to tho lesson tesson of utah the heartless indifference to ito the most sacred rights and interests of women which is everywhere manifested by by politicians is painfully illustrated by senator frelin hu sens letter to the boston dally daily ally aily advertiser in justification of f his infamous utah bill we use the word infamous advisedly because nothing can be more infamous than an attempt to reduce an unprotected class of citizens to perpetual political subjugation without argument or discussion and without giving that class any opportunity to be heard in its own behalf mr Freling huysen says one word as to suffrage that wa was not the primary object of tho bill its object was the equal enforcement of the law in view of the peculiar condition of the territory the reason why female suffrage was prohibited is sufficiently apparent without explanation in a senate that would not under ordinary circumstances interfere with the people of any territory adopting under the constitution such rules of suffrage rage as they saw proper through a long debate the report of which occupies from twenty to thirty pages of the globe I 1 think there was n t a word said against the limitation of suffrage as provided in the bill in question this is a most startling and significant anh ant statement not a word was as said bonc concerning eming the limitation of suffrage ll to male citizens the repeal ot of woman suffrage pe was not even alluded to during a long debate inthe senate upon a bill bil which disfranchises franchises dis the women 0 utah and which makes any attempt by a woman to vote a misdemeanor punishable with fine and imprisonment and which prohibits tho the denof men of the territory from ever again extending suffrage to women this is indeed a conclusive evidence oi of the necessity of woman suffrage age think of it senator wilson was present who had bad himself introduced c e d a bill to give women suffrage in the ahe territories half a dozen other senators known to be in favor of woman suffrage rage were pies present ent and yet these men all sat si lenand tand several of them voted for this bill which takes away suffrage from the women of utah henceforth let women trust no man to represent their political interests who ignot is not elected in part by the votes of women it is a crowning evidence of the truth of the maxim that no one class can safely be trusted to represent another but mr Freling huysen says th that the reason why female suffrage was prohibited is sufficiently apparent without eipl explanation in in view of the tha peculiar condition of the territory why to so it ia A not apparent to any one who believes v the equal rights bights of woman or on the dorit contrary nary in view of the becu liar condition of the territory wo vo man needs suffrage rage today to day in utah more than anywhere else and more than thau ever aver before look at the facts without prejudice and see it if this is not so 1 the population of utah is divided into two hostile cla eld classes stes mor mons and gentiles the Mormon votes even without the largely exceed the gen gentiles tiles in number but this preponderance is increased by the votes of the women because almost all the women of utah happen to be mormons cormons Mor mons indeed almost all the resident poe POW population t nha fla tion the farms the thell theli bemies omes of utah tah are composed of mormons Mor mons they are a peaceable industrious people devoted to their thelt peculiar observances with a theology theolog y which not only permits but inculcates polygamy as an article of faith and are characterized by the exclusiveness of social feeling which sectarianism develops and persecution intensities intensifies 1 the gentiles on the bont hont contrary nary are chiefly composed of miners rough reckless frontiersmen without fixed homes without wives or female relatives this floating population population is naturally jealous of mormon lormon supremacy and and impatient tf of restraints whether salutary or otherwise ihben when a gentile sees a mormon and the women of his famil family y cast several votes he does not s top stop to consider that he might neutralize these votes by making a home and inviting his female fema le relatives to leave the east and settle settie with him in utah nor kor does doek he ask himself whether these women have not as much kigh tigh tto vote as himself upon ques klofis dybich equally concern all W slimly sees gees the momentary tair tain ebia idt spy numerical disadvantage and appeals e a I 1 s to the authorities e s in washington g t on to strike down the women and such men as senator freling huysen are prompt to do his cowardly bidding but it is said these women help sustain 16 by their votes the institution of polygamy well suppose they do and suppose this institution for which they plead the patriarchal sanctions or of the old oid testament is as unnatural and as injurious as its bitterest opponents represent it and suppose that we concede without question that forcible interference by federal authority Is right and expedient and necessary what then will not these thee poor women the victims of a false theology and a mistaken sense of duty need hereafter every right and privilege of citizenship more than women who are more moie happily circumstanced if the united states courts are aio to deprive these women of their so called husband and declare them unmarried and pronounce their children bastards and compel them to rely upon their own resources for the future support of themselves and their children ought we not at least to recognize and respect their equal rights of citizenship why give a vote to the man who is a polygamist and refuse it to the woman why increase the power of the strong and double the bur of the weak if any class of mormons cormons should be dis franchised it certainly ought not to be tu the women but man toman man so ott ui la Is always so sd to woman the utter indifference of to the rights of the women in is sin in singular contrast to its morbid sensitiveness in regard the rights of colored men that the senate judiciary committee in view of the very peculiar condition of south carolina had quietly reported a bill the effect of which would be to deprive colored men of suffrage would a long debate have taken place without a single a allusion to the proposed limitation of suffrage to white men on the contrary mr sumner would have exhausted the resources of elo P and every republican senator would nave have denounced the proposition as a conspiracy against liberty let us hope that the day will come when the rights of women will find nind as many and as earnst earnest defenders in the congress of the united states as the rights of ef colored men find now but that day will never dawn until the women of america are armed wath with the ballot H B B comans womans Wo mans journal