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Show Ct- - U tern t&fnu VOL. III. NO. ' b Ii fa etmil&lifo'wd t ncrB vi & $$mlmn far own SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL, 1882. 1. usband. or. 7: 3. ' . PRICE 10 CENTS. of America: Let every happy wife and mother who reads these lines give her sympathy , prayers and efforts to free her sisters from this degrading bondage . Let all the womanhood of the country stand To the Women led to cast a potent influence in behalf hands of the women of Utah. Others trophies were carried away in the of most flagrantjwrong. It is a breach of you may say that you have heard shape of elegant garments which were of good faith, and an injustice to oth that the Mormons are a temperate peo- afterwards worn in Zion by some of ers that must receive the condemnation ple, and it is only the Gentiles who the favored concubines of these holy of all honorable women. In this in- patronize the saloons. In reply, we elders. And still the cry is, we go stance, the injustice was all the greater will quote from a prominent Gentile forth without money or without hire, because the hearers of Mrs. Cozzens merchant, who when asked why he we want no pay, only a piece of bread united for them. There is a power in were only too willing to be convinced advertised so extensively in the Mor- and a cup of cold water for spreading combined enlightened sentiment and sym- that the test of womans suffrage in mon press, when he was so bitter the gospel. But let me give the figures, which Utah, was a triumph of right, and a against their faith, answered: pathy, before which every form of injusBusiness has nothing to do with will not lie, of the tithing paid to the complete vindication of the principle, tice and cruelty must finally go doivn. consequently it was all the more nec- religion, I advertise in the Mormon Liverpool Office in the year 1876, Harriet Beecher Stowe. essary for them to have learned the papers in order to get Mormon trade. which was considered rather a poor truth. To be deceived on this ques- It is safe to conjecture then, that the year. The books say that in this year, to the SuftV gists of tli United tion, and acting in accordance with saloon keepers find it profitable to ad- there were 20,000 tithe prayers in the Stales that deception is literally to be in coali- vertise in these journals, and they do mission. The lowest average is about tion with the tyrants who have re- it, in order to get Mormon trade. 6d, per head soat the very least' the No. 2. hold who of still the the women In and another article we will reply to duced, tithing fund amounted to2,500 a week, of Mrs. Cozzens. 10,000 a month or the neat little sum Dear Friends: At the 14th annual Utah in such abject and dishonorable other Yours for truth and right. of 5120,000 for the year. And where Washington convention of the Nation- slavery. We will again remind you that did this blood money go to, for it canWomen. al Woman Suffrage Association, held we the are not not be called anything else. Did it go , opposing general Scraps from Jmrch History Hw in'Lincoln Hall in January, Phebe 'Hilling to the relief of While of woman the poor and suffering, suffrage. of St. Louis made the following principle Is Disposed of. for whom a large portion of it was proremarkable statements in regard to we may believe, with the noble Fran: E. in were women the Willard, that It is always the boast of the Mormon fessedly collected, and if not, what bewoman suffrage in this Territory: ces House of the disgrace- priesthood that their missionaries go came of it? To be plain it was stolen Representatives, But suffrage for women in Utah has ful record of a polygamous delegate in forth without or scrip, and preach and squandered by the priesthood. accomplished much good. I spent one purse In proof, witness these entries which week there in close observation. Out- that body would not be even think- the everlasting gospel without money were copied verbatim from the books side of their religious convictions, the able, we cannot disguise the fact that and without price. to women send the Cannon, helped This may be so, but we would like in the Liverpool office; women are emphatic in condemnaWhile we to ask how it is that so Their votes banished polygamist to Congress. tion of wrong. many workers To cash expenses of visit of Presiwill Mrs. the not of assertion contradict dent C. and party to Swiss and in this vineyard soon find out that the the liquor saloon. I saw no drunkenif in Ellen women Foster the that J. German mission, laborer is worthy of his hire and that ness anywhere; the poison of tobacco 650 Iowa of the dram had the ballot, shops To Danish visit to is the air smoke not allowed to vitiate 1200. mission, they value their services very high, is of heaven, either on the street or in that state would soon be less numerous proven by the fact that some of them To tour on the continent, - - 1500. , tp be truthful we mus admit thqk the (.return to Z,ion a? 750. public assemblies. Their' court' room votes heavily laden as the To cash President C. have the not banished women the of - 500. ancient conquerors returned from bat- To cash President C. was a model of neatness and good - order. Plants were in the windows liquor saloon in Utah." And while we tle bowed down with the spoils of the To cash Elder P. 325. in will the not that ballot the deny To cash K. Brother and handsome carpets graced the floor, 400. vanquished. As it is not probable that our holy unstained by tobacco juice or unmarred hands of intelligent educated AmeriIs it any wonder that at the end of a can women would tend to suppress priesthood will reply to the above ques- year, the tithing accounts can be balby the bushel basket spittoon. soforms of and the vice, purify tion I propose to give a few facts and anced to the uttermost farthing. At midnight I wandered, with one of many Ancial we close cannot yet atmosphere, show and test to the how the the streets own about other time I will give a little light on figures, sex, public my the assertion that it was as safe for wo- our eyes deliberately to the truth that missionary work has been carried on that pious fraud known as the EmigraNo bacchan- Utah is a hot bed of immorality and in different places abroad, and how tion fund. men then as at mid-dathe poor deluded victims of this giganalian shout rent the air, no man was shameless crime. Historicus. few a for which And now facts, tic fraud called a Church are systematicm seen reeling in maudlin embecility to At a re- ally swindled and with their tithes and his home or in brutal frenzy aiming a are stern things to combat. Honoring Edmunds. Dealers of cent the in meeting, wealth and Liquor offerings are upholding pistol or knife at his brother. sain In view of the passage of the Edthis Union Protective most 40 the in arrant impostors on an appearance city, No guardians put luxury loons houses munds bill the ladies of the Womans were represen- Gods earth. and liquor save the stars above our heads; no to meet and subscribed The headquarters of the European Home Mission Society of the Ogden 4,000 sound awoke the stillness but the pur- ted, needful expenses. If you would like to mission are located at Liverpool, in a Methodist Church have determined to ling of the mountain brooks, which have Mormon authority, we need only large and well appointed establishment. send a tribute of their appreciation of washed the streets in cleanliness and refer you to the columns of the Mor- But when Geo. Q. Cannon was presi- the earnest efforts of her husband to beauty. What other city on this con- mon Church organs, the Salt Lake Her- dent of the mission in 1865 a house Mrs. Edmunds. A beautiful Silk quilt tinent can present such a showing? With murder for man and rapine and ald and the Deseret Nczvs. We find in was taken over the river at Birkenhead is to be made with the name and full late issues of these journals the stand- for him, and of course the rental was official title of Senator Edmunds emunsafety for woman continually exhibAround this There was broidered in the centre. ited where man alone is maker and ing advertisements of no less than 14 paid out of the tithing. includwill saloons of and name circle not Utah. Within the liquor houses, plenty of money on hand "for during guardian of the laws in municipalities occasionwho be advertise will this those circle embroidered the Cannons reign the work was boomonly outside of Utah, it behooves him to ing or cigar and tobacco stands, and ing, and four elders were kept con- names of all residents of Utah who pause as he launches invectives at the ally, in addition to these city advertisements stantly employed in taking charge of will send them accompanied by fifty one result of woman' s votes , while the we also find those of California and tithing, temple donations, mission do- cents. It is hoped that the names of multiplicity of man's shows such hide- Eastern Houses of both liquors and ci- nations, etc., which literally poured in nearly all,- if not all, the Gentiles of ous array. inOutside of from the poor Saints. It will be inter- Utah may be obtained. We regret that Mrs. Cozzens, in her gars. To say the least, it is very zealous advocacy of the principle of consistent for the Mormon papers to esting to learn how some ofthese offer- this circle will be placed the names of those not residents of Utah, grouped in. universal suffrage, and her desire to publish the .names of establishments, ings to the Lord were disposed of. that the votes of the Mormon women In the year 1867 the Grand Exposi- States and Territories. Names are to show that the result of woman, s votes tion in Paris attracted great crowds of be solicited from the whole country. had made such an Eden of Utah, have abolished. should have permitted herself to make Perhaps you remember hearing it visitors from all parts of the world, Whatever amounts are received will be We said that the Gentiles brought the liq- and of course our godly elders (who devoted to school work in Ogden. such gross will even go farther, and say openly uor saloons and other kindred evils to have neither purse nor scrip) had to go Will not all the ladies whose attention and fearlessly that her statements are Utah. Perhaps you would be sur- and see the vanities of Babylon in or- is called to this movement give it their a number of der to warn the faithful against assistance, both by sending in their utterly devoid of the first particle of prised to hear that large own names and soliciting and sending truth which we are prepared to prove the saloons are kept by parties who them. I could mention the names of in the names of their friends? Let without the shadow of a doubt. And have been, and by those who are still several who went to Paris, and reit is indeed lamentable that women who good Mormons, but such is the fact, mained there for weeks, if not months, every one act promptly. All commufine style, visiting every place nications may be addressed to Mrs. A. profess to hive consecrated their talents and we challenge its successful refuta- living in box 138, Ogand energies, yes their very lives to tion. Again, some of you may say of public resort and amusement in the W. Adkinson, den faPilot , 15. City Utah. Ogden the enfranchisement and elevation of that it may have been several years gay capital, not excepting those their sex; should be induced by ignor- ago that Mrs. Cozzens visited Utah, mous gardens where the night side of One little settlement, not very far ance prother wise to make statements and things may have changed since life is said to predominate, The averthat are totally at variance with the facts then. We answer that the majority of age Mormon elder is not much devot- from Salt Lake sent in five couples to go through the farce called celestial in thejease, and which are calculated, firms whose, names can be found in the ed to art, so not many expensive in this line were brought front marriage in the Endowment House to mislead and deceive others, who by Church organs have been in business a consequent error of judgement, are longer than the ballot has been in the the Exposition, but a large number of during the last week in March. mis-stateme- nts Anti-polyga- my Coz-zens- . -- y. 1 - - 1 post-offic- e sou-vini- rs |