CHAPTER XVIII.
WESTWARD HO! In the month of June, 1871, Miss Anthony and I went to California, holding suffrage meetings in many of the chief cities from New York to San Francisco, where we arrived about the middle of July, in time to experience the dry, dusty season.
We tarried, on the way, one week in Salt Lake City.

It was at the time of the Godby secession, when several hundred Mormons abjured that portion of the faith of their fathers which authorized polygamy.

A decision had just been rendered by the United States Supreme Court declaring the first wife and her children the only legal heirs.

Whether this decision hastened the secession I do not know; however, it gave us the advantage of hearing all the arguments for and against the system.
Those who were opposed to it said it made slaves of men.

To support four wives and twenty children was a severe strain on any husband.