The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-03
TIE WOMAN QUESTION.
No. TX.

Mormon Wife" remarked that there
was a thread of ightness running
through my Arguments, which
savored OF patronizing, To which l
say yes and 10. The women ask
eligibility to hold Office &c a right.
Things which are rights are rot
properly things of patronage. l have
made my letters airy and cheer
ful, as q BET of TO the almost lugu-
brious gravity and ssd or angry
seriousness Of some opponents of the
Woman's Disabilities Bill. ] did not
like to see anybody feel so bad about
it, because the women could live and
be happy without those rights
granted, and the men could live and
be happy with them granted. Be-
| sides, if l favor the removal of those
legal disabilities. that is the important
point, and It is just as well for me to
be light.beslted and cheerful over it
as to be bowed down 10 the earth
with the doleful solemnity OF the
subject and completely overcome
with the awful importance and oner-
Gus responsibility of it,
In the HERALD ofthe 18th, "Vidi"
thinks my position very peculiar.
Perhaps it is, but the figure which he
uses to illustrate his meaning is.
think, much more peculiar. His
figure is that | have e well fenced
fine field, into which do not wish to
see destructive animals enter, but
desire the abolishmey of the fence,
and if that is accomplished the COWS,
etc, will 60 into aud prey upon my
field, unless watched and driven
Of.
Now, Messrs. Editors, I viii show
you the peculiarly and inappropriate.
ness of "Vidfs" figure. Public Office
is not my field. It is nohody's field.
Il is public property. II is ior the
public to elect those who shall have
the run OF that field. and that is all
the fence required. But there is q
very peculiar fence around that field,
I have no such field, and I am sure
l would have no such fence, as it il a
ridiculous abomination TO me. You
see l am a no-fence man. That
fence Is Of such peculiar character and
construction that it will keep out all
the Lady COWS, etc.. unerringly, but it
will let in the gentleman COVE, etc.,
and never make a ghost OF 8 mistake
as to sex. Isn't that most wonder
full fence Moreover, woman is not
q destructive animal in comparison |
With man as non-jeStruoiivs AMI |
NAL. Women are not COWS, etc. |
l do rot wish to keep women out of
public Office, If the people choose to
put them in. l do not wish to
watch them and drive them away
from that field, not my field. It is SIS
much theirs as mine, &nd they have
as much right in it as 1 have. They
have as much right te fence me out
Of it as l have to fence them
cut. But I can net get into
that field unless the people
put nae there neither can woman IN
esq the people put h6F II: II 5u1
people put me in, 1 ought to be in,
Ind, II the people put woman in, she
ought to be in, fence or no fence, if
she is willing. Hence the absurdity
If that funny fence. Such a fence is
IN offence, not proper defence, and
ought to be abolished, and the sooner
he better in a rational community.
Hence the popularity of "Vidi's"
igure. o, 1t is very peculiar.
"VidT thinks, if women we're eligi-
Die to Office, there would be some
oertinacious office-seekers among
hem. So there are among the men.
Bot, masculine or feminine, those are
he very characters who should be
Dertinsciously kept out OF Office. The
Did rule that the Office should seek
the man, not the man the Office,
would be just as appropriately ap-
llicable to women as it is to men, and
Ihould be applied impsrtially to both ,
exes, in the public interest.
The infezible determination mani
ested by some men. that tbs statutory r
carriers to the prejudice of women
hall not be removed, remind one OF :
be belligerent Hibernian who had
managed to get his antagonist deWn +
nd Was holding him there securely. :
spectator asked the Iriahman why =
Ie did not let his enemy get up and r
ave fair stand up chance. Faith" +
aid the Irishman, 81 was too bard :
lut to 1t to get him down, for me to
hink OF letting him get up again" y
This Is about how it is regarding ;,
legal disabilities. Many y
men think that if she was once o
eleasd from them, she could never be :,
objected to them again. And why h
houId she? For she Is not an enemy, .
ke the Irishman's msn, but friend, ii
friend that sticketh closer than a .;
rother, sometimes. "
'Vldr' goes on to talk and to quote n
cry beautifully and eloquently about ),
omsn's mission and true sphere. He
kes to ace her in the charmed circle 81
home, the maternal empire, rear 81
g and teaching and guiding the T.
llldrep, aud thereby moulding the ~
'stiny Of nations. Now, l have 81
'iped more than one woman to live -.
at very kind of noble life. So YOU "
9 am with "Vidl" there. Indeed
talks SO gloWingly in that strain ~, III
at it is almost enough to make 81
an wish he was q woman, and -
lie and a mother in Israel, 90 that ~
might fulfil such a glorious des. ~
~, and perhaps some of the 0r
'men, too, sometimes wish that he g.
's, just for change, and then, after r r1
wing been there, he would know To- To-
" it was himself, and consequently n ,oa
'uld know better how to sympathize %
th the women in their disabilities. -.
1wever, as Providence has ordered ~. W
aerwise, suppose that ordering is I p,i
the best, and, being a man, I am Ia
rtectly content to remain so, still 80
ing to act as fairly towards the va GS
men as the light 1 have allows me. SUI SUI
d not being MORALLY afraid OF Gol
en- should they obtain equal politi- 'io !
rights and chances with me. !
BEN LoMoND. ene
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