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Show J ' i i- - i a t r nr ft YOL. II. Wg JJlan have J)is ctvij NO. 12. anil fel every jfflmnan have Iftr otvn Jjusband. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH, of America: tered foreigners who have never known Let every happy wife and mother who or never will know the value of politreads these lines give her sympathy , ical and religious liberty, and whose only claim to citizenship rests on being ptayers and efforts to free her sisters third or fourth wife of a Mormon1 Elfrom this degrading bondage . Let all der. And perhaps he himself may the womanhood of the country stand never have acquired a legal right to united for them. Time is a power in the use of the ballot, but like Geo. Q. Cannon may have fraudulent papers combined enlightened sentiment and symor even none at all. They cannot pathy , before which every form of injus- realize that the ballot in the hands of tice and cruelty must finally go down. the Mormon women has only proved to Harriet Beecher Stowe. be an engine for the perpetuity of fa To the Women 1 . IF naticism, ignorance, crime and misery, instead of the palladium of American freedom, and the boasted charter of WE KNEW. If we knew the cares and crosses popular sovereignty. Crowding round our neighbors way, We know that it was thought by If we knew the little losses, many well meaning and noble minded Sorely grievous, day by day, Would we then so often chide him For his lack of thrift and gain, Leaving on his heart a shadow, Leaving on our life a stain? If we knew the clouds above us, Held by gentle blessings there, Would we turn away all trembling In our blind and weak despair? Would we shrink from little shadows Lying on the dewy grass, While tisonly birds of Eden Just in mercy flying past? If we knew the silent story Quivering through the heart of pain, Would our manhood care to doom them Back to haunts of guilt again? Life hath many a tangled crossing, Joy hath many a break of woe; is whitest And the cheek This the blessed angels know. Let us reach into our bosoms For the key to others lives, And with love toward erring nature Cherish good that still survives; So that, when our disrobed spirits Soar to realms of light again, We may say, Dear Father, judge us As we judge our fellow men. tear-staine- d i ' t fr f- - Open Letter to the Suffragists of the United Stales. (Adopted unanimously at the regular y meeting of the Woman's National Society , Feb. 7, 1882.) Anti-Polygam- We women who y are active workers in the movement in Utah have frequently been censured by some of the Suffrage party for depreciating the fact that the ballot was ever given to the women of this Territory. On this ac count, we have not always received that fullness of sympathy and from the party that we had a right to expect from laborers in the same cause the enfranchisement and elevation of woman. But we believe that you have entirely misunderstood the question, and consequently we desire to explain as fully as possible our position, and the true nature and effects of woman suffrage in Utah. As one of our members recently said in substance, in the Womarfs Journal , it is rather difficult to explain, because people seem to have the idea that if a person does not endorse woman suffrage ii this Territory, they are opposed lo the general principle of universal suffrage. They do not seem to realize that the ballot in the hands of intellgent and cultured American wontn, Christian mothers of the pubic and their carefully trained and educated daughters is one thing, but quite another in the hands of unlet Dear Friends: Anti-polygam- on . men and women, who love and revers the sacred names of mother, wife and sister, and all that those names imply in a pure, Christian household, that if the women of Utah were in possession of the ballot, polygamy and its disgusting horrors would soon disap- pear. But after more than twelve years experience, the facts are quite at variance with this theory. In the first place, there is no place in Christendom where women are so systematically and thoroughly taught to consider themselves mans inferior as in Utah. No Mormon woman, either in polygamy or out of it can ignore the well taught doctrine of mans superiority to her, that he is her Lord in every sense of the term, that she can not enter the Celestial Kingdom, or even be raised from the dead except through some man. In these circumstances how can the Mormon women consistently say they" believe in political or religious equality with men, or how can they know anything about the responsibility resting upon them as voters, when the exercise of the franchise is not or cannot be disconnected from their religion. The entire matter is this in a nutshell, a good Mormon woman must do as she is told and ask no questions , and on election day the ticket is given her by her husband or the teacher or Bishop of the ward in which she lives and she out of every votes it. Ask ninety-nin- e hundred women what ticket they voted, and the answer will be the same, We "the one that was given me. could give hundreds of illustrations in support of this assertion, did our space permit. If a Mormon woman should venture to vote any but the Church ticket, she would be cut off from the Church, turned over to the buffetings of Satan, and in addition be subjected to every species of persecution which the malice of the priesthood could invent. When Mormon women vote it is simply duplicating the male vote over and over again, for they all vote the same ticket the one given them. Consequently, we defy any truthful or disinterested observer to say that the ballot in the hands of the women of Utah has accomplished any result of any kind, except to retard the day of Utahs deliverance from priestly bondage and to rivet their own fetters more securely. The law says they shall be given the ballot, and implies that they shall exercise their judgement in using it. But it has brought no increased respect or power for women, it has Only been another brand of shame for their brows. And it seems incredible or. 7: 2. 1882. PRICE 10 CENTS. that any sane person should insist that land may commend this book before woman suffrage, as it is exercised in Utah, is a benefit to any one except the despotic priesthood, who use it to neutralize the votes of the Gentiles in the Territory, and to secure to themselves a still larger measure of the power that they abuse in so many ways. And yet, in spite of all these facts, we do not advocate the repeal of what has proved itself a most unjust law, nor ask for the disfranchisement of the women ofthisTerritory,as women. We do, however, advocate that the privilege of the ballot be denied to any woman or man who lives in, or advocates the practice of polygamy. It cannot be gainsayedthat Female suffrage in Utah is an outrage upon the rights of others, and upon the first principles of republican institutions, yet we do not desire to have the women deprived of the privilege unless the same be done with their partners in crime. We take the should position that all be considered as such, irrespective of sex, and not be invested with the rights of loyal citizens, in which position we think we ought to be sustained g man and woman by every in the country, and especially by you, whose lives are devoted to the elevation of our sex. Very Cordially Yours, Mrs. S. A. Cooke, Pres., Mrs. L. W. Rivers, Sec. of the By Society. (Will all the Woman Suffrage organs and papers that are in favor of the Suffrage movement please copy the above letter.) law-breake- rs law-abidin- he sees it to all who look for redemption in Utah. (Rev. Moses Smith in the Advance. Congress is under no obligation whatever to govern all the Territories in the same way. It has the perfect right to abolish the form of government now established in Utah, and substitute one better adapted to the peculiar conditions of the case. Let this be done at once, and a legislative commission appointed. Hand Book on Mormonism. A pamphlet bearing the above title will shortly be issued from the press, which will be found a most valuable work to those seeking information on the Mormon question. Following is the table of contents. Origin of Mormonism by Mrs. Dr. ' Eaton, Palmyra, N. Y. Letters on Mormonism, showing the organization, plans, purposes, theology and morality of the Mormon church by J. M. Coyner. The Edowment Expose by an Eye Witness. Exposition of Mormonism, from the Presbyterian Review , by Rev. R. G. , McNiece. Polygamy, by Prof. T. W. Lincoln. The Mormon Situation, from Harpers' s Monthly , by Judge C. C. Goodwin. Blood Atonement, from the btah Review , by Rev. T. B. Hilton. Extracts from John D. Lees Confession. The Christian Conflict with Mor- monism, by Rev. R. G. McNiece. The Mountain Meadow Massacre, Voices From Utah. by Major J. H. Carleton, U. S. Army. The Power of Utah, For once I want to be avant courier. M. M. Bane. A new book is to be published. It is by Gen Political Attitude of the Mormons, the right thing in the right place, at the right time, and from the right from North American Review , by C. C. source. I have had the privilege of Goodwin. Are the Gentiles of Utah a Maraudreading the manuscript before it went Set? by Col. O. J. Hollister. into the compositors room. Every- ing Mormonism vs. Jurisprudence, by body in America will be wiser, and S. Boreman. many will be sadder, when the revela- Judge J. and Influence of the Work The tions of these pages are received. Society, by Mrs. JenThis book comes from It is edited at Salt Lake City by nie A Froiseth. The Mission Work of the Episcopal one who has long lived in the midst of the abominations, Mrs. Jennie An- Church in Utah. The Mission Work of the Methoderson Froiseth. There isnohear-sa- y dist Church in Utah. testimony about this. The facts are The Mission Work of the Congregafrom the victims, and largely in their own words. The volume is en- tional Church in Utah. The Mission Work of the Presbytitled the Women of Mormonism, with an introduction by, Miss Frances terian Church in Utah. An Appeal to the Christian World E. Willard. It is dedicated to the in Behalf of Utah, by the Pastors and Happy Women of America, whose of the Evangelical Churches homes, whose children, and whose Principals of Salt : Lake City. and Schools priceless honor are guarded by the Utah Mormonism arm of law. Its appeals strike the The by Eli Murray, deepest chords of sympathy sympa- Gov. ofRemedy Utah. thy for,, deluded, betrayed, degraded, Price, postage paid, SO cents a sinThe arraignment destroyed woman. for $2; 12 copies, of Mormon treachery, Mormon despot- gle copy; 5 copies $3.60; 25 copies or over, 25 cents a ism, Mormon barbarity is terrible, and Address: most terrible because shown to be ab- copy. Hand Book Publishing Company, The logic of these solutely true. Salt Lake City, Utah. facts is as irrisistible as it is appalling.' The book is to be brought out by While Utah remains as now organsubscription. The publisher is Prof. C. G. G. Paine, Detroit, Mich., who ized, with a polygamous Legislature, will add valuable supplementary chap- polygamy is attacked at a great disadin a ters; Judge Van Ziles paper, relative vantage. The first step, therefore, to Mormon legislation; the New West real effort to abolish polygamy should Education Commission; and other be to abolish the present governmenChristian and educational forces alrea- tal organization. Give Utah a dy employed. Every pastor in the Law-maki- Anti-Polyga- ng my head-quarter- s. r , anti-Republic- , 1 |
