The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-28
THE EQUAL SUFFRAGE QUESTION.

1t will be encouraging, no doubt, to
the woman suffragists of Utah to learn
from a paper which has been casting
the cold water of contempt on their
movement, and treating with POPULARITY
and jest their earnest arguments on
this question, that there is no need
Of debating it, That is, if they take
any notice Of a journal that plays fast
and loose with the subject, limiting one
day that women will lose somewhat of
the sweet bloom of their purity by con-
tact with politicians, and the next day
treating the matter as fit only for
mirth and at length waving it away as
a settled question.
When our neighbor grows jocose it
is often so lugubrious in it's style and
heavy in its humor, that we have had
to suggest that it follow the example
of Artemus Ward and insert in pa
renthesis, This is a COAX" 1t appears
that we were right in CHASING it's quiz
zical comments on Miss Phoebe
Couzins' serious arguments as jesting
on a matter of grave public concern,
for it Acknowledges that it was max
ing "some joking remarks upon the lee
ture''
The snarls it emtts about The Her
AIDS position on this question do not
matter. We know we are in the right
on the subject and we propose to go
ahead. 1t is the treatment of a matter
Of public Importance with jeering lev
ity Of which the ladies complain. That
has been the manner Of most of the
opponents of woman suffrage from the
beginning of the agitation in its favor.
1t was that which The Herald objected
to. The fact is admitted, so our argu-
ment stands
We do not think there is a great deal
Of need of debating the question. but
when it is held up to derision and sug-
gestions are made as to its injury 10
the fair sex, it becomes necessary for
its supporters in defend,ng both the
women who are working for their
rights and privileges as citizens. and
the principles which they stand by. To
say something serious and sensible in
its behalf
! The recourse to badinage and stale
jokes on the equal suffrage question
/ is tantamount to an acknowledgements
| that nothing more substantial can be
offered against it. But it is not fair to
ladies who regard it with gravity and
! as sacred cause to labor for, to make
it appear as fit only for fun and worthy
of nothing more than a Jibe
The following catechisIn on this sub
ject appears in the Atlanta Constitu-
ton, and puts it in such pertinent form
that we close with its reproduction:
Under a representative form of gov
iernment, such as ours, who should MAKE
j the laws?
| ,rhe people
DO the people make the laws?
/ No. Half of the people are relieved {?
from making the laws.
Who make the laws?
Men.
Who gave the men the right to max
the laws?
Men.
DO not the laws concern women?
They certainly do.
May women moi take part in maxim,
the laws which they must obey?
They may not. Men alone make tn
laws for men and women.
If a woman transgresses the law
who decide the penalty, try, convict an,
punish her?
Men.
Who sit on juries before whom mel
land women are tried?
Men only.
When husband brutaly assaults hi
wife. Who make and enforce the law
that punish him?
Men.
Who make the laws conce E%,g tn
property rights of husband any wife?
Men.
Who pay taxes?
Men and women.
Who make the laws governing taxa
Men.
! May not capable woman who run