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Show She jjdcu function. Published every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY by the O'iCEN PuBusHixa Compact. by revelation and accepted as such, the fair sex. If an opportunity was power to prescribe this qualification must certainly be, according to its afforded all of them to marry, the was given to the Legislatures of all constitution, a tenet of the Church, term wpuld become obsolete, as it the Territories, in tJtine, 1874, as vill be seen from the following: and its practice "an establishment of should. religion." Clmrlo V. 1'enroMC, Keillor. If the Herald holds that nothing Bu.UHf.tt . S77.4 TFORD. Manager, be legitisiately a tenet of the Church except that which was insti t tired at its commencement, the ediOii !)S:.. UTAH. tor is in blank ignorance of the nature FEBKUAKY 9. 187G WEDNESDAY. of ti e Church, asd must repudiate zcuny ductriues which he professes to consider sacred. The Church is proAUTHOR I ZEI AO K ATM. gressive, and from the day of its organization, doctrines and regulations The following art authorized to have been added t its fundamental collect subscriptions and transact any busiprinciples, according to the chaDge ness connected with the "Junction" Ojjice in of circumstaoc s and the increased their respective settlement. lightnd faith or its members. There Logan, Providence and Millville, M. D. is no final revelation, doctrine of preHammond. Snithfield, Hyde Park and Richmond, W. cept in it. Eternal truth, in all its boundless extent is the source of its A. Nolle. W. L. Webster. supplies, and the stream is everflow-ing- , Jranlclin Jamet Unnworth. asid the fountain will never run Nyrum, c.-'- pi-rsn- s All settlements on the of Hear west side, dry. River, in C'tche Valley J. II Barker. The Herald's statement that polyWiflurd, Malad City, Willow Springs and gamy is declared a crime by the Samaria, Jos. W. Dudley. 0. L. Robinson Church is a grea mi.--t ke. The deI'armington,,... W. S Poppleton claration in the appendix to the Due-trin- e Wellsmlle 1 Shaw . Paradise. and Covenants to which he E X. Austin Pear Lake Valley refers, nrA which is not in the nature .James Salmon Coalville of a revelation, says: Anderson II. -- II. Poatage. Eli Whitear Co Morgan Address all business communications, E. STRATFORD, Business Manager. Box 32, Ogden, Utah. lLUll A li 91 A II III iO I : A X 1 imciii:lous kiuiits. "Inasmuch ns the Church of Christ has been reproached with the cime 0 fornication, and polygamy, we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband, &o." Now, it will be observed that fornication is here called a crime, but polygamy is not. Also that a woman positively restricted to one hus-benat a time, aud a man is not. The organ of the sect commonly And it is clear by the wordiug that called Jopcphite? the Ilorald, at the writer presented these points in tempts in a lon and lahorcd article, this manner, with an understanding to overthrow the position of the of the law on celestial marriage, then Junction on the legal aapect of the incorporative, but afterwards to be religious plural liiarriago question. made public. Ve will not inflict upon our readers As to the "reproach" of polygamy, the task of wading through the arthe clause refers to polygamy as popticle in question, but simply state its ularly understood under that name, sum and substance. and as practised in Eastern nations, The Herald holds that, is as far from the "celestial 'Polygamy was not, at the Institution of the Church, nd baa nevr been marriage" of this Church, as sensusince, legitimately an establishment of ality is from the chaste relations of is d ch religion, wirhm (he of ihf But whether marriageable women are in excess of, equal to, or less than the marriageable men, the right of choice on their part, would throw out the Herald's Oosrus "rijjht' of bachelors to marry. It has no ex isteuce but by consent of the other sex, and plural marriage leaves the women free to unite with either a inarm d or single man, according to her own free choice. Debar her from this privilege, and the Herald's doctrine of trespass upon human rights wuld apply in her case, and thus any law which prevents her ex ercise of this privilege ought to be any Territory hereafier urgimzed by Congress, as well us at all elections in Territories already organized, thoquali fioations of voters and of holding office, shall be such as tiny be prescribed by of each the Legislative to thn followheless, nevert sulject. tory, ict the nu power of the ing re ii ion Legislative Assembly, namely: 1st. The right of suffrage and of holding office ahull be exercised only by citizens of ihe United States, above the of twenty one ywars. and by tbose above that age who have declared on oath', before a competent court of record, their intention to become such, and have taken an oath to support the constitution and government of the United Siates " lievi.-eSialutes of the United States, p. :330 Tt-r- ae d A bill embodying the above provision should be at once enacted by n meaning statute' of the constitution; because properly regulated matrimony. The statement of the Herald, that Miuer vs. that it was no' at its institution, Hoppersalt, appealed from and has never been since, legitimately this the Supreme Court of Missouri. Wo made a tenet of the Chnrch of Jesus Congress may rightfully suppress of unour is, and Christ of Latter-dathat it practice then, religion, Saint; as follows : t a crime, as so declared by paid supported by any proof, and is found- quote The right of suffrage is not made in Church ilself, and may, therefore, rlht one of the privileges of the citizen. for Wins ed in a overthe deire " malignant fully be suppressed by Congress The United State' has no voters, aad no This i3 a fingular way of putting throw of a people whom the Herald one can veto for Federal, without being eoripeieat to vote for State officers. an argument. But the intelligent editor opposes. Nor is the light of suffrage co extensive The Herald further says: raader can guess at the meaning of with the citizenship of the States 'If there be an equal number of mar- Besides, a person who has simply dethe writer. He makes an assertion riageable men and women in a commun- clared his intention to become a citizen and proves it by repeating it. ity, and any one man takes mote than of the United States may vote under cerone wife, he is debarring some other tain circumstances in Missouri and other We admit that polygamy was not man from the exercise of this privilege, States, and this could not be if suffrage a part of the creed of the Latter-daand is committing eonstrictif ely a tres- depended on the right of citisc&sbip. The court are unauimous in the.r opinSaints at the organization of the pass agains-- him, and a crime against the law protecting hia rights." ion thai the Constithion of the United Church. Indeed, polygamy, taking Wonderful logic I Astonishing States does not confer the tight of sufthe word to mean the social custom frage upon any one, etc legal acumen I Docs the law give in rogue in Turkey, and other eastUtah, then, had the right to rethe right to any man to marry a wobe a ern nations, is not now, and never man if she doesn't want him ? Does quire every voter to has been, a part of that creed. and to prescribe other qualifications But a system allowing plural marriage for the exercise of the elective franit is idle for the Herald, or "any compel any woman to unite herself chise. Women of the aire of twenty-on- e ether man," to state that celestial with a married man ? The same logic years of age are citizens of the marriage, which includes, under cer- would debar a widower from marrytain regulations, the marriage of United States, if they are born or ing again, because there are many naturalized therein!, And therefore, more than one woman to the same bachelors who want wives. Plural Utah had the right to pass a law man, is not now an established docmarriage gives the choice to women, them the right to trine and practice of the Church. and a chance to marry the man conferring upon vote. It is a fact well known to all the whom they would rather have than civilized world that the Church has A great outcry of fraud has been any other. The single man is not deraised against certain citizens of accepted that doctrine, founded on a barred from marrying the woman if revelation given to Jossph Smith in she is Tooele, and some of them were willing, and if she is not, must hailed before that disgrace to the 1843, and that in 1852 that revela- she be compelled to have him because the late Chief Justice tion was publicly read at a general of the right" which the Herald has judicial bench, McKean, and punished for voting ascmbly of the Church in Salt Lake set up fur b ichelors ? City, and from that date was publicly But in most communities the by virtue of; their first papers. It will be perceived from the quotation recognized among the members of the number of mairiageable women exabove made, that in Missouri and Chureh in all the world, as part and ceeds the number of the marriageother places, this is perfectly legal. parcel or their religious faith, its able men, and the subject of "What And the right to rote by virtue of a practice, however, being limited to is to be done with tne wosurplus declaration of intention to become a Utah, because in that Territory no men, has been a problem which law wns in force prohibiting such citizen, was conferred by the Conmany wise statesmen have endeavor practice. d to solve, but in vain. The very gress ot the UnUed States upon re That which is givon to the Church idea of "surplus women" is a libel on sidenti of new Territories, and the y y t tax-pay- ! 4 in AI that ths Utah statute, "finch provides, among other qualifications, that a voter must be a taxpayer, is a violation of this constitutional provision and therefore void. Bui this is a mistaken view of the subject. The States and Territories have the right to make laws prescribing the qualifications of voters, though they have no power to abridge the ''privileges and immunities of eitizeus." Citizenship is one thing, the right to vote another thing. This question has been set at rest by a decision of the Suprenso Court of the United States in the case of Idaliot Cherry Creek. Malad Valley Feb. 4ih, 187 g'. At all subsequent election", however, "suppressed by Corgress." When the Herald has digested the our Legislative Assembly, when all above we have more to offer. persons holding "first papers" will be legally entitled to vote at the next election. CITIZENSHIP THE Under these considerations, was it E LECTI VE Fit ASCII IS K. any wonder that persons who had The contest over the Tooele elec- lawfully made their declaration of be tion has brought to the surface sev- coming citizens of the United States, eral questions relative to the right to and who possessed the other qualifivote. The fourteenth amendment to cations prescribed by the territorial the Constitution of the United Slates statutes, should consider themselves entitled to vote at the Tooele eleetion? provides, among other thiugs, that: And was it not a mean and contempti All persons born or naturalized in the ble act of those who accused them United States and subject t) the thereof, are citizens of the United and the Judge who fined them, to States and of the State wherein they reside. Ifo State shall make or enforce bring them from their homes, unir any law which shall abridge the priviarrest, before the District Court and leges or immunities of citizens of the United States, etc. punish thm nominally, for the in It is considered by some persons fraction of a local technicality, but juris-dictio- Correspo&tdetice. Schools in Oneida Couatr Editor Junction : We are enjojiug the winter Abundance of snow for can. and irrigating purp-se- s as best we ?U'i"-hin- The interest taken in the education of our children is becoming more manifest. New schools' dictricts are organized by the consent of our General Superiuiendeni of Uonunoa Schools for the county, Mr F. F Whits The last sessit-of our Legislature amended the school laws, ami if the and spirit of t he law is complied with in l'ml, our cbildreu will hurely show the good effecis of it in a very few years. There is a provision in the law that whenever a pareut or guardian are loo poor to furuish their cuildreu with books, that the cbibartu shall be provided by the trustees, at the expense of the district. 1 would suggest un amendment to our laws, namely, that the teacher or trustees shall, whenever the parents (not too poor) neglect to furnish their children books, be empowered to furnnh them and charge and collect the same from the persona thus neglecting. Our district, had, according to our census marshal's report, 2" chtldien the age of 5 and 18 years of age. We have been notified by Mr White that there win apportioned to us $179 90 from the school funds, wbica is about $7 20 to each scholar. This should, with a Utile exeriion on the part of parent, be sufficient to maintain a echool 9 months in a year. Very frequently, in the older settlements of Utah, it cost parents, for each child, 10 or 12 dollars a year for fchooling; if we wbuld expend the same umouut. we could have a school taught throughout the year. We have some very good teachers here, worthy of their profession, and there are seven schools in the valley; if we had one more.eaca settlement would be pr.vi-de- d with a school. Willow Springs and Two Mile Creek have united and built a very neat and comodiuu frame school house, which they iut nd furnishing ia style; it is a credit to the trnstees and to the settlements interested; it is reported to be the best jtn the county. We have the material ia this valley to let-t- er ea first-cla- ss really because they wereMormons," when the hundreds of who violated the law by voting create a Orst-clm- s brass band. Prof. Edward Worsley is eapable of conduct" without boing were all ing either instrumental or vocal music. We have also Mr. David P. Jones, well allowed to go scot free? An attempt is being made to ob- competent to lead a choir, who is always prompt in performing whatever he untain special legislation from Congress, dertakes to do. Will some of our Malad friend explain the reason wby we do turning over the rights of the ma- not keep pace with o'her valleys in the jority, into the hands of the minori- scienee of music. Choral unions elsewhere, why not here, ty, but it is not at all likely that any- where time and tune is promi neatly dething will be done with the bare- veloped in nearly every person yon meet? It is rumored that Judge Hollister is faced, shameless and impudent applito go to Boise City, and Judge appointed cation. One of its requests is that Piickett to-- succeed him, next May, in no person practicing polygamy thall this Distriel. Yours, tax-payer- s, SCBSCRIBES. vote at any election, and another is that the women of Utah shall bu deprived of the elective franchise. Against the latter, the Woman's Association have ariseu in Snffrag their might. At a meeting held in Washington, the following resolution was adopted and a committee appointed to watch the matter: ' 'Resolved: That the right of suffrage Sewing Macliin e. . being vested in the women of Utah, by their constitutional and lawful enfranchisement nud by its peers of use, we denouuee the proposition about to be aain presented to Congress by the Utah ring tor disenfranchisemenl of thousands of legal voters in that Territory, as an ou'rage on the freedom ot the peo ple ana a gross invasion of a vtBted right; that we denounce the ubolition of the system of numbering the b illots, in order that the women may be thoroughly free to vota as they choose, wiihout TOAOS MARK supervision or instruction: and tkat the chair appoint a committee f tbyee per sons, with power to add to tbeir number, to memorialize Congress aad otherwise-tITS LATE IMPROVEMENTS watch over the rights.of the wocen of WFriT withthe best prinulnih. of oh'er ma Utah in this regard daring the next chine.. i noirfqial to if not superior to any otli T machine in tha ma'ket. twelve months.' It is the eulv machiue baving a VICTOR!' Bolf-sttin- i( Every man and woman in this nee!l. It hiw th Iktest Improved S1M whtch hat Territory should strive to become ac no "mall hole t springs to thread through or quainted with their lawl'nl rights and under. It him the lntwit patent fed All wearing points r m1u of steel, privileges and live in the exercise v it dnraluli tj is great thereof, guarding them as sacred, Having the fewmt p&ris of any Plinttle Main. tb-- market it Is oeuseueutiy tha contending for and defending them chine eaxieft running. when necepsary, and never yielding machine itoM makea sides fnrotaars, M them voluntarily under any circum- they recommend themselves to nil who see them iu operatiua. And every person who has Good stances lively agents wanted la every town la Northern ftti;to hm a good conmiinsioa wi!4 arrived at maturity who fatils to ob- ha paid. Write to tain the qualifications of a voter, cr to exercise the right of franchise when A. W. BROWN & Go. is confidence the qualified, unworthy General agents and dealers In and respect of the intelligent portion of the community. BOOK & SHEET eomie-quen- tl Ktw-- A story is extant that Martin Van Buren, who, when a candidate for office as ha frequently was ibund his wife weeping over a bitter personal attack upon him in one of the newspapers. "Why, my dear," said the wily sage of Kinderhook, I paid $50 to have that yery article US I C ! Musical Merchandise, AJST SXA.XIOIVEI1Y. Ogden. Utah. Florence, Wheeler k Wilson, Home Shuttle and: needle and repairs always on bat, 8vi&t fiMMhiaaa of all kia cleaned aad repaired. . Kemmiegto , |