The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-01

sheet anchor of prosperity rather than
the cabinet and council. The destruc-
ton of nations has largely resulted
because its councils were divorced
from the home life, from the people
at large, from the socIaf conscious
ness. There was no correlation and
interactior within the central source
the power-the sovereignty-the popular
will. l am bold to say that within the
aggregate mind OF. the disfranchised
half of our population in these United
States, there are elements of reserved
power that will prove invaluable to
our national security and prosperity
We have laid hands upon the sacred
ark of God, and stricken down half
it's potency for our welfare; and in the
end we could not do otherwise than
reap disaster. Why should a nation
fail, except that it falls into discord
with itself; and how could it do other
wise so long as only one class of its
population embodies its sovereignty?
So long as women in the past have
tacitly consented to he represented by
the other sex, there has been an excuse
for unequal representation. But now
that millions of tax paying women in
the United States ask to form part of
the actual and visible sovereignty, it is
but just and right to enfranchise
lHtUls anu ny every VI u I'LL
and liberty it is unjust and tyrannical
to refuse them this endowment. In
this view, and from the deepest
sources of our national life, 1 claim
that the highest expediency and the
most profound craftsmanship enjoin
upon us the clearest measure of JUS
tice under our boosted free institu-
tons. If we cannot see these things,
there is no need of sunlight; if we can
If
science and a sense of civil obligation.
The Argument From the Progress of
Civilization.
The ideas of religion, of life and
destiny, were revealed to men through
the Bible and other inspired writings;
and that the ideals of philosophy.
those that appertain to thought and
being. were made apparent to such
thinkers as Socrates and Plato and
those of the far east who preceded
them. as also those who have followed
them as guides and luminaries of the
human intelligence. These have been
stars in the armament shining in the
midst of twilight intelligence. if not
barbarous darkness and ignorance.
Aside from these meteoric displays OF
religious and philosophical knowledge,
the race has been for thousands of
years emerging from conditions anal
ogous to those of the lower order of
animals. This is the testimony OF
secular history and the organic sci
enceS.
A few thousand years ago, men and
women lived in the most abject saw
agery. These conditions still prevail
in some regions of the earth. In all
such places brute force holds supre-
macy. Might is right, and moral per-
ceptions are based on the sway of
physical force and brute strength.
The survival of the ffttest is the sur
vival of the strongest. 1t is the reign
of force, horn and tusk, knife and club
these are the symbols of power and
sovereignty in the early stages of
human development, whether those
stages exist now or have been super
seeded by a higher order of life.
In the outset of human progress,
woman is subordinated to the selfish
ness, passion, inhumanity and bru-
tally of man. His life is mainly
muscular, physical, sensual and brutal.
His reason and affection are unde-
veloped. Woman, because of her
motherhood, is incapacitated for the
shock and struggle of physical supre-
macy; hence, in the early stages, she
is in thralldom to her brutal lord. In
the writings of travellers, we learn
that even recently in some barbarous
regions, rhe sutton for a vile coulu
think of no other charm than club;
with this he would lie in ambush; and
when the object of his regards came
within range, he would spring from his
lair, strike her a stunning blow, carry
her off to the tepee, and ever after
hold her in such subsection to himself
as his nature and passions would die
tate. Even in this rude barbarism,
we have the beginning of the family,
the dawn of the home, the Inaugural
tion of the idea of property, the incep-
ton of government; for government
is but the growth of a rude and bar
barous family into a cluster of fami-
lies, with the adjustments and inn
provements that naturally arise with
the increase of knowledge.
Therefore, while written history and
formal government indicate consider
able advances in human progress, they
both point backward to a period of
brute force, supremacy of physical
might, in which woman figures as a
slave to the superior powers of man.
On the other hand, in the very nature
and essence of progress, we find
remedy. 1t is this: That in the pro-
cess of evolution, the motive powers
of life-the desires-rise from mere
animal impulse and instinct to such