As a Chinaman Saw Us : Passages From His Letters to a Friend At Home
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I fully expected to see the Gaikwar of Baroda, or some such celebrity, but found a tall, ministerial, typical Amer- ican, with long beard, whom intro- duced to me as a Mormon bishop, who, 159 AS A CHINAMAN SAW US he said, had a virtual conge d'elire in the Church, at the same time referring to me as a Chinese Mormon with "fifty wives." I endeavored to protest, but explained to the bishop that I was merely modest. The Mormons are a sect who believe in polygamy. Each man has as many wives as he c...an support, and the population increases rapidly where they settle. The ludicrous feature of Mor- monism is that the Government has failed to stop it, though it has legislated against it; but it is well known that the Mormon allows nothing to interfere with his "revelations," which are on "tap" in Utah. I was much amused at the bishop's re- marks. He said that if the American politicians who were endeavoring to kill them off would marry their actual con- cubines, and all Americans would do the same, the United States would have a 1 60 LIFE IN WASHINGTON Mormon majority the next day.
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