New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-31
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE UNDER MORMON RULE.

| WOMAN SUFFRAGE UNDER MORMON RULE.
! To the EdttOr 0f Thc Trfbunc
| SIR: In your letter TO the editor of The
| Goidcn age, / read your opinions Of Marriage and
| Divorce, Woman Sufagc, and Free Love These
themes, which, outside Of Utah. involve difference. q,
| opinion here assume a shape and embodiment which
ia at with the civilized world. n has been held
! by the courts and accepted law that by her
rage with citizen allen becomes natural.
zcd and IL citizen. by act Of 18th February 1870 tho
Legislature OF Utah all Mormon provided that every
woman Of the OF II years, who has resided In this
Territory ak months, born naturazed OF who the
wife, widow, daughter Of a citizen OF the United
States shall be entitled 70 vote at any election in thl.
Territory" This act passed By authority Of the 9Th
OF the organic creating the Territory sept o.
$780, which after prescribing the qualifications Of
tors at the first election, provides that tho quaica
lions Of voters aud Of holding Office al an subsequent
elections shall be such shall be prescribed b the Legs
iative Assembly"
Now at the late election on the 7th inst the wOmeb
voted without stint large majority Of tho women,
well men, in this Territory foreigners, and II hap
pened in many instances that many called and
held out 10 the world the wives OF as many
as eight or ten in some cases and OF them aliens,
voted at this election II this relation Is marriage and
il marriage 20 a citizen naurizes alien female, then
we have the anomaly OF naturalzing eight %
ten women, well as voting them. Such Is the pract
cal sequence OF Woman Suffrage IN Utah.
in defiance Of the act OF Congress forbiidng IT, The
heads Of the Church lead their lochs. ard Sunday
after Sunday denounce the said act or Congress I'M
constitutional Polycamy is enjpned az duty in ac-
cOrdance with the pretended revelation OF Jo smith o'
18th July, Isl3 The compact organization Of the Nor
mon Church s complete control over 10 people arc
little understood outside Of Utah Superficial observers
have asserted and again that Mormonism was
on its last legs that schisn dsintegrating the
Church. and that this relic OF blrbarsm tas passing
away and thus Congress has been induced 10 temporNe
Now. let no one be deceived by this dciusion; for
no church Or order, Jesuit Methodist mecieVai OF
modern, exhibit organization as thorough, ac'o'
vital and complete as this Church OF " Latter-Day
Saints" or commanding and receiving as ready ana VIII
ing obedience The number who have ABANDONED tue
Church. up the present time is very Few ana most
IL not all Of them men who had acq urea property
and objected the exacOn Of tthe', rather Than 70
any unsatisfactory tenet Of faith for these same nen
stl cling to polygamy and keep their haren' ami 's'
while they lose al influence over their Mormon pIcthieh
fan to acquire the respect of Gentiles.
Every elective office in the Territory and It's entire po
lice machinery in the hands OF the Mormons, and
will be retained for indefinite time to come.
Since the opening of the mines, twice as many
Mormon immigrants mostly from tho North Of
Eur0pc), as miners. have come into the Territory
and If Congress does not resume and exercise the
authority to regulate the elective franchise. and adopt
registry law with a against poygamists the import
alton or plant foreign voting material VIII more thih
keep pace with any OF Gentle votes that can lie
reasonably expected from the working OF the mines.
In conclusion wish direct public attention to
feature the Mormon doctrines which underles all Of
its articles Of faith, and is fraught with danger to the
public peace well 10 the good order OF society and
In fact lnchOate and nascent rebellion. It'll
this: In every pulpit and all occasions, public and
private it Is asserted reiterated, that this Church Is
temporal kingdom" and il bound in its progress
overturn aud supplant every civil government earth
No dogma OF Islamism received implicit belief
from its followers, and no batte-cry would be moro
ferce followed than this, II the Mormons had power
that would promise impunlty; and who has had
the oppo unity to observe how they rule whom they
have the power doubt that they only tolerate
what they have not the power TO resist Therefore,
timely measure of prudence TO avert conflict that
otherwise will surely come, and in mercy TO many OF
these dcuded people, who would make good citizens In
time, n emancipated from the political Of their
faith. the Government shOud adopt effective a nd early
10 take out OF the hands OF the Mormon Church
the political power which IL wields Church II II Is
unwilling to do this, then let IT eXpunge from the
statutes the act against polygamy, now dead letter
and surrender without reserve the es of government
religion fosters treason, murder and lust and which,
-Tebe lion. W X X
Sail Lake, Aug. 20. ISL