Show THE OPPRESS lud lub WOMEN ronen OF UTAH we have heard a good deal about the oppress oppressed ed and degraded women of utah and the unclean and tyrannical vassalage luge which the mormon social system imposes upon the female sex this string bas has been tuned and played upon until it ic appears to have snapped it beema now that women are almost everybody in utah they have more power and more rights than they have anywhere elbo eibe on this green earth and the boasted lord of creation is entirely a secondary personage la in the land of tho the saints this thia may mav look like a strange condition for butth of all the world but it is true that territory 1 and its social system seem to have been the look and key by which women have nl at leat least entered into the wider nobler sphere for which they have prayed and worked an incident which calls up the ll it ilges gee gea which the women of utah enjoy lately occurred in balt bait lake city mias phaebe cozzone ong of st nouis louls eind rind liea J georgia snow the daughter of the at elt torney general of the territory were admitted to the bar in the district court and the ceremonies were imposing the brace of pretty girls besieged the august court of chief justice mckean and nind the court capitulated the girls were admitted to practice law in its most unlimited sense common law chancery law ecclesiastic law civil law criminal law and all other forms and orders of law a bundle of privileges which could be granted by no state in this union now the world should know that in utah woman holds in her hands bands the tho ballot that she is eligible to every office that she may plead her own cause before a high court that if her buro burh husband band ill treat her she may prosecute him that one half of his bis earnings 14 is herb bere that ehe bhe is ia his absolute superior that she may sit on juries and find him guilty of bigamy cruelty duelcy to her neglect to his children or other crime and that she under the fearful despot despotism lemly of IT ah ab can be her own law executor and judicial expounder what more moie power do the women of utah want to enable them to throw off the burthen of mans yoke they make own laws select their own officers are their lawyers and judges they own one half of their husbands property and all of their own truly the women of utah bire tire shamefully downtrodden missouri democrat |