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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- 60 STANDARD. Y need is some practical radical remedy that will produce practical radical results. As the late lamented Dr. Bacon said in his last utterances whatever regulations have been made for the temporary government of a Territory may he rescinded by Congress whenever experiment has proved that they are insufficient, advance the liberal cause and the interests of the American party. In view of Mr. Campbells explicit declination the lion. P. T. Van Zile, the efficient U. T. District Attorney of the Territory, was nominated unanimously as the liberal delegate for Congress. The Mormons also held a convention at the citv hall, at which John T. Caine, Recorder of Salt Lake City, was nominated as the Church Mr. Caine is a monocandidate. gamist and one of the editors of the and demoral- Salt Lake Herald. sert your rights, to declare that you will no longe liver in that system of SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOV., 1882. sin, shame and misery, which you been told is fulfilling Gods Entered at the Post- - Office in Salt have mail purpose toward women on earth. Lake City , Utah, as second-clas- s Do not make the humiliating conmatter . fession to the world, that the sysIbbuuiI monthly by Tub Standard Publimung tem has so degraded you as to have Tho Organ of the Womens National utterly destroyed all the pure inSociety. stincts of womanhood, that you do TERMS: Obo ear, in advancu not care to make an effort to aid in Six mouths Do not Three months your own deliverance. REMITTANCES: Remittances may be made by dra' t, money order or regisprove it true what has been declared tered letter, at oar riak. Give Post Ollice nddrebS in full, more than once, that the women of including County mid State. Compa-M- y Tho receipt of the paper nmy be considered the reciipt for the subscription serif us. inserted ai l'e Ex-Senat- Anti-Polygam- y bursting the chains which were forged around you by mans brutality, you willingly rivet them more securely. Y on have nothing to fear, nothing to lose, but everything to gain by now coming to the front and voteing the Liberal ticket. The ballot will be secret, you will be protected in exercising your rights Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, of Battle Creek, Mich , is the gene. a. . eul of the Standard, and ia duly authorized to and contract for advert iseimnts. rece e ''b-criptio- Officers of the Womans National Anti-Pol- y gamy Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Cooks, President. VICE PRESIDENTS. Lucinda B. Chandler, Jennie A. Froiskth, J. Ellen Foster, Ann Eliza Young, Euz'BEth Lochley, Marg.kbt E. Winslow, Klancls E. Willard. Maiuan Chislztt, Mis. J. W. Shoemaker, M. A. Hamilton, Mrs. Jennie R. Lkonaad Mary A. James, Recording Secretary. JlARr.iET K Bane, Corresponding Secretary. Jeannette C. Lawrence, Treasurer. A. of freedom of thought and aefion. there will be none to molest or make you afraid. Let it not go forth to the women of America that the women of Utah voted to perpetuate an institution that has made them virtually outcasts from the rest of EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Laura C. Douola9, Julia A. Kimball, Marv A. Lloyd, Cordelia A. smith, E. M. Fisher. Selina Boukofbky, Womans National Society. Metis on rUst Tuesday in each month at Independent Halt it ;):S0 p. at. their sex. Anti-Polyga- Til PLEASE ATTEND TO TH IS. Occasionally we receive an ord$r to discontinue a subscriber who is in arrears for a number of months, or perhaps who has not paid the subscription at all. Of course persons have a right to stop the paper when they choose, but it is also ouh just that they should pay for those numbers they have received. For the information of such parties we append the New? paper decisions on this matter. No 1. Any person who takes a paper regularly from the Post Office whether directed to his name or anothers, or whether he has subscribed or not is responsible for the payment. No. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount whether the paper is taken from the office or not. If it comes beyond the time desired, you can depend upon it the publishers do not know that the subscriber wants it stopped. All you have to do is to pay arrearages and notify us by letter, and the paper will he stopped. TO THE WOMEN OF UTAH. Women of Utah, under the provisions of the Edmunds Bill, it is at last possible to have a fair election in this Territory, and you can vote as you please without your ballot being marked, and yourself subjected to the vengeance of the priesthood for exercising your own judgment, arid voting according to the. dictates of your conscience. You know that, for many years thousands you have been daily mourning in secret over the degrading position which you have been placed by a or understanding of the Utah problem as may be witnessed by the followingcr extracts from an interview with a representative of the San Francisco Chronicle. Said Mr. Paddock, this Mormon question is deeper than I at first thought it was, and it seems that every move to surpressit seems fur- ther to complicate matters. The mandamus suits for the local offices will present two or three phases. For instance there are two classes of officials in Utah, some elected for a fixed tenure of two years, and oth ers elected for an unfixed tenure of two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. It is a question for the Courts to decide whether all offices are made vacant by a Congressional act. Certain offices are unquestionably vacant, and by giving the Governor authority to fill all vacancies that might occur by the failure to hold the regular election, Congress cer pose of nominating a delegate to Congress and transacting other business connected with the Liberal tainly saw that the regular election would default, and intended to proparty in Utah. The Convention was well attend- vide for the emergency. The bill ed, delegates from all the counties also anticipated a special election, being present, and it was a notice- but as it did not positively author able fact that an unusual degree of ize it, we found that we were bound harmony prevailed, the spirit of the by the local organic law, and could assemblage being a desire to do do nothing but conduct the regis nothing except what might tend to tration. The total registration is nearly the advancement of the cause. Stirring resolutions were adopted ar- 34,000 of which about 26,000 are three-fourtof raigning the Mormon power in Utah Mormons. About for destroying the freedom of the the 15,000 women are disfranchised. citizen by assuming the right to Were it not for woman suffrage the control his principles and ballot, contest would be much closer. for teaching defiance to the laws of Abolish female suffrage and polythe land, for unjust and unequal tax- gamy would soon be a thing of the ation, for robbing thousands of wo- past. Whatever may be said of men of honorable wedlock and plac woman suffrage elsewhere cannot ing a brand of dishonor upon their apply here, where it is used as children, and for making the histo-o- f weapon to degrade and enslave the ry of the Territory a reproach to women. Divest the Church of its the Nation. The platform embod-i- n political power, and the question This can easily be settles itself. ies the principles of the citizens of Utah, and contained a done. Let Congress appoint a Ter pledge to labor for the reformation ritovial Legislature for Utah. This of all abuses in the Government of would take the question out o T1 this Territory, Congress. and out of politics. lion. Allan G. Campbell, the Northwestern Territory of thi3 counStandard hearer of the Liberal par-fo- r try was so governed in the earl ty for the past two years was then history of the United States. That nominated by acclamation, and a in my opinion, would be the easiest Committee appointed to notify him and most practicable way to settle of his nomination, and request him this threatening theocracy. In the foregoing, Mr. Paddock to address the Convention, Mr. Campbell responded in a expresses the views of hundreds o courteous letter of declination, persons who have studied the Utah thanking the people of Utah for the problem. In lact, it is the only honor tendered him, but regretting conclusion arrived at by those who that business engagements prevent-you- r have looked at all deeply into the ed him from accepting the nomina-remai- n matter. It is very easy to talk tion. Mr. Campbell is entitled to about the frightful crimes of which are so inimical to the gratitude of every resident of Utah for the way he has labored to nature and civilization, but. what wc promise of raising up a civilized State, fit for admission into the Union. This is precisely the situation of Utah Territory. For thirty years the experiment of a Territorial government has been tried and with what result? There is enough population for a State, but notoriously that populatit n taken as a whole is unfit to be invested with the dignity and power of a State in this Union and no reasonable hope of it ever becoming so under its present rule. Let Congress delegate hack to itself the power which has been so systematically and continually abused, place the Territory again in the hands of the General Government and then place the Legislative functions in the hands of a Commission not less than 15 loyal citizens abolish the polygamous Legislaturer let the fraudulent woman suffrage act he annulled, and Utah Territory will then work out its own salvation. V Communicated. Mormon Vigilauce. A circumstance has lately cotne hs j j law-abidin- tyrannical and lustful priesthood, and, (as one of the priestesses of. have shed polygamy confesses) to drown yourselves enough tears on account of your ignoble slav- cry. But now, that brighter day which you have so long been praying and hoping, is about to dawn, that power which you com- plain has so long been deaf to your cries and entreaties has vouchsafed you some assistance. Yet you must remember that the helping hand ex- tended you, is of no avail unless you reach out and grasp it. If you do not make an effort now- to break fetters, if you are content to as you are, it will be your own fault. The way is plain for you to redress your wrongs, to as- - CONTENTIONS. The Liberal Convention met at the Walker Opera House on the 11th of Oct. pursuant to the call of the Liberal Committee for the pur- the Standard from How to Stop This Paper. It is not a difficult task to 6top this paper. CtCbaSCil ized, that they are not worth fighti Ltfr sldtivo Com Lsim for Utah said not be that it for. Let ing you are so steeped in superstition Paddock, a member of instead and fanatacism, that of the Utah Commission has a clear reasonable rates, and Bhould of each month, to insure in- Advertisements teach ns on or before the 15th sertion in the succeeodmg number. Address all communications to The Standard, P. O. Box 385, Salt Lake City, Utah. Correspondence solicited from women in all parts of the Territory, which must have the name of the writer, not aecessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. 8arah SO and the Territory gives no adequate j ' j g Mor-monis- m, i to our knowledge which sl ows what a close espionage is held upon the Mormon immigrants en ioute for Utah, how anxiously the returning missionaries in charge watchT over their prey, lest any should by chance be led from the fold. Mr. A. B. Lilja the Swedish Emigrant missionary at Castle Garden had been notified of the expected arrival of the last Mormon emigration, and when they landed, went to distribute suitable papers and tracts among them, and also to see if there were any sick or needy requiring attention. In a letter to the Swedish Lutheran missionary at this place he relates his experiOn the arrival ence, as follows: of the Mormons, I did what I could, but I am afraid my work was nearly in vain. When I began distributing copies of our Church paper, and the tract, Words of greeting to the some of the leaders Immigrant, called the people together arid forbid them to take or read any of them, because 1 was a false preacher who wanted to deceive and lead them astray. 'When it was discovered that I had not been in Utah, they became some what calmer, and said that such a one was more to be dreaded than anything else. A few of them ventured to take some papers, and smiled when they heard about our mission n Utah. They appeared very much delighted at the prospect of getting to Zion. It must be very hard work among them, they are so thoroughly infatuated in their error, that they seem beyond all possible rescue. This experience of pastor Lilja is not an unfrequent occurrence and proves that the Mormons are afraid to permit any influence to reach their converts that would tend to make them think for themselves. |