| Show LADIES anul anui MORMON PETITIONS TO CONGRESS WE give ive lve space today to day to the text of a petition which was presented in the U S senate by of massachusetts etts on the of june it was laid oun onn the table on the lath bothof of rno rne mr ir hoar presented the pe petition of mrs angle r F newman whom lie lle mentioned as the superintendent of the work of the methodist dieth Aleth odist i i Bp piri pini eoal coal ChurchIn church in utah etwas it was a duplicate cato eato of the other petition and was also laid upon the table we ve gave particulars of the annina annual meeter meeting referred to in the petition on 01 the arl 3rd of last Dee december ember and published the resolutions in lri full the tile committee appointed to confer witly the civil and religious religions authorities tit at salt lake consisted of mrs hirs A AY 1 newman the mover of the resolutions rev kev T U C cliff the presiding elder of the al M E church in utah J S bore manex judge and present plate plat passer at methodist meetings luthIs u this gi city ty and aud an 1 al mrs paddock author of sensation stories and prurient prurient gossip anent the thu 11 mormons cormons Mor mons 9 by which whim she he gains kalns an an uncertain livelihood we then made the follow following tug remarks about the alleged object of appointing the commiel comm iee lee the project of instituting a careful investigation of the questions named j in the last resolution would be all an excellent thin thing if it were conducted with anything approaching to sincerity and fairness but there is no reason to believe that the intent is more or less than to get up a sensational document repeating the old slanders against the mormons cormons Mor mons and the stale falsehoods about the use of the ballot in utah this Is clearly shown by the selection of the committee to those who desire to learn the fac fae facts twe we shall be happy to impart information on any subject connected with mormonism I 1 or the utah question investigation is what we desire to promote among those who are not of our faith inquiry Is our hope and vindicator we have nothing to fear ear from examination into the realities of our faith and policy if the truth is wanted ample facilities will be afforded to those willing to learn it but when the object in lii view is the discovery of something to bolster up an unhallowed hallowed nn attempt to distort the belief lief misrepresent resent the polity and vilify the acts atthe of the saints and thus add f fuel fuei uel to the flame of pop popular assion passion kindled by ignorance and fa fanned u Z d by bigotry we ave have no expectation that tila kno knowledge cledge will be sought or eare care exercised to a arrive r at the facts the petition to congress resulting from the report of th the committee is Is evidence that our anticipations were correct who is there in this territory outside of a very f tew lew evv pronounced anti mormons cormons 1 I 1 that has heard anything of the so called investigations of committee vil vii authorities unless it be one or two federal officials have been questioned on the subject upon which information was pretended to bei desired what other religious authorities than those interested in making adverse statements have been enquired of has any local officer or ai mormon 11 religious authority been asked anything concerning the matter in the hands of the committee the report Is nothing more than a repetition of stale stories that have been over and over again ref refute ute dand that have been retailed by the avowed enemies of the mormons cormons Mor mons until they are worn out and most of them dropped by their users as too tattered and torn for further public exhibition the object of giving the ballot to women was not as stated to neutralize the votes of non mormons cormons as there was no need f for or such a measure thelast the vast preponderance of the mormon male vote rendering such a scheme totally unnecessary ill lii history story chows that the project was started in Con congress aress as a means ot 01 giving the women ol of utah a weapon which it was thought would aid them in obtaining 0 freedom from imaginary mormon bondage the utah legislature passed the law itself and g we the women here all the political leai ical liberty proposed to be conferred upon them by congress As the bondage etl ety did not exist the emancipation has not taken place and mot now the deliverers want to take the ballot away the statement made by this previous pre ious lous methodist committee that foreign born bom women are permitted under the law to vote less iii ill than six x months after their arrival ii in ta this s c antry it if married to a citizen is diser disproved ed e by the law itself the committee of investigation did not men ewen investigate the law la from which they pretend to quote if they ever read it then they wilfully wilf ully lie ile for the law makes makes the express condition which they say aay Is not in it they state further that diio ello no subsequent law has changed these conditions except under the rulings of tile the commissioners ignorance or falsehood is here lis displaced again tile the rulings of the commissioners ners were required by by act of congress congre s to be conformable to the law and the tile six months residence required for a voter male or female was taken by the commissioners from the utah statutes there is another thing that this committee do not seem to understand and this Is f urther further evidence that chev ild iid lid did not investigate that is that it is a a law of the united states that makes a citizen any alien w woman oman who iwho marries a citizen so bo that this committee whose views are sent to congress in order to procure anti antl 1 mormon 11 ormon I 1 leisl legislation were w ere ene giving gl ing the national co con ni r sa 9 islah in the face instead of as I 1 thought the utah legislature lh 1 committee he polun litte e state falsely in their all ali gaton batoh ga toh ton I 1 mat pat they found that women ar are kounts u by certain obligations to yo vole voie e at lle ile tle tie will of the mormon tiu biu pain of excommunication ghey thes rhey they did not find anything of tilt tiit tatt murd mudd except on the lips of persons of the foreman and paddock str stripe ipe i it ts 14 nov hov true therefore they did not and the simple incontrovertible arister ard add to all such stories is the ballot pi is so completely secret in uail nall utah that ho ao one can tell how any citizen va ates es this tills Is a fact on which this committee co cittee aie afe ale ly silent the laws of utah ut h I 1 in tei relation tel atlon to the property rights of alre acre of a similar nature to the 0 cher lher untruths un truths if this were a com thi t gather up facts why were not the th islets presented why my were not tho the law sited which secure to women ar iw rile or sl single their property rights and their independent legal status why wily vwe imo igro iero not nat ot the statutes cited or mentioned ned which give women the ab 18 salu hplu tc righetto night right to all property owned or acquired by them before or after marriage as their own separate estate to dispose of as they see tit nit and the right af f athe lawful widow when there isbit is but dnn no full third of the husband estate one fourth if there are more children than one and the whole of it if there Is no issue or father mother brother or sister surviving i why did the committee not show that the abolition of theold the old oid common law dower in utah also abolished the old common law dis dig disabilities abilities of women and made them free and independent women why indeed if their whole object was not to 10 misrepresent and deceive the point to which all the untruths truths un of the pey PLY petition t tend Is the abolition of woman suffrage ili in Utah This Is what the ladles ask for whose names are appended to the document they know not what they seek they have been deceived by scheming adventurers the point to be gained by those who who use such un truths as those contained in the petition Is to so lessen the mormon vote that with some further help from congress the local government of the many may pass into the hands of a few in other words that the control ol 01 of the mor imor mons in person and property may be place placed 4 in the power ot their inveterate enem enemies les ies that would be a fai tai famous notis way to deliver mormon women from their supposed bonda borda bondage world would it not take from therm theiu the right to vote and ladies ladles supposed to be intelligent and claiming to be christians on a one sided iLtem statement ent without any inquiry among mon the people chiefly interested interest eol petition yeti Deti tion congress to take awa away y a political right which thousands of their sex have lave exercised for fourteen years and this under the pretense that they are in bondage if those lady petit petitioners petition ione lone ers rs could only be brought to understand the truth how mortified morti nned fled and ashamed they would be to see sec their names attached to such a string of falsehoods and to such an ail absurd and mischievous request tl we do not find in the petition the names of the committee appended to their supposed report we should have been surprised to find mr nir cliffs name attached to it but iut the tilo 13 paddock addock woman or the Bo boreman mannikin would not surprise us in any role roie provided it was anti antl 1211 mormon ormon 1 I 1 mrs newman Nc it she desired to know the facts has had ample opportunity of learning them we have not heard of her making any inquiries in quarters quarte where she could have learned the truth we met the lady once but she asked no questions in regard to the matters which the committee were expected to investigate the information has been drawn from sources interested te in imposing upon the public and the object to be achieved is the political subjugation of the large majority joritz in utah to the small minority who for power and plunder we are sorry f for or the ladles who have been so misled while we dispose the liars who have deceived them |
