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

his heart is filed with the song of
gladness and he begins to feel that
there is something in life worth living
for after all.
Some MIX of Human Kindness.
But suppose ne CAME from this DO
Htical struggle and political life to his
home, and was met at the door by
wife opposed TO him in politics, and
again he had to go over the fight on
tariff and free trade, free silver, and
single gold standard, or else was met
with sullen silence because Of the i'm
propriety OF engaging in a discussion
with his wife on these lines, where
then will the brow be cleared of the
frown and the heart lose some of its
bitterness, so that when the nan
leaves his iIome and again enters the
arena with his foes, he has some milk
OF human kindness running in his
veins? Gentlemen, leave the home
alone. Keep political strife out OF it.
Women of Utah, be content TO reign
over the empire of domestic life and
il win bring more joy TO your hearts
than all the success you could have in
casting your ballots at the polls Gap
plause)
Why This Omission.
But all this is preliminary. The fight
is still ahead. (Applause.) come to
the arguments of the gentleman. I'M
derstand him to announce in his first
speech, and he emphasized 1t here
this morning, that woman's right to
voice in the selection of those who
rule her, whether in the family, the
state, or the church, is a God-given,
and inherent right. This he empha-
sized on the floor of the committee
this morning. I believe this gentle
man to be a man who has the courage
of his convictions. and if he believed
the elective franchise TO be an inh>r
emit, indefeasible right, I wonder how
it is that in writing the declaration Of
rights he did not say in emphatic
language, and submit it TO this con-
is an indefeasible, inherent right
the same as the right to enjoy and
defend life. and liberty to acquire and
possess and protect property, and to
according to the dictates Of
Gentlemen of the committee. did he
introduce his doctrine in that form? If
he did YOU smothered it in the COM
rnittee. Did he introduce it upon the
floor of this convention? Had he done
so members would have laughed it out
Of the door. Because it is not true
You know it is not true. The cleo
tive franchise is a privilege conferred
by governments and may be hedged
about by conditions prescribed, that
natural and inherent rights are never
hedged about by.
Difference Between Church and State
The gentleman. in illustration of this
position of his. cited something which
IS untenable and is denied by the
governments of all the American
states. by the governments of England
and of Europe at large. He insisted
hat the woman ought to have the
same right in the state. which is &C
corded 20 her in the church and in Sc
Getting her partner for life. l take it
rom the explanation the gentleman
made us this morning. that he has
earned he added nothing to his repu-
alton for sound judgment and good
.aste by bringing in those COMPARE
sons upon this floor.
i ask him, can he see no difference
between the exercise of the franchise
n voting in the church and in the
state? Are the Offices Of the church to
which he has alluded the objects of am
bition among the members: Are there
primaries held? Are there emoluments
% be clutched? Are there advantages
o be gained for parties? Or is it the
heory that the divine wisdom makes
he selection to which the people mere
Y give their assent? Can he see no
Inference in sitting quietly in great
and asserting to what
Irvine wisdom has already pointed out. |
md the wrangHng and struggling and
quarrel and bitterness and strife that
certain to political elections? When he /
an bring the state into such a high
condition of perfection. that through /
he channels of its administration, there I
hould be no more friction, and when !
he offices of the state, as they are in
he church, are above ambition. then, I
ir. the chief objections TO woman's /
uffrage SO far as 1 have concern, will |
ave ceased. (Applause)
Politics and Proposals.
Next, I wish to ask the gentleman /
f he can see no difference between the !
and strife, the bitterness
nd hate. which grow out of political /
Ife and a struggle to get to the polls |
o vote, and a woman, beneath the I
uiet stars, and under some friendly |
rec. that casts its shadow. who whisp- ,
RS the sweet yes to the proposition /
f marriage, or under other circum- /
tances has to give a firm decisive mo-
o the proposition? AS l understand il, I
ir, those things are not preceded by /
ny of the circumstances that make /
olitical life unfit for women to engage
1 know not what the experience of
he gentleman has been on this sub
ect. Gaughter.) 1 remember that he
ingled out my friend from Sanpete
ounty, who was kind enough in this
ght to stand by me and do yeoman
ervice in the cause. I observe that he
ingled him out (since he is single
nam, and told him with very great
IL IL
roman could say mo- The dogmatical |
ir with which that was said must
eeds bring to the conclusion that his
ositiveneSS is based upon very wide
Experience in that line. Naughter9
| observe in the rest of the gentle
lan's argument the same confounding
things as to church and state, be-
ause the gentleman stated that under
Their circumstances and in other places
e had heard me eloquently discourse
pom the individual responsibility OF
very soul to its God. And for that
aason, the gentleman seems TO come
} the conclusion that 1 have disre-
arded all secondary relations and that
Y urging this proposition to which he
lludes I would disrupt the secondary
between the child and the
aren't, between the citizen and the
tate, between the subject and the
lonarch, between the husband and the
fife.
He Lacks Logic.
1 fear. sir. that the gentleman, in
aking this position has most distinct
? exhibited to US what 1 should char
cterize as the great fault of his organ
.at.on. 1 accord to him high gifts; he
a man of learning and OF parts; and
hen | say there are defects in his
imposition, it is not for the purpose
f lessening him in the opinions of his
elbows: because man is not great
t every point in character. is not to
a,,xy 1,i,,, er,.aaf IF any af Won were