The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-26

| tice must be recognized.
Taxation without representation was
the hearthstone Of oppression upon
which the fires of the revolution were
kindled.
The immortal Washington. the father
of this country, righted that wrong
and also succeeded in removing the
yoke of tyranny-that of governing
without the consent of the governed
from the colonies.
Through a CLEAN of inspiration sent
forth by Abigail Adams, inherited,
caught and kindled into a living flame
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the mother
of her country, and for the same rea-
sons, a peaceful revolutionary fire has
been burning, and those who have
added fuel to the flames have had to
face the cannon balls of opposition un-
til many of the gates of tradition
have been opened. many of the letters
of prejudice have been broken, and
through organized effort, Woman's life
IS expanding beyond the confines OF
her own home and her own social circle
into the great broad plane of life be-
yond. Men and women rise and fall
together, and men are better and
stronger today because of what woman,
through their different organizations,
are doing for themselves and for the
world.
The recent appeal of DR.. Parkhurst
to the women of New York, to assist
the men in stemming the tide of cor
ruption, that he said was undermining
the social structure of that great city,
is but beginning of what may be ex-
pected. Many statesmen have already
declared chat their hopes were an
chored in the coming woman, to help
them turn the nation from the vortex
of ruin, toward which, by reason of
unprincipled partisan politics the ma
ton seemed to be drifting.
Their appeals will not be in vain,
but true woman will be there, when she
is permitted to enter the political
arena, fully equipped for the struggle
with the ballot: will be like carrying a
lighted lamp into a dark room. The
light will not be contaminated; but
on the contrary it will be the death of
darkness.
Another reason is, that wherever
woman suffrage exists, comes the same
report. that woman's partakng in
elections bring purer politics and bet
ter government.
Governor HUMPHREYS, Of Kansas,
said: ST take pleasure in saying that
municipal suffrage has had a good eff
feet upon the politics Of our state"
Ex-Governor Long said: Il have no
more doubt about the ultimate voting
of woman than ] have of the progress
of the human soul. A more enlightened
age will look upon our discrimination
against one of the sexes in this respect,
as a relic of barbarism. a slowly melt
ing glacier of barbarism and preju-
dices."
Governor Warren. of Wyoming. said:
''I have seen much of the working
woman suffrage and have yet TO hear
of the first domestic discord growing
therefrom.
"Our women nearly all vote. AS the
majority of women are good the result
is good-not evil. There are three di-
vorces in the rest of the United States
to one in Wyoming-according TO the
population. It was the only state or
territory in the union where a woman
criminal could not be found when the
last census was taken"
In the governors report to the secre-
tary of the interior, he said, men are
as favorable to woman suffrage as the
women are.
With such an experience as this, it
was not strange that the delegates to