Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-16
WOMEN POLITICIANS.
IN ENGLAND THEY ARE WORKERS
AND HAVE INFLUENCE.

The women's Political Leagues Of Europe
and Their Vast Membership 90 what
John stuart NH said-"rhe Peer aud
Equal Of Man In Politics."
One OF the things which Lady Henry
Somerset finds hard to reconcile with hci
prrconccycd idea u the enterprise and
energy OF American women ~ the apparent
indifference Of the great majority TO r1lit
teal issues and privileges As compsNd
with Engllshwomcn OF all classes Amer
can women, though first In tho field ns
claimants for the right Of sharing political
powers with men, np less actively Inter
.sted IN political work, less well Informed
on the Issues Of the day, aud enjoy fcwci
rights of franchise. Twcnty.fuur OF oui
states aud territories confer certain nlnoi
privileges Of voting or OF holding school
Offices on women, while twenty allow won
en- to have no voice In the management Of
public affairs. Wyoming j. the banner
state, Kansas grants municipal suffrage,
while In the other states the privileges en-.
joycd by women are confined TO educational
matters only.
In England women vote for the election
OF members VI municipal and county coun
ellis and school boards, 1T themselves ~
members Of school boards and county coun
ellis, and woman has for more than iifty
years held the throne OF the powerful
United Kingdom and govern,a wisely and
we'll Theirs yet remains for them TO win
the right to vote for members OF paflla
mcnt only.
Englishwomen declare frankly and un'
afiectetlly the party to which they belong
Conservative, Primrose, Liberal or Lib
ernl unlonlst-0nd one m u In England
many more men who acknowledge unrc
servedly their championship OF woman's
cause than can be found to admit thcli
sympathy with woman suiiraglsts In Amer
lea.
John Stuart NH once said that there l.
only one department ~ intellectual aCtly
ity In which woman has ever shown her
self the equal Of man. 1--WE have had nc
woman poets like Shakespeare or the
Greek poets, no woman painter like MI
chael Angelo, no woman musician like Bee
thoycn or Mozart. In all these depart
mcnts man has never had an equal or u
rival In woman. hut there IL one depart
mcnt In which woman has shown herself
the peer and equal Of man, and that Is In
the very department OF politics with which
we ARE told she has no capacity to deal,
There are certain great queens-Ellzaheth
ofEngland, Catherine OF Russia and some
OF the Indian prucesscs who were the
equals IN every way Of any man who evei
held the sumo position | suppose pms.
| perity and greatness In this country never
reached greater heights an Ia the days
Of Queen Elizabeth, Gu, Anne and Queen
| Victoria"
Englishwomen arc well organized In
political work, and worl. with men accord
| ing TO regular party methods, Men advise
with women in the interior and important
things Of politics, aud women use an
means 10 commit men TINT are up for cleo.
tion 20 parliamentary suffrage Tor women,
| and when the candidates have espoutod
the cnurc the women work for their cleo
ton by all Irregular political methods
aud by unique and strategic measures OF
their own, quite out Of the ordinary line
In house to house canvassing the women
are said TO be particularly successful, from
their superior tact and gracious manner Of
approach, learned through long cxperlonc,
IN charity visiting,
! Every one hns heard Of Lady Randolph
Y Chumhill's energetic canvass during hel
husbands candidacy tor The ministry, and
! Mrs. Brand, wifv ,ot member OF parlit