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

! tidings, that a happier and better era
! has been ushered in for both men and
! women.
And now Utah's bright star to the
nation is rising,
Its rays they will glimmer till day
light appears;
/ When the sun in its Splendor will shine
DER her daughters,
Restore the lost freedom they cher
ished for years.
In these days when over-cautious
Americans seem so frightened at the
proposal to enfranchise their own
countrywomen, it may encourage them
somewhat to let them see the practical
working of full woman suffrage in Ice
land. There we find nation of 73, 600
people, in which men and women are.
| in every respect, political equals gov
erned by representatives elected by
men and women together.
The future citizens are taught by
their mothers, and in the whole island
not single illiterate is to be found
every child being able to read and
write and cipher by the time it has
reached the age of Z. And those voting
mothers who educate their own chill
dren have produced a nation in which
thieves, no army, no enormously rich.
no miserably ground down poor; just
a plain, temperate. chaste. educat led
and intelligent people.
Another reason why. women should
have the ballot is, that a weapon of
defense may be placed in her hands
whereby the home, and the chords
that bind her to that sacred spot she
so dearly and tenderly loves may be
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weakened. For a mothers love and a
wifes devotion have withstood the
revolutions that for ages have been
brought to bear upon them, and we ex-
pect they will stand the shock of polit-
zeal equality.
The Salne spirit of sacrifice and
devotion to principle that would exalt
the human family and which charac-
terized her existence when our first
parents were placed in the garden Of
Eden and given dominion there, can
be successfully trained down until the
present time. Whenever there has been
difficult task to perform which has
required the patience and fortitude of
women, she has generally been found
at her post. patient, persevering and
brave; confiding and trusting in man
whom God designed to be the head
who also designed that woman should
SletuQ ny lilS SlOt IL therefore, her
nature. according to Gods great plan.
TO look up to man. as it is for the
sparks to fly upward; it is her nature
to love home, husband and children.
as it is for the sun to shine, and she
is generally as regular in her daily de-
yotion to them as the sun is in SIS
daily course. Reason stands paralSzed
at the assertion that broadening of
her capabilities would bring my other
than good results. Who is capable Of
realizing more readily than mother
that home is the underlying institution
of this world and its value is greater
than any other. or all others com
bined. and when the ballot shall ts
placed in the hands of woman she
will be then, as now, first of all, the
guardian Of her home. Then the larger
home, the state. will feel beneficent
quickening of her direct influence
then she can truly be a helpnate to
man throughout all his yar'ol $ interests
and sympathies, and upon these two
columns of strength will be erected
family temples Of magnificent proper
tons.
According to the statistics, compiled
by Hamilton Wilcox, there are 100