The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-08-07
"woMEN's FALSE FRIENDS:

The oldest false friend of woman OF
which we have any record is the ser
pent that beguiled mother Eve; this
false friendship was exercised by tel
ling her some truths in such a man
ner as to be able to supplement them
by an untruth which when believed led
90 the success of his nefsrious scheme;
and through all the ages wOman's ene-
mics have been following the example
of the serpent, and have not been able
to very materially injure her except
when they adopted this policy. The
gentler sex are comparatively safe un-
less they quaff the poisoned chalice Of
lies made palatable by subtle admix-
ture OF truth.
One of the most recent exhibitions
of this subtlety may be seen in an ar
ticle published in one of our cotem-
poraries in which there is about a COL
umn of adroit admiXture of truth and
falsehood, SO inter -twined together that
any one who knows the exact facts can
not but be disgusted. For example it
saws that "John I. Caine had sold US
ali to democracy" which upon re6ec-
tion upon the undisputed facts of his
tory every sane person must pronounce
so false as to regard the publisher as
being as infamous as Mr.. Game would
deserve to be if it were true. Then in
the same paragraph it is said "yet
there were fair minded men among re-
publicans" which is self-evident truth,
for no organization could long con-
tinue to exist unless 1t had fair mind
ed-men in its ranks. Thele is even
honor among thieves" as there WIS
some truth in the serpent's statement
TO mother Eve, as is also in the ar
ticle we have quoted from.
Here is another sample:
The disfranchisement Of the women
of Utah was accomplished, however,
and they remained dlsfranChised until
the republican constitutional conven-
ton restored the right of which they
had been robbed under a democratic
administration and 10y democratic
congress.
Women of Utah, can you sift the
kernaI Of truth out of the above? 1t is
true they had majority in the con-
stitutional convention, and could have
prevented your enfranchisement, but a
very few of them voted with all the
democrats except four, to more than
restore the right. The convention was
republican in name, but This measure
of the democracy carried. AS to the
robbery" the truth is the adminstra-
tion had nothing whateYer to do with
the matter; there was a majority OF
democrats in the house, and major
ity of republicans in the senate, and
nearly all the members of both parties
in both houses voted for it.
Republicans and democrats in con-
gress alike voted for the disfrahchise-
ment Of women. In the congressional
convention nearly all the democrats
and very few republicans voted to &C
cord to women equal political privileges
with men. The disfrsnchisement OF
womer vas introduced into congress
as a repU giican measure and supported |
by bota parties under circumstances
that : Of the past and ought to be
fcrgo The removal OF all political |
dissbi g Of women under different
that we wish to con-
tinue, was iuced as democratic
pushed by democratic brains
and carried by democrats with the aid
Of few TepC hiilsn votes.
The writer closes by saying "what
possible excuse in reason can be given
Why our women here in Utah should
support the party of
and dishonor, as the demo
cratic party has proven to be-"
Ii any ''excuse" was needed, it would
De good one to say they wanted to
keep cut Of the company of those who
indulge in such blackguardism and
alsehood as is in the last above quota
ion; but no excuse" is needed. There
re reasons innumerable why women
hould support democracy, the diviner
lstincts of woman irresistably lesd
or toward that party that is ALWAYS
q the side of the greatest enlargement
human liberty, She cannot be
'ue to her nature and spurn the hand
lat has been extended TO hel and led
er into the ranks of the enfranchised:
ne cannot use the ballot placed
/ her hands by the party OF
le down-trodden masses to en-
ince the power of the usurping :
asses, unless some nineteenth CEN
ry serpent crawls into the Eden of {
II times and beguiles her with lies F
)neyed over with enough of truth to r
,ceiYe her palate. :.
Then there are women who reason 7,
well as feel, and many of them are ii
yicslly convinced Of the truth of a
g democracy and have the courage q
their convictions. Some few nav
We been beguIled by the same trick i
lyed of old by the serpent into fall =
; into the snare of republicanism,
{ even in those cases their better ma NJ
'es will cause them occasionally to u q
It upon the Eden of democracy a -
ing, longing gaze with eyes suffused :
Jh tearg of grief for their own folly.
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