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Show WOMAS SUFFRAGE IN UTAH The telegraph this week brings an account of a recent election at Salt Lako city, which resulted in an overwhelming overwhelm-ing triumph of tho IVIoroion ticket. This was largely due to the vote of the women. It is said (hat ruaDy boys and girls also voted, aud that the defeated Gentiles aro preparing a memorial to congress against woman suffrage in Utah. Supposing the statement to bo true as regards the voting of young girls, this certainly has nothing to do with woman suffrage. The voting of boys might equally be adduced against the suffrage of men. An efficient registry law is essential lo guard against frauds in Utah as cUe where. The opponents of woman suffrage arc scandalized because the women aro said to have voted in support of polygamy. polyg-amy. But it is not quite true that the women have voted in favor of polygamy. po-lygamy. They voted in support of self-government in Utah, as against a proscriptivo movement headed by the federal Sfficials and sustained bya flood of miners and new comers who have suddenly come into tho Territory. This proscriptivo movement has taken the shape of an assaultupon polygamy, but is really a struggle to overthrow tho theocracy. It is a hand-to-hand fight with the entiro social and religious system of Mormonism. But if it were true, it, would be far from an argument against woman suffrage. For surely if women havo a right to a voice in anything, it must be in regard to the domestic relations. When the homes of Utah are assailed i when her leading citizens are ar-raigned ar-raigned before the courts aa adulterers, adulter-ers, when many of her most respectable respect-able and respected women are stigmatized stigma-tized as mistresses and their children pronounced illegitimate, women ought to be allowed an expression of their views and .wishes. Even lloraceGrcc-ley lloraceGrcc-ley has more than once suggested a congress of women to consider domestic domes-tic interests and duties, And if the women of Utah generally feel, as they evidently do feel, that the crusade against polygamy as cmuhtcttd in the courts is unwise and cruel, it is most fortunate that they have !eeu able to make their feelings publicly known and respected. We trust, therefore, t'l-.at congress will firmly refuse to interfere in the elections of Utah further than to pio-vide pio-vide for an efficient regi-try of voters. Let the women uf Utah vote. That they do su i. a bitter pill for Brighatn Youol- and his s.-itcliiteH. Wc know that Youim is utterly opposed to wuinan 'Uiinu'c, and so l-x presses him-mIi'. him-mIi'. llo'h;is only accepted it as a tvuip'T.iry n-l'iue from threatened de-i de-i rui'tioTi. Now, th-n, compel him to ! nMain it as a permanent principle, j These women, if they continue to ex-I ex-I ercise scif-governnirnt, v$ soon repudiate repu-diate polygamy. No one knows this Lx-uer than Brigham Young. The peaceful and permanent soiution of the ' Mormon complication lies in the jna:n-trnanee jna:n-trnanee of woman sjiiV.ije in Utah. . '. .. in the "Woman's Jcur-! Jcur-! no,'' Bu.'o.i. |