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Show . 28 ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y appear to me to be written under a very vague and imperfect knowledge of things as they exist in Utah, anc. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY, 1S30. which ought to he corrected before Postthe Entered at Oflcc in Salt the National Womans Suffrage Con second-class mail volition, as well as the women of the Lake City , Utah, as United States at large. matter. was the lcply, teacher gave me it is just what the Adams has produced a work that will be read with satisfaction and delight by almost all classes of intelligent women. It may perhaps be open to criticism that he lias put forward the best side of the sex in this volume, but it cannot be denied that the illustrations iu support of his- positions are both numerous and pertinent. It may be claimed that lie endeavors to allure the reader into the belief that wo- man is nearer angelhood then man, when the majority of people consider that women and men are, in a moral sense, very nearly on a plane. Wc believe ourselves that the best and worst of each sex find their counterparts in each other. The finest men and women are as also arc the most abject, and although women are sometimes influenced by petty vanities from which men are generally free, yet there arc corresponding foibles in' the sterner sex which are not found in women who occupy the same social level. We do not see any unjust enconiunis on the sex in Mr Adams work, we only recognize a high and mblc appreciation of womans character, her worth, her possibilities, and her power. Mr. When Mormon women vote, it is simply duplicating the male vote over and over again, for they all vote the same ticket, the one given them. You say, Let Utah come in as a One of the resolutions passed at State, and Woman Suffrage will take Is'suu.l montliy by The Standard Pcbumung convention reads as follows a new status before Congress and in the interot of the Ladies' Suciety your Resolved , That the of Utah. Wc who have lived theory of a the country. masculine head to rule the family, here fora quarter, of a century, and arc TERMS One Year, in advance $1.00 the church or the State is contrary familiar with the workings of Mor30 Six monthThree mouth to Republican principles, and the mon Theocracy say, Let Utah come REMITTANCES fruitful source of rebellion, discord in as a State, and farewell forever to Remittances may be made by draft, money order or regis- and all chances of Liberty, freedom and corruption. tered letter, at our risk. Give Tost Office address in lull, The advocates of woman suffrage social ijicludin" County and State. equality. It is utterly imposThe receipt of the paper may be considered the recap in Utah according to Mrs. Emmeline sible for freedom and for the subscription sent us. Polygamy to Wells wish to he counted exist together, (shades of our noble at reasonable rates, and should with Advertisements you, and endorseyour platforn ancestors who fought for the one, reach us on or before the 13th of each month, to insure Aow, the fact is that there is no forgive us for mentioning the other anition in the succceedin? number. to communications The all Address other place in Christendom where in the same breath,) utterly imposStasuaiu), 1. 0. Itox 033, Salt Lake City, Utah. women are so systematically and sible for woman to be considered or Correspondence solicited from women in all parts of the Territory, which must have the r.ameof the writer, not thoroughly taught to consider them- treated as mans equal, social, polinecessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith selves mails infinor as in this Ter- tical or mental where polygamy is To the Pastors of Christian Churches: ritory, every woman in Utah knows taught or practiced. none better (and Mrs. E. this then the should Wells If all your noble and excellent paper If fall into & Zina hands of any Minister of the Gospel Young) that no Mormon women who are advocating woman's will he kindly give it to some energetic woman, either in polygamy or out of ights were sufficiently well can ignore the well taught docon this Utah question, the lady of his congregation, and ask her to it, trine of mans superiority to her, that very fact of your desire for womans get up a club for it. Will he please call he is her Lord, that she cannot en- elevation would cause her at tent ion to the appeal at the head of you to depreter the Celestial the 1st page, addressed to the I Vo men of Kingdom except cate with all your powers, the some man , that she cannot America. Let this subject be kept in through ofUtah as a State while lie raised from the dead even is a part of Mormon religion.' except agitation until public sentiment shall some man. I by unhesitatingly Given Statehood,' this is the part force the enactment of such measures Social Drinking. state that no Mormon woman could be that would insisted that will tend io the total abolition of upon, and endorse resoluthat conscientiously what hope could there be of it ever the cthir twin relic of barbar is??:. If there is one thing woiv.e than tion or express approval thereof, )oing abolished? The policy of the another in social drinking customs without being denounced as an Mormon would not perPULUaniY AND woman suppkauf. priesthood it is the a person to drink .apostate, and unless she repented or mit the existence of that when ho urging any paper retracted such heretical opinions would condemn their is lor any reason disinclined Yvre procheerfully surrender our edi-- , ''would be cut off tyrranous do so. It is a worse than barf)om the Church ceedings, and the churches of the t tonal ypuMj in this number to the and consigned to the bufferings of various denominations as well as the barous practice. There was none too followmu: exceedingly able and Satan. A Polygamy is utterly and schools connected there with would much of decency in the court of cumin unication from Mrs. KingAhasucrus in the days of Vasliti opposite to equality, for how soon be abolished. Cooke, the Venerable president of entirely can equality exist whpre mutual the queen; but oven there they were the S. A. Cooke. Society. 'Mrs. confidence is above pressing anybody to drink impossible between Cookes ideas oil this subject, (as 1 when be didnt .want to. The rehusband and wife, where several wo- Salt Lake, May. SSO. indeed' upon any question concernmen call the same man husbnnc cord stands, that there was royal WOMANS WORK AND WORTH. ing the rights of women) are entitled and each wine in abundance, but tjiat the desiring to hold the bighe .. to the earnest and thoughtful conin ids regard, and the deepest, A new Look by Mr. W. II. Devcn-por- t drinking was according Io law; sideration ofe Ary intelligent woman place in ins pocket. Equality, forsooth. none did compel: for su the king i died who is iutere-Vein the advancement, Adams, pub! Cassel, by The most strong minded woman is Bcter had appointed to all the officers of & Co. of New York is ol her sex. Lpon this particular Gilpin ho man s master, the other women his house, that they should be acthe most able and her are sentiments probably esneciahv tojsic compreJ arc slaves to them both. cording Io every mans pleasure. hensive work on this because her of valuable, subject written It is a, experience that Persian law is Your paper says, speaking ofUtah, ::;3 years in this Territory has during this century The author not now pity given ' operative in all communiher an insight into the workings uf "their religion is no part or parcel confesses to have made a special I do not quite un- study of female character, and the ties in this nineteenth Christian the system which is not equalled by ot our women. others whose sesidenee has been of derstand the phrase, but presume it result of his researches are exempli- century. is partially explained by what fol- fied in this book, lie treats of the shorter duration. What a Woman Cannot Afford. lows, we are not battling far relig life of woman in its different Eos. Standard Just before the epochs, but for political rights, and, girlhood, maidenhood, and woman June number of your vaitiablejour-na- l ious, A woman freedom is one and the same the hood; lie defines her afford to be untrue duties, rights, or n faithful cannot appeared addressed a communi- world over, in the .slightest particular, irrespective of religious position, and responsibilities and or cation io tlieEditm of iheCitceu and under any circumstances; untrue to beliefs. I low can that be so in illustrates her character, Ballot Bo i:,m'lhily in response to the opportuni- herself or others, unfaithful to duty, Utah where they declare Polygamy ties and influence, lie gives many to friends or to Society in general, letter of Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells in to be a of their religion, which valuable hints on part selfculture, which above all to the interests of her own that paper, and which you answered is the most erne! heart cannot fail to be appreciated and sex. No matter how unjustly a wocrushing so ably in the Standard. As my letter and degrading system ever invented utilized by thousands of women who man is treated, she cannot, forthesake treats upon some other points in by man to enslave woman. That ns Elizabeth Cumings says, are reso- of her sex, as well as for her own sake connection with that subject, I en- noble woman, Mrs E, Cady Stanton, lutely determined to prefer the high- afford to use anything but her better close you a copy of it, which you self, nor render anything but her better when speaking publicly in this city, er to the lower good. service. A woman cannot afford to lie are at liberty to publish in the col- remarked that the Revelation One of the most interesting por- to a liar, a Roland for an Oliver will umns of the Standard, if the matter tions , should have been given to a woman, of the book will be found in never be excusable in such a case, she be, not too old now to be of interest to and not a man! these chapters which treat of the cannot afford to do other than deal upto your readers. And as to the franchise,. the Mor- higher education of woman, and em- rightly with every one, no matter what Very sincerely yours, mon women know nothing about ployment for educated women, lie the emergency or vhnt exigencies may S. A Cookie the responsibilities on them as vo- also shows woman in the world of exist between her and her enemies. In a word, no woman can afford to be To the Editor of .the National Citizen ters, and the. exercise of that liberty art and letters, as a heroine, an anything but a true woman living in and Ballot Box. is not disconnected from religion. and a social reformer. her higher nature, and acting from the I was glad to receive the Febuary A good Mormon woman does' as W hile there is much in the work motives and the purest highest consiNo. of the Citizen and. llallot llox, she is told ah (T asks no questions. hat has been thoroughly gone over deration. Selected. and was interested in its contents, On election day the ticket is given TJ other authors, yet still there is for lama believer in Womans Era, her by the Bishop or one of the Tea- nuch that is new, Salt Lake City is crowded with original and proand- consider, that all restrictions chers of the ward in which she lives, found And not the least beautiful strangers and tourists, who arc takand disabilities on account of sex and she votes it! I remember a cir- carl of the book is the dedication, ing in the beauties of the promised are unjust and unwise, and should cumstance that occured in this very his wife iu whom he land. All the hotels are full,. esabolished. But in looking over city. One woman was asked What lie has learned to recognize all says that those whose cards appear in there are sentiments which ticket do you vote? I dont know, is best and most generous in woman. pecially the Standard. , Compa-ur- Aoti-Polyam- . y : - 3 : co-work- in- co-mat- es, Axti-Poltuau- , in-brm- ad-nissi- po-ygam- ed on y - -- Anti-Polygam- , y . d L : 1 i en-husia- st, . - ' .to Anti-Polygam- y |