Show UT H IN THE VAN THE st louis globe glebe democrat while opposed to woman suffrage and disposed any effort in its support approves 2 of some movements which secure to the fair sex very valuable rights and remarks f for instance a law lav has bas just gone into operation in onto ohio which gives to wives the same control over their own property ott that husbands have over theirs and w anich leh declares that neither the husband nor the wile as such shall be tor for the contracts or torts borts W the other this is ariy sly simple jil justice Aice to be sure but it has tu ru he confes at the tame same time tot that onla within recent aars at ars have legislators begun to lecog aize ahe ewt luat last justley may hu he hafely abely grafted 1 l to lo pt radons who kappen happen to have been born of one gender instead of another this admirable provision for or the rights of married women which ohie has only jut anft ot adopted has been the law in utah uta h lor for mere than fifteen df teen years it is supposed suppo ced that a wong among the mormons cormons Mor mons women are deprived ut of the rights and privileges es comal onlY af granted to theU ches but ut tri the a I 1 lactic a at I 1 tat there Is sio BO part ifor of the united states where women are accorded accord td the liberties which they have enjoyed in this territory under loreoa lor moa regu rega lations that they do not now enjoy the same political rights highs as men is no BO fault of t e mormons cormons Mor mons they tey art now deprived of the right to vote by anti mormon legislation the right of dower conferred upon a portion of them when correctly understood is against the general interest of the women ot of utah and was made pw put of the new law because 1 of the ignorance of congressman as to the legal status agatus and property rights of roamed married women in this territory under the th laws of utah married women hold property in their own owa right whether accumulated or acquired q aired before or after marriage y 1 can call sue and be sued at law jaw and d t transact their own in their own name as though toey they belonged to the sterner sex they can claim the protection of law and the courts in civil and aad criminal matters its as against their husbands and until the recent congressional legislation hv hal an equal voice with men in political affairs as they have in mormon church conferences and public assemblies assembly s the dower Is a relic of 0 womans comans vassalage under tho the old englith english common law to is unsuited to the conditions in which woman is placed in utah atala under the liberal laws in force and only serves to encumber and obstruct transact loas in real estate aud and put power into the hands bands of a few women who might be tempted into injustice to others to do wrong and hinder binder their husbands from doin doing g right by all members of their households we are glad to see ohio moving to the th fronts and hope to td see the day when the rest of this enlightened nation w will I 1 become as far advanced in bestow bestowing g upon women the rights which toy buy ought to enjoy under a republican lican form of government as the much misrepresented territory of utah I 1 |