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Show A CAR!'. ! Satumuy Fvknino, NuvL'mut r If. h. Editors Htrabl: Not wishing lo he m'srepreit-uttd again, I wou'd like to 8-ato to (bote who listened to my short speech tb:e altemoon iu the theatre, tout my interests in-terests aro for women, and thai 1 labor for women; ihit no public influence in-fluence has ever buno exerted hv me only in me beualf ut women. Seeing that by the enactment of a' ' law oi congress" many thousand ol 'giod, pure women here would be wronged and injur-d, I rxer'ed my itifluouie anions relatives u& " Iriends m court" W pro.-t.m a clause enterm tne Utali bill which should nmk. of the ft.w among Mormon women, "wives," and uf the luige majority ut.n wivei. I sa, as al' candid men an 1 women miiot see that tne tt ttus ut thw Murmon witf should be tnensured by the contract nuo Liieriu iiuu, niiu ii l iu uerH-iu.,ny uerH-iu.,ny ol her marriage ehe agreed lo lIio practieo of puly-uiy, the times o ttuit uLTt-moriy t.iltiLiy pluce sht,nlo he of minor consideration. I have not beon called upon to givo my personal per-sonal views uton this question. Were I so called upon I would very Iraukly reply: That I have seen polygamy to be unproductive uf happiness upfn wbicb the highest result must depend, so could not conscientiously lend my influence towaids the continuance con-tinuance of a system which did not produce happiness. But taking all tne circumstances iuto consideration, considera-tion, of the people here, for twenty-five twenty-five years ;solated from all other communities, it is hardly fair to rasaure their social lile and customs by thosB of other communities. Tbe .nui Miuuu Bin u reufciuua puupie, fanatically so, and have sacrificed much in proof of this. Hence, I say again, let the families formeii iu polygamy remain as they are, or tiring ahjut their own dies ilutioo. Let tho spirit ef the century work as it Tiust, here as eltewhere, nnd tbe result mur-t bo woman's eluvation, man's compeer. Charloite I. Godbe. P. S. A woman's let er, il is said, is never full withuut a Dostcriot. 1 would add thit at the next mass meeting of the women of Utah, I hope opportunity will be given fi ir "w-. m -r, tu cpt ak w;jo have aoytiiing to say," and Itt the limit be teu min utee. Ttiere is a diflerence of opinion even among Mormon women. n t a |
