The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-01-21


and for more than an hour the distinguish.
ed lectures hcld tie undivided attention
Of the hundreds In attendance.
Miss Dickinson prClhced her lecture
with nh eloquent description Ofthe scenery
which imp6rts 80 great a charm To tho
Mormon country, and touched for a mo.
mcrlt upOn the customs and habits which
there prevail. She recitetl, in forcible and
effective words, the sad history aud fate Of
DR.. Robinson, so cruelty murdered by the
lniniOns Of Brigham Young, and uttered II
scathlng Pronunciation Of the man who
held tyranniCal sway over the fair land OF
Utah, und who was the head and front
Of this whole offending. Who Is he! A
man whose brains and weakness cOmbin'
ell built up this immoral STRUCTURE, and
held It together; without whom II would
drop aslIndCF IN les tllnn twelve'mOntlI;
man so tainted and disiigured by crimes
and CnOrinities that he would be Ills
grace To frst.clasS penltcntiary. This
man goes to Washington, and Rcprcsen:
tntivcs and distinguished public men call
upon him to pay their respects TO him.
Respectable mothers invite him into their
houses, and give him II seat at their table
beside their daughters. Now" let us re-
verse this case. Suppose II was d woman.
But no, you say, 1t X not a'slIppoSNblo
ctlsc. say tits, The laws Of mOralityand
tue laws Of God recognize n0seX,wlMtever
weak Or wicked diStinCtiOnSyOu or may
see fit to draw. Suit Lake Cityi like every
other great city under the sun, because
things here are sanctioned that are else
where tolerated. In Salt Lake City, u
man leads 10 the wedding altar half u
IiOzen women, calls tlIGm his wives, and
lives with them rs such. In New York
CITY man does precisely the samG with
out any preliminary exercises. In Salt
Lake City they Gull II religion, III New
York City they call II Il young nulIl SOW
ing his wild outs The underlying rule
in regard to tho proper place and Position
OF Wnmen in tho world Ia precisely the
same in Salt Lake City that Il IL IN Lon.
don, Paris, New York, Boston, or Phila-
deIphia; that she was not born for herself,
but for another, and that, Of necessity, u
man; that she was put into the world not
US an individual, not Us al entire human
being, but Us the finishing, the supple
lnenling, the adjoining Of some other hui
man being, and that other being Of ncC(s'.
sity u nian. John TQld tells III tllat the
sole and only purpose for which woman
IL created and called into tho world was
to be- some mans wife aud the mother Of
his children, Excellent! cries Mormon
ISM. LII that case every woman would be
q wife md mother, md until s. he gOtA
on this plan of religion the gates Of hGa-
ven shall liz shut against h0r. She comes
here u shed glory upon II man, says John
Todd. iG f.. Ul's.I,.I.ssp
In brief, tOsnm mp the whole matter, rs
Horace Bushnell sIyS II woman was put
into the world for tile purpose Of putting
goodness into the man. Excellent cries
MOrlnOnisn. IrOne woman can put good.
ness into man, twenty will constitute
him a &IiWG. They nNy shut their eyes,
they may stop their cHrs, they may Turn
away thOir ftIceS in horror, their theory Ia
the theory Of property, ownership by the
MIN In the woman. That woman he
longs to man in the Same sense us his dog,
or his lIOrRc, or his property Of any kind
Il IL the theory that woman was meant
for man-scnt into tlleiwOrld tor man. He
Il to have, anil to hold, and do whit he
nleaScS with all, You had such case
eliminating III SiCklCs' over yOnder, As
Cole nearer, AS Mcfarland close ut hand
This IL New York; The community dareS
10 blnsphCmc truth and God by defending
with murder OH the ground that this
woman, who belongs only I" her Maker,
is the property Of this man who claimed
her as his wife, Applause. These he
the fruits. H,
Miss Dickinson next rcCitcd passages Of
her experience in Salt Lake City, dcScrih.
cd the protested contGntment Of the Nor.
mon wives before their husbands, and
their expression OF dissatisfaction, md
oven of lOatlIing, when the opportunity
offered 10 speak freely with one Of their
own Sex continued with II Scathing tie.
numciaIiOn Of this tolerated religion IN u
doctrine Of devils; and IL bitter attack up.
GU Judge Kelley and Others Of the Ways
and Means Committee, tic Rev. DR.. Todd,
and Others, who seemed, while there, 10
give ii their implied COuntcnAnCG, She
concluded III follows:
Women everywhere arc seeking for lar
ger, broader, md freer lives, hut not from
hatred or hostility to man; for this move.
ment Is simply wOman's etlnrt to get
nearer to Il mans side. simply the effort
Of the women Of to-day u keep step
with the music Of today. Brain for brain
md heart brlrart, she seels to climb the
heights that ytm arc climbing, and would
nOtbc deserted in the valleys you have
left behind. II Ia not true that women
naturally desire tho applause Of SCnatCS
or to hear their names shouted By the
peoples voice, hut It IL true that II IL I'M
natural for them to ChGcrtully accept such
wiirhOOtl and motherhood IN in TOO
many cases Hre OlicrGi 10 them
to-day. A young girl, clear Of
fnrC, pure If Heart, unGulturGd and I'M.
trimmed, sN4 heRelf more respected by
the law thRn Il II wife Rnd mother She
sGCA II young mNn Of 29 and young WI
mnn Of 90, standing together nj thu wed
ding nlLAr, practically equal In intellect
and ambition; while IN other couples tlINt
Sl0Al thus 20 years ago. she secs tho hu4-
bun0 almost always tIr IN advance Of hiS
wife, And she SECS iIlHl at 81 this man IL
well pleased to lG with this woman, but
at ~ he Inns lis club, and Is fond If gnlng
to concerts und lectures without his wifn
anil cares much more for his newspaper
than for her conversation. For Tho sweet
nuss tint charmed lin first lInS Cloyctl; he
grows tired Of lImkinG down Into eyes
that must look up Ii his; aud IN how mNny
cllseS he goes 10 llnIl u woman whose eyes
look strntght into bis own, anl who ln.
comes too OilCn ut once lover and IL
(riund. And tllCu, alas for the husband,
alas for The wife and aus for the other
one. The social misery Of to-day in
America springs frMn the fact thai the
man of the present persists in wedding
thr woman of the lHtsI. Society Is
E,vI If unVinV that WnNnN'g unhpFp