Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-29
COMPLIMENTARY TO EDMUNDS.

In an Eastern exchange which came te
hand to-day we find the following extract
from Mrs. Clemence S. Lozier's letter tc
Senator Edmunds. 1t is reproduced
here solely for the purpose of showing
the style of argument" INDUCED in by
this representative of the Woman's Suf-
frage cause, and as fully justifying the
remark made by the Senator from Yer
mont to the effect that Mrs. Lozier does
not know what she is talking about:
You are already guilty, with your confed-
crates, of peculiarly unjust and wicked
crime against the first wives of polygamous
men in Utah. These women are not RESPONSE
| BILE for their husbands taking additional
wives; IN most cases they were practically
powerless to prevent this, yet you have not
only d1sfranchised them, and thus punished
them for the acts of their husbands, but YOU
have unconstitutionally deprived them of
that trial by court and jury, and that oppor-
tunity to prove their innocence, which the
Constitution and natural justice both secure
to the worst felon. Not content with your
guilt herein, you now seek to treble it by
expressing two other classes of the sex YOU
pretend to respect.
The right of suffrage belongs to those
women as God-given right of their nature,
and as legal right it has vested in them by
sixteen years possession and use. It cam
not be disturbed without fragrant breach
of settled principles of law. If YOU are the
lawyer you claim to be, you well know that
this Is true; if you do not know it, you are
too Ignorant of law and justice to be fit for
a Senator. Either way, your action shows
that your constituents will do wisely to
remove you from the Senatorial seat wherein
you have shown yourself aristocratic, tyran-
meal and reactlonary.
The pretext whereupon you seek to enact
this new wrong deserves no serious consid-
GRAFTON. The non-polygamous Mormon men
are largely In the majority; and SO long as
they are not disfranchised SO long they will
stand together and control the elections.
10 dlsfranchlse their wives and daughters
will not change the situation. Your effort is
a sheer attack on womanhood, an attempt
to stlgmatlze and punish thousands of pure
women for the crime of being women. Yonr
attempt is of piece with your stubborn
efforts In the Senate to prevent women from
earning an honest living at the bar, and is |
an outgrowth, not of desire to promote
virtue, but of disposition which you have |
on all occasions shown, to prolong the op- |
preston of the weaker sex.
Your intimation that the woman suffrag-
..,so w AOp tu0 SGdG6 Oh CQ1QgS IN
Utah is as 1mpertinent as your suggestions
on the floor of the Senate, that the ladies of
your own State and elsewhere, who seek to
be relieved from the wrong of disfranchise-
ment, are trying to degrade themselves, was
and ungentlemanly.
But you are bent-or were, till YOU discoy-
cred the strength of the opposition you pro-
Voke-on degrading every innocent women
N Utah, and stabbing the movement for JUS
tlce to women throughout the world.
You are free to ally yourself with grasp
ng corporations, cattle kings and land
,rabbers, who veil their purposes of whole
'ale plunder beneath professed zeal for vir-
ue-lf you choose. The country can stand
our doing SO, if you can. But when you
lare to lay hostile hand on the ark of
american liberty and civilization-uniyersal
deserve, and will receive,
corn and hostility, whose extent and power
NIL astonish you.
Of course, Senator Edmunds knows
lst how much value to attach to an
ruption of this kind, and will doubtless
eat it accordingly. Still, one cannot
clip thinking that, if Mrs. Lozier could
lrow rocks with the same ease that she
ings the Queens English around, she
ould be able to make it mighty warm
II the neighbors' chickens that might
Y over the fence and insist upon depre-
atlng in her back yard