The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-27
THE VOTING FAD FOR WOMEN.

General JOHN BIDwELL's letter accept
ing the Prohibition nomination for the
presidency does not belle his name And
III nothing does he bid better for our sym
paGhies. our prayers aud the suffrages of
people who can vote for president than in
his appeal for lovely woman. All, wo-
man. Woman coy and uncertain, woman
the ministering angel, woman the viii o.
the wisp, so hard to get, so easy to please,
SO fond, so fair, SO fcklel Let not free,
enlightened and Christian America longer
injure and degrade woman" exclaims the
indignant and gallant BIDwELL, "by with
holding from her y that priceless
heritage, the ballot" for If she does, ENG
land viii take the lead in the emancipation
OF women
We don't believe It, England has
great deal OF emancipating to
do before she gets down to the VS. and
there's no blarsted Britisher that lives who
possesses greater disposition to elevate
and glorify the gentler sex than Brother
JONATHAN. " by, in this country woman
has everything abe wants, and in styles.
brands AID qualities to suit. She may oc-
casionally make q mistake in choosing
husband, as she is liable to do II choosing a
sheriff or president. and it may be more
difficult to get rid of him than it was for
General BIDwELL to dispose of his vine
yards when he found that his wine made
men tipsy; but on the whole, as she says
herself, her lot is not an unhappy one
when she has her own way, with plenty of
money to indulge her tastes
AS to the ballot being woman's heritage,
fiddlesticks. General BIDwELLl We read
about the ballot being
weapon that comes down as still
AS snowfiakes fall upon the sod,
But register the freemans will
AS lghtnings do the viii of God
But that isn't woman's real weapon.
which. too, comes down almost as still as
snowflakes-for does not the immortal
WILLIAM tell US it is water dropsan
1.-The nation that first gives women equal
rights with men will win a crown OF i'm
perishab,e glory" says the cold water can
didate. The ideal What's the matter
with Wyomingg Can Queen v1croRrA
come in now and steal Wyoming's meta
phoricsl thunderl Mercy, no; and, be-
sides, Queen VIC already has her crown,
resting, however, on q rather uneasy and
neuralgia head. JOHN BIDwELL, we are
surprised at you
Speaking OF women and Wyoming, it
was only a few days ago that THE
HEgALD's Cheyenne special contained the
gist OF decision bearing on the universal
suffrage law OF that fresh and breezy state.
1t appears a convicted felon took an appeal
from his sentence on the ground that the
uenire 5dcids on which the jury was sum
moned didn't have any ladies on it. And
the court held that it was the women of the
county and not the convict who had the
grievance. Why the criminal should have
supposed be would have had a better
chance had not the jury been composed ex :
clusively of horrid men, we cannot imag-
inc, as the nature of his offense is not
given. It might have been otherwise with
feminine prisoner, for the court in the
very case referred to states that last spring
six women gave judgment to q
waitress for wages in the town
of Douglas-the inference being that
the amount wasn't due to her.
The HERALD anticipates no great boom
for woman suffrage in the United States in
consequence of the candidacy Of General
BIDwELL. There does not seem as yet to
ba any great demand for the privilege of
votiag made by that section of the sex who
really govern it-and US. MOORE says:
Disguise our bondage as we will,
IT'S woman. woman rules us still.
| But 1t is not the short-haired and he
voiced variety. When female suffrage
comes it will come as fad, like riding
a-straddie. Woman wears our collars.
neckties and suspenders and will take us
to the polls and make US vote with her
when, il ever, it becomes fashions decree.
And then the style will go out ike fitting
hoops and ELIZABETH ruffs.