The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-11
a COMING ISSUE.

1t is quite likely that the woman suf-
frage question will be agitated in Idaho
and perhaps be submitted next fall to
a vote of the people. If so it will
come forward in the shape of consti-
tutional amendment which of course
cannot be adopted except by popular
vote. Colorado having moved into the
position of an equal suffrage state,
and Kansas getting ready to step for
ward to the same line, it is not unlike
ly that the example thus set will be
followed by other progressive states.
A marked article has been sent to us
from the Woman's Journal touching
on this subject, which has attracted
more lively attention recently than for
some time before. The object in view
appears to be to concentrate the forces
of equal suffrage upon the struggle in
Kansas, and obtain means from those
who are interested so as to secure sue
cess in that state. We make the fol-
lowing extract from the article:
eff, as we hope and believe, Kansas,
next November, joins her neighbors,
Colorado and Wyoming, in extending
full suffrage to women, there will be
established a nucleus of three great
states, which will attract and unity the
other communities lying between the
Missouri river and the Pacific ocean.
Utah, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana,
Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
time in the worlds history, men will
have honored their own mothers, sis
tiers, wives and daughters by conceding
to them a perfect legal equality of
rights, duties, privileges and opportuni-
ties.
"Such an advance in civilization can
not fail to make itself felt in social
and political conditions. Denver Chey-
enne and Topeka will soon lead in every
enviable characteristic which adorns
and dignifies enlightened communities
Woman suffrage will build up an i'm
perium in imperio, a republic Of repub-
lies, with an elevation Of thought and
feeling as pronounced as is the phySi-
cal altitude of this region above the
surrounding states of the Union Be
ing thus lifted up, they will draw the
whole American cordnent to them
selves. They will be a light set upon
the hills, a beacon to their eastern
neighbors, to feudal Europe, to des-
potic Asia, to benighted Africa, to Lat
inized Mexico and South America, and
to the seni-barbarous islands of the
farthest seas.
rs this a mere chimera, a Utopian
dream? No one would so regard it
VINO attended the recent sessions of
the Colorado Woman Suffrage associa-
ton, June 20 and &c. and noted the
quality of the women participants No
one would SO regard 1t who knows the
benefcent work of these women, ire
spective of party, in harmonizing dis
cord, allaying suspicion, and organic
ing the intelligent womanhood of the
great West in support of liberty and
law. Not that all these women will
work in any one political party, or
take identical views of political duty or
OF personal character; but we hope and
believe that they will agree to differ,
and mitigate the excessive. bitterness
OF party asperity and be able to come
together, after the November elections,
to deliberate and act as women by
non-nartisan methods, as protectors of
women and children, and as guardians
Of domestic purity and peace"
One of the greatest hindrancesi to the
cause of equal suffrage has been the
extravagant notions and expressions OF
its prominent advocates. Even the
article from which we take the fore
going talks about woman's slavery to
man," and about men not "honoring
their wives, mothers and daughters, .
which is out of place in America, and
only tends to disgust men who are as
chivalrous toward the sex as 1t is pos
sible to be. The opposition to woman
suffrage, in which some of them join
! is not prompted by any desire to do dis