Show SEEKING mornion lilies ladles ID 11 ashill 1 I ib is known to comp comparatively amatively arat ively few fr kople perhaps pei haps that there is is a eira tul mission estion of 0 mormon women from utah in the city they seek redress for wrongs ga in the names of over 2000 2 ladies who assembled at salt laap city in nines mass meeting march 6 IS abdo representing presenting rB the wives vives mothers sis BIS andi and daughters of the whole ter atory A Ite republican publican representative met the tha commission commission by appointment at ab the iba headquarters on grant place yesterday afternoon illar noon and confronted four well favored agreeable and in in tell 1 et women mrs emmeline D B W wells the e editor of the comans womans it ax 1 pvn nna tiit published seini monthly nt at s bait it lalib lake city lit seemed by common ca consent n sent to bu be I 1 the he chairman th airman mrs W wella ells is is the llie plural wife of gen D 11 II walla who was waa counsel to bri brig hum ham young mrs wells was born a puritan punt an in in massachusetts but was converted with her mother and went to nauvoo ill in IM and was mar ried ned in in salt lake city in in 1852 dr ellen B for Perc w was as born in cam bridge E Li ng inland T and was m arrie d in in london and came to this cou country in i n 1860 and went to salt lake in in 18 1876 7 5 i in sequence consequence of embracing the moamoa ration faith in in illinois her hei h LIM bund band died in in 1880 and both were alo Mor cormons mormons mons but bat were never cover io in poly godly mrs emeline K S archard anil I 1 mrs airs josephine it 11 west were born in the mormon church of parents who lived in polygamy they and their husbands aro are all Mor cormons mormons mons t but lut do not practice polygamy they are young women have each been married several years and have had bad numerous num brous children and mrs birs west he hns ii st an d infant with her in answer to a question concern ing their mission to the capital sirs mrs wells wella sal bagdi idi our oar mission to we gloo at the present time is to present memorials which wo we brought ourselves being properly accredited tor the president Preg ident dont the senate and the house the nhe first was delivered to the chief magia on april 3 whence had bad an in with him i that to the senate was presented presented emr by mr blaar r on the 6 ath th he 0 was selected because becaas e he be vo voted te d against the edmunds bill and is bos besides idess a womans comans suffragist and OX ex governor long of massachusetts who is is a suffragist also alad has bas charge of 1 the document for the house which has not yet been re frred 04 to chaj ad i ciary committee in the senate the memo memorial rial was allowed lie on the table and appeared in full in the letord of at april 7 1 having presented your memo memorial what do you propose to do further lier in the matter mattert 1 we shall do all in our power to correct the tha evil etil and sensational re ra ports that are are daily being dis abed among the I 1 people of 0 the east from the pulpit and by tho press wo have some books and pamphlets which we g gladly ill adly give to inquirers and WB wa invite in investigation v asti gation and are r ready d to answer questions N what hait I 1 is the condition of affairs in 1 utah 1 mh that compel yon tomako this prot estt estl the tha edmunds law which was 0 d in 1882 1 1 said dr ferguson fu with a view ot prohibiting andio and do ing away with polygamy has baa been the means of much suffer buffer ing upon the people who do not come within the penal scope of the law through the of officials c bals AS will be seen from our m memorial L orial we complain that young c children b ind reu are brought into court and plied with indecent e eions tedder bomin women in delicate delic alB ith are asked impertinent and insulting insul questions in court and many ot of the leading men and priests of mormonism are driven into biding by the exactions of o the officials the juries are corn com I 1 0 posed of 0 men known to be antigon to mormons cormons Mor mons and no mormon is permitted to sit upon juries juri esi the men inen bud and women living in ID have been 0 ous marriage chased aall but monogamous mormons cormons Mor mons m mma arid women still vote it is ia not true that the women vote at the dio die apiou of mornion officials the th bal lot is ia secret and aldno no one bai basany lany im means earis of bf knowing how bow another votes ithe gentile ring in utah laconti continued inked pr dr ferguson is UA nit milking making a era aada against polygamy but bat is ia i ing matters and mo moving ing tor for adverse legislation in order ato to git get tb the terr local and elective officers of the territory atory under their control the elective and territorial offices tire am now all hold bold by For formans mormons Mor mons should the tha ring succeed in in dis franchising mano am oua otis mormons cormons Mor mons although 13 gr eatty in the ni nonty y di manipulate odid affairs to suit themselves all we can 10 lo do to toil foil the political con spira aspirators tors is to pul iglitzen public osen sell on all that ibal pertains to mor mons mona and in a question as to what w bat made tho the church of the latter day so BO fascinating to women mrs lvella resumed we feel the doe doa 1 3 are the truth and not liki lika clini ch aging ug to chent aenny r berl fi co I 1 know k now there is ia more fiort liberty y for women women in the mormon church chu it than ban in tany any other to in the world the women vote not only upon all political but upon religious reli gous tenets all aa well we believe in a pro pre existence and future bedla of 0 progression and the A of 0 plural wives is ia a cor to supreme the treat great i wrong congress CODrea a is in fh enforcing the edmands law in jn the breaking rip of f families 4 in I 1 lies tha ruin of 1 I 1 0 I 1 hearts anti and homes and disgracing 9 the th women and making makina their children outcasts mormons Mor mons believe that a man can moro more than one woman just as a mothers bers love is not confined to one on motters mot hild child 11 said eaid mrs mr richards my hui bui band and I 1 talked the matter all over before marriage we both cimo came from parents who levei in polygamy but we were the children of 0 the first w wives ives and no mormon youth would mar marry ry a girl who was fio bot n nood good A mormon form in in all that the word implies wo we were vere born and brought up in the church and when wear we ar r rived ve dat at years of responsibility wo we adopted the faith as our own we have be seen the power given the saints that the lord prospered them in tern pored things as dellasin noli wel lasin as in spiritual thi things logs mrs west is the 60 daughter ot of an postle apostle I 1 of the church and overs avers that it she had bad a score of children would bring them all up to be latter day saints sho sha is enthusiastic about the superior principles ot of her religion andja andi ays says mormons cormons aro are not living for the present only but ab for the gry glory of paternity etera ity and are willing to make sac rincea here for their future exalta tion mr F S richards llie harda is in the city w with bis wife he is attorney for tha mormon church and at attorney tomey tor for salt lake city and is here bore to argue a case cae in the supreme Court Wash ington Xa Kinal Be publican april |