witnessed such a melancholy exhibition as that provided by some of our most time-honored and responsible journals. . . ." Although the Prime Minister made "journals" plural, everyone in his House of Commons audience (see FOREIGN NEWS) knew that he had particular reference to the London Times-which has lately had considerable to say about Britain's intervention in Greece...
...members), solidly respectable Mormon Church has learned that polygamy dies hard. Despite Mormon President Wilford Woodruff's 1890 revelation that the world was not yet ripe for plural marriage, there have been periodic polygamous scandals. Many polygamists went underground, kept their plural families in hideaways sometimes known as "lambing grounds." In the last few years the Mormons have expelled more than 200 men and women for polygamy...
Cried Polygamist Rhea Allred Kunz, mother of eight (see cut; back row, third from left): "Plural marriage cannot be stamped out. Regardless of wars and pestilence, there has always been a surplus of worthy women." Cried Polygamist Rulon C. Allred, husband of six: "Polygamy is a hard thing to live and anyone who thinks it is fun just ought...