The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-06
Women of Salt Lake CITY.

that is untirng in its efforts to place before the
people of the United States the whole truth in re-
laton to the institution of poygamy that flourish
ing in the mountain states of the far west
For that reason the so-caled church of Mormon
and all its aids and accessories are visiting their
displeasure upon the who is brave enough to
stand for the purity of the home in the midst of its
def1ers
AS the official organ of the disappearing cult, the
Deseret News (Sat Lake edition) is lending it's
unholy columns to assaults Mrs Cohen misrep-
resenting and msquotng her all possible occasions
and contendng against the truths she is placing be-
fore the public through the organization of which she
is the head
Smarting under ndignities attempted and consum-
mated, Mrs Cohen followed up the lead of a reporter
for the Deseret News, sent to interview her, and
compelled him to make this damaging admission
Deseret News reporter "Polygamy is dying out"
Mrs Cohen: "But you believe in it ?"
Deseret News reporter: Eyes"
Mrs. Cohen: "And you attempt to tell me that the
practice is dying out. You know better than that.
Your people working for the balance of power
in politics. 1t is their purpose to become strong
factor in the government of the United States, and
it is with the hope of forcing polygamy upon the
people of the country You believe that don't you p?
Deseret News reporter: Eyes"
In her grouping of the intentions of the Mormon
establishment Mrs. Cohen told the whole story of
the hopes and expectations of the Salt Lake hierarchy
they have existed from the time of Brigham
Youngs accession to power to the day of the blatant
enemy of decency who dehes government from
his seat.
Relating the Salt Lake Tribune the incidents of
of her interviews with the Deseret News report
er, Mrs. Cohen said:
[ cited an instance wherein warm woman friend,
who is Mormon, told me that if she knew my life
was in danger because Of my activity this issue,
she might warn me, but that she would not under
any circumstances raise hand to If |
did not act Immediately upon her warning she said
my life would be entirely in my hands. And
the News reporter admitted that if crisis develops
in Utah he would Mormon rather than me,
because bear the stigma OF being Gentle
Undoubtedly the rulers of the Mormon establish
ment would kill man, any
Der of women and for differing with them and
attacking their niquy if their dared But the time
has gone by when their murderous acts may be in
dulged in they were in the bloody beginning of
Salt Lake settlement, when Gentiles few and
Mormons were many when Dan1tes crouched in
mountain dehles and plains riders bore down the hap
less refugees from the wrath of an inhuman auto
cracy.
But they yet dare to send a woman with ominous
intmation to woman-to endeavor to brighten her
from the plain duty she has entered upon for the pro-
lection of her sex.
Unawed by an implied threat Mrs Cohen, in the
name of the Women's American club of Salt Lake
City, has appealed to the women of Illinois aid the
of morality by using their utmost influence
against the reelection of Senator Hopkins, of that
state defender of Smoot and the poygamy he stands
for on the floor of the United States senate.
Her appeal to the of Illinois is worthy of
the attentive persual of every in the United
States 1t reads as follows
To the women of Illinois,
The Woman's American club and the Gentle
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