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Show Women s Campaign amst Polygamy The National League- of Women's Organisations Or-ganisations has sent the following to the Christian Herald for publication: The National League of Women's Organizations Or-ganizations was formed to bring Into concerted con-certed and systematic form tho work of the many organizations of women that were striving to contend against the treasonable and polygamous teachings and practices el tin- M ion hi- ran hv Th- National lcaguo Invites i.r-.- u , -man's" organization to Join and lend moral support to this work. Already many have united with ft, and the result has been a widespread an.i effective campaign, cam-paign, which has exposed the remarkable conditions which exist in Utah todoj There are no dues, no obligations, except to give moral support lo the movement. The investigation of Reed SmoOt's right to a scat in the United stat-s Senate has proved that polygamy is Just as much a part of Mormon doctrine as it .vrr waS. It has proved that President Joseph F. Smith, who was .n- of th- signers of the manifesto by which the Mormon hierarchy hie-rarchy pledged itself to give up plural marriages, and the union of church and state, has broken both of those pledges, and lhat openly and deflantls he practices prac-tices polygamy, and dominates the politics poli-tics of Utah and adjoining States. It has proved that polygamy and political domination domi-nation ii-ive li. en r -. st.'.MNli. '! In more dangerous form than oyer before, for v Ith the pow-r i Statehood, the Federal Government Is powerless to deal with it as it could in Territorial days with b boldness never before exhibited, a Mormon apostle was sent to the Senate, and is still there, the trial having dragged along for two years and being still unsettled unset-tled by the S.-nate. Th- political domination, the commercial commer-cial domination, the absolute command of the votes of ev. ry Mormon, and the un-questloned un-questloned power to use one million and a half dollars Of tithing annually, makes the Mormon hlerarch a . ..w- r. which only eojUl ly organized and continuous work, with money lo conduct It. can hope lo subdue The National I. acue .-.ill oii-tinue oii-tinue this battle in protection of home and country. In defense of womanhood and childhood, until the Nation realizes that the Mormon hierarchy is a dlshbn- lired, law-breaking organisation, holding in its control and In slavery of the worst description, thousands of men and women, wo-men, and un.li rmining the moral tone of all that It touches. Tho solution of the difficulty now Is to seeure an uniendment to the Constitution. giving tie- Federal Government power to ueiil with polygamy in every State. ' Christian Herald. |