WOMEN WHO BELIEVE IN POLYGAMY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 1 April 1899, Page 7 (Supplement)

WOMEN WHO BELIEVE IN POLYGAMY.

A very -well-known woman in Utah, the land of the Mormons, has been interviewed on the subject of polygamy. She is a sixth wife, or a sixth widow, rather. 'There are only six of us left now,' she said., 'It grows lonely. We were twelve.

\Do I believe in polygamy? Of course I do. It is not practised now, but let me tell you Mormon women were better off when it was than they are now.

'We, were happier. To be good is tb be happy. A woman who smiles, upon her husband's wives, helps them in their griefs, rejoices with them in their joys,—that woman is a good woman. She puts self and selfishness aside. In that way she gains true happiness. The one-wife theory is a theory, which preaches that a selfish, egotistical, and tyrannical fancy or whim for one particular man is a higher and nobler thing than an unselfish, broad-minded, generous de-. sire to do that which is right, even though the doing of it kill the doer.

'Yes, I believe, in polygamy. Every woman in Utah does.'

Another eminent Utah woman, an unusually bright and attractive woman,, told the interviewer that she believed in polygamy.

'It's so much easier for women,* she said. 'When a man has four wives, as my husband has —had, I mean—he visits one one week, another the next, and so on. We get a chance to live our own lives. We do not have to spend our whole energies looking after him. Then the other wives are a great help in time of illness or trouble. • .

Tm a practical woman, and I believe in polygamy on practical grounds. Plural wives are better off than single wives—used to be, I mean, of course. There are no plural wives now.'

A young and beautiful woman who had just graduated from College also told the interviewer that she believed

in polygamy.

'There aren't enough men to go around,' she said. 'It is selfish for one woman to monopolise a man.'