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Show ! ! V A--tm ANTI-POLYGAM- THE Woman Suffrage in Utah. Eds. Standard: of the y workers in the cause seem to think that the passage of the bill abolishing woman suffrage in this Territory will be a powerful influence in exterminating polygamic Mormoiiism. Representative Cassidy whom we all honor for the stand he has taken on the Mormon question is reported to have said that there is no other way to Percrush out polygamy in Utah. haps this may be so, but nevertheless, it seems tome a very cowardly and unjust proceeding to disfranchise all the Mormon women simply because it is claimed that they duplicate the votes of the men by voting as they are instructed, thus perpetuating polygamy, and continually breaking the laws of the United States. Granting this to be so, yet 1 repeat it is both cowardly and unjust to punish the women for doing what the men tell them to do, and permit those law breaking men, who also teach others to break the laws, to go entirely unpunished, and suffer no deprivation of privilege. Is not this an unrighteous distinction, for how can sex make and a difference between right wrong, and why, if a privilege is to be continued to any clas-- of lawbreakers, why should male lawbreakers be the favored ones? If the franchise is taken from the Mormon women, because they vote as they are told, and thereby perpetuate polygamy, why in the name of common sense is it not also taken from the men, who vote according to the dictates of the priesthood just precisely as the women do. I have always felt that the ballot in the hands of the Mormon women was an additional link in their fetters, because they dare not exercise their own judgement, but the same is also true of the men. A good Mormon man will vote just as he is ordered to by the priesthood, and so will a Mormon woman. The ballot is only a farce anyway in this Territory and there is neither sense or justice in leaving it in the hands of the worst element of the or Nnp-pressio- Justice. b,v n of Polygamy in Utah. Anti-polygam- i MORMON QUESTION. Measures Considered Necessary Paddock for the ex-Nenat- Some STANDARD. Y Lincoln, Nob., Dec. 22. Paddock, of the Utah Commisex-Sen-a- tor sion arrived in town and was interviewed by the Tribune corto-da- y, respondent .on the Mormon question and works of the Commission. differs from the rest of the Commission on the subject, and his views are radical. He I have been accused of en said: tertaining radical views on this subject, and the accusation, I must acknowledge, is well founded. I believe that the true remedy for existing evils in Utah must be a radical one, and the more I study the subject the more am I convinced of the necessity of positive and energetic measures in dealing with these people. How do you regard the Edmunds law? asked the reporter. The essential requirements under the Edmunds law is to attempt to secure the election of a Legislature in August of next year that will enact laws in conformity with the acts of Congress for the suppression of polygamy. The election for Delegate in Congress in November last was merely a preliminary skirmish. It developed the fact, however, that very little can be accomplished through the present election machinery of the Territory. Some 15,000 polygamists, male and female, were The Ex-Senat- or disfranchised by the commission in pursuance of the provisions of the Edmunds law. Nevertheless a monogamist Mormon, who subscribes to and respect the chief covenant of the Mormon faith polygamy and possesses the contidence of the church, was elected by a majority of 15,000 over the very able and popular candidate nominated and supported by the voters of the Territory. From this it may be seen how united and determined is the Mormon element, and how futile it would be to try to secure an honest election in the non-Morm- on Territory. Then you dont think a Legislapopulation. ture can be elected that will take Note. LLoiu'y active measures against polygamy?' 1 have very little hope that a Hour with Charlotte An Legislature can be elected that will Bronte; or, Flowers from a York- take active measures against polyshire Moor, is the charming title of gamy. 1 have very little hope that a new work by Laura C. Holloway, a Legislature can be elected that of the Brooklyn Eagle. It is issued will take any action whatever in beautiful style, and is adorned this evil as it exists with a fine steel portrait of the nov- against or to stop polygamous marriages in elist. It contains a biographical future. My own judgement as to from selections choice essay, many the duty of Congress is to amend the writings of Charlotte Bronte, the Organic law, changing the whole and a number of her most interestplan of government for this TerriThe author and letters poems. ing The Legislative Assembly has lectured repeatedly on this sub- tory. to he abolished . The elecought ject, and has taken infinite pains to tive system ought not to be maingather from original sources all the tained. information that could be obtained THE MONOGAMISTS concerning her heroine. The book is published by J. W. Bradley, of G6 as a rule are no better disposed towards the laws of the United States North Fourth St., Philadelphia. r ' affecting polygamy than polygamists If you want a prescription carefully themselves. The men and women compounded, at any hour of the day who live in polygamy in violation of or night, you can be accommodated and their church associations, at the only exclusively retail drug law, not at the present store in the city, kept by Messrs Bev-a- n who although time in the practice of polygamy, & Hoyer. to-da- y, 1 m 1 are continually aiding and abetting the perpetrators of the crime, have no moral right to the ballot, which Snti-lJelngiw- w ghvphml --Athey all use alike under the direction of the church for the choice of Tteasons why the Christian women of the oflicers who will in all ways possible United States should support the Standard. uphold and defend it. dST In what way, then, would you The Standard is the only paper in the United elect or secure oflicers for the TerStates devoted to the suppression of Polygamy ritory? All Territory and other oflicers, in my judgment, should be nominatPolygamy, as it exists in Utah, is not undered by the Governor of the Territory stood by the people of the United States. and confirmed bv the Commission, and the President should have a reIt is the mission of the Standard to enlighten visory power as a protection against people of America in regard to the workings The the alleged bad appointments. of this monstrou 6 system of inquity. Commission should be required to prepare a code of laws for the TerIt is now more than thirty-onyears since ritory, embracing all needful provisof the Great on lanted shores the ions for the suppression of poly- Polygamy was Salt Lake. gamy, which should be reported to Congress for consideration and During this time Congress has uttcrly,failed to adoption. If it approves, a liberal enact efficient, or enforce existing laws for the appropriation should be made by abolition of this great crime. Congress for an industrial home for E3 plural wives who may Anti-Polygam- y T I e ; O WISH TO ABANDON POLYGAMY, and cannot do so now because they have not the means nor opportunity in Utah to earn money for their support and that of theii children. The Federal Government, through the Commission or otherwise, should take into its own hands and regulate and control immigration into the Territory. It should endeavor by liberal appropriations for the de. velopment of the Territory; by carefully protecting and defending every material interest, to convince the great mass of Morman people that the Government is their best friend rather than their oppressor, their persecutor, and bitterest enemy, as the ignorant and superstitious have been educated to believe. In no other way than by the adoption of some such methods as these, except" by the employment of physical force, can this powerful and rapidly growing theocracy be controll ed and finally overthrown. Under the circumstances, would vou advise immediate action by Congress? I am in doubt as to the ability of Congress during the present short term to perfect the plan 1 propose. Besides, all things considered, it may be best to allow the full probation fixed by law in the provision respecting the election of the Legislature next year; but the Commission should be required to prepare a code of laws, as I have stated to you before, covering the whole case, so that Congress will be prepared to take decisive action at its next session, in the event of the failure of the legislative plan. 1 believe much good has been done in many ways under the Edmunds law, and if it can be followed up by some such additional legislation as I have suggested, success will finally come. JLJ Polygamy has novel1 taken such a degrading and debasing torm in any nation, or among any people abrve the condition of savages, as in Utah. and woman, a curse to children, and destruction to the sacred relations of family. It is degrading to man We call upon all the Chi istian women of the United States to join us in planning and executing measures to arrest the further progress of Ihis evil. .A. We also call upon them to assist us in keeping public sentiment in agitation against an abomination that peculiarly oppresses and stigmatizes woman. IMI Polygamy is a sin most especially against wo man a3 it desecrates the home and the fireside, and renders mutual confidence between husband and wife an utter impossibility. Consequently it is only light then that woman should be its most uncompromising opponent, and work for its complete abolition. S that nothing more fully attests the progress of a nations civilization than the posi. tion and character of its women. It is true T It is also true that at no period of the worlds existence has womans work of love among her own sex been more sienally blest. -- Consequently, we call upon women to aid us in this work of charity, trustihg that our labors may also be crowned with success. 2sT That this system of iniquity should be practiced under the name and cloak of religion only adds to the enormity of the crime. That these unlawtul and unhallowed alliances are termed celestial marriages makes the system all the more revolting to our common Christian principles. A Special to Chicago Tribune. - L. we ask the cordial Tiie most liberal terms will be andConsequently, concerted action given to agents who will undertake to canvas thoroughly for the new work, The Women of Mormonism, Apply at once to C. G. G. Paine, Publisher, Detroit, Mich. See Advertisement in this issue of the Standard. be found on file at I)T?T pTTTO T) 1 PilU may Geo. P. Rowell & Cos Bureau (10 Spruce street), Jewspaper Advertising TT" rhere advertising contracts XT T? Y7 WJLVIX. nay be made for it inlMDYV IrllO A. A A1 I( of the Christian women of our land. continued agitation of the subject, we may confidently hope that the great crime of polygamy will be abolished. By the ID. The Standard is only $1 per annum. Subscribe for it yourselves and recommend it to your Standard, friends. Address, P. O. Box 3S5, Salt Lake City, Utah. Anti-Polygam- y |