The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-12-26
A FoGGY UNDERSTANDING

~ OGG4 DAA0 n OAAAH
The stupendous amount of ignorance
displayed when speaking Of Woman
Suffrage in Wyoming would be anus
ing were it not so mischievous. Testi-
mony has time and again been given
from such men as Judge Kingman and
Governor Campbell, Of that Territory,
expressing in the most unqualified
terms their approval Of Woman Suf-
frage, from their own observation Of its
workings. This testimony has been
published in various journals, over the
signatures Of the witnesses, and has
never been impeached by any one of
standing aud veracity in the Territory.
Indeed, the only assertions to the con-
trary have been made by men hundreds
or thousands of miles from there, whose
only knowledge Of the country has been
CLEANED from a hasty transit through it
on the trains Of the Union Pacific Rail-
road, or mayhap by those who have not
breatbed its air since they followed a
slow-moving train drawn by oxen
across its hills and valleys in their early
childhood, or by those who, living IN
the far East, regard all places west Of
the Missouri as wild lands, halfculti-
waited, aud peopled by semi -barbarians.
One Of the far-away witnesses who has
essayed to cast a stigma upon Woman
Suffrage where il exists, speaks in the
.f Tn.ua~s.n.ar TQfh Md
this is what he says;
Already in two Territories, Utah aud Wyom-
ing, the right Of suffrage has been conferred
upon women, and the results are not such as
20 encourage the honest advocates OF "wom
ans rights" by any means. In Utah, only
the degraded pOlygamous wives Of the Nor
mons exercise the franchise. The rcspectabl,
women Of Utah absolutely refuse 90 go TO ia,
polls. and already there is agitation for taking
away the right IN Utah, and also In Wyoming
where the women are equally .iisiuterested IL
exercising the voting privilege. AtCheyenne
not half the women have cast a ballot since ih'
first two Territorial elections, al which time
they turned ont quite generally, on account @
the novelty Of the thinE.~ Although separate
poiIing-places are established for women, DO d
only the unleuered. the coarse and ignoran
tions, and only one woman In the whole Terri
tory has ever held AN Office. The Wyominl
women who most do frequent the polls sr'
pretty much an OF the class apuy described il
the following doggerel, which, as we under
stand 10, covers her case exactly:
She washes the children.
Feeds the fowls,
And makes her home
Resouud with howlsm
On the contrary, the "hOnest advo
Gates Of wuman's rights" are greatly en-
couraged by the "results" OF impartia
suffrage in Wyoming, at least, while
the degraded polygamous wives
Of Utah certainly do as much credit t.
the franchise as do the husbands whS
share their degradation. Time and
again have the advocates Of Woman
Suffrage asked Of those best calculated
TO Judge Of its merits the effects OF the
experiment. in Wyoming, and th,
testimony has in every instance been in
It's favor Once, it will be remembered
legislature finding that women helr
tue balance Of power in politics in th,
towns al least, determined to repeal tn,
Ia" which conferred suffrage upo,
them, but the ignominious rcpeal ns
executive veto. "Agitati,n fnr ,at,in,
away the right mote the d,.r,,i.. a.,
nifeance Of the words exis.- ,.,I
among ring politicians, who aud m
vote Of women a solid bulwark int,
posed between their vile schemes an
the fulfillment thereof.
The assertion that it is "only the u,
lettered, the coarse, and the ignorar
class" OF women who vote in Wyomir
is without the slightest foundation,
fact. Every one knows that this ella
of women land mem everywhere are
unit against Woman Suffrage; hem
the assertion carries with it its oW
Tefutation to every well informed pc