The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-13
APRIL 13. 1895
PROVO CITY.
THE HERALD AND SUFFRAGE.

THE HERALD AND SUFFRAGE.
OF course as the Hearald is a larger
paper than THE DIsPATCH it ought to
know more than The DISPATCH does,
and VS. are not very greatly surprised
to learn that DR.. Parkhurst's views on
female suffrage stand as clap-trap ID
the eyes of the knowing Herald DIR.
P's. declaration TO the effect that II
God had intended that woman should
ill the places of men IN the political
and social economy Of the world, he
would have made them as He did men
differing in no sense from men, is cast
aside contemptuously as "clap-trap.
This is pondelous logic and ought to
be convincing, but it isn't. Who gave
woman the right they have been de-
nrived of? And who deprived them OF
this o. any other right? Where in any
declaration from the Almighty is there
to be found His statement that woman
shall be the equal of man, in strength,
courage, ruggedness or ia political au-
thority2 We denY that she Is mans
equal and we deny that any competent
power has conferred equality upon her
either as to strength, courage, or gov
erning adaptabIlitY. While this is
true we know that she is immeasuraDly
mans superior in many other qualities,
in delicacy, in purity, in lovingness, In
unselfshness, in truth, honor and
charm. But to be told that is clap
trap to claim that she is not mans
equal in strength, ruggednesS and
adaptability to the governing function,
Just literally breaks us all up, and 1t
must win the Herald's case even if 1t
never publishes another line on the
subject. Must the woman necessarily
have the franchise and practically un-
sex herself in order to control her own
property? This is too bad, even fol the
Herald. In the time when women could
own no hing were they any the less
valuable as mans help-meet; were they
any the less loving as wives, mothers
and sisters than they are now, and
how did the divorce courts of that day
compare with those of today in re-
gard to business?
Since modern progress requires us to
brand the laws of both God and man
which have stood the test of six thou
sand years use, as relics of barbarism,
there seems to be little hope of getting
DIR. Parkhurst and the Herald together,
to say nothing of THE DISPATCH. We
haven't word to say against woman
writing books, papers, pasquinads or
anything else the dear creatures care to
trouble about. We only object when
they are to be given the authority to
write verdicts, national treaties, dec
larations of war, ETC., while they, as
women, are not responsible and do not
have to bear or share the consequences
of any little mistake, to correct which,
it might take fifty thousand or more
male lives. 1t would doubtless be a
jolly thing for the Herald man, to see
these female statesmen, diplomatists
and negotiators sit back with thumb
on nose laughing at the helpless male
victims of their mistakes while they
themselves were safe. We DO not
know how far Mrs. Uriah was "Darti-
ceps criminis" with old David in one
war measure, but we do know that she
shared with the king the guilty adYan-
tages Of the meanness.
If woman had no husband, no father,
no brother, no cousin or any other male |
relative, and she had no male friend OF
probate court to shield her she woul d |
be in a devil OF bad fix to be sure,
but there is only one woman in every |
ten or fifteen millions, who is situated |
this way so that it is unreasonable to ask |
us to change the usage of six thousand |
years of satisfactory experiment for this
one solitary case, great and pressing as
the necessity may be. DR.. Parkhurst's
arguments almost make this good
Herald of ours curse, or at least use
bad words. Can't help it, must have
the truth at all hazards. 1t any power
s 70 blame it is the Almighty Father
Of US all, for the situation, so far as
are concerned, and is of His
making and not DIR. Parkhurst's.
Now, really, dear Herald. Don't it
eem little as though women are try
ng to make men of themselves since
hey have taken to wearing trousers,
riding bicycles and horses astride? The
Lord only knows what they will seek
% make of themselves If we
give them political equality and the
ballot.
The last lines of the Herald's loose,
isiointed and truly laughable screed
litter a vast untruth, whatever Park !
lurst or THE DISPATCH may have
one. Women are not asking for !
quality in politics. The poor helpless :
reatures are having it forced upon e
hem unwillinglY, by lot of cruel, de-
igning men, who are attempting to
vim majorities in this way, that they +
ever could have attained to in any S
ther.
We do not believe prohibition pc.