Show ST joir jonns JOHNS rys ils tooele thoele eCo co february 15 IS 73 editor deseret news dear siri sir I 1 am happy to inform you and the public through your columns that the smallpox has left this place the dlease had quite a start in the settlement before it was known what it was the judge and the selectmen of or tile the county hearing of a disease s spreading e ad in in the place sent W B dodd go dd M D to see what what it was and he returned and pronounced it to b he e smallpox there were about fifteen cases eases down with it then he was sent pent back to attend to the sick and if possible to stop the spread of the malady which he accomplished to the satisfaction of all especially those that were afflicted with the disease there have been thirty cases down with it here and of those six deaths which happened before mr dodd arrived except two babies which were too far gone for assistance five of the six fatal cases were not vaccinated vaccina ted and the sixth was an old gentil gentleman er nn about seventy years old seeing that the last cne cao cace cae happened in my my family thought it would not be amis amiss s to inform you of the good of vaccination as it proved in my family while the malady was raging I 1 vaccina vaccinated ted two of our children which did well and on the ninth day sunday I 1 vaccinated vaccina ted our baby four months old on the following tuesday my wife wa wae 4 taken down with the malady and the baby nursed ot off her mother through the time still it did not seem to trouble the baby axce except p t some two or tiree pimples that broke out on her face which the doctor pronounced to le be Mys myself elfand and the other two children proved to be thoroughly protected this is the most hateful of all diseases that can be imported an among n g u us years back baek the plains stoop stopped e d a all nil shi such disease diases i but times have changed the iron horse lands them rig right amongst us and I 1 for one hope and trust that some steps will be taken to inspect emigrants before they are allowed to be scattered through all our settlements which are not acquainted with many dis eases especially contagious diseases I 1 expect it was one from the same company of emigrants that started the malady in this place as in other settlements that I 1 have read of in your columns yours E J ARTHUR SHEFFIELD england march 1873 editor deseret we jeisi we have got no horse disease be rebut here but we have a coal eoal famine and that isa iga is a very bad complaint in the cold weather for the only remedy that some poor people eople have against it is to go to batand bed and endea vor to obtain from their blankets the warmth that their empty grates fall fail to supply in large cities ies ICS and places remote from the coal districts there is some acute suffering summering ingon on account of this scarcity of coal and it is report reported eI that children are induced under those circumstances cum stances to go on errands and i perform little services with a promise that they shall have a few minutes by their neighbors neighbor fire some are endeavoring to start a movement to place a tariff on coal and thus prevent the exportation of that ar article articie ficie ficle but to this the coal owners and dealers are decidedly mosed opposed arguing that the price ot of t this is product ro duct as with all others should be determined by supply and demand seeing that the coal fields for the most part belong to the nobility and those who have a voice in parliament and who are materially bene fitted by these extortionate torti onate prices ices it is still likely to follow that a t the rich will have their comforts and pleasures but the poor must pay for them the athanasian cleedis cleed is a subject that has been disturbing the co religious element here of late very many among whom is a bishop and other high church dignitaries are desirous of ex excluding eluding tho the condemnatory porte portions ons which positively affirm that except everyone every one do keep this faith whole and undefiled without doubt lie shall perish everlastingly on reading it it appears such a complication of incomprehensible a to the ordinary mind that when one has got through he is really tostado to state whether he believes aitor it or not and in many instances it is a question whether it is understood atall at all ail in conclusion instates it states that they who have done good shall go into life everlasting and those who have done evil into everlasting fire which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be behaved saved thus thu you perceive this is a very marm warm subject for those who disbelieve in in it to contemplate and we can see pee the safe policy on the part of the objectors for if those tenets in the creed be true they are certainly lost seeing they do not believe in them and should they be struck out they have no doubt some serious reflections as tow to whether hother they are or will be saved then now seeing that this creed became part of their faith by royal if not divine command by legislative enactment if not by bi supreme authority it would seem in accordance with the liberal spirit of the times in making religion easy and accommodating for the same power that made that belief so binding upon the followers of the church of england to exclude it and kindly ie lieve so many thousands of their fellow countrymen country men from such burning probabilities in the future for notwithstanding ding the present high price of coal and the scarcity of fuel the prospect of or such a close proximity to and everlasting continuance ti nuance in such a warm element that un believers are threatened with would be too great a change to be at all agreeable parliament is still in session the papers state it is a dull one the members are agitated mostly in the c question of russian aggression and the irish university bill there are evidences at times that the skin asyet is yet very tender over that part of the body politic that reluctantly consented to the geneva award the subject that engages the attention of us missionaries the most is the dissemination dissemination of the principles of the gospel which appears to us to be of such vital importance and of which we can truly say we know it to be such yet the people of this nation at the present time regard it as of ittle little or no n consequence and treat those abose principles and its ex with perfect indifference anything that speaks against us however old or ab surdis readily listened to and accredited A mr hardy gillardy recently exhibited to the inhabitants of this place a panorama showing the route from new york to san francisco of course he be got ogden and took his adlene audience down to salt lake city to show them the large tabernacle brig haiat hai hal youngs houses tithing 0 office alice and the other neat as peered forth half hidden by tile the foliage of the beautiful trees which was the best scene by far to my eye that was exhibited I 1 felt that I 1 could not sit still while that view was before benore me without remarking to neighbors that my home was in that country and ando before they had recovered from the surprise of a mormons cormons Mor mons presence I 1 further remarked that it did not look such a ve very wl wicked ic k ca I 1 place after all to wh which ficq I 1 they assented the lecturer told the old threadbare sensational fiet fictions ions lons about the mormons cormons Mor mons such statements are eagerly received and although we have distributed tri handbills hand bills giving information of our place of meeting and ad verti zed it in the news newspapers giving them an opportunity opportunity hoflear of hearing the other sl side I 1 a of the question yet et very few comparatively give heed eed will wo we trust that many will yet hear and obey aa as thousands of En england glands sons and daughters have done in the past for we cannot but bear in fit mind that in the preaching of the gospel to the nations of the earth in these last days the isie isle kofold of old oid england has tolerated the sainta saints aw and the elders of israel when other countries have discountenanced and expelled belled them from one who though upon his native land still feels himself a PILGRIM PAYSON CITY march 17 1873 ISM editor deseret I 1 news we have had a very enjoyable time here this winter our philo batheon society meets every monday evening many of our young people attend and take great interest in it we also publish the Philoma theon gazelle which is ably edited by mr john redington the matter is mostly original the society is presided over by bro wm clayson our sunday schools are in a prosperous condition over three hundred children are attending attending schools we have onebia one oue bible bibie class elass for the old and young which meets separately from the large school our bishop and the superintendents are taking a lively interest in the same I 1 there has been some sickness of late the prospect for fruit is good we have done no ploughing sloughing hing yet as the ground round is very wet the mail lias has uen gen been running of late but now has begun its daily trips our day schools are also well attended in fact there thele is more interest taken in the the education of the youth than formerly we also have havo a L legal legai al institute organized which h holds 0 au weekly meetings and bids fair OBSERVER woman suffrage in utah A narrow escape we congratulate the friends of woman sut Suf suffrage that the utah bill which pa passed sed the senate last week daiil not meet the concurrence of t the he house and throw through gh the efforts of our friends has failed to become a law this abominable bill framed by senator of new eudicia jersey jer 1 and approved by the senate judiciary ry committee was entitled A biu bill in aid of the execution of the laws in the Terri territory of ufah utah and for other purposes but it was eq especially pec lally designed to remand the women of utah into political slavery and even went so far as to guard against their future emancipation by y constitutional prohibitions the present territorial suffrage law of utah is as follows SEC 1 be it by the goic or and leg legislative assembly of the territory of utah that every woman of the ape age of twenty one years who hats has resided in this territory six rix months next pieced inc ing in any general or special election horn born or naturalized in inthe the united states or who Is the wife widow or the dan dau eliter of or a native horn born or naturalized citizen of the united states shall shail he be entitled to vote at any election in this territory sec 2 all laws lawe or parts of laws conflicting with this act are hereby repealed the bill declares SM SEC 25 26 that the following acts and parts of acts passed by the legislative assembly of the territory of utah are arc hereby disapproved and annulled namely an act entitled an act conferring upon women the elective franc franr franchise lilse approved Feh mmary roary 12 14 MO 1870 aiso also all ali ants acts or parts of acts nets eo so far as the same came are inconsistent consi stentor or in conflict with the provisions of this act having thus coolly disfranchised franchised dis women voters it proceeds to forbid their presence on juries by declaring SEC 5 that only male citizens of the united states over the age of twenty one year yeam shall he be competent to serve as grand or petit delit jurors in said territory in order to prevent the men of utah from restoring storing le the exercise of the right of sum suf suffrage fluge to women the bill provides SEO SEC IS 13 thatah that at all eief elef tion lion M none one hut but male citizens of the united states over twenty one years of ac and who have resided in the county conr months and in the precinct or elee elce election tion district dis district trici thirty days prior to the election elect lon ion shall be qualified to vote if any woman should hereafter endeavor to exercise her right of suffrage here is the penalty prescribed bed bod b by mr air Froling huysen sec 21 that it if any person not qualified to yote vote khall shall vote or offer to vote tote at any election or it if any qualified voter shall shail cast or offer to cart cant at any election more than bettt one vote for the sa same sama in officer A r nr officers ho he or she shall be deemed guilty of mue misdemeanor and shall upon conviction thereof in tu the district court of the proper district bo punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the not exceeding exco exee one year or by oth both such fine and iu in the discretion c of the court wo we have interlined interlinked inter lined the word words clor or she because the clause is so framed as to be equally applicable to both sexes not content with thus crushing t the he political rights of the women of utah with the strong arm of the federal government senator frei Frel Freling huysen uy sen actually proposes to r rob 0 b e every ry r married aa 1 I ed woman in the to territories of her person property and earnings sec see 23 that the common law of england in force la iii the col coi colonies onies of america at the date of the declaration of independence Js 13 hereby extended over and declared hobein to be in force athe in the territories of the united states so far as the same la 18 a applicable provided that nothing her herain herein lt shall be construed to prevent the territorial legislature of the respective pries cries from modifying the saime same member remember Be ladies ladles that the common law of england 11 thus extended over your sisters iii utah expressly gave the custody of the cifes person absolute absolutely to gr her husband gave the husband a right to u use 8 e gentle restraint to keep her and to administer moderate correction to punish her deprived her of the power to sue or be sued or to make a will made her the servant of or her husband gave him all her lier personal property and all her earnings and the life lire use of all her real estate if they had ever had a living 11 1 1 child and subjected her to despotic control to this infernal law aim alm almost as bad as chattel slavery itself senator Freling huysen has actually induced a republican senate to subject the women of utah thus has the republican senate shown it elf kelf i k mindful of its obligations to the loyal women of america this is its respectful consideration for the rights of the women of the territories ri thank god the bill has failed but this failure may prove only on y a respite the snake is scorched scotched scot ched not killed let the women of new now jersey call a public meeting and denounce the action of their senator who has thus insulted womanhood let them see to it that mr frelin huysen is never elected reelected re to the benato senate of the united states H B B the territorial suffrage act which we publish elsewhere re in full expressly limits suffrage to women who are over twenty one years of age alti antl recognizes an woman as a citizen only when she is the wife widow or daughter of a citizen permanently resident in the territory we can understand tand and t perfectly well that the gentiles of utah who are principally miners and ried men without families feel aggrieved at being outvote outvoted dby by the mormons cormons Mor mons of whom a large portion are women A husband wife and grown up daughter count three at the polls an au unmarried man counts one but after all this is night right these women are entitled to representation sen tation if the gentile wishes wisberto wis hesto besto to count three let him also marry many and rear children we have no sympathy with mormonism or any other form of sectarianism ism we abhor polygamy and ion lon long iong to ee it suppressed that frauds may have bave ave been perpetrated pet rated in receiving the votes of women underage is is very possible but this |