| Show THE LADIES MASS MEETING A vast and enthusiastic assemblage of ladles protest against I 1 the wrongs being inflicted upon th them THE UNANIMOUS touS VOICE of WIVES AND DAUGHTERS they will abandon no principle of their religion but will be true to themselves their conn try and their godl god I 1 at 2 this afternoon the salt lake theatre was packed with flip large audience of ladies assembled la in pursuance to call to protest against the now inflicted the people of utah and hundreds were unable to gain admittance the ward brass band played choice selections while the people were being dand at the appointed hour mrs elizabeth howard in a few ap remarks called the meeting to order dr romania B pratt nominated nominal mrs M 1 I horne home to preside and we the lady received the unanimous endorsement of the assemblage vast mrs sarah M kimball mrs E S taylor mrs rs jane richards mrs priscilla priscilia and mrs mary pitch borth were unanimously elected vice dents mrs elizabeth howard was nominated for secretary and miss nellie colebrook and mrs cornelia Jor neha clayton claton as assi assistant aalt secretaries these ladles ladies were unanimously elected mrs zina ina D young was cho senas as chaplain atter after singing by the tabernacle choir prayer praye iwas was offered byars aina D ayoung DY young oung singing by the choir 0 prest of 1 I horne expressed expressed the regrets of mrs eliza R snow smith at not being able to be present but stated that she fhe was heart and soul in the movement Pres ne said it was aswath with feelings of sorrow sarr that she contemplated the occa occasion which called forth the necessity sit tor for i protest against the troilies bronss he heaped pe upon 11 mormon ormon men and women wo en because of their obedience to the law of god the nation could with more consistency legislate against the catholics for their belief in celibacy y than against the mormons cormons Mor mons for obey ins ing the first great commandment be fruitful truit ful and multiply it was a duty of the saints saint s to aphea appeal I 1 I 1 to rulers an and if disregarded god would avenge toem president van bura tad had told tata the prophet joseph his bis cause was just but the nation could do nothing for his people and the nation had been veed ever since men were now sent to jail because they would not promise to renounce their wives and children and the women of the batt er aay saints could not longer submit in peace to this aad to the insults offered their sisters in the courts they could not longer go on without prot protesting eiting against continued adverse legislation they could not come down to the level of those who degraded women but would continue in the service of god and trust in him I 1 the following committee on resolutions was appointed on motion of dr R B pratt dr R B pratt mrs fanny thatcher mrs V edna dna smith of salt lake otty city mrs J tanner of provo and mrs H C brown of og den n MRS PREy PRES CENDIA CINDIA L KIMBALL was called and spoke as follows mrs president and ladies I 1 before youa you mauve ebo born citizen of the united states my grandfather fought in the revolutionary war to establish a iree free government on this continent and my father blought in the war of 1812 to secure and per perpetuate et t a free government and to ato protect te ct the rights and liberties of the citizens iti ens of the republic 1 I their descendant ant aut now stand up before this assembly to protest against the op pres bion blon of those who would take from us the rights d and d liberties which our fathers risked their live livent A to tain maln what ld say the founders of this republic if they could rise from their graves aad see the glorious constitution which they framed and bequeathed to all future generations as the palladium of liberty overridden and downtrodden by demagogues and torn to fragments by the schemes of corrupt men object act is to oppress and injure the helpless ess we came the united states to this desert and mountainous country that we might worship god ae ac cording to the dictates of our consciences W we had broken no laws pi f god or man we had committed no crimes but we were driven from our mr bomp s by angry in mos os because we desired to worship god in the way that had been I revealed to us we made our homes in these tb ese mountains moun oved lived here loyal and law abiding citizens now nearl nearly y at the close of the nineteenth genau century u ws find thi the horrors of the inquisition revived lor for our oar destruction st freeborn free born coin pure minded and cawte are brou brought at before g go a crue Tand an corrupt court ty by lewd and debauched deputies insulted sod and browbeaten brow beaten by bue base and maUo mali ious olous officials a aad in ebruce to skir pure and noble womanhood they refuse to answer the iu indecent decent questions they are threatened with imprisonment in the julah penitentiary where baw darers and horse thieves are incarcerated there to pay the penalty pac aalta of contempt of court on liberty and ja justice stice where is thy dwellie dwelling g place iveel it is time for the ladies of zion to arise our cause causbia Is just we have broken colaw no law of god or nian man but we know by experience what the present crusade means wo we will be true to god aw and live lives of purity mrs cerul cornelia e eila H clayton clay ton read the tae following address by effis i MRS H C batow li i dear friends we have met today to day to unite our voices in protesting against the cruel enforcement of special legislative enactments act ments brought to bear upon us as s a people and we appeal to every honest homoet mind and heart to use their influence to stay the shameful proceedings by which ake pretended tended courts of jasd justice ice are converted into courts of that ho honest liest virtuous ca christian ristian women may no longer be subjected to insult and abu senor have every feeling of parental and conjugal loveana love and every sense of religious duty outraged and trampled iram pled upon we are here not as latter day saints but bat as american citizens members of that great areat which our noble grauds ires fought and bled to establish legal heirs to those rights and privileges bequeathed by that heaven inspired document the constitution ot these united states yes legal heirs yet illegally unconstitutionally deprived of that dearest most cherished of all rights freedom to god according to the dictates of our own consciences 1 and this within the limits of a government founded upon religious liberty this ina in mation whose legislators point proudly to t the brave aff pilgrim agrim fathers anol and mothers as their ancestors aud then turn to c 1 th their ir fellow creatures Cred tures des descendants 1 of f the the same noble parentage 0 consistent cons consistency isten c y where art thou fled 0 Jq justice stice surely thy lace must hide itself in shawe shame when loyal al men f and id women are denied I 1 the r right g t of citizenship because they t y would serve god and nar aar H him m rather than man once again we protest against the unjust assigns and and unlawful enactments of unscrupulous men blinded by selfish ambition to all the best interests of governmental our government a well as to their own eternal murual welfare i and we would say aay to them and to the world that rather than forego one principle of our holy religion rattier rather than yield beld the right to act upon our own convictions of duty we would if need be endure exile or imprisonment or whatever our heavenly father may see tit fit in his wisdom to require of us and like the saints of former days suffer rather that accept deliverance that demay inherit a more exceeding tad and eternal weight of glory gloral DR DP ELLEN 11 SON i said the aro wrongs against which those thos e assembled now protested pio tested were such as WO would aid have put pat to blush the civilization of two centuries ago agi while the statue of liberty was being erected women were here sent to jail for no crime and the purest and best women bathe in the country now raised their voice against the outrage sixteen years ago the women of 0 utah were granted the right of suffrage and it was whispered that they would break the hands which were suo supposed posed to bind them the women of utah had proven true aid had never cast an unrighteous ballot they voted for mea men who were pure honorable and upright the government now beeme seemed to think it premature that the women were allowed to vote and were endeavoring to deprive them of f that right not because they had committed crime but because they believed in the god it ws as urged that the women omen in utah were coerced no member of congress would dare witness what wa was 5 here today to day an and reiterate such i a false falsehood hood priestly dictation g was wair prated about but nothing othi tig wa s aid I 1 f the Cath catholics hc who 0 voted as priests priests directed this his was the pe battle neld and an derror error the he 8 saints ants were loval citizens tildes arious a and honest onest avit they were being biang oppress sed because they y belonged to im an unpopular class the president of the tien r states asked lor for fairness for cpr the chinese but had bad never asked justice for fok the cormons mormons Mor mons bus 1 l under the nations law the seducer and destroyer hid had no fear af i a deputy as birds bt ot a feather flocked to together kether but bat honorable 43 were dogged and watched by spotters and these a acts ato were approved by americans she L had had felt that america was po an asylum tor for alt but the the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 they were today in the same position as the american patriots years ago E eng ng re they took their liberty by force of arms their descendants are now the oppressors and the mor morns the oppressed and now flow these chains of tyranny were to bp be welded closer by taking from the women of utah U tah the ballot which they had ha d never used but in the pro promotion m fotion ol of honor virtue and good to all ali may the day never come when they will be deprived of the ballot the nation should call a ahalt halt and remember vox vw dei de there will come a day when those these engaged in this crusade will bitterly re repent ut their treatment of i the ahe which is unjustifiable the cormons mormons alor Mor 10 mons would adhere to their religion which was f from rom god test tes t oaths would not move chelp the enemies of desired to sweep it from the face of the earth but the work was gods and they could not do it tile the on resolutions reported tile the following which were unanimously ni adopted aU opted PREAMBLE AND OF THE women op UTAH IN MASS MEETING ASSEMBLED whereas the rights and li liberties bertie s of women are placed in jeopardy by the present cruel and inhuman proceedings in the utah courts court sAud and in the contemplated measure in congress to deprive the women voters in utah of the elective f franchise ap aad d whereas outraged by the c compulsion used in the courts of utah to force mothers op on pain of I 1 imprisonment in to disclose their personal condition and that of their friends in relation to anticipated maternity and auf as their theire children hildre and whereas rege these violations of decency have now reached the length of compelling legal wives to testify against their husbands without there their cop consent sent in violation both of written statutes and th the e provisions ro v i of the common law ther therefore fo e b be e i it t by the women of utah in mass meeting Ine etIng assembled that the S suffrage af originally conferred u upon on 11 us s as a political privilege has become become a vested right by poss possession eslon and usage for fifteen years and that we pro protest test against being deprived deprived of that right without process of law and for no other reason than that we do not vote to lo 10 suit our political opponents resolved that we emphatically den deny he charge that we vote otherwise than according to our own free choice and filut point to the fact that the ballot is absolutely secret in utah as proof that we are protected in voting lor for whom and abat we choose with perfect liberty resolved lie solved that as no wife of a poly polygamist 9 legal ar plural is permitted to ate under the laws of the United states it to women of the suffrage 1 Is highhanded highhanded oppression 0 for which no valid excuse can caa be e offered Ae resolved solved that the questions concerning personal condition the relationship they bear to men marked down as victims to special law and the paternity of their born and unborn children which have been put to women and ana in open courts in utah are an insult to pui pai e woman womanhood hodd an ail outrage upon the sensitive feelings of our sex and a disgrace to officers and j judges ehg have propounded and enforced them resolved lie solved anat we lionor honor those noble women who standing upon their rights and add refusing to reply to improper and insulting questions such as no true man nor any court with any regard for propriety would compel them to answer have gone to prison and suffered punishment without crime rather thau than betray the most sacred confidence al and yield to the brutal mandates of a li little atle brief authority resolved Ke solved that the action of the district attorney and the chief justice of utah in compelling a lawf lawful al wife to testify for the prosecution in a criminal case involving the liberty of her husband ausband and iti in tace lace of lief her own earnest protest protest is a violation of laws law which those officials have kwoi sworn ii 10 uphold is contrary to precedent and usage for many centuries and is an invasion of family rights and of that union between husband and wife both law and religion have held sacred from tim i immemorial jeso colvea loea that we express our pro found appreciation hp of ane courage a e exhibited by senators call morgan seller teller browtt and others and also by mrs rs lieta brtva H LoIck lockwood wood who in the face of almost overwhelming pre prejudice ud ice have def defended ended the constitutional rights of the oe people eople of utah resor resolved Be solved ed that we extend our heartfelt thanks to the ladles ladies ot of tile the woman buff suffrage rage association assembled in boston and unite in praying that god may speed the day when both men and women shake their ders the yoke of tyranny tyrant fy resolved that we call upon the wives and mothers others ii of the united states to come to our help in resil resisting sting these encroachments encroach ments ati upon our oar liberties and these outrages upon our peaceful homes and family relations and that a committee be ip appointed pointed at this meeting inato to memorialize tap the president and Cop congress gress of the united states in relation to our wrongs and to take all necessary measures to present our views and feelings to the country f I 1 i HRS RS KINGS KILOS ADDRESS my Y nobu sisters why do we see this stage thronged thron ged to dagand the auditorium equally crow crowded dedi all women why has this aarle large assembly congregated together by appoint anent and by mutual consent it is to alpress the disgust and I 1 wounded feelings that all alf are suffering at this time when the hard hand of oppression is so heavy upon our people ale yes yea and more especially have we met to express our most indignant feelings at the indelicate not to say bay our sisters have experienced of late in the courts of our territory before the he judges sitting in the chair of justice I 1 questions have beer been boldly asked of them that even their closest friends would not haya have presumed pawed to ask them and feelings of the kenderest ten derest nature have been ruthlessly tram trampled pled upon and when some 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