Show M TO TOm m Letter to tho Editor She DC O a Vails fends Mormon Women Against Unjust Attacks W MORMONISM NOT POLYGAMY d Women She Has Met and Their C Upon Society ond Organizations Editor of the Now DUling th tho IliA I I of ot letters bror brorIng Teethed Jihad o l what III referred to 10 toon Ing Th upon Ol on Th sub I wc which Ih llO o mm Int I ns UP 1 1 ground according to toL n mi L of ot their theil contents nd h ch 1110 be b interred froll tho points willil 1 W writers hav upon w M which in turn may be III U ital briefly 1111 follow i 1 1 ma I my l to an liS ani i with Mormons Mint ff t do I think tho t ot Mormon In III the tho Inee uncil ot V m n IliuM Oll i th of the council tu lut u uI uthol T Ta thol a Do I my responsibility for tor too of ot opinion und tw in 11 Ot t to j M A tho women orn n of at Indiana inoru morl me l nt to 10 dorne purity Hum wo 0 of ot Ibo tho test of ot tho Iho countr mm L I lio tho women of ot th National Council realize that Ihal from It i b be obliged to 10 Il within It 11 I All of or imply my rth ami trent the former it IC tho latter were werf fUI u In Ind u Seed d an clement of or It how nver b n nor IH III yat my III I hIV l that bi nr tho Himo to tu I III tho 10 era the system of rf rom bore hore to mar rJ In tho time of at tho patriot wall Sit duo i to two rII to tint l ff rt hi Ul Anther flod ee to 1111 0 taken Into In with Jin mid to 10 eon Iun o 11 Ax the tho ry i 1110 ro w bore bofo 1 Hebrew lI Into u ner c civilization j nd Ill i L hl de le plural l fell all na naturally R o until for tunny ot no ff ha hAw thought of ot dating il with the Ho faith 1 I hH bell seil that I o o l rs il by h drw limn 1111 Into n rot 1 I N Y lh th ii 1 ln k o 01 t Into InlO n n nv v u due to 10 th Ih am B tint would nil nl t by re a i of In the MI unit ix n 11 y from n th Ih mill millI 1 I y i III iM t I in 11 lie be liei 0 i th Ih I communion up lip lipp poll p 1 1 I In It III Into 1 l I e thill plural m mn i ie n Hith both proven prO 11 con to I bo e mill pointing I no now ux nil nilI s 1 1 I i pt l n an nut not ii u the ruin mid Mt II PIn ot if It by hy of ot tin M 11 I U IR rather rf url which people nr ore wont wu u of ot i f nulls or sect lillet to 10 tUu liter hAO din than Ihan t I i any approval of off i f i ri tI in IIII t I Tutu T nirA U T of ot my pon l tt tr H I 1 n rI i I ly that llant I hAe never for tOl fora a 11 f that thaI tho Ihl of It n even of ot na IIII 0 la ns liS of lr Mormon In th Nil Kill mil i of ot tho 1 hiu 1111 any Iny offen ft up upon upon on th of or tho council I l J d i nil a 8 still be he I the b t way of ot R II falsa In R by hy It Into with ith tho Iho true truo doc doctrine trine to 10 It IH d the tha mo t method of exhibiting the w OP vr the In any theory or In 10 In hi to 10 It to wit with till for I hlo tall felt effort would bo much moro r carried d forward by hy 10 o wl h to 10 to f th and Ira into a Country where uh prevail than by all other method TOi statement Ift nl ho thc H eni eM lino of ot under Im pulse I br the of or Mor hen hIli boy pr i nu lyp for tor membership in twi chleO e l of ot rho time I confronted Vi Iho nf lItty for a m III 1 I v r tho 10 of or exe nf or the National V mno n nelo le 1 fr im In tho nab s ion tn t and presented t J heIr r f heir credentials eon on f rm 1 lr Ir 1 m r to J V mont I 1 H 18 tn I J farn that omo lomo w ox rt lil that not ot I th Ihl or Ir h form tonn of ot tho Iho National Wo 1 o or I i MJ rals H I JI mn who whoM I bUI Ire no hu I lIf r IVl who M r h ll J horn orn ln In of or ii nor iw they the parties i III I Ie n TO p 0 mo It Itt 1 11 tI al Wf hall jn t right 10 In ir lUll i or the domestic 1 nt m of any n who Mai r It tl i alp m minted Mate 1 nit or J i suffrage to tn dt It In f t iri f tho Iho council I 1 Ibo 11 bo Ia I IV I should tI 1 I mi il 1111 on 8 d It I i J II nn In I i mn l It 10 unworn lo lIlon n IndU 11 n II r but Iho of ot JO bo entirely t H v 1 1 from thir of or which n 11 I r Litton then thon n I h l 1 have tw on mho not to I 1 i 1 r Willi In pith mm I Iho Amer Antor t I n or nf of I t 1 faith So later I I when In III IS 9 to enter th tho Council of ot Women n of ot the Ihn United States to 10 the of the national council fur from Impulse to II JihO my nt vote oto for tor the I looked upon their theil Into Inlo tho council an 1111 u 1 nf ot r them Into Inlo rotations with lIh social and lilliS would eulor tho resumption ton tion of o polygamy them Minn K Willard at nt time lime nt of ot tho National Council the Iho view Tho Kd Ed bill hili heroine a II law been Into Iho Union as a n peer I of or other r states on condition of t to Iho doctrine law of nt I felt r 11 that the IhA nf ot their should no more he hI In re p 1 to Mor olor than limn In respect to 0 Methodists Presbyterian or all of ot whom wIro in tn the count II nt III lime thess thae women dill did not nol come Into the council ns nil Mormons but hu ti of or educational philanthropic I A few we lH 1 friend sho e l mo moa a letter from u n member of ot th tle hoard of ot tho he Interdenominational Council of ot Women In my illY mini was wall used In n now mon connection The letter Hinted lito tel that It wan understood that Senator of or Indiana wan fn arable to 10 the Keating In ling of ot Mr Smoot of or Utah in 11 inthe the United States senate and ho had that the women wom n of ot Indiana WIN were to 10 that ho had further ned my name as n of a 1 alender lender of ot Indiana lui who vas wnM fa favorable n to lor Smoot As there thure had Dover ln Med a 1 word ord between Hen ator nto myself upon this n thin letter to 10 tome me 1111 lelM opposed to lew I hold to tn opinions which I Ihno havo steadily el Upon ullon hi lion I did not lint believe that Senator had modo the us nil to him I wrote II rot I him directly from the tho letter in ques question tion tho Iho 11 r to his hid to 10 from him the reply that In III Inthe the 1111 HH lie ho was then In Inn n 1 capacity III u had no either to hn or to III express s upon the question of ot Mr Ir SmootH 1 to 10 tho and that ns nil n Ii nf fact he had never nM f III the Ihl women nf ot Indiana or III to myself attributed 1 to us Ul In tn tho ho letter letterI I can 1111 n mir nil of ot my Unit tho Iho women of ot Indiana nr not only not nol moro morp to domestic purity than the women of ur the Ih t t of ot the he hilt but Unit If It there IB II nn In III the inspect for tor domestic 11 lei tallied by hy women of or different tuten I 1 b lleo the women of ot Indi Indiana ana 1111 would bo ho to hn not only an Oil actual high but n 1 relative lr high 11 I It standard In this 1101 and 10 t fur as a my lilY own on vl 1 n may b ed to 10 l nn In ami they not only In behalf of ot do domestic lI lImit but 1 I inu t Ion to ery er Ordinarily II 11 I nei m an exhibition lion tion of ot vanity to 10 rush ru It Into with anen one upon thin but hul hulI 1 I feel that he tho time lias hil como come fot or an nn of ot I 1 know that they will be mo moul t unpopular and BO with both holh and I 1 not lIol only In the them m amle rm nil the only form torm It mai mn compatible with an nn Ideal Idell home homeK K the th spiritual bu hUI I further furl her believe that onto been en never lw ho dissolved until by h It was n wily by lenion 01 tho Iho of ot their that permitted for the ono one reason of ot Infidelity I believe thai longer lonKer should houM th Ih of their hearts lie he used a IS n 1 of ot under tinder circumstance Men and wo woo women men as ns ml hl be ho to 10 devise u It of ot and of ot separation which would be Hi In har harmony mony with the civilization hut but from my ny point of ot lew 1011 the sort ort of ot sep separation tI called divorce which per permits mits the tho of ot cither r the th thIro Iro or husband the Ihl lito of the tho other could be no feature of at n of ot our OUI marriage reparation laws no one olin out tilde of or n II of at family nodal Intimates ia Is so with willi my opinions upon thin na urn the tho lending Mormon women with Ho n l of or whom I havo not only had request lone conversations upon the but with at lit least two of oC whom I havo had In years ex x ended correspondence Standing an I do as ono of lit tho oln om board of ot tho Ihu national council 11 all since Its It organization and feeling nil all of ot the i cordiality which I lm laava o to 10 toward ward till the two IWO inundations of ot 1 women tho Iho of which nta nHI In Snit Salt City I ft el It very ver lleces Necessary sary that thera should be no of ot my In opinions by them upon thin Important question From my of tho existence of or in III I tell felt that llant tho United States government was Willi a 1 by harboring such Rueh nn however dis distant tant undeveloped tho Iho In which It WOH permitted to grow up ul I rejoiced over oer the enactment of tho Dill 1111 that Ihal by U It tho Willi com committed committed to tho Iho of ot not polygamy wall nn lilt accompaniment nf ol tills thIll ur or that or tho other doctrine but bUI It was wasn n It violation of ot what IH III fundamental In Inthe the tho law In throughout tho entire count since how over various tho laws In tho Iho different they thoy are nil all alike In 1 of or thA us till tho Iho only possible legal I always however found It necessary to tl the thc of ot Intellectual honesty anil spiritual sincerity to distinguish as nB I have snit paid In the beginning of ot this letter between polygamy IB III to my lilY mind merely ono OlIO of ot the IIII many Beets Into which mod modern modern ern divided merely mere nn Incident tho Iho product of tt economic conditions condition now vanishing whoso entire extinction will bo has hns hastened by b tho mingling of ot Gentiles I 1 do not assert n this view cannot be ho n 1 mistaken one that tho Iho deduced from the th main proposition upon which my conduct has been cannot bo be erroneous I merely elate my opinions 10 and what they have been On Of Ot If It I thought them erroneous I 1 abandon them for tm now one tIU I 1 Iby by 1 no means consider that per on con who ho never Ioor changes her mind but 1111 lather she he who changes hor mind to the tales of vt new knowledge mid 1111 new perceptions or ia Is con COli consistent Hitch new knowledge tomes I maintain It II la Is the tho of ot the States govern government ment to sro I that ltd Is are Iro obo t il iland and to punish all 11 but 1 I snail consider that the offender can 1 only h 11 Individual and not 1111 a I sett that ever 01 Individual case Cl mint be hI In Investigated p upon 11 Its Iia merit and decided hv hy the following the In Investigation II III 01 At AI tho Iho time of tho Hob I rape ru e I was Wil the Iho presiding re of tho national nl 1111 I council Tho ht vote upon lon the th which wim WUK brought the council was aye I O and nay 11 vote The will wil show Hint 1111 I I supported tho resolution tion to 10 petition Congress to In exclude because 1 lJ hit It wan W not 11 only OI hut but confessed he WOI a I violator of at tho Iho most mORt Im that could be h passed eon con concerning the most Important of ot life Irl and 1 I believed thit such sucha a I the tho law was unlit to tl oe or a 1 ont nt In our lawmaking body 1111 To 10 my 1 who ink whether I do not realize tint Chris Christian tian women 0 1 el will w be obliged oel to with from tho council col Ill If It Mormons rire CO permitted to remain In III It II I cnn only say S I make no ni such s ch distinction tion IIO between 1111 Mor Mormon llor mon oh 01 tho I Christian IH II the tM genetic term lerl Including ing Ile Mormon Morlon along with and Lutheran uth ll and a hoit bf ht other othor named fai fo their found founders ers Olf 1 believe that thai plural never have up In a n community of ot a 1 composite religious faith and that w hat In Ings Mormons or ns he they tho to call 01 themselves day tin out ut of their lve as ns association with wih one 01 another out of ot their as nl as Isolation into a lt which of opinion of ot creed roll Ild com om comparison parison of ot tin tho results of ot practice whatever will wi do this U 1 to 10 my mind of vice to the body bod politic Plural marriage will wi bo ho out Olt only by proving to who entertain It liaR as n theory who regard It I as 0 a vo vocation 0 cation cliton for who are R re called Clec ID to U 1 that It I IH a I false uil It will wil be eradicated only by bringing those who It 1 In con Iud with lh the nobler Ideals concerning life le which t a 0 fur tur an ll I kno arp nt r H Ideals and as lS do tOl H by hy all ni other othar of at tho Ihl church Had digressions wo we may 11 in practise among Imong them Having been n by ly a I body outside of ot any National Council Counci of Woman t present the International Coun Council cil rl at It Its IN approaching at 11 a I excluding the two twe mainly r composed of or women from tron tho Iho National of at Women of ot tho United 1 I feul tel called upon to 10 explain the thc structure of ot tho International Council The rhe oct oc tics tell which I nm 11 asked to be ht Instrumental mental In having haIC excluded from frol the International Council Counci are nl members of It through their membership In tha Iho Na National N of ot the the latter H 18 the only body bod which ran can legislate In respect re to HH 1111 members Should be ho brought against ni Individual or ni organization or questioning her or UN IM eligibility to t membership hll In tho Iho National Council Counci tho 11 latter Ilter has th power to 10 Investigate 11 should It I be hI discovered that thaI un unworthy worthy Individuals or unworthy or arc Irl within If membership them themI It I of or course has hns tho power to expel I that feme years President of ot university i d an nn almost violent attack by bythe the of ot the tl country because Mom Home thing which ho had said In a I delivered upon the social Modal oll lon which he found prevailing In II Utah Ulah to Imply 1111 that the Mormon Is the peer lr and the tho parallel of ot the Ihl Purl Puri Puritan tan Inn Certainly nothing 1 I gained by disguising tho ruth nothing Is gained by hy understating the virtues ROil over overstating stating defects of those who are dif different lf ferent from ourselves In 11 1001 I I spent ionic time In II Halt Sni I City and other In lu Utah All Al that I saw nw heard confirmed the t opinion that I have expressed In title Ihl letter and I 1 was WAi amazed nt the th forms torms which prevailed d In II family nm social life lt In the tho family In II which I Iwas was entertained the oll ell children a t boy IJO of ot nine nino a n little I I II uirl of ot tev teven fe en were nn capable of ot pronouncing grace before meat IMI ns clergyman whom I J evor 01 saw SE lend In tl that Tho ono member of at the household wll did not with wih apparent unconsciousness take his turn in the Ih before the tho thanksgiving JUIf a ameal I meal and In family prayer night and nn morning wan the tho eldest non on who wan Wl from nn eastern i Ills ms mother moth I deplored tho lax opinions and the Ihl reunions hah hab habIl Its Il which he ho had In his hll New NI This hlll was ardently Mormon but no mem member INn ber of or It I Imd ever OPI lived In mar marriage rae Of Ot course It I cnn In easily be said that this family tuII was wnM an In as asIt 1 It probably wan in wealth wIh intelli intelligence In gence ns well wel as nM In rigid religious train training ing but hii the habit f e nied to tobo tobo bo the tho 11 habit of ot mind Imons both hoth men In women To fo Hum ns 8 to 10 tome me polygamy appeared to 10 be h rather mi in Incident lont In the hl lok evolution of o their faith than n 1 form torm to UN I continuance I 1 cannot leave leac this part of or my letter without paying what I n de pervert to the Iho Mollon women whom I have most Intimately known I consider It II a n p to tn have known of ot tho surviving of ot Youn a 1 privilege to known tho Iho Into Inlo President his wife Mrs |