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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- 76 gress, for four successive terms, down the crammed polygamy SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JAN., 188:5. throat of the Nation, when each e in Salt election showed the pitiable spectaEntered at the their chains mail cle of women forging Lake City, Utah , as second-clas- s tighter, and perpetuating their matter . own and their childrens shame, CompIssued month'y by Tub Standard Publishing while claiming to hold the power of art. The Organ of the Womens National Post-Offic- Anti-Polygam- y enfranchisement, a journal published for the express purpose of Society. TERMS: Ono ear, in advance Six months Three months REMITTANCES: Remittances may be made by draft, money order or registered letter, at our risk. Give Post Office address in full, including County and State. 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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. Ilow to Stop This Paper. a difficult task to stop this paper. 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 pav arrearages and notify us by letter, and the paper will be stopped. It is not MOItK LECISHTION FOR UTAH. Under the above heading will be found in another column the text of some bills introduced into the present Congress, containing supplementary legislation to the Edmunds These proposed laws were recommended by the Utah Commission, and were introduced into the Senate by Senator Edmunds, and the House by Representative Cassidy of Nevada. One of the bills, which is for the purpose of aiding the Courts in the trial of violations of the law, meets with hearty approbation from all who wish to see law. this Territory Americanized, but the other, which repeals the law of the Utah Legislature conferring on women the right of suffrage, is as heartily condemned by the strongest workers in the cause. This journal has never been a suffrage organ, because it had enough to do in its own particular line of work, and as the test of suffrage in Utah proved to be the greatest obstacle to that work, it was, to sav the least, not consistent for us to espouse the cause. When the fact Was continually thrust before our eyes, that the votes of women sent a polygamist to the American Con anti-polyga- STANDARD. Y If all Mormons were disfranchised, in a system which, instead of the then the axe would be laid at the beneficent free schools, instituted root of the tree. by the fathers, would substitute A 3'ear or two ago the Hon. D. S. therefor, schools wherein priests Haskell uttered these words on this teach the youthful mind to love and momentous question. obey the doctrines of polygamy, If disfranchisement is the only blood atonement, and others equally There can be no course that will prove finally effica- as objectionable. cious, let it come , for a religious and true homes in a system which introcivil despotism, lodged in the duces polygamy into the family. midst of the nation, defying its just It robs home of its name in everv laws, must be extirpated, and by the sacred sense of the word. Before such an intrusion, peace, dignity, employment of that degree of severhonor and love must flee, Harems ity which its stubbornness may de- breaking down those barriers could not join hands with advocates of polygamy on the suffrage question,' even though its editors were personally favorable to the principle in mand. of the We also considered the Act con- women of Utah is considered the ferring suffrage on Utah women to initial remedy, we shall not rest unbe invalid, because the statute ut- til the cure is completed by giving terly destroys all uniformity in the the same dose to the Mormon men. qualification of voters as between (JOY. NEIL'S ML88AUE. men ami women, an objection that of itself is fatal, and it also violates We are under obligations to Gov. in express terms the provisions of the Act of Congress (Sec. 18G0, Jno. R. Neil of Idaho for a copy of Rev. Stats. U. S.) in regard to right his last message to the Legislature It of that Territory, We can scarceof suffrage and holding office. seems that no argument or citation ly speak in too high terms of this of authorities should be needed to able document, and are particularly prove that a law which on its face glad to notice the attitude ot his discriminates in the qualifications excellency upon the subject of polyof voters must be invalid. gamy. Those who think that MorStill, notwithstanding these Lets, mon polygamy is confined to Utah we cannot, commend the bill in will do well to read carefully the question, but must pronounce it, as following extracts from Gov. Neils a correspondent says in this issue message. The both unjust and cowardly. Among the numerous subjects Edmunds law, as it now stands, discussed in my first biennial mesdisfranchises all men and wemen sage, was that of Polygamous who are, or have been actual polybut my recommendations gamists, while it leaves the ballot in in regard to the suppression of this the hand of those who vote precise- evil were not heeded by your prely as commanded to by the few dis- decessors. That it was of trancen-den- t franchised polygamists. At the importance that some step election, John Taylor, Geo. Q. Can- should be taken in this direction, I non, etc., were deprived of voting, endeavored to make clear, by pointbut that little clique nominated the ing out the dangers to be appredelegate, John T. Caine, and issued hended from the encroachments of a mandate, ordering all Mormons to this obnoxious institution. I then vote for him. As an illustration of believed the evil to be a dangerous how a man was treated for daring to and formidable . one, and undertook vote the opposition, or liberal ticket, to show how it was reaching out in the reader is referred to an article all directions, with the avowed purin another column entitled Ostra- pose of seizing political power in cised. By it any person will see this country made plain, I thought, that the church leaders assume to the fact that its strides toward the dictate to the people in all things, attainment of that end in Idaho, temporal as well spiritual. It is a were altogether too rapid, and too burlesque to call such voting as near realization, to justify us longer there is in Utah an exercise of the in ignoring the situation. Rut, as elective franchise. A free vote in potent as I then depicted this unthis Territory, in the American seemly power, the sequel proved sense does not exist, and never has that 1 had underrated iti strength. existed. Any candidate that is The adjournment of the 11th session nominated by the Mormon Church of the Legislative' Assembly, withand the Quorum of Apostles cannot out the adoption of a single measure fail of being elected. to suppress polygamy, proved conThe friends of the bill claim that clusively, to my mind, that it was taking away the ballot from Mor- able to dominate that body, in so mon women will abolish polygamy. far, at least, as to prevent the pasThe cnlv wav to accomplish this is sage of laws predjudieial to the to break the political power of the practice. Mormon hierarchy by disfranchisOnce more it becomes mv solemn ing every person, man or woman, duty to warn the Legislative power who believes the doctrine whether against further toleration of a practhey practice it or not, and who be- tice so fraught with woe to all that lieves that they are bound to obey we, as Americans, hold dear; for what they call the law of God in I feel certain that the complete preference to the laws of the coun- realization of the. scheme of the (in Mormon priesthood, means the entry. If women belief) are to be disfranchised, in tire subversion of all those rights the name of reason let male law- and privileges enjoyed under our breakers be treated in the same man- free institutions. There can be no ner. All Mormons are polygamists true life, no genuine liberty, no real in belief, and to be candid, some of happiness, under a system which those who have the courage to live compels implicit obedience in temup to their convictions, are more poral affairs, to the mandates of biworthy of respect than others who goted priests. There can be no shrink from their responsibilities. general enlightenment of the people If the disfranchisement the abstract. . Mor-monisn- :!: law-breake- rs i; cannot be substituted for homes with any assurance that society will be improved by the change. All legislation in regard to this crime, Congressional as well as Territorial. should be of the most radical and sweeping nature, for the evil cannot be cured by measures of a lenient or temporizing character. also desire to direct attention to an act of the last session of Congress, known as the Edmunds Bill. By act all disfranthat polygamists are chised and disqualified for office; but the machinery for enforcing the provisions of the law apply to Utah only. It is no exaggeration to say that in two or more counties in this Territory, polygamists vote and hold office precisely as though no such law was upon the statute books. This is a state of affairs which requires a remedy at your hands. The Art of Thinking. One of the best modes of improving the art of thinking is to think over some subject before you read upon it, and then observe after what manner it has occurred to the mind of some great master; you will then observe whether yvou have been to rash or to timid; what you have omitted and what you have exceeded; and by this process you will insensibly catch the manner in which a great mind views a great question. It is right to study; not only to think when any extraordinary incident provokes you to think, but from time to time review what has passed, to dwell upon it, and to see what trains of thought voluntarily present themselves to vour mind. It is a most superior habit in some minds to r ill the particular truths whici .ike them toother truths more gen a), so their knowledge is beautifully methodized, and a particular truth at once leads to This kind of the general trui1 undetstanding has an immense and decided superiority over those con- fused heads in which one fact is piled upon another without any attempt at classification or arrangement. Some men read with a pen in their hand, and commit to paper any new thought which strikes them; others trust to chance for its appearance. Which of those is the best methwd in the conduct of the understanding must, T suppose, depend a great deal upon the understanding in question. Some men do without preparation can others, little with it; some are fon tains, others reservoirs. Sid Smith. Hon. Wm. IL Hooper, for several terms representing this Territory as Delegate in Congress, died in this city on Dec. 30, 1882. |