The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-23
THE WOMAN QUESTION.
No. 2.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. %.
Editors Herald:

IhaVe looked through your column
, constantly of late for some expression
t Of yours or your correspondents, OF
the propriety or improperly OF the
bill now before the House OF the
Legislature relieving women from
political disabilities, and the first IN
the breach is an effusion IN favor Of
the project from Ben Lomond. l
confess myself unable to agree with
your able correspondent on the ques-
ton, and though I have read bis
communication through three times,
and the speeches which Mr.. Penrose
read in the Representatives Hall and
afterwards had printed in ertenso in
the Deserst Nelos, am an unbelieyer
still.
cannot give any special reasons
why women should not be allowed to
hold Office as school trustees, pound
keepers, constables, jurors, judges,
city councilmep, legislators, congress-
men, or even the President of the
United States, but it seenls a convic-
ton in my mind that it should not be
so, and the same conviction has
become stamped upon the minds of
the majority of the leading men in
sll Ohristendom.
| cannot give any special reason
why my wife is not entitled
to keep q hired woman to attend to
things in our household, and she
(the better half come with me- TO my
Office and help superintend business
800 days in the year-only that it
would dispel all the charm of our
home"
| cannot give any special reason
why my wife should not be poring |
over the intricacies OF business life,
bringing out ofthe chaos of surround.
lug circumstances 3 living for cur
family AMI at night come home with
an aching brow, when l could run
around her chair and battle her head,
out the dishes, etc. only
il appears it would require a turning
Of both cur natures upside down, and
then be unnstural.
l cannot give any special reason
Why several ladies In our territory
could not take the position OF some OF
he advocates OF the bill in our Legis-
that I do not believe
hey would be as efficient.
l cannot give any special reason
Why some oimy sisters could not fill
he executive requirements of heads
in church and state and
lation-only that the endless train.
ng, study and experience required
would detract from their sphere of
usefulness and the world would be the
oser By it.
] cannot give any special reason
Why men shouid not make the beds,
,omb the children's hair, dust the
nantelpiece, and many other little
iuties in q house which they are
trong enough to do-only that it sp-
,esrs improper.
There is one fact that strengthens
ny "bsckbone''-in the territory OF ,
where suffrage and Office
lolding have been free to women, the
aides are petitioning to be relieved
rom the abilities" and to be left 70 {
he more charming attractions OF &
lome life. The ladies, except aged I
pinsters land this is class of females t
Which we deprecate in Utah), ap- {
Dear to have so little time to devote to !
be preparations and subsequent cares
f official life and prefer in every way q
be natural happiness snd content 9
DER of filling the heaven-allotted q
.osition of help-meet to man. There r
re chickering's, discomfort, litigation, r
nd sometimes strife to bring the
Irinkles to the brow in the life ex-
erience of the most sGrupulous and
onest ofice-holder, that make even
0me or the stIongesI-mind5d men
ecline the honor. i
Ben Lomond statss that "many q 3
Ioman would not desire 10 hold l
ublic Office OF any kind" but then I
1ere are, in my opinion, many j
-omen who desire to hold
flee, and they are no. the j
lass of women the majority of the +
eople would select from freedom OF t
noice; but if the law was to allow t
lam the privilege and they set their {
linds on it, and they buttonholed and |
ribed and electioneered, what woman i
ould dare vote against them and
hat man would risk being called 30
orrid "ungallart "-Ben LomCnd liz :
luded-as to electioneer against
lem. I, personally, have a dread OF
women, and cannot c
link that al must belong to that :
lass or the opposite-the weak
minded women; these two are the ex
-emes or exceptions in woman's
ircle, perhaps about evenly-balanced !
' each, but the majority are between i
nese misunderstanding, public. I
burning. children-pe!ting, bright, {
Apply Wiyes, as opposite to the day. t
lfe Of the off ce-holder, as the cold, /
ard north is 10 the warm. genial {
Outh. t
Woman is charming, loTGble, at
active IS a mother, wife or sistsr,
ut as a prospective ofice-hunter,
gh! BEN NEVIS.