The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-25

been elected partially by the vote O.
women, would seem TO have sustained
the right OF womt n to vot-.
at the time when the disfTanchise-
ment of women in Utah was under con-
sideration she had done what she could
to prevent it, and told those interested
In the movement that if the women of
Utah were disfranchised for mere be-
lief 1t would prove most dangerous
precedent to establish. She Was sorry
10 ind that the fundamental principles
of our government had not frmer hold
upon the people. Various propositions
regarding the eligibility of voters were
being proposed. 1t seemed to be the
desire to restrict suffrage, instead O. ex-
tending, but the moment We take away
the ballot we take away the
greatest incentive to become good
citizens. The question was not now as
to whether the women could keep up
with the men, but whether the men
could keep up with the women. Every
advantage possessed by woman to-day
mad been won by her own efforts. Her
subsection had been the curse Of the
race. Life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness were inherent rights, and
they could only BE- protected by the bal
lot. Under certain circumstances
woman was forced to use the weapon
of barbarism 10 protect her home or her
honor, and her act was approved. Was
it not illogical to refuse to allow her
TO use for the same purpose the
weapon of civilizatlon-the BALLOT
Much had been said about the evil in
the world, which expressed itself
through the ballot box. was it not right
to combat the evil with the good? If
oil tho unO6 n world nnI1l.t Is nd nv
preston, there need be no fear of the
evil. The speaker was strongly in
favor of compulsory e6 ucatiOn as one
of the ways through which the ballot
box would be purified. She was also in
favor of o-education. The association
of the sexes would result in mutual
benefit. One of the great bugbears
brought against women being allowed
to take part in the government of their
country, was thai they did not know
enough to vote; but the fallacy of this
a. d If tue idea that men were the SUI
Teri rs of women intellectually, lad
been shown conclusively by Mrs. Gard
ner, of New York
Mans strength and woman's svm-
pathy should be united for the good of
The race.
MRS. SAXON
was then introduced, and aid that the
boon OF suff age had been given one
year and taken away the next, and il
was the liquor traffic of America which
had deprived them of this right. She
stated that in certain town in
Tennessee where she was engaged in
temper ance work, almost every bust
ness man in the town had ex-
pressed himself privately as sym
pathlzing with her, but nor
one Of them dared to come OF
rnd taBe stand for temperance, the
liquor traffic seemed TO c,ntrol every
interest of the country. But the cause
was triumphing. The truth wore no
mask and only waited for hearing.
The great tidal wave of reform was
sweeping over the land and the senti-
ment of the yeople was wrought up to
white heat.
The brewers began using their power
in politics in 1865, ana had ever since
opposed prohibition at the polls and
temperance at their councils. 1t was
on such vital questions as the licensing
of saloons that the power of woman
would be felt at the ballot box. There
was time when the dram shops wore
all that was vile and infamous, and then
mothers were able to keep their sons
away from them, but now they were
transformed into palaces. The women
had petitioned legislative bodies in vain,
for they were opposed by the liquor in
fiuence. 1t would continue so until
woman held in her weak hands the
ballot.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was the most perfect organiza-
ton in the United States today, and
had for its leader one of the most clear
sighted and all-comprehenslve minds
in the country. This society was the
outgroWth of their failure to obtain
aid from the legislature, and women
were praying in the madness of misery
| for their sons who were going to de-
s'ruction. Two incidents in American
history paralelled the miracles of the
B!ble-the emancipation of the slaves
and the Inauguration of the temperance
crusade in Ohio. Women were lust as
| tigerlsh III their love for their young as
the wild beast, but experience had
taught them that it was moral battle
they must wage. Referring to the Order
of the White Cross. she compIimented
the young men of this country for the
stand they had taken for morality, and
considered 1t most encouraging sign
She had been shocked and panied to
read in a newspaper that all that was
needed to break mp Mormon SIN was
the brothel and the dram shop.
At the Battle of Waterloo, the
Home Guards were ordered to lie
quietly on the ground while the battle
was raging all around them. Finally
the call came, up, Guards, and st
them" So the call had now come to
the women OF the country. It was be-
ing realized at last that only through
their power could the battle be won.
America must not die, for when she
dies all the dream Of human liberty
perishes with her.
1t was announced that Mrs. Saxon
would deliver lecture TO ladies only
on the subject of social purity, at the