Show BLAMES WOMEN FOR POLYGAMY IN UTAH On October Bishop F. S. the Episcopal Bishop of made the following statement in San more than men- are responsible for polygamy in Twice during the existence of Utah as a when women had the right of 90 per cent of their votes favored and not until their right of suffrage was taken away from them was the territory admitted to was the statement with which Bishop F. S. Spalding of Utah astonished his hearers at an informal address given yesterday at St. Stephen's during the semi-annual convention the Episcopal Bishop Spalding assured his hearers that the women had voted for polygamy as a church lie further declared that polygamy has almost entirely asserting that there are not more than polygamous families in the state ati the present Digging Up a Dead Why Bishop Spalding should refer to the dead issue of polygamy and try to revive it in San so that the newspapers throughout the country could get a knock at the Utah Independent cannot Wo believe that Bishop Spalding a friend of but on several occasions when he has away from home he has made am-I statements the people of Utah statements f that could be easily construed I against this Two years he made statements that double and pointed more against Utah than for His utterances quoted above seem to indicate that woman's suffrage and polygamy go hand in 1 and the women in Utah have the right of polygamy li will The bishop's e speech was across the con- to and pub- 9 in the Portland Evening 1 Press as Woman Suffrage in Utah for 27 The women are more anxious for polygamy than the men said Bishop Spalding of yester- at a conclave of the Episco- jj pal diocese in this k op went on to say that so long as L woman suffrage prevailed in Utah would be utterly impossible to establish laws that would result in the abolition of i Two A and walk-ing m met three 1 charming little prat- must speak to those said are my nephews and said I have no nephews and I shall walk How was They were B's |