The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-17
THEY OBEY ORDERS.

law women nave any more flgnt u
vote this year than have boys o.
twenty years of age"
The foregoing is from the Salt Lake
Tribune of July End. The Republican:
thus appealed to have commenced Il
respond. On Saturday last there was
a gathering of ladies in this city fol
the purpose of following in the foot.
steps of the Democratic party, so fan
as it is possible for the Republicans tC
do so with their limited policy in refer
ence to women in politics. The speech
making and the direction of affairs
however, came from the men who had
been deputed to manage the affair
What they said did not amount to
much. The gist of the business was
the naming of the organization-The
Utah Women's Republican League
and the issuing of an address to Utah
women. The Provo platform of the
Republican party was unanimously
adopted.
We doubt very much whether some
of the ladies who were present really
understood the meaning of the platform,
and suggest to them that they look it
over carefully and see whether they
really endorse the statements which it
contains. They will find that the
troubles of a business, financial and
industrial character which came upon
the country in the beginning of 1898
are laid upon Democratic legislation
as their sole cause and source Then,
if they will think a little, they will see
that there was no Democratic legisla-
ton at that time nor for many months
afterwards. We think they will prob
ably, in the peculiar language of that
platform, unite their bushes of
shame" with others for the shameless
mendacity of that part of the plat
form. 1t is a misleading and miser
ably constructed instrument through
out, and its measley little reference to
the political rights of women is
sample of the whole document. But if
it suits the ladies of the Republican
League, they are welcome to all the
consolation it can afford them.
AS to their own declaration of prin-
ciples, if such it may be called, there
is very little in it either to praise or
to blame The one allusion to bimetal-
lism will cause a smile to pass over
the countenances of all who read it
and who know the record of the Re-
publican party against silver. The
party that demonetized that metal,
and that held in its grasp the power
to restore it up to the date of the close
of the latest session of the national
L. Ill,
for its restoration.
There is in the declaration of the
ladies one little allusion TO a vital
question. 1t is this:
Are you willing that the state
should help a struggling effort to be-
come glorious success by appropriate
ing from the revenues small bounties
to those who risk SO much in their
attempts?"
From this we presume the ladies
who are organized into a league separ-
ate from their Republican brethren, are
only in favor of small bounties." In
that respect they differ from the pro-
motors of Republican Leagues for men.
They are in favor of large bounties.
How large and where the limit is to be,
has never yet been determined. When
once promoters of private enterprises
for personal profit are permitted to
thrust their hands into the public
treasury and put public money to pri-
vate uses for private gain, there is no
telling when they will ease their grasp
upon the money wrung from the
masses by compulsory taxation
But, we would ask, where is the diff
ference in principle between small
bounties and large bounties? Is crime
any the less a crime on the plea that
it is "only a little one?" Is not the
misrepresentation of one dollar embez-
Element just the same as though it
were of a hundred dollars? If it is
right to take money paid by the people |
for the expenses of the government and |
give it to a private individual or cor
poration for the use of that person or |
body, where is to be the limit of this !
perversion of the powers of govern
ment? 1t is strange that women, who /
ought to be able by intuition to per
ceive the iniquity of this bounty prop |
ositiOn, whether the amount involved /
be great or small, should endorse the |
robbery which it comprehends. That |
money paid for public purposes ought /
not to be diverted to private uses I'M
der any pretext whatever, ought to be
clear to the sex which usually arrives
at a conclusion quicker than by the
slow process Of male reasoning.
1t Will be found that in setting off
the women into a corner by themselves
instead of taking them into the regu-
arly organized leagues of the Repub-
lean party, as the Democrats have
lone into their societies, the party of
expedients has for once acted in con-
'ormity to its own convictions, for it
las never heartily and sincerely en-
cred into the project to give to the
women equal political rights and privi-
eyes with men.
And the women who have been thus
made into different political set from
he men, should remember that they
Ire not to think for a moment or admit
ven to themselves that they have any
more right than infants or other in
hgible5 to vote this year. If they
such a belief they will have
o go over to the Democratic party
which. with but few exceptions. consid-
rs they are voters of the proposed
State" and therefore entitled under
he enabling act and Stato oonc+i+1+;1,,