This is from the "Salt Lake Daily Herald" of
October 19, 1883. -- The paper was LDS-controlled
and the article was meant to be a mockery of the
"uppity," "short-haired females" who had gathered
to Chicago for the Woman's Congress.

Jennie Froiseth of Salt Lake City was one of the few
attendees from Utah, and she was given time to address
the convention.

Here's the "Herald's" report, which somehow fails to
show where Froiseth is so wrong, and The Brethren are
so right:


>Chicago 18. -- In the Woman's congress today,
>Miss Jennie E. Froiseth of Utah read a paper on the
>"Women of Utah." She said the women of America did
>not begin to know the extent and terribleness of the
>degradation of the women in that Territory where
>polygamy held sway.
>
>...Even in Salt Lake, where the Mormons adopted many of
>the fashions and ways of the outside world, it was easy
>to distinguish the Mormon women from all others. They
>seemed to carry about with them a mark like that of Cain
>which made perfectly easy to tell them wherever met.
>
>The true secret of this was that it had been the policy
>of the Mormons to degrade woman. She was made believe
>that she was inferior to man and that her only hope of
>heaven was to be a satellite of man. She was to be a slave
>to man. Her only hope of immortality was to be married to
>some man that she might be raised from the dead, not
>because of her own worth but because she was allotted to
>some man. The Mormons thought no more of taking additional
>wives than they did of buying cows.
>
>She spoke of the introduction polygamy and polygamous
>practices in the Mormon Church and the crusade against the
>women which followed. At first the women fought against
>being plural wives but special revelations were made for
>special occasions and every one who would not accept
>the revelations were charged with being traitors... the men
>were commanded to beat their wives, for it was better to
>crucify the body than let the soul go to destruction.
>
>Women were told by Brigham Young that they could not expect
>the love of their husbands; it was enough to have the honor
>of being taken as wives. One of the chief causes which kept
>women in the Mormon church was that they were taught to
>believe that in the church they were honored wives, but
>outside they would be looked upon as common women [whores],
>and instead of wives they would everywhere be treated as
>false women.
>
>The speaker pictured the degraded condition and cruelties
>to which women in Utah were subjected and the influences
>which kept them there.

I wonder if these lines had been written by October of 1883:

>As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
>Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
>Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
>Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses, too...

???

UD