The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-06

legislature be authorized and direct
! ed ID call an election fer such pur-
; pose and that they foe given the
( power TO qualify the women 20 vote
! at such election.
Be it resolved further. That the
constitutional convention be, and
! they are hereby, requested to substi-
! tute in lieu of the provisions that
were adopted by said convention as a
! committee of the whole in favor of
woman suffrage. the following:
Section 1. Every male citizen over
( the age of twenty-one years. posses
sing the following qualifications shall
be entitled to vote at all elections:
First-He shall be a citizen of the
| United States not less than three
months before he offers TO vote.
Seccnd--He shall have resided in
the state or territory one year i'm
mediately preceding the election at
which he offers to vote, and in the
county, city. town, ward or precinct
such time Is may be prescribed by
law; provided, that no person shall
be denied the right 10 vote at any
school district election Tor hold any
school district office on account of
sex, nor shall any person he denied
the right to vote on account of sex at
any election hereafter to be held as
herein provided for the purpose OF
determining whether women shall be
entitled to vote.
Section 3 The general assembly
shall, at the first session thereof, and
may at subsequent sessions enact
laws to extend the right of suffrage
to women of rightful age and other
wise qualified, according ITO the pro-
visions of this article. No such en-
actment shall be of effect until sub
mitted 10 the vote of the qualified
electors at a special election held for
such purpose, at which election
women of the age of twenty-one
years and over, and otherwise quail
fed according to the provisions of
this article, shall be entitled to vote
upon the question. nor shall such en-
actment be of effect unless the same
be approved by a majority of those
voting thereon.
MRS. w. A. NELDEN, Chairman,
S. o. B. CUMMINGS. Secretary.
b. II. Roberts.
Hon. B. H. Roberts was invited to
take the floor. In responding he said
the ladies present would never know
how grateful he felt that this mass
meeting had been called. He was OF
the opinion that removing from our
common vocabulary of the name Of
diety was a wise provision. It was
done in order that the power and in
f1uence of his name might operate for
our good and its sacredness preserved.
The influence of woman must also be
held sacred, and it could not be so
kept if she was dragged into the arena
of politics. If there was one thing
more than another that a manly man
prided himself upon it was the woman
hood of the land. Their opposition to
comforting upon her the suffrage was
due, in his opinion, to the fact that he
had a higher respect for her than did
those who wished to drag her into the
arena Of political life. The question,
however, was simply as to whether
the matter should be incorporated into
the constitution or submitted to a free
and soveraig people as a separate ar
ticle. in order that It might be con-
sidered upon its merits independent of
all else If it should be incorporated
in the constitution it would place a
large number of people in a peculiar
position. Those who insisted upon
having it in the constitution claimed
that the people were overwhelmingly
for it. If this were true, what harm
could be done by having it submitted
as a separate article? If the position
of those persons was correct the article
would be accepted by an overwhelm-
ing vote. If, as he believed, the people
were opposed to it, then to incorporate
the provision in the constitution would
be to force those opposed to equal stuff
rage to stultify themselves and vote for
it, or else vote against the constitution
and thus vote against statehood. 1t
was tyranny; nothing more or less. He
hoped this meeting would give en-
Dhatic EXPRESSION on the resolutions
submitted, and yet he feared that while
this meeting was being held the wo-
mans suffrage clause might be incor-
porated into the constitution by the
1t was more important
therefore, that he be in his place to
record his vote against the measure.
than that he continue 10 address this
Wishing them God speed in
their efforts, he would therefore retire. !
Mrs. Froiseth.
Mrs Froiseth read a somewhat
lengthy address, favoring the resolu- |
tons on the ground that the insertion
Of the equal suffrage clause in the con-
stitution clause would be likely to de- |,
feat statehood.
4 Song.
Charles Lindell, colored, then sang
The Women of Utah" and awakened /
enthusiasm
Mrs. COrncIia Paddock.
Mrs. Paddock made very humorous
address. She said that if the women !
If Utah insisted on all the rights and |
privileges that men had, then they
should be quite willing to assume all /
he duties as we'll. Speaking for her