Show rOLY POLYGAMY GAMY IN UTAH the fate likely to befall behill those wio who may art to release the tile mor vioney inon women from froin their bondage any IT Y horma orld the comans womans wo mans rights aspect of polygamy my is is one that has never been properly ventilated it deserves however careful consideration by those who think that they 64 arc are elevating I mormon formon women by trying to suppress polygamy it S possesses posse ses es also a general interest for all F for or the plural wives wives of salt lake city are not by any tiny means waiting for salvation at the hands of the men and women of the east unconscious of having fetters on they evince no enthusiasm for their nois noisy y deliverers on the contrary the they y consider interference with them as a slur upon their intelligence and an encroachment upon those very rights about which ma monogamist noa 0 mist females are making so much biam clamor they look upon themselves as the leade lea dersin rsm the movement for the emancipation of their sex and how then ali en can they bo be expected to accept emancipation at the hands of those whom th they e r arc are trying to elevate thinking themselves themselves in the van of freedom are they to be grateful for the guidance of stragglers in the rear they laugh at such sympathy just as the brave man might laugh laugk at encouragement from a cow ardor as wealthy landowners laugh at a beggars exposi exposition expositio tio n of the responsibilities bili ties of property can the deaf they ask tell musicians anything of the beauty of sounds or need the artist care for the blind mans theory of color indeed it has been in contemplation to evangelize the eastern states on this very subject of womans comans rights to send out from utah exponents of the proper place of woman in society and to woman of monogamy their duties to themselves and each other otherl womans comans Wo mans true status I 1 am quoting from their organ la is that of companion to man but so protected by law that she can act in an independent sphere if be he abuse his position and berder union unendurable they not only therefore claim all that women elsewhere claim but they consider marriage the universal birthright of ever every r female a 1 e first of all they say be y be married ana r r i ed then in case of accidents have all other rights as well but to start with every woman must have a husband she ia is hardly worth calling a woman if she is single other privileges ought to be be acra I 1 lest est marriage should prove disastrous but in the first instance she would claim her right to be a wife and everybody else should insist on that claim being recognized the rest asvery is very import important ani to fall back upon but union with man is her first step towards her proper sphere now could any position be imagined more ludicrous tor for the would tined be e saviors of utah womanhood than this that the slaves whom they talk of rescuing from their degradation should be striving to bring others vp up to their own standard tan dard when stanley was in central africa he lie was often amused and sometimes not a little disgusted to find that instead of his discovering the central africans the central africans insisted on discovering him though he be went into villages in in order to take notes of the savages and to look at their belongings the savages used to turn the tables on him by discussing him and taking his clothes off to examine amine the curious color as they thought it of his skin so that what with shaking off his explorers and hunting up the various articles arti clea they had abstracted for their unscientific scrutiny his time used to be thoroughly wasteland wasted waste dand and he lie ii used sed to come away crestfallen and with the humiliating ng consciousness its that it was the savages and not he hi that had gained information and been improved by his visit they had discovered stanley not stanley them something very like this will be the fate of those who come here thinking that they will be received as shining lights from a better world the they will not find the women of butak utah wailing waiting with outstretched arms to grasp the hand band that saves them there will be no stampede of downtrodden down trodden females malts fe on the con contrary arary the clarion of womans comans rights will be sounded and the intruding champions of that cause will find themselves attacked with their own weapons and hoisted with their own petards pe tards with the sceptre of womans comans rights t the e daughters of zion will go down as 6 spotless ij tl ess to evangelize the nation natio n who he is she that forth as the morning fair aa as the moon clear as the sun and terrible as any army with banners the daughter of zion I 1 Wo mormon rmon wives then are emphatically comans womans wo mans rights women a title which is everywhere lecog recognized 0 as indicating independence of character and an elevated sense of the claims of the sex and as inferring exceptional freedom in action it is only women who are conscious of freedom that can iusti institute tute such movements as this in utah and who are enthusiastic in the cause that can carry them on with the courage and industry that arc are here so conspicuous other women therefore who look to thia territory as a fine convert ground will be egregiously disa disappointed poised newcastle does not need to import coals A governor once came here specially instructed to release the women of utah from their bondage but in ili found none willing to be re leased 1 the franchise was then clamored for in order to let the women of utah fight their oppressors at the polls and the 11 Mor mota moli tyrants took the tile hint to give their wives wives vo votes tc and the first use these misguided victims of plurality made of their new possession wag was to protest twenty thousand victims toi gether a against st the calumnies calum nies heaped u upon the men of utah who whom they honored honored and loved today to day m it is is an act of congress that is to set free these worse than indian devotees and whether they like it or not they arc are to be compelled to leave their husbands or take th the C alternative ter native of sending their husbands lius bands to jail bail it reminds me of the story sir you shall have mustard with your beefsteak A nian man sitting in a restaurant saw his neighbor eating his steak without must mustard ard and pushed the pot across to liim him the stranger bowed his acknowledgment of the courtesy and find went on catill eating but without any mustard but tte the other mans sense of propriety was outraged beefsteak without rau mustard monstrous said he be to hini himself self and again ho lie pushed the condiment towards the stranger thank you sir sit said the stranger but without taking any continued his meal as he lie preferred it wit flout mustard but his well wisher could not stand it any longer he waited for a minute to see if the man iau would cat eat his meat in the orthodox manner and then liis his sense of tho the fitness of things overpowering him he seized the mustard mu overTo pot ang and dabbed down a great splash of mustard on the strangers plate burst out with sir you shall have mustard with your beefsteak I 1 in the same way way the monogamist reformers have twice failed to persuade the wives of utah to abandon their husbands by giving alm facilities cili ties for doing so are now going to take their husbands from them by the force of the law sua si bona corint is the excuse of the reformers to themselves for such astonishing philanthropy and like the old inquisitors Inqui who burnt their victims at the stake to them from heresy they are going to make women wretched in order to make them happy says tho the comans womans Moy nans Fx exponent if the women of utah are slaves their bonds are loving ones and dcarl dearly prized they arc fire today to day in t the c free and unrestricted strict ed exercise of more political and social rights than aro arc the women of any other part of these united states but they do not choose as a body to court the follies and vices which adorn tho the civilization of other cities nor to barter principles ples of tried worth for the tinsel of sentimentality or the gratification of passion every day that I 1 pass among ilie alie Mor mons confirms tho the impression impress len more and more strongly that tho the american people so generous III in the their i r impulses so large hearted in action actio n leave lave been deplorably misled a to the t true rue character of the mormon problem at first sight this may seem an impossible proposition A whole people it will be said cannot have been misled but I 1 think tho the following may have some effect in showing that general misapprehension ilia ili a r ehen sion is quite I 1 within the possibilities aties TO BE CONCLUDED 1 |