But that apart, the Mormon defends polygamy as a moral institution, even as the Mohammedan does. Polygamy, he will tell you, had its origin' in an economic necessity. These pioneers who stvaggled across the continent, who struggled with Nature in her most savage mood and the Indian no Jess savage, pitched their tents in a desert; an arid, treeless, waterless waste. It was the arrogance of man in his presumption to think he could conquer Nature, but he conquered, as man always does.
The Mormon will tell you that if he was to survive population was necessary. Perhaps that was the reason; perhaps there wag another reason. To induce immigration the bait of women was held out to the men. The Church ruled with iron-clad sway. The women' having served their purpose worked as
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