Show GOVERNOR 11 Y UA c OP OF DOWER to ic 1 r t T TIIE rl night right ht of dower seems to tf ro IR IF fe ave are liv lip 11 an alarming aidt aidi ming ding degree imi orto onto talt tait mo ho wakes makes tone of subjects for fot private pkim at and lie ile this his lilg rew rep recommendation emendation at the previous pravio s gessl gessi on of the legislature IF I 1 justice dern demands andt tho the night tight 91 P P 6 ryer ahoo d 1 I lie ile claims that J rold unrest arid umi uri follow it its denial and states stales that hat f it is denied in inno no state or except except where something P bot I 1 ajeet bag has been becu several t times and the governor must muerl ad ithen ither V ers exy blind to the truth or he rin rih to create a false impression in regard gaRto to it I 1 4 f before ime lue c explaining the legal status of married women in utah and a d why the thu dower has been abolished it willbe will bre necessary nace sar v to show what this right of is that the governor wants restored we have mave ilone idile it before but hyill now do it atla again idl is a widows w dows life interest inne in third of tile the real teai estate left by ha her deceased husband and which he acquired solely during tho the cover t yire it is i a relic of thel old com n law of england lz wiand which de a troman legal legai identity as mon ron as ashe she was married under ita it a yaa married ried nied woman was a legal nonentity S a all ali we had hati belonged to her t ter yer erab eram 9 anc pe lidtke tiu rid lid the man was ilea lica br sonai property if she had any betone before bel ok c marriage decamp became his i it was her coq dovy do dory vy ry which bythe contract conti act of marria marriage c passed to him absolutely aay real estate secured toller toiler to laer ixer before marriage matr lag e passed ohla t ohis control during t e I 1 r j lives ilves As a sort of campen nation gation fon for this marital slavery after the husbands death the woman nas was entitled eu titled to a itye life interest in onry anly lin in one third thir dot dof pot eol such lands lauds tenements or here dita ments as he became possessed of in disown right ilu her wifehood mark it this dower gave her he r na no right to dispose 0 bf her third either by sale ormul or vil vii 1 she merely had the th e ilse iise use of it fl tiring flaring her life the right of dower vias yas subject to be barred the adul vas ter tery 01 1 I the wife destroyed it I 1 so jf she joined iler her husband in ili conveying his estate or ai accepted a igl idi that t j is ascertain portion pa artion settled on her for 9 Us we V if she ile lle survived hgr her husband tilee these and omo ome other things that might in fit td barred thecia the S aws right of dower we W will vill now give tho the entire e statute e t by chich the dower was abolished ai in b utah the reasa reasons ins for its lt abolition can be seen from the text at once byi by byl any lly liy candid mind f io 1030 SEC rc 1 xe i e gow goa obyr norand nor atut Legis legislative latt laft of utah urah that ahat all property prop etty efty 0 owned w d uy y eit elt eitler erne spouse before marriage marriah mar aria riad and abild that ac aired afterwards by gift if 4 bequest devise d evi evl se or des es I 1 agent with the rents e 1 kofl lof s the parate separate SO property of that spouse apus by wilom the tho sanie banle is su sa or acquired acquire i aas maybe maybo may be held heid managed r controlled transferred alid la ia any manner dis disposed pai se ct orby 7 the sponge so or ac tc any dini bini tation or 01 i 1 I 1021 1021 SEC sed 0 liay ilay suet sueh or 1 be uw sued sucu plead or defend to 1 at ad aud and in A be defended at 1022 1022 2 eteo S 9 no right bf dow do wen ershall shall bux x itar it jr r be allowed in ilk lull full toi tei territory gont pont vo clift ejaus jj gus ans aus page s th i tl in all ref crencia t te le J uy y governor N furra turra Y of cither a thir third S oi of this mabas ilas lias been cite deFor on O n bega because his object las aas bednall bee been nall nali aalthe 1 in a false 11 fht jbf rif be knows knowl OX abbl abbi jit ift it icat batall all ali he can cau tea tha tithe 1 latin of sections ln 6 of ortha the woula wonia I 1 b fatal latal to botho tho ie AtymOs an fn relation to it who tho i nible bf N lb I 1 2 which he AlIg delights lits lif ili c sequence te quence of t the he abo ibo liyon athe aa ir would o J ind those eroles i put tile notions it ions lons into the ithe governors head ther C 1 sto put inep ji lare aa thoroughly 4 asare tv krelof f the effect P of a fair tarnish gurnish quotation of til the la munna Witta so garnish nish him with oli oll one brief sentence frodi frow itkind d the most 1 I I 1 we vc viii vill biake one more atil lainof f ut atall 11 b bar bas nig 1 p 01 mas WAS 0 subject rt athi the a laws taw b Mc glott it 8 r provided tha i 17 4 ini I 1 married botnan of df all her iler estate by will and may alter or re ok ehg the win kill in like nia manner r as a pers person under no ilo 1 ath pa V nim the law in regard to bucce succession s S on provides vides thatis that if the decedent at the ti time of the death is the head of a family the property shall pass to the surviving P family in equal shires shares butia but if tho iho decedent J leaves a or a wife rand tand child the estate lus ius lusses lisses passes ses toile third to tile the surviving husband orwine or wife for life the rest to thed the hild child or issue of stich sueh child if there be more than ouel onci child t then it one fourth of the e state estate goes foes to the tile surviving husband or wife if there is no issue gut but a mother sun bun ure bur urr vives their the estate poes goes in equal sh shares aresto to the surviving wife or husband and tile tiie mother now contrast the legal status of wo mcain utah with that of women else eisei i where under the common law or un lin der statutes that simply give married women omen the right of dower and it should bo be u understood nie ale that ill in utah women have the elective franchise 0 equally with men under the tho laws of can vote at tan an election who is acl aci ael a citizen of tile the united states ortho orthe or the wife widow or ox daughten daughter of ofa a citizen if she is twenty one years of bf A ago axe go and has resided in tile tiie territory seix feix and in tho the precinct one ono month previous to registration the edmunds act has dis franchised many of the best woman id iii utah and it may be truthfully sald said some of the bestin best hestin in the world but that Is ia not the fault of our legislators in atah utah then a married woman isa is a I 1 legai legal e somebody her property acquired W before marriage does not pass to her husband after marriage ashel asbel as before she can hold it or it in her ller own olt right As a itic she ahe call cali acquire other property and possess or convey it by scale sale gift or will she can enter into contracts i she ashe has an individual land iland in dependant legal status silv sile is a free personas pers person persons onas as much as asa aaa a man she is not under the yoke of the common mon law barbarism that made her a vassal she can vote as well as pa pay y taxes and a strictly secret ballot shelters her from any attempt at coercion in politics at the death of her husband she ds ils provided for out of his estate in a fair and equitable manner 1 and what she receives Is not simply a life ilfe interest as under the dower but an absolute right title titie and control contro it to do with it if as she bhe pleases 1 NOW in ill the light of these facts how acanthe governor have ther the impudence to stand before a body of intelligent men and tell teli them that sheer justice whatever that may rhay be demands the right of tit dower does he want the the old slavish common law condit conditions loni ioni of married women to be restored does poes he want utah to go backward to the barbarism of the past which still lingers e r s in many states of the union or does e s he not talk simply to deceive people outside of this territory for ulterior designs will he please to tell us where there are arc any woman in utah aho who vho simply from the lack jack of a dower laware pining in unrest and untold 6 suffering I 1 I 1 Is tho the man daft as well as designing he lle says the abe the dower Is de aled in no state or territory except where something better is given fiven not better given in utah where is there a state in the union which gives greater liberty and compensation for the dower than utah bestows bestons be stows cannot his advisers the fellows who whoa pull the wires when he poses before the public furnish him with something more rational than this repeated nonsense about the dower they must indeed be in iii great straits for a plausible grievance J Butt but buh they ilcy knowland kno know wand and he knows the people and indeed indic d the pres and the statesmen of the country with f few aw exceptions take nor pain to lind tind out the laats of any question relating to utah but that anything that appears on its face as objectionable will ill lil be generally received asiata as data on to base dase attacks against the ahe mormons cormons Mor mons 11 therefore the most astounding un truths are to told ld in official personal interviews and newspaper articles without much fear of exposure and ana refutation the other side sidel being care carefully fuDy kept from the public je eye dye ahe uhe the dower dowe r paragraph in tilo tho gover cover nors message is less than base nature of cibeli libal and anyone but a profession professional df 1 cian seeking for olli cial clai position and pabulum ashamed to utter ori father such uli uil untruthful truthful implications the women o utah ure all right with daver rind tind and much erthe they enjoy under our gor die dle TIM statutes bondage and barbarism of that relic of common law slavery which the tho G governor seems so highly to este oste esteem eln ein ir |