The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-28

percentage of the woman's vote in Wyom-
ing, proves it, and though we are no
prophet, yet we predict that from this |
on the percentage will grow less
much faster. For Wyoming, like Utah,
has had no politics to speak Of;
and when she does have, and the strife and
bitterness inseparably connected with that
strife wax warmer, the women of Wyom-
ing, like the women of the east, will see
there is no place for them in that maelstrom
where men fight for place and power.
1t is held, however, that women will
purify politics. Yes: and when the skies
fall we shall catch larks Purify boliticsl
We once stood at the conjunction of the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The
former, for the most part, Is a beautiful.
clear stream; the latter. horribly muddy
Did the clear stream purify and make
sparkling and clear the Missouris All, no!
They rolled and lumbled along side by side
for a few miles, and by the contrast Mis-
souri, water looked all the dlthier, but
shortly they were blended and it was all
muddy instead of being made all clear.
eyes, but it was not quite so muddy after
the Mississippi emptied into that boiling,
| turbulent flood from Missouri" True. not
quite; nor was the clear stream ever again
SO lovely as before it mixed with the muddy
one. The conclusion pointed is obvious.
We believe in the reforming power in
woman. 1t in one of the grandest agencies
at Cons command. We cling to 1t as the
chief hope of humanity; we love to praise
and exalt it, We have felt its power, and
acknowledge ourself more indebted to it
than to anything else this side of the grace
of COP. But that influence was not
exerted through the ballot box. nor from
the rostrum, the judges bench, nor the
Senate, nor even the pulpit Such are not
the avenues through which it ran, nor
through which it can best exert its power.
1t came from the home circle, and from
society. 1t came through contact with
} woman as sister, mother, WHEAT once the
} MODEST names, expressing the most
, exalted relationship known to mana
} trinity worthy to stand beside Faith,
Hope and Charity!
In the home circle, and in society-in the
} domestic kingdom''- woman stands as
, queen, and is the peer of any man, let hin
occupy uwnat station he will. She holds
! Gue QeSIlly Oh Tue next ana Uue IutQre gen
: erations in her power, and can make gov
ernment take what form she will, but she
cannot do it by rushing to the hustings
l crowding the forum, or speaking from thC
senate; but from the fresides Of the nation
Q she may send race of men, husbands anC
! sons, who will reform governments, cor
r rect social abuses, modify economic evils
! and show how, after all, the hand tina
d rocks the cradle rules the world. We can
g not better conclude than by quoting the
d noble words of Cardinal GIBBoN, recently
= spoken in New York: Christian wives
d and mothers l have said you are th
e queens of the domestic kingdom. If yol
d would retain that empire, shun the politi
$ cal arena, avoid the rostrum, beware of un
? seXing yourselves. If you become EN-
e broiled ID political agitation the queepl,
It aureola that encircles your brow will fad
e away and the reverence that is paid yo1
> will disappear. If you have the vain am
u bition of reigning in public life your domes
y tic empire will be at an end"