The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-03

other. Whenever I see men occupying
that equivocal position, 1 have some
misgivings in my own mind as to the
result of their action under such cir
cumstances. And when men would
come to me and speak their fears and
tell me of their convictions being
against this and yet they were bound
down by those ill-considered party
pledges and We're going to do some
thing for the people which they be-
heved would work an injury TO the
paused a moment and went on en-
rhatically), I brand all such with
cowardice, and they may make the
most of it. enthusiastic applause).
Blush for shame.
The next complaint of the gentleman
was that l was too harsh, too severe
IN the course of my argument in refer
ence to the ladies. That too, think I
shall be able 10 explain TO the gentle
mans satisfaction. The line of my
argument was this In public life.
Of the bitterness which is injected into
politics, coming to primaries, strug-
Cling through the mass of men who
surround the ballot boxes upon cleo
ton days that women expose them
selves to gibes and jests. which, if they
Jul near, WOulQ the DlQSn
OF shame to their cheeks. In support
of this proposition, 1 read what
dispatches said of the meeting
held by the board of lady
managers of the Chicago Worlds
FAR, and pointed out the fact that
these women were among the first and
most Intelligent Of all our Land. ana Ii
coming together in a public hall to en-
gage in the management Of the affairs
of an institution OF. that kind would
bring about such shameful scenes as
were there enacted, ana if the dis
patches THAI l rel1 relative to women
in politics from Kansas and other
parts were true, its whole tendency is
degrading to woman and it is the part
OF wisdom for women to keep separate
and apart from such places and such
come the subject CT the jests and
gibes of low down characters whose
mouths you can not stop.
Not to Wound, But Heal.
That was the trend of my argument,
and produced the evidence of it. The
ladies frowned, their valiant support
ers looked displeased. All ! have to
say IS that if L was unnin1 Il was the
unkindness Of the surgeon who cuts
into the human flesh, not to wound,
but to heal. And sir, l take it that it
is time that someone should point out
to woman, even if it does bring to her
face the frown Of displeasure, that she
is in danger of sacrificing that which
is dearer than the ballot to every SEN
sitive woman, that sensitiveness of
soul and the high regard of men,
which ever goes with womanhood.
(Applause)
In answer to this, the gentleman
from Utah 1 think CThurman), sug-
gested, do noe men fight and quar-
rel?' He instanced a Scene in the
Indiana legislature. l grant you that
men often do this thing and it is de-
grading and disgraceful to them. Ten
times more would we feel the disgrace
had woman been engaged in it. 1t is
no answer to the argument to say that
men do these things. l once saw a
woman chewing tobacco. 1t .vas vice
a hundred times more disgusting in
her than in man. Because men indulge
in these things, and because the spirit
of political strife is rampant, when
mems passions are aroused, and their
interests and their ambitions are at
stake, 1 would exclude women from
in political life.
The whitening Tree.
They tell me, however, that this evil
will not run side by side with grant
ing the franchise to women, and in |
evidence, they point me to Colorado, |
and Wyoming. Why, gentle |
men, it Is as if two men stood by the |
side of a beautiful tree, in full leaf in |
the month of June, when the sap runs /
through the channels of the bark, and |
gives freshness and life to it's verdure.
One says to the other, IF you girdle /
that tree. and cut off its bark, the 4
leaves will wither and the tree. will 1
die" The other man Immediately pro-
ceedS to girdle the tree. As soon as he /
does this, he steps back and says,
There is not leaf that has changed .
its form. 1t is as beautiful and fresh
as it ever was" And yet we know
that only a few short days shall pass
and the leaves will~wither and curl up,
grow dry, and the winds will carry
them away and the tree will never
bear leaf again. So it is with the in
1uence of political life upon women.
Let it operate twenty years let it
operate fifty hundred years, and we
will have 2 womanhood from whom
we will be disposed to flee. (Applause)
Turned Smile.
My friend next took the illustration
used in regard to the tumbling and
together of the waters of the
and of the Missouri, and in
/ poetic fight, which was one of the
most sublime that I ever listened to,
carried those streams, muddy, and
bearing filth in them, to the ocean,
where, purified by the elements oper-
ating there, the muddy stream was
again converted into sparkling drops
o bless the hill tops and make glad
he valley with verdure again.
oh, sir, that was a poem in itself.
md out of my respect and regard for
he genius that could pick up this
stream and thus make it pure, I
oined with you heartily and sincerely
n a tribute of honor to the genius of
ny friend by applauding him. But,
'ir, there is only one thing that in
ures the gentlemal's work on that
particular matter. The stream of poll
les has no ocean in which to run. The
,nly means Of its publication are
ountains and small ripping streams
lowing from those fountains, bringing
lear, fresh water into the turbid
tream of political lie. Those fcun-
aims are the homes of the people;
hose streams the influence that glides
nut from those homes, and Gaising his
-oice) those fountains and those
streams, my friend would corrupt I'M
il there is no publication left for the
main river of political life. (Applause)
Peace After Struggles.
Imagine a man, after struggling in
primary for the success of a candi-
ate, coming home from the sweat and
leat of a campaign meeting, with the
rown of displeasure on his face and
bitterness doubtless in his heart, tired
nd aweary of the world. In a short
ime, the prattle of his babes, the kind
ttentions of his wife, joining with her
n some intellectual pursuit common to
hem both, or minglins In the social