| Show m 0 LADIES MASS AT AMERICAN ANTE lork 01 FORK t december 14 1878 editors deseret mew new A meeting of the ladles ladies of A merican fork called for the purpose of protesting against the anti poly gainy gamy petition now in circulation arc throughout this territory co commenced m in the meetinghouse meeting house houses today af at ten a fiand m and aud was attended by nearly all the ladies ill in the settlement apon 3 poll poli motion of mrs hannah crompton mrs was appointed chairman of the meeting and mrm emma Feathe featherston raton secretary the choir bang sang L J we are not ashamed to own our lord prayer by mrs 0 shelly the choir bang come 0 thou uns king of kays the president then briefly stated the object of the meeting and in order that all might be more moro fully acquainted with the same the secretary read the petition referred to after which a committee bone con bon e elating of 0 the following ladies ladles was appointed to draft resolutions to be presented to the meeting L harrington ring ning nin rin eton ton E D J clarke J hindley A rowley AL mott and M king the committee retired d and hucl mrs hindley addressed the meeting said that many of us had bad been here 25 and some forne nearly 30 years we with our husbands have made this country what it is having redeem ed it ik from a state in which it was unfit to maintain man or beast and now by our exertions with the help of god it is a country not aaby admired but coveted by those who llcy jacy neven never lile idia n mabe make it what Maii mali 18 and w ano hy oy vile misrepresentation misrepresentations seek beek to deprive ua us of all we possess and this is no new thing with them wherever the latter iatter day saints have hay bay located them themselves selven Belven the sam hame e a spirit irit has followed them up and why wy simply because we seek to worship god according to the dictates tates s of conscience they bay eay our dom domestic estic relations are degradi degrading Dg isi ls ib it degrading to tollow follow the exam pie of abraham and all the time honored servants of god men whom god goa loved so much that he frequently left bis his crown of glory came down to earth and conversed with as one man or woman does with airle alrie a friend rid tid Is there today to day or has there ever been a house of 0 ill fame tame among the latter day saints I 1 say no and defy the world to prove to the contrary they say our husbands practice a plurality of wives we own it is true but what is there in that that is degrading do they deny their fivek do they deny thir children do they leave them to the mercy of a cold world to be buffi buffeted eted around and brought up without a proper training in ill the things which make honorable men and women no they do not can those who are seeking our destruction st say the saml same samu kletthe let the history of the world answer the committee having baving returned I 1 the resolutions passed at the mass masa meeting in salt lake city were then presented to the meeting and unanimously adopted after which short addresses were Ae delivered livered by the following ladies ladles mrs E featherston mrs airs M jackson mr J durrant mrs A bowley mrs A cont mrs E D clarke miss E Hl Hi udley mrs airs A able mrs mr A duncan mrs A white miss B R able miss M ElIn liin hindley dley diey mrs E eastmond mrs R snow mrs 11 grant mrs AT webb mrm J Steg gale mrs A wagstaff Wag mrs af featherston mrs mr H howe mrea mrs MriA agreen Greenwood wood mrs A crooks mrs A nichols mrs H wagstaff and mrs airs H ovard all of whom were opposed to the tho action of any class of individuals interfering with our domestic regulation regulations mrs E featherston then sang aho vho is 19 on the lords bide side the choir san Fan fangue fang gUp up awake ye defenders of zion benediction by mrs M joh job john n ene ErE ebenezer sezer NEZER F HUNTER FUNTER UNTER |
