Show STRONG ADDRESS OF MRS DUBOIS Wife of Idaho Senator Discusses the Mormon Question PLEA FOR THE CHILDREN J ELLEN FOSTER RAKED OVER THE TH E COALS Special to The Herald t A ASHINGTON April 11 Mrs Fret Fre Frej V V T r j Dubois made mude a It speech this afternoon on the Mormon ques question question I tion Uon at i largely attended meeting of or orthe the romans Womans Home Hom Missionary as association held at Hamlin Methodist church this city Mrs Dubois Dubos was warmly applauded many times during her address which was delivered without notes and in a very ery effective manner Mrs rs Dubois said in part partI I 1 am known as a lover of oC children and stand for all that will make child childhood childhood childhood hood better so to that when J IT say sa I come to you today to make malte a 3 plea for forthe forth forthe the th Mormon baby buby you will not be surprised d Senator Hoars H ars Charge During the testimony t taken by b privileges and und elections committee last hu t year Senator Hoar questioned President President President dent Joseph F Smith concerning Mor Mormon or mon inon violation of the laws and disregard of the revelation promulgated by President Woodruff which required d the Mormons to ab nb abstain abstain stain from flom polygamy at the close of the questioning Senator Hoar said You are lire directly bringing children int the world against aguin t the laws of God Goel and laws of man Smith answered I 1 suppose I am a nl Plea for the Children Today I come to you OU Mrs Du Dubois bois boh continued on account of this testimony t and nut the outrageous indifference ference ferene of that answer answel I would not enter the arena to help lieu hel the Mormon lormon women of Utah for these women sus sustained President Smith when he re turned from froin Washington but T r am sin pleading for fot children who come into the world oll outcasts out I am pleading for assistance to break the influence of the powerful po I hierarchy that threatens to overturn the government and break down the lofty ideals of child childhood childhood childhood hood pure motherhood mothel lOod and noble womanhood and destroy the bulwark of our fUI nation American home Roosevelt Quoted Mrs rs Dubois then called attention to and read rt ad the report of Apostle Hyrum Byrum Mack Smiths remarks in which he claimed President Roosevelt would give the Mormons a n square deal She recalled hIel d President ent ad dress on March 13 at the National Congress of f Mothers when he said But the thc nation is in a bad way a if there is no reel real r til home if the family is not of the right kind kindo If the tha m Ig i inot inot not a good and father if ir lie he is g brutal ly or Commenting on this she said suid saidI I 1 do not charge halgE that Mormon hus bands blinds as R individuals are brutal or cowardly but I do 10 charge that th t the system they the represent te is brutal selfish and cowardly System is Brutal The ruie president in hii hi address said hI I believe in womans keeping her just as I believe in mans doing doln so o I believe b in her rights just as lK 5 I believe in mans JUans mansI I shall never forget our presidents nt look luok as he turned to the officers of or the congress and raising his hand in i ithe the gesture we nil all know Inow so well said I L want every evely one in this house tonight to know I mean every t verJ word wOld I say sa So I say to you that the president will never lever the million ni a half of women by standing for a j tern that entraps entra 6 defenceless women in foreign lands land brings them to our shores without funds under un er false rep t enta and forces upon them a system of harem life worse than the life of an inmate of a n Turkish harem UVe Ve in the congress of mothers moth rs know the president would not stand for fic tic such as this and Hyrum Smith did not pay President Pr ident Roosevelt a n compliment compliment ment when hen he said he knows us and will stand by b us Roast for J Ellen Foster Mrs Dubois then devoted attention att to Mrs J Ellen Enen Foster and Mrs Irs Ida Husted Harper who have haye essayed esSl ed to defend Mormonism and said Every Eer church society and every pa paper paper paper per available must be used to kill the viper of polygamy poly mJ that is being warmed firmed in our fireside and will rise up and sting our children When hen women like Mrs Ida Ido Husted Harper and Mrs J Ellen Foster Fo tr to t whom God has en entrusted entrusted trusted unusual powers use these pow powers powers powers ers for wire pulling or low ow party gains gain they will answer to the master of the th universe for fOJ wrong use of their talents and will soon reap the benefit of their lack of principle through people not believing in them Politics and Morality Mrs 18 Dubois quoted from one of Mrs Irs Fosters Idaho speeches in which she said moral questions should have no place in polities politics and said Maid she would go further than Mrs h Foster and say that polities politics should play pIa no part in moral questions She defined her own n position position tion lion by saying hI I t believe b e in equal e lual suffrage but I do donot donot I not Hot believe bellee in women wire Ire pullers Every pure woman Jias lofty loft ideals that she Is trying to reach reh Mrs Fos Foster Fo Foter Foster ter cannot come to our state and tell I our women that a moral question does not concern them Our strong western women omen know kno and feel their duty to toward toward ward the uplifting of their theil homes They The stand for all that is ig pure strong and lofty loft and they the are ale a mighty influence whenever they the attend nd national meet meetings ings ingi of women in the east eastIn eastIn In closing Mrs Dubois Dubols said We who are striving for better wo womanhood womanhood manhood higher motherhood and purer childhood have felt the majestic influence influence ence of our honored president in our midst and in our western parlance I too would say he will give gh us a square deal but if I mistake him not that square deal will be on the side sile of legal legalized childhood and sanctified mother molher motherhood hood |