The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-03-30
EQUAL SUFFRAGE.


1t would seem to be more correct to
say unequal suffrage when alluding to
the subject now agitating the Utah con-
stltutional convention, and in meas
ure, all Utah as well. 1t really seems
strange indeed that the world has ex-
listed for ages upon ages and it has re-
mained for Chidester, Thurman, Rich
ards and other patriots in the Utah
convention, to discover that its one
great mistake has been not to have dis
covered ages and ages ago, that the one
thing wanting was, and is, woman suf-
frage. We would not be very greatly
surprised were the Incorporate ad-
yocates of the new fad to bring in
bill Of censure ere that body adjourns,
against the Almighty plan of inaugur-
Rting governments among men, for the
unacoountable oversight of not having
divided honors evenly between women
and men at the start. 1t would haYe
certainly saved good deal of worry to
this generation had it been done in the
morning of the world. 1t must be
notifying to these men that they
themselves have been living OF and on
in blissful ignorance of the fact that
had women been the equal OF man in
a political sense, perhaps, or rather
certainly, the wars of the 1sraelites
against the Philistines, the wars of
Alexander, Napoleon. and even our
own ''late unpleasantness" would
have been averted. Perhaps even
Ceassr had been an angel of peace and
Brutus had not been compelled to make
both traitor and murderer of him.
self, land George III might have said to
the colonies, ''go in peace, !" had women
been entranchised couple of hundreds
of years sooner, They might as well
claim it .sll, as part. There is just as
much consistency in the one as in the
other.
Had woman been voting citizen or
an office-holding citizen, perhaps silver
there had been no panic and no hun
ger and distress resulting from that
short-sighted bit of craftsmanship. 1t
is left to us in Utah and the woman
suffrage brains in the convention to
discover that all the evils of the pre-
ceding ages and governments is trace
able alone to the fact that woman has
been cruelty kept out of her rights.
Even st. Paul has been proven ty-
rant and humbug. Paul commanded
that the woman keep silence in the con-
gregations; if it had ever dawned upon
the poor fellow that soon sh g would be
bowling In senates and legislatures, in
the caucuses and conventions of polit-
ical parties, he would have discredited
even his own senses. Physical, men
tai and moral differences so long recog- |
nized and acquiesced in are to be wiped |
out by one single act of the Utah con-
stitutional convention. This may be
the thing to do, only we cannot see 1t
in that light.
The He-Hld ayers that prohibition
and woman suffrage are distinct and |
separate things. They ought not to be |
linked together, let alone confounded. |
There is no relation between them and |
the attempt to establish 1T is done to
weaken both. 1t is simply an 'inven-
tion of the enemy"
They are, are they? Then Mrs.
Young's card advising that prohibition
be held in allegiance until suffrage is
secured means nothing? Prohibition
is the one justification pleaded for this
coveted advance" If the blessed
non-dram drinking ladies get the fran
chise, it is not because they want po-
litical recognition or Offices, but that
they want to put dram drinking and
all other kindred vices under their feet.
Stamp 'em out. Ali then the millen-
ium will be here at once.
1t will come, suffrage, but that all
good, dreamed Of, prayed for, hoped
for and predicted will come in its train
we very much doubt, but when these
ardent fellows in the convention find
two or three women added to the male :
aspirants for the senatorship and the
like, which they themselves covet so
ardently they viii sing another song
quite. You can't give them the right
to vote without giving them perfect
equality so far as the offices are. con- '
cerned. This would hit the average
delegate just over where he lIyes.n =
but mere theorist as is THE DISPATCH 4
would see sheir distress in this way |
with good deal of philosophy. '
The old and threadbare query as to t
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