Show WHO veo WILL WIIL NOT SOT BE RESCUED BESOTTED tim THE annexed very een ren sible sIbIe article is clipped from the new york graphic apu appearing vp n g with the above caption in t anat n t popular u j ar paper on march 2nd and sitheres there laa loa great deal of human nature in women they are very much like mm men in many things they like to be respected and to respected and respect themselves they do not like to be pitied with that pity which implies a degree of contempt within a few days we have seen a large number of the women employed in our large dry goods houses and other establishments indignantly protesting against the efforts of certain other women to represent them as being the miserable tortured and downtrodden down trodden slaves of their employers brought into court to testify to their ena enslavement they became BO so eager la lot declare that they were not enslaved and that the persona who wished to represent them arf arr as being enslaved were hideous old crumps frumps and odious that for the sake saho of peace they were wore persuaded with difficulty to remain quiet on ou the heels of this come two xer ver very remark remarkable a iri III e lemorl memorials a Is to condrey congress as from women in utah remonstrating against the proposed legislation respecting polygamy we ve have taken care to inquire into the authenticity and genuineness of these memorials our In Inq uries unies have led ua urs to the belief that they are probably genuine and aponta leous of couise coulse it ii po sibe the mormon men have written theio theeo memorials and compelled compel ltd led their wives and aud daughters to sign them this la is pos it li l i not probable the whole hoie hole of our in jn or formation mation leads to the belief that thebe these vi omen omon in utah however deceived they may be wera were free and honest honet in saying what whal these two most curious memorials make them a say gay a Y and what is it they t hilj 4 2 one of these memoria a n from the young ladies of ulah utah ly ty 11 they et out by representing that the proposed leia legis alinn allun again polygamy will break up nappy happy homma homes and families famil lee iee deprive us 0 honorable god fearing father rather and drive driva forth our loving mothers nifty rs as outcasts and cast opprobrium upon many of ua us as 11 legitimate egit imle 1 declare that they believe plural marr age is as much a part pact of their rel lalon aa as are falih falth repentance anabaptism and baptism they assert that this proposed legislation has been caused by faise false of evil lyli disposed ferons pe rons rons runs who assert tho that they 6 are low degraded and disloyal and they make the following very plain pain affirmation and request now kow therefore we the young souni ladies ladles of utah territory do most meat solemnly and truth lully declare that neither we nor our mothers are axe held in bondage but bet that we enjoy the greatest freedom socially and re agiou sly siy that our homes are happy rt onee ones e s ad sad we are neither low nor degraded forthe fortha h principles of purity virtue integrity and principles loyalty to the government of the united mates have been instilled into our minds and hearts bearta since sineo our earliest accord iniz to what we read and can learn from other sources in no place in the world la Is ie fe male chastity and ana virtue guarded with more jealous eam eal care than by our people for lor we have been taught anel anil do understand that chals thib this la our greatest groa irrea teat boon been far above jewels or wealth and more precious than kufe ufa itself and we therefore most respectfully eort memorialize your honorable body to suspend further action on all bills to utah and send a is commission of honorable intelligent and unprejudiced mon men and women to luto into and loarn loam the true state of affair la in his territory the other memorial la Is from the matrons matrona who have tried plural marriage lag log s an and know wit what it is ia they he sa bay say t they a view with the deepest regret the bil bli bills which it if carried into effa effect t will III ili destroy OY their dearly be loved love homes 0 Is they say ray the antl anti polygamy agitation Is the result of ignorance and misrepresentation and the aim of our enemies is to rob us of our hard earned homes and they make this declaration and ana moreover wes wet we sour tour petition petitioners erb ers bere bert by testify that we are mr happy in ta our OUT homes and satisfied with our marriage relations and desire no change we are not theloa thelod pressed and mane wane nwe are presented represented to be but bet enjoy more rights and freedom than women elsewhere la in the ca na tion tiou and aud ud vo we do know that our institutions are 1 of tuch such a nature ca as tends to purity of morals and elevation ot of character and awl we most must solemnly aver before god and find man that our car marital rebas telas relm rela tlona are moat loat sacred that thoy they are divine enjoining obligations antong and ties that portalo 13 to reao into eternity now as we have said it may ba be possible that all these declarations are forced and fraudulent it may be that every af mormon ormon has held his hla respective wives down by their back bair hair so ta speaks or exercised suasion over them with witti a club or coaxed them with promises of nov new bpi epi ing bonnets or in other ways constrained them to say these things their will but it does dots n not ot look ikee afee it utah is not a sealed seale dup up place if the women there were really anxious to escape from poly gamy they have plenty of ways ov of making their wishes known the cur burfus fus ius fact fant remains remaina that when they fief peak ik at t all they a speak p eak in favor oti of their tholf chaile all this does not prove that poly gamy is not a terrible evil we believe webb it to be that very thing wash be glad to see eee it exterminated but it is always wise ten ter look acts however disagreeable square ly y in the face and here is the fact seems to bethe fact that tb the a women worn wore en of utah are sa much in love with polygamy as are the men that is no reason why they should not bs be cured of their it la Is a reason remon why congress con Uon gress not deceive itself with the idea that in its proposed legislation it is acting i TO us a gallant knight errant rescuing imprisoned dames from tle lle the hands of their captors the dames do not want to bo be rescued they resent the efforts made for lor their rescue lescue in very much the same spirit eairl t that our shop girls resent the attempts on the part of officious ladies to rescue them ff from oni ona the tyranny of their employers pl the gra ora gropaiz phials ala als eia right light in its opinion concerning the women of utah and their desires we assure all who are not acquainted with the facts that the petitions referred to were drawn up by representative women and endorsed endo reed by the signers the young ladles framed their own pe the lations mat ions lons neither ot of those documents was in any sene sen een e ho work 0 men we are acquainted quain ted with the ladies who acted in behalf ol 01 their sisters in writing the cris clis and know that they faithfully represented the sentiments of the people who appended their signatures the iaea lilea which some people en bertain ter tain that omen women are forced into plural fatally relations or retain edi edl therein is against their free wilt wih to lad simply preposterous here sew sem ai courts anxious to receive the ta te mony of such persons with evoy every evey 4 aling ing at command to ie ia leve any one under any kind of duras or con coo it is v alai amma incorrect to im elije that plural wives do not live iu bomea the teim harem often applied by who know no better to morna Moroa cn domiciled domiciles domi liles ciles is totally inapplicable there is ia no part of the world here where the sentiments alid assifi assici of home are more aged and sustained than in fix mormon famines the home la Is considered in their religion aa as the ba lua ibi iti idoa ol 01 their fu future ture turo heaven and the rela r tons toos therein are exi peeked to continue in the world to come coale as much as in this plural wilfria n arriage et grows out of the doctrine of eternal marriage which is in gini mormon ormon doc doctrine trinie the foundation of the kingdom and glory of men and women with their offspring forever that there may be Instance instances 3 of wrongdoing wrong doing in plural families Is not disputed on olf the other hand band it cannot be denied that the monogamous relations of the world are not altogether free from strife brutality vi tience alence and other irregularities ending in too frequent instances in dl divorce vorce or suicide or murder plural family relations will bear close comparison with the monogamous system and present on investigation vesti gatlon gation far more happy homes to the same number of families we have no objection to the entertainment by persons persona or papers of opinions hostile to polygamy but we do not lre lee ike ire to see eee the public deceived so much la ia regard to the facts on which most of their prejudice brej ludico Is based Itis it Is falsehood that bas haa fanned the names flames now raging through the land and intentional misrepresentation that supplies the so called arguments for the oppression ol 01 the mornion Mor aion alon people and the whole agitation 01 ostensibly against polygamy ja Is real neal really ly and truly worked up in the interest of a tj few w soulless and utterly unprincipled politicians who expect to gain gala control of the affairs cf of utah territory all the parsons w congressmen n r r and the public who join oi 12 gra in the tho tumult are but tools tool i ia lit the hands of these few rascally plod plotters and oc |