Mormonism: its leaders and designs./ By John Hyde.

THEORETICAL POLYGAMY.
lish this revelation as the origin and defense of polygamy is
deceiving the people; and this mal,es Smith an impostor.
Either then he was an impostor, or an adulterer; and impostor he was in either case.
There existed another and still more forcible reason why
the Mormons in Utah should not practice polygamy. By
the census returns of 1851, made by the Mormons themselves, it was shown that there were in Utah 6,020 males to
only 5,310 females, an excess of males over females of 710
persons. Now, when it is considered that some of those
men had over twenty wives, and many frorn two to six
wives each, it was defrauding so many more young men of
wives; and, therefore, homes; and, therefore, happiness;
and as the Mormon doctrine is "No wife, no glory; no glory,
no salvation," it was, according to their own faith, building
up their own kingdoms at the expense of the salvation of
their own brethren. Damning hundreds to get glory!
Every physical and moral crime carries within it the elements of its own punishment. Polygamy is theoretically
incorrect, and should, therefore, exhibit its fallacy when
practically adopted. The worst argument against the Mormon polygamy is its practical results, as proven in chap. iii.
Polygamy being theoretically erroneous, reasoning men and
women should discard it as a principle; being actually debasing, they should reject it as a practice.
The charge of polygamy was invariably denied by the
Mormons for fourteen years, although it was true; and it
behooves every man to demand, "Are not the other charges
made against them equally true, although they may have
been equally denied?"
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