Rachel Wilson

The feds were betting on the fact that, nah, I think if we give women the right to vote, they're going to say no more of this polygamy.

So let them have it.

Just let them have it.

Well, the feds lost the bet.

And the Mormon wives kept voting for the polygamy stuff.

The feds didn't like it.

So what they did, there was also a little bit of stuff going on with the finances of the LDS church that was a little sus.

They passed an amendment or, yeah, a law through Congress in 1878, I think.

I could be wrong on the date.

to take away women's suffrage.

They took the vote back from them.

They said, no more voting for you.

Can't do that.

Because you're voting for polygamy.

Yeah.

And so women in Utah had suffrage granted and then had it removed for 50 years.

It was from I think it was about 1870 to 1920 that they didn't have the right to vote.

And the anti-suffragists, this was a big deal.

So pro-suffrage women would go to Utah and anti-suffrage women would go to Utah and they'd talk to the women and try to because everyone's trying to get them on their side.

And they kind of found that like women really didn't want to be involved in politics.