| Show ASSAILING MRS LOZIER THE chicago tribune essays to be very severe on mrs lozier for her scathing letter to senator edmunds in which she defended tile the cause of woman suffrage and showed the error and inconsistency of seeking it away from the women voters of utah the tribune says the suffrage is not a god given right but was given to the women of utah by congress and continues even if it were a god given right it could be easily assumed that divine wisdom would never sanction its use for the upholding of the lustful institution of polygamy mrs dr lozier however does not agree with providence in this matter and would prefer vice with the suffrage to virtue without it 11 the chicago censor should be caret careful u 1 that he is right before attempting to er criticize others congress did not bestow the suffrage upon utah women it was given to them by the legislative assembly of the territory of utah and congress is now besought tg t take it away after they have exercised the right for nearly sixteen years whether that right is god given or mau man given it is theirs and law and justice forbid their being deprived of it in a summary manner we would like the chicago luminary laminar to show wherein the women ot ut utah ak have used the ballot for the up building ling of the of polygamy editors who tackle this question should learn tile the facts before they commence to make comments the poly polygamy amy question has never figured in vall utah elections and therefore neither men nor women voters were ever required to use the suffrage for or against it the women have voted like the men for such candidates as their party have nominated in regular conventions and polygamy has cuti cut no fidure ure on the tickets the statement odthe of the tribune is but a miserable way vay of dodging the true issue and bringing in a question that has no connection with it so as to prejudice the uninformed its slur on mrs lozier in its closing sentence is simply disgraceful it is not a dispute on the ground of vice or virtue ivirene but of vested rights we have no doubt that mrs lozier is j as much opposed to vice as any editor in the virtuous city of chicager Chi cage and we know that the women of utah are not to be excelled in any part of the world for every virtue that adorns their sex there are no more noble pure chaste self sacrificing and estimable ladies in any circle of society in christendom thin than the these thee e same mormon wives mothers and daughters whose vested rights I 1 ats are now assailed and for which ars mrs lozier and a few other non mormon heroines have the moral courage to battle against the prejudices of the uninformed and the falsehoods of the tha v vile I 1 e and vicious the chicago tribune may call her v vigorous I 1 dorous reply to the vermont senator a cranky letter 11 but the proof that I 1 it t would puzzle its editor to meet the striking arguments it contains lies in the fact that all he be could do was to misrepresent the letter and abuse the writer in this he not only insulted a lady but showed his own manners bad logic and a bad cause |
