Show MORE eore INTER lilter oceail logic THE infer inter ocean of april has another long editorial on an mormons cormons Mor mons and woman suffrage the first part Is a repetition of its former assertions sert bert lons ions that the woman suffrage association wab was mistaken in condemning congressional measures looking to the abrogation of tho the utah woman suffrage act it is then claimed that it is impossible for the gentile population in utah to secure any representation in the Legisla legislature because of thab that law and that it is ia made imade a club I 1 in n the haud hands sot of the mormon hierarchy to beat the women into subjection and keep heep them there it la Is stated that every address delivered at the late conference was ivull of the spirit of opposition to law when the law conflicts with mith the tha of the church the assertion is repeated that 91 polygamy is a part of ma no mans religion and as proof of this thet the joseph te conference at kirtland kirkland is cited where whore what is termed a eeck of the mormon church denounced polygamy as en an abomination then a letter is quoted written to the layfette Lay sette faette indiana herald s by a mrs T W lincoln said to a number nun nur alcer aicer of years as aa missionary and teacher in which she sha says that woman suffrage here means the deeper degradation of women because the mormon women vote necessarily as they are re directed by the high council any woman it if married to a Mormon whether five nive days or five years a resident of the united states whether 15 or 60 years yeara ol of ago whether the whole or the fifteenth fraction of a elfeia compelled to clive ive up to her privileges and vote for her rcY religion gion woman suffrage in utah means the perpetuation of polygamy and the despotism of tho the priesthood it Is used to pervert our highest ideals of religion aud civil liberty to transform our american home antonn into an asiatic ha rem to botu prostitute our moat maat sacred conceptions of wifehood and motherhood and deba debase e the hallowed associations socia hons bons of husband and father 11 the inter inte rocc ocean then goes on to show that the fight Is not mot yet ended that the edmunds law has tailed to prevent plural marriages marri ages agea that mormon officials are not ousted that ista are boasting set of powerful lobby influence that will work in their favor at the next session of congress and that there should be no mistakes on the part ot those engaged in the tha war against polygamy the concluding advice of the antl anti mormon ai chicago paper should be carefully followed by faier facer its ts own editors edi tora thero there are a great many mistakes in all the articles they have written on the IMor mormon question tion and notably in the editorial edi edl torl now referred to A convincing answer to the nonsense of the in zyx tey ter ocean and mrs lincoln whoever bhe she may mry be Is the fact that tho the women of utah and the men also who vote nt at elections are none of them practical and that they do not vote at the polls for their religion no religious religions question is decided at the ballot L dox dox lox ox in utah the voting is simply for certain men to ao fill cerlin certin secular offices those thom who would deprive the women vo in utah of the suffrage seck eeck to take away the ballot from mists the letb lets have havo all been practically dis franch franchised laed ived by the regulations of the edmunds law commissioners the woman suffrage association understood that point which d does 0 es not appear to have penetrated the brain of the inter Oc ocean canor or of 0 the advocates in congress of tho the di efran folly riu 1 11 now for the argument thadlie that the women tomen of UM ought to Q pa because it la Is impossible sible sibie for the gentiles genelle tobe to accuro curo ouro representation la in the legislature Is not that a nice proposition to be made by a republican journal A aspinall small minority cannot vote the representatives of bf their clique into office therefore a portion tir the large majority should be was ever a more monstrous political doctrine d advocated in any country Suppo suppose aea bea a proposition was made in a district largely republican that a certain class of republicans should be dis franchised to give the demo cratta a chance to elect their own representatives to office which would be the loudest the shouts or of derision or the howls howla of indignation that would go up from republican throats at such an idiotic suggestion and yet the principle would woula be bequet net thel the bame same as abl the Inter oceans argument we challenge the proof that the suffrage has been made aa a club in utah to beat woman into subjection anany in any way and defy the inter ocean to snow show how such a thing is possible As to mra mrs lincoln Lincol ns st statement it is made in demo denso ignorance r an ca of the truth the rho rhe high coun cil about which bhe she evidently snowa nothing wha whatever gives no directions about anything it is an appellate ecclesiastical court not a ui di erecting body the statement that any woman in the 61 mormon Kor mon mou church is compelled in any an Y manner whatever to vote for or against any measure or person in church Chur chor or state is a falsehood falee hood and an d the rest rust of the assertions in the paragraph quoted from her letter are as silly and false as the first part how in the name of common sense bense can woman surf fage fago be ba u faed ed to pervert the highest ideals of civilization when it cannot ba exercised eave save tor for the purpose of voting for tha tho filling of local secular odices 0 what has the election of a constable a justice of the peace a probate judge a representative to the legislature or a delegate to Con congress grels to do with prostituting our most mosi sacred conceptions of wifehood and motherhood the rho rhe woman talks worse nonsense than the ahe inter ocean like many other persons who hava have vial ted led Uta utah limor or who have resided here awhile without lear leir IO learning Arning ning anything but the rubbish told tolli to them concerning the mormon people she perhaps believes the stuff she has written but leally knows nothing whatever as to the laete one ono of our out ideals of religion civilization and womanhood is the truthfulness truthful nees and rave gave purity purify which they promote and we have I 1 little tile tiie faith that they have done much towards elevating the character of a missionary and a teacher who either wilfully mib mis represent presenta re aa a people because she dif fera from their faith or repeats the drivel drive of gossips and the af pf religious hirelings to their dib dle discredit credit the statement that every address at our conference was full of opposition to the law lav is tife tiie exact reverse of the truth the discourses deiv delivered will be published in this paper in due time and when the inter ocean has read them it can better judge of bf their spirit in regard to the law in the synopsis of the remarks made as already published in the NEWS there was certainly nothing which could be fairly construed as such opposition by abat what rule does the inter ocean determine what is or is not a any ny mans religion the belief bellef or dia dis disbelief be of the sect feet commonly called jo sep dep hites has nothing todo to do with ours it is not c ca a sect of the mormon church it has no connection with it at all but bat in any event the de da of that deot or any other do not determine the religion rel rei glon gIon of other people protestants denounce mario Marlo latry does that prove that the adoration of the virgin is no part of the catholic religion gentiles repudiate circumcision does that prove that it is no ao part of the jewish J ew religion some sects speak vehemently against immersion especially in the winter seabon season in cold cli cil climates mates does that prove that it Is no pa part of tha the baptists baptiste religion the logic of the jenter oc an Is no better than its pretended facts it would sweep away religion altogether let it be understood that the it cormons mormons Mor mons permit no man journal or nation to prescribe proscribe what la Is or shall not be their religion that is a matter that they determine tiete for themselves and alid we ask thriftier ocean what reason it had for expecting that mormon officials bials t were to te ie ousted onsted the cormons almone almons mormons Mor mons even oven without woman suffrage ge and with of polygamist are largely in the majority will they not Datu natu naturally rally raily tote vote for their own tilen trien friends dk would it not ba very strange if even the women voters should cast their ballots for tor or their avowed enem enemies fesh febi would not the mormons cormons be counted foolas fool even by the inter oceania they would elect their bitter foes to the led fed offices in their gift in conclusion we assure tho incer inter ocean that the mormons cormons Mor mons have made no such boss bons t as that about lobby influence thatis that Is one of the many mistakes which it does well to guard the anti antl against and we think it not at all strange that the latter make mabe little or no headway when we consider their lack of understanding of the real Il mormon situation situations and that they always proceed from a wrong start ing point their blunders are our successes ees eeb |