The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-21

tor meets and conquers all opposition
of mere brute force.
Politics today is a very chaos of in
consIstencies. There are not ten in a
thousand of those who now applaud
the presidents action who would not
censure it, if he were a Republican, nor
a greater proportion of those who will
soon be endorsing Congress who would
not eXecrate its course if il were
Democratic, yet it is not condemna-
ton and approval that make men
Democrats and Republicans. They
were so before. Except a natural in
clination to favor those she loves,
woman will be able to enter the kinder
garten of politics without previous
bias, and TO receive instruction in its
true ethics. Thus it IS that we expect
her vote to become a lever for the
right, for the protection of her home,
in all that it implies; not all at once,
for the babe must stand before it can
run--but gradually and certainly will
she place the seal of disapproval upon
the vices and illegal commerce which
now seem to control the body polite.
Without the franchise, her position
upon these questions is without suffi-
cient consequence to control elections
to any extent, but when she can say,
'sthe saloon must go'' or the saloon
,
way her ballot will h5 cast? Even
the lioness IS fiercest when her Off
spring is in danger. You think the
mother-loVe less feryent? The wife
and children Of the liquor business will
be among the emancipated, for having
hearts they feel, and having eyes they
see, and only stop their ears--because
of their environments. No matter how
refined the wife of q saloon-man may
he CHI .-1af,y m cnpio1
cism. Her children may be in every
way worthy OF admission into our best
homes. but they are forced TO mingle
with the underestimate, and this is the
tariff they pay for the good clothes
they wear; but others Of us are taxed
more heavily than they, when we place
a son or a father in the hopper. Is it
a coincidence that the whisky men OPP
pose woman's suffrage, or that the two
most 'dnexpedient" clauses which the
constitutional convention will have to
consider. are thosa of woman's suffrage
and prohibition? The other evils, such
as lotteries, gambling, prostitution.
etc, etc, which have defied legislation,
and hand-cuffed the political parties
can likewise object to the snfranchise-
ment of woman, for 1t would be fatal
to their future prosperity. Questions
Of finance, tariff and treaty have en-
crossed the political thought TO the ex-
clusion of the more vital interests Of
a nations welfare, and thu result IS
the natural effect which must follow
such disregard of moral and individual
benefits. We are restless, dissatis-
fed and unprosperous people. Woman's
province ''in politics" will be, not to
ignore any wise and eXpedient meas
uIes, but to emphasize the real es-
sence of life for a people or a nation
in a righteous stand for principle. for
purity in party management and lead
ership. Is this too sweeping prom
Use. and is it all too visionary? No.
the strength of woman lies in her
heart; it shows itself in her strong af-
fections, her instructive perception of
right and wrong-in united sacrifice
for those she loves, with the courage
of her convictions; and the open sesame
IN her possession we predict happy
results at her bidding, and I know of
no more splendid future for woman
than to encircle her brow with the
laureis which have ever been decreed
to those who have advanced the in
terests Of truth, and the dominion of
the soul. NAB.
Ogden, March 10.