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Show t Mrs. Bolva A. Lock- Jt' wood Gives Her k Roason. tf Tho New York Tribune any that Mrs. 1 i IJelva A. Loekwood a short time ago f was tuked to sign the petition to untent If Baiintor Heed Bmoot. In nifHvor to tho It rciiniMt the distinguished lady niotun j , luHur to the Intuinatl-iual totiiicll ol i ' Wimioii, and U leads as Mluws: t I am In icwlpt of jour blank pe-1 tllloiiH and circular iisking uie to assist 2 ,. you In uiiscatlng Senator Reed Bmoot I i it front tbo United Stales Senate In rrn Hwer to this reqitist, I beg leno to plate that I am radically opposed to join petition and piotcjt, and lme sent the paiiets, as iinj biw.ver would tin, to Ben or Senator Heed Smobl, whom I hlgbl esteem not bicnusn 1 have Any pe -siiual ncquaininuce with him, exie,t his good reputation for morality, religion re-ligion mid uprighlius among the people peo-ple whom bu jeprtscnlH, bulb Murmuns nnd Cicniitttf In Utah. "You cay Unit the Church of Lntter-diiy Lntter-diiy S'alnls loiiirola elections In Utah Now, I dj not know Hup, but I hnve heard It said tl.nt the Cathobo clnncli controlB the eliclious tu New Yotk. 1 would r.tther of choico Imvo electifiue controHeil 'i the church than by an urchins 1111I the snluoti. "You rny (hat the Moim.u Church cluiiDs'lo liejiipptior to theguverument. Ho ilo nil orthodox cliuu'lav, and the thirteen uuiteil C)iuiiies er0 fouiided oiv, tbo principle that coiite1oue U eupenur to law, nnd 1 s.iy to )o,i that alihoiigh 11 lawahidfng woniin and n liiwjer by prufeesfon f"i '.welity live je.us, wheiiivcra law Impulses on 111) conseienee, hi the old I'ligalive Slave law did, it Is cousefeiicit (list, and not the taw. Co.t is above law and the C'onstituiioi'. ''You luivo no more right to inquire into tbo couscieucc of Heed Smool tl.nu oil have that of any other United Sta es Senator. The Con tljuliun ilovf nut ri'iilre 11 man to limb ntcouecleucu in'order lo becnine a Seualor. Utah is r. Snila whcietbe women vote and help lo make the 1 11 we. They haven light to repKsuittttluii in the United States Senate niid toeUct uhoui the) please It it the 1 n ml .1 mi' tit 11I right o( n State. , ...., .,.:.! 1. .., .....1 "I'll" third paragitiph of your petition peti-tion is loo weak 10 answer. 'Your eiteular fays: 'The degmdr-lloii degmdr-lloii ol uoiuiinliood, the demora )7.ilbn if ehildho'h.Liiiidvi .r-uth cgndhJiuaklU. , make ignorant, pepph.,wlio hmo ueVcf ,lsiled 'Utaliirellevc thhT, but' nobody w In) h is ever vet (qui ln'ide i,( the Slate. It is an liienll to our Moiuiou sisteit, whirh I tecent Tin ro uie no moro motnl pi'i.pli', or more rellued and eilu-cnted, eilu-cnted, 111 ibu UiiiI'mI States than the women of Ulitti Tluir children are lovly, welrouiM, wul bom, ivel! uuised, well liiiil, noil in a hettct condition geu-etally geu-etally tbnn f'Mir-llftliH of the oilier children of tlu United States. '"If jou gooil CliiUiliiii women really with to do the woi'il n Fcrvieo and commemorate yourselves, take up the, miserable condition ot the submerged class of women in our great cities like New Y01I', Chicago and San 1'iancltco the victims of n syejem worse limn, polygamy, if any .exists In tluscoun-l tr and the poor, nilpernb.e, hnlf-clotbid, hnlf-clotbid, half fed children ihcro who do not know what mother lovo nnd care mean. Utah provides (or her own poor and does not icquiio brothels for n do graded mnuhood as well as womanhood. I deny that thero are any longer polygamous teachings in Utah, but assert as-sert that they arw well ordered, nioint Timl icllgiuus people, your persecution of them i'iniiids mo of the old days of witcheraftry in Maisai'liusetts, and the spirit which drove the iiunkcrs and Ilaptlsts out of Connecticut nnd declined de-clined that the Catholics should not bold land In Viruiula. 'Till is mi era of onlltirc, nrbttrntlon and toleiatlou, slsletsl Let us piay for light I I do not believu. In jol)gHiny. Very iepecllully, , "IH'.I.VA A, I.0UKW00D." |