above all, to be 'manly in their fidelity to their wives.' Nor could anything exceed the impressiveness of the response which the people gave instantaneously to the appeal of their President for the support of their voices. The great Tabernacle was filled with waves of sound as the 'Amens' of the congregation burst out. The shout of men going into battle was not more stirring than the closing words of this memorable conference spoken as if by one vast voice: 'Hosannah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth; He is with us now and will be for ever. Amen!'" CHAPTER VI. LEGISLATION AGAINST PLURALITY. A people under a ban--What the Mormon men think of the Anti-Polygamy Bill--And what the Mormon women say of polygamy--Puzzling confidences--Practical plurality a very dull affair--But theoretically a hedge-hog problem--Matrimonial eccentricities--The fashionable milliner fatal to plurality--Absurdity of comparing Moslem polygamy with Mormon plurality--Are the women of Utah happy?--Their enthusiasm for Women's Rights. UTAH, therefore, at the time of my visit was "a proclaimed district"--to use the Anglo-Indian phrase for tracts suspected of infanticide--and every Mormon within it had a share in the disgrace thrust upon it. Nor was the triumph of the Gentile concealed at the result. The Mormons, therefore, were consolidated, in the first instance, by the equal pressure of the new law upon all sections of the church alike; in the next by the openly expressed exultation of the Gentiles. I wrote at the time: "They feel that they are under a common ban. The children have read the Bill or have had its purport explained to them, and it is well known even among the Gentiles how keen the grief was in every household when the news that the Bill had passed reached Utah. Wives still shed bitter tears over the act of Congress which breaks up their happy homes, and robs them and their children of the protecting presence of a husband and father. The Bill was aimed to put a stop to a supposed self-indulgence of the men. But the Mormons have never thought of it in this light at all. They see in it only an attempt to punish their wives. And it is this alleged cruelty to their wives and children that has stubborned the Mormon men." Meanwhile the Mormons' affect a contemptuous disregard Of the Commission and all its works. I have spoken to many, some of them leaders of local opinion, and everywhere I find the same amused indifference to it expressed. "We have too many real troubles," they say, "to go manufacturing imaginary ones. We must live our religion in the present and leave the future to God." "But," I would say, "this is not a question of the future. All children born after the 1st of January, 1883, will be illegitimate--and in these matters Nature is generally very punctual. Now, are you going to break the law or going to keep it?"