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Show POLYGAMY IN WASHINGTON. Wt: tiii'l in tlie WuhitjiI un St-ir the following: Thu bill iutr(i(iut:.'.l iti tit.: In.u-.- ul dt-ltiiius Ly Mr. HA, in t-utitlcl tu inoru aUrinion tlmn it has n-Lvivt-d. ItcnaoH "iliat all per -urn cuhahiiiiii t.iKi-ih.T in Lite UistriL-t of ( 'oltuuliiii, hhall lj cakrn and darned tu havo cm-tractt-tl iijurriuio:, and hi ml I be hiib-ji'Uted hiib-ji'Uted to all duticH, liiibiiilii:s and p'-n-ahifr.H oi' tin) marriage rvlarjun," The bill in a proposed n:uiedy oi lh: wo-man's wo-man's clui) for tin: social evil. Tlu'y )iild tint a majority of lu-.t woi'ui:n bavfi IuIIiti in early youth: that l li :m bill will ifivo overy ynunif irl who i i-fdu'rcd the li'ial protection ul" the man who ban hecured a huibatid's right, and ouht to perform a husband's du-tii"; du-tii"; that it (riven to evrry innoi-cnl child its own iailier'ri name; and that it takos si'veoly-tivc p-;r cent. I'nui thu ranks of the future women of tbe town. Tlio woman's club havi! bit llio nail fairly and sipiarelyon the bead, if their honost aim be to meet the threat aocial sin by a proper remedy. Hut this bill legalized polygamy, and, should it pass and comrrc.vs approve it, the latter body would have to repeal the anti-polyifamy anti-polyifamy aet of lor the O.striul of Columbia id now a Territory of the I'nitrd States. To pas such a law would be but lulling the men that they must ho responsible for the results of their lascivious nets, and that by tho simplest and most ofleetiva moans. Men seduce women, generally, under the gub.e of lovo, twine around their alfeetions, win their enlidenee, rob them of their honor, and east them off that thoy may seek other victims for their lusts. The investigations made last full by this woman's club of VahiiiKtOu. revealed l b; fact that husband.- and fathers are the most numerous nu-merous and lucrative patrons of housed of infamy in that city, and that thoy continually urge procuresses to obtain young victim! to satisfy their bestial pasi-ion". This bill, then, tells these men, husbands hus-bands though they be, that proof of cohabitation with other women fhallj be proof of marriage with them, thus with one stroke aiming a trenelmnt blow at the social sin and tli-j anti-polygamy anti-polygamy movement. That it docs not attack the right of wife to tho attentions of her husband, is plain, because be-cause it only gives to smother woman a legal claim on the man who illegitimately assumes the position of a husband towards her, no uiattcr bow temporary or brief be may design his attentions to be. It does not rob any man of bis right to a woiuun or the atleciionsof a, wonianf,aa a wife, but merely declares that if sexual sex-ual relations are entered into by any man und woman, they become in law husband and wife, leaving the woman free to accept the man of her choice. The.se aie the logical .ieiuence.s of this bill, and it is a further step in the declaration de-claration of woman's riebts which may ho defeated at preseut by a refusal to make it a law, but which is as certain to be yet fully recognized by legal enactment en-actment as that the social revolution now in progress, like all revolutions, cannot go backwards. |