Show A WOMANS W I NS S STRONG G REASONS I S SWe We e learn from the tho New Trill Trib Tribune une utie that Mrs A Lockwood who vas vau once the tho woman cnn can for tor or President of ot tho the United States and ami who Mho Is a 1 noted anti able lawyer and member ot ut tho the bar IJar was ns re reo requested quested n a short time ago to sign tho the petition to tJ unsent unseat Senator Reed need Smoot The he distinguished lady responded with witha a 1 letter which Is III worthy of oe lion Ion It H was addressed to the tho Inter Council of 01 Women anti and Is I as nil follows i iI I am In III receipt of ot your OUr blank l tI Ions and circular asking mo ml to you In unseating Senator Heed t train from the tho United 11 plates tates Senate In III nn nil answer to this request I beg leave leao to that 1 I am all nm radically opposed ell to your our petition anti protest have sent Rent sentI ho lito I papers ia ns a nil a ny lawyer would wool ci do doI dotO I tO 0 Senator Heed Smoot whom I highly not because I have any person perMon personal al at acquaintance with him him except his hl good reputation for tor morality religion anti and uprightness among the tho whom he lie h represents both bolh Mormons and umi in Utah You 1011 say any a that the tue Church of at Latter lay day la Saints controls elections III In Utah Now Non I do tin not know lenol this but hut I J have hoard loard It 11 said 1011 that the Catholic church controls tho tue elections In III New York 1 I fould r of 01 choice have elections controlled continued by hy the th church thou than by b an Rn and ami the saloon You Yoi say that the tho Mormon Church claims to be hO superior to the tho govern taint So do tin nil orthodox churches and aint the tue thirteen n united Colonies were sere erl founded on tho tilt principle that con rOil U III superior to law low and I sty Hay 11 to 10 a you ou that although a n wo woo woman woman man anti and a II lawyer by b profession loll for years whenever a n law Im on my III conscience nn n fl tho the old oil Fugitive Slave law iw did It Is conscience first IrtH and oud not tho the hl Clod Is above III law aw the Constitution Con You have no tIG more right to Inquire Into nto the conscience of Heed Smoot thou than you have that of 01 any nn other United Stated Senator t The Constitution does Oct lot require Ii ri man to have havo a 1 con can conscience science In III order to become n a Senator Utah In lit a ft State where tIm thu women omen vote ote mid and help to make mako tho the laws They have haven havea a n right to representation In the United 8 Senate anti and to sol select ct whom hom they please It Is tho the fundamental right of ot ofa a n State Slate S The Tue ho third paragraph of ot your our poll lion Ion Is U too weak to answer Your circular says cays The ho lion Ion of or womanhood the Ihl demoralization of childhood under tinder such conditions 10 lion II Is III Impossible to describe You might i make Ignorant people who wha have never neer visited Utah believe this thill hut but nobody who has hn ever eer set foot Inside of ot the State It 11 Is III nn an Insult to our Mormon sisters which whirls 1 I resent There are no nomore nomore nomore more moral people veople or more educated In the tho United States than thon the th women of or Utah Their children are oro lovely welcome well nell ell born well nursed nur ell well wall bred brell anti In n ft hotter better condition generally than of ot the other children of the tho United States If It you ou good Christian women really realty wish to do 10 the world a service and commemorate yourselves take up UI the tho miserable condition of tho the submerged class clau of ot women In our great cities like New Now York Chicago and San Francisco co tho victims of 01 a system sy tem worse than polygamy If IC any exists In this coun the poor miserable half holf clothed half fed children there who wha do donot donot donot not know kno what mother soother love lovo and ond care cole mean Utah provides for tor her hor own poor ant does docs not require brothels for tor a n de do degraded graded manhood ns nil well as a woman womanhood womanhood hood I deny den that there th re are longer polygamous Joly teachings In Utah but as that they thy ore arc well ordered moral and religious people Your persecution tion of or them reminds me mc of or tho the old days of or In Massachusetts and time tho spirit which drove the tho Quakers and Baptists out of oC Connecticut and de tie declared dared that tho the Catholics should not hold holt land In Virginia This Is an era of culture arbitration lion tion mind toleration sisters sister Let us pray praylor for lor light I do not believe In polygamy my lilY Very respectfully re m LV A LOCKWOOD |