Show Dirty Work SALT LAKE CITY Feb 7 1885 To the Editor of THE HERALD Did you ever hear tell in any civilized country in the old world in this enlightened en-lightened age of women being dragged into court and forced to answer such indecent and disgusting questionsthe are put to them in this city under as ZaneDixonMcKay regime Is it right and proper is it in accordance with the usages of advanced civilization for any woman to be compelled to testify in court or before a jury what she knows of the actual present condition of another living woman in regard to impregnation Is it conducive to public I morality to compel a young and modest woman or any woman to go into court I and testify whether she has had sexual inercourse with a man or not I should like to know whether such dirty I work is done elsewhere in other civilized civil-ized countries as well as in this and under the administration of Federal I judicial officials appointed by a Republican I Repub-lican President and confirmed by a Republican Re-publican Senate I should like to know whether it is usual in our civilized countries and wherein it is essential to the maintenance mainten-ance and furtherance of the high civilization civili-zation of the day for marshals and deputy marshals to go sneaking and skulking about poking their noses into the domestic affairs of divers families in order to find out whether the women thereof are pregnant or not and also who sleeps with whom and who does notI I should further very much like to know what kind of public policy itis that justifies and requires such dirty work A B C |