The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-03-04
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY TIE
wOMAN's ANTI-POLYGAMY
SOCIETY.

The mass meeting held in Salt Lake
City Monday evening last under the
auspices Of the Woman's Anti-Polygamy
Society was the largest ever held in the
Territory. The following resolutions
were passed;
Resolved, That for over thirty years
Utah has been under control Of this I'M
lawful element, and that under that con-
| troll this Territory has been made mere
dependency Of the hostile creed. The
rights Of real citizens have been stolidly
denied, the ballot has been prostituted,
women dishonored and every sacred ele-
ment of home destroyed
Resolved, That every mercy OF the
Government extended to the Mormons
has been scoffed at by them; that the
failure Of the General Government to en-
act effective laws has been treated as an
interposition Of God to protect this peo-
pie, and that every weakness of the Gov
eminent in failing to make its laws
sovereign here has been used to strengthen
this Kingdom.
Resolved, That the Government OF the
United States can no longer afford to
leave the control of the great Territory
in the hands of people who hold higher
allegiance to the heads of creed than to
the Republic.
Resolved, That it is unbecoming the
dignity of the Government of the United
States, and steady menance to its
power, to leave the management Of a
great Territory in the hands of men who
are in no sense real citizens, and who,
even in their memorials to Congress, give
notice OF their intention to resist the
laws.
Resolved, That nowhere under any
civilized nation, except in Utah, are men
and women, who are felons under the
law, given the ballot at the jury box and
the control of the Government.
Resolved, That this society, speaking
in the name of the outraged womanhood
of Utah, and for 10000 real citizens of
this Territory, beseech Congress to make
no more delay, to rely no longer on half
way measures, but at once to take from
the Mormons all political privileges, until
they conclude to accept as sovereign the
laws of the United States.
Resolved, That Congress owes it as a
duty to the Government, and to the loyal
people OF this country, to amalgamate the
Edmunds, and Shallenberger and the
Willetts bills, and to make of them
law for the Government of Utah, until
their submission to the laws of majority
here shall prove that they are entitled to
be trusted as citizens.
Resolved, That the Edmunds bill is
alone fatally defective, as, while it for
bids the holding of Office and exercise of
the franchise by polygamists, it provides
no effective redress against the perjury of
men who are not bound by an oath, and
if passed in its present form there is dan
ger that it will, like the anti.monopoly
law of 1862, become dead letter on the
statute books.
Resolved, That we believe that a com.
mission of sterling citizens of this Terri
tory, given full legislative powers,
and working under the supervision of
Congress, is the only real and prompt
and mercful remedy for Utah's wrongs
Resolved, That the croak OF the Nor
mons that the enforcement of the laws OF
the United States will cause business
depression, is matter which Congress
should not consider, until retail trade
is deemed of more Importance than the
great principle on which the Rebublic
rests.