| Show MEMORIAL IAL lal TO CONGRESS BY WOMEN OF UTAH recently recen Hecen uty tty presented in the V U S senate senal o by non hon A A sargent odi oft california and in the house rouse of representatives by how hon non bow greo geo Q cannon of utah to the senate and house of representatives senta tives of the united states of america in congress assembled we your memoria lists women of utah prompted by a due sense of justice and in consideration of those equal rights so long iong the proud boast of american citizens hereby appeal to your honorable body praying you to grant our petition as shall be herein specified we as a people are willing to s submit to and do strictly obey the constitution and laws of the uni urd i ted states as handed banded down tous to ua by the fathers of our country and ani we do earnestly pray that you will repeal the antl anti polygamy law jaw of 1862 also the bill known as the poland bill both being special and gud unconstitutional measures directed against the people of utah the and of our auz lives in coni constant tant jeopardy by im periling pe riling the safety of our husbands husband and fathers by daily and hourly subjecting them lo 10 danger of arrest and imprisonment which w wound qu lo 10 deprive us not on y of their society sooy but also of dr their support an and protection tec tion to you the executives of a grea great and tand powerful nation deap we appeal for protection against these cruel i and oppressive measures which bave have shorn our glorious constitution ution of its efficacy and us of every protection but the overruling power of god we vve ask aak to be relieved from the unjust and lawbreaking law breaking officials forced upon us uj by the govern government meAt that we may ma have havo the jurisdiction of our own courts and the selection of our own officer sas we had in the past when our cities were free from dram shop gambling dens and houses of infamy aa As mothers and bisters slaters we earn earnestly estly appeal to you for help that our sons and brothers may be saved from drunkenness drua kenness and vide aide and our daughters from the power of the se seducer duder also that all laws shall be repeated repealed thab that will restrict us in our religious falth faith inasmuch as the constitution leai leal icalla ly says congress shall shaa mabe make e no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof f 99 also alao atno no religious test shall 4 ver be required aa W a qualification i fi to any avy 0 ossice office or public trust under the united states 1 1 and in accordance with dursa oursa 1 cred constitution which was bequeathed thed as a protective boon by our forefathers guaranteeing tei tee the night right of conscience we your me 20 mori da alises lists do humbly pray that no bill or bract I 1 act shall haver the baue tion tiou of your honorable body that shall in any way conflict or interfere with tua thel belie belief and fAud practice of or plural marriage as itis it is practiced practised by many of the citizens of utah and which most of your petitioners petition ers eril have adopted as a portion of their religious faith in all sincerity belley beiley ing it to be necessary not only in remedying r eme dying evils avils and producing g good in our present ext extence existence euce ence but that without aitho u t it man cannot hereafter attain to a fullness of exaltation we also ask that each married woman in utah be granted the right to homestead or preempt pre empt one ono hundred bundred and sixty acres of land in her own name also that the tile citizens of utah have the the right to use for their own be benefit befit the timber growing in on government land in utah wh which gich has been forbidden by the government officials als ais to our great detriment thereby depriving us of nece necessary seary material nater lal lai for building habitations and otherwise improving our homes and furthermore we do most earnestly pray that utah be admitted as a state with all the rights and privileges guaranteed to every state in this great republic that god irl in his mercy will so direct of your han honorable body that we may promptly rec receive eIvId the aid we solicit at your hands your memoria lists will ever pray |
