The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-07
THOUSANDS PRESENT.
The Resolutions Adopted by q
Unanimous Vote.
FULL REPORT OF SPEECHES,
AS Delivered by Prominent Mormon
WOmen-A Committee on Me-
moriai-The Unanimous
Voice.

At Q O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
in response TO a call for meeting oil the
ladies of the Mormon Church, to prote!.
against the wrongs inflicted upon the
people of Utah-and the women in par
ticuIar-the ISalt Lake Theatre was
packed with ladies, and many were un-
able to gain admission. The alsles down
stairs were filed and even the galleries
were crowded to excess. There were at
least 1000 people present, and outside
of the members of the choir and the
Sixteenth Ward Band, males were so
scarce as to make the few present feel
comparatively lonely. The Sixteenth
Ward Band discoursed excellent music
while the vast audience was being seated.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Horne was called to the
chair, and a number of ladies elected
Yice-presidents.
Mrs Elizabeth Howard was chosen
Secretary, and Miss Nellie Colebrook
and Mrs. Cornelia Clayton, assistants.
Mrs. Zina D. Young was chosen
chaplain, and after singing by the
Tabernacle choir, opened the proceed
ing with prayer,
Prest. M. 1. Horne expressed the re-
grets of Mrs. Eliza z. Snow Smith at
not being able to be present, but stated
that she was heart and soul in the
movement.
Prest. Horne said it was with feelings
of sorrow that she contemplated the
occasion which called forth the neces-
sity for protest against the wrongs
heaped upon mormon men and
women, because of their obedience to
the law of God. The nation could
with more consistency legislate against
the Catholics for their belief in celibacy
than against the "Mormons" for obey
ing the first great commandment, "Be
fruitful and multiply" 1t was a duty
of the Saints to appeal to rulers, and
if dlsregarded God would ayenge
them. President Van Buren, had told
the Prophet Joseph his cause was Just,
but the nation could do nothing for his
people, and the nation had been veXed
ever since. Men were now sent to Jail
because they would not promise to
renounce their wives and children, and
the women of the Latter day Saints
could not longer submit in peace to
this, and to the insults offered their
sisters in the courts. They could not
longer go on without protesting against
continued adverse legislation. They
could not come down to the level of
those who degraded women, but would
continue in the service of God, and
trust in Him.
The following committee on resolu-
lions was appointed on motion of
DR.. r. B. Pratt: DR.. R. B. Pratt, Mrs.
Fanny Thatcher, Mrs. Edna Smith, of
Salt Lake City, Mrs. j. Tanner, of
Provo, and Mrs. 81. G. Brown of Og-
den.
MRS. PREsCENDIA L. KINBALL
was called and spoke as follows:
Mrs. President and Ladies:
I stand before you native-born
citizen Of the United States. My
grandfather fought in the revolution
airy war to establish free government
on this continent, and my father
fought in the war of 1872 to secure and
perpetuate free government and to
protect the rights and liberties of the
citizens of the republic. 1, their de-
Scendant, now stand up before this
assembly to protest against the OPP
US the rights sand liberties which
cur fathers risked their lives to OBJ
tam. What would our fathers say, the
founders of this republic, If they could
rise from their graves and see the glOri-
Gus Constitution which they framed
and bequeathed to all future genera
tiOns, as the palladium of liberty,
overridden and downtrodden by dema-
gogueS and torn to fragments by the
schemes. of I corrupt men,Iwhose OBJ
lect is TO Cypress and injure the help
less.
We came out from the United States
to this desert and mountainous coun-
try, that we might worship God &C
cording to- the dictates of eur con-
scieAceS,
We bad broken no laws of God or
man. We lhad committed no crimes.
but we were driven from our homes by H
angry MODS because we desired to H
worship God IN the way that had been \
revealed to us: We made our homes
In these mountains and have lived here \
loyal and law-abiding citizens.
Now, nearly at the close of the nine
teenth century we find the horrors of
the 1nquiSition revived for our de-
struction = free-born, pure minded, H
and delicate women are brought be,
fore cruel and corrupt court, by leWd
ana debauched deputies; insulted and
brow beaten by base and malicious
officials. and if in obedience TO their
pure and noble womanhood, they re-
fuse to answer the indecent questions,
they are threatened with Imprisonment
IN the Utah Penitentiary, where mur-II
dererS and Ehorse thieves are incar-I
cerated, there to pay the penalty of
contempt of court. HI
On. liberty and justice, where is thy
dwelling placed V
l feel it is time for the ladies of Zion
TO arise. Our cause is Just. We havel
broken no law of God or man, but we
know by experience what the presend
means. We will be-true to God
and live lives of purity.
Mrs. Cornelia II. Clayton read the '
following address by