The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-16
REPUBLICAN woMEN'S QUESTION.

at the meeting of the republican
women of Salt Lake held on Saturday
the ladies went at their new work
earnestly, and if they did not work
wisely they worked hard. Among the
things done was series of questions
submitted to the ladies of Utah. some
of which are quite peculiar. The DIS
PATCH will be pardoned for courUe-
ously noticing few of said questions.
The first is as follows:
Is it not reasonable to believe that
the party that championed the cause OF
the down-trodden on account OF color
Is the party that can consistently raise
up the down-trodden on account OF
sex?
The dear ladies of Utah will find
that the party which championed the
negro will spend little blood and less
money and effort 10 the cause of the
white ladies of Utah. The question
displays a faith in republican man.
hood which is sublime, or would be,
were it based upon any reasonable
probability of Affirmative solution. The
republican majority in the constitu-
tioaal convention made no especial ef-
fort to serve the ladies when the ques-
tion of enfranchisement was up. How
ever, they are now after the votes and
may talk very sweetly. Here we give
in mass the balance of the questions
and will comment little at the close:
Do you believe in protection for home
industries? Do you believe that your
neighbours enterprise, If successful, will
benefit not only himself but your town,
your county, your state? Are you will
ing that the state should help strug.
Cling effort TO become glorious suc-
cess by appropriating from the revenues
small bounties to those who risk much
In their attempts? Are you in sym
pathy with the party that, after much
opposition from the enemies of fprogress,
passed the homestead act, and thus
gave to the worthy, struggling poor
start in the race of lIfep If 80, you are
republican, and should so enroll
yourself.
Do you belieYe in human liberty
the right of every man to the great
privileges given by the Almighty to
every human creature to breathe the
air and enjoy a wholesome life with
out undue interference from others?
Are you willing to give that party
trial which, in 1892, declared for bl-
metallism-this in view of the wide
spread distress for which the present
administration is at least partly re-
sponslblG2
The next question embraces the sub
sidy doctrines which mean that John
Jones shall be taxed to build up the
private enterprise of John Smith, ana
this same Smith shall receive bounty
upon the products of his labor at
the expense of the toiling poor who did
not get ahead of him. 1t is the
ol6 republican doctrine, building
up one class at the expense of all
others. We can answer it thus: No,
and the ladies of Utah Will give the |
same vote if we are not woefullY mis- |
taken in them. Of course if the ladies
are in sympathy with the republican |
party they are republicans. Nothing |
can be clearer or stronger than this |
proposition. The ladies are, not in
sympathy with the party which i'm
poyerished and still further distressed |
the poor by demoneLizing SILVER in the
interests of the rich bankers of London |
and New York. The Homestead mat
ter is too far eff and its benefits too
cloudy to meet and do away with the
horrible evils of decentralization. Ger
tainly the ladies believe in human lib
erty, but they will not enroll with the
party which freed the negro only to
make slaves Of the labOring white peo-
pie of the nation. No indeed, not
much. 1t may be truly said that labor,
full rations and reasonable rest are
but the republican rule OF
giving to the rich at the expense of
the poor will not produce this whole
some situation of which the ladies
write so glibly and about which they
hnow SO little.
The republican national platform of
1892, did declare for binetallism. So
did the democratic, but the republican
congress of '7S demonetized silver and
the republican president signed the
act. That the last congress did not
pass a free coinage bill is due to the re-
publican members Of congress Joining
the president in opposition to that pol
cY. Here above we give the whole
situation. 1t may be stated further,
that the party which these
good ladies are endeayoring to serve
blindly, first discovered that the
double standard was unwholesome to
5he commercial and business life of
5he nation, and it proceeded to demon
,tize silver at the behest of the gold
Bugs.
The simple truth is, the republican
party is The parry Of the rich, of the
OF the combinations, while
he democratic party is the party of
he poor and the struggling. 1t is a
,ity that we have individual excep-
ions to the rule, but the masses aIe
III right, while with the republicans
II classes, leaders and masses are, for
he money power and nothing else.
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