In this 1904 cartoon, a servant wearing a fez presents the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II (shown with his head protruding from his harem) a newspaper stating that (according to the then-current Reed Smoot hearings) President Joseph F. Smith had 5 wives and 42 children. The Sultan is stunned to learn that he isn’t the world’s sole practitioner of polygamy. (Wikimedia Commons public domain)
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