The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-14

principle OF equality, 1t made possible
white male aristocracy of wealth
The first great battle for overcoming
this unholy power was in the remova
of a property qualification. Then came
the great battle over the blacks, and
the great color distinction was abro
gated. From that time a male oil
garchy has flourished.
Wyoming was The first to become
free from its clutches, and this terri
tory has followed closely on its heels
After the Utah women had voted fol-
seventeen years the government took
away this inesilimable right. The
amendment which says that all people
are created equal gives to women the
lnallenable right of franchise. When
these rights were abrogated the women
flled tremendous protest and have
Continued to do so ever since. When
Wyoming had taken it's valiant stand
1t was felt that the first brick was
down, that the battle was on the side
OF women. When the constitution goes
/ to Washington. Congress will admit
/ Utah as q sovereign state, with equality
&c women in its organic law. Then it
will be beyond the power Of Congress to
abrogate that right.
VainIy Importuning Congress.
Petitions and memorials have been
poured into Congress and every
measure has been resorted to
4 TO gain the suffrage for woman
kInd. Every ye4r enpy have Den 20
/ Congress importuning for an amend
ment to the constitution. which would
grant complete immunities for women
In 1887, the matter came TO an issue
and only sixteen voted in favor of the
question
Educational Campaigns.
An educational campaign was started
in Michigan. The result was a final
vote of $4,000 in favor of the measure
and $4,000 against ii. If those who have
fought this battle had the power of
the bullet, victory long ago would have
been upon their banners.
y hard fought campaign in Colorado
was also ineffective. The unmovab BILE
result came at the p5lls-6,660 favored
| the movement and $4,000 were opposed
to it. In South Dakota the great strug-
gle was made but the foreign element
from Russia voted in solid phalanx
fashion against the women in 1893.
Colorado submitted the question once
more 10 the people. In every political
speech the question was agitated.
Mrs. Chapman Joined the ranks and
after a heroic fight, the battle was
won. Seventeen thousand more voted
in favor of than against the PROPOSE
ton. This Was the first success in the
The law embedded in the funda-
mental instrument Of Utah will pre-
vail. The tide is turning In nearly
Ill the states are schools Of suffrage
which are making converts in vast
numbers. In this rocky rib of the CON
tinent justice is at last victorious.
Mrs. Bradford's Eloquent Effort,
Mrs. NJ. c. C. Bradford said that in
Colorado she can vote and she loves
to vote. Your Mr.. Roberts said there
would be no objection to women going
quietly to the ballot box. but that
primaries and conventions would be
degrading. She had stumped the state
twice and figured in many primaries
and did not feel in the least degraded.
CApplause).
The immense vote cast last wear bv
Colorado women is somewhat strange,
seeing that women do not care to
vote.
spouses Who Differ.
1t was claimed, she said, that women
will vote with their husbands. She
had not voted with her spouse He is
a Republican of the died-in-the-wool
order, while she is a Democrat. There
is something decidedly unique about
sitting opposite life partner at table
who is dramatically opposed to one
in political faith. 1t is the spice and
variety of life. (Applause)
A5sS iss.V. &sraiu.
Rev. Anna Shaw said that men have
been prone to say that women are
getting out of their sphere, and that
with suffrage they will become strong
minded. Since there are only TWO
classes of people, the weak minded and
strong, the women are perfectly salts
fed to be classed with the latter
Naughter)
Women shorid Use the Mop.
Women are told that politics IS so
dirty a pool that they should keep their
hands off. If this is so, who is there
that can handle mop like woman?
Naughter) Women never have for
sallen men yet and will not do so now
that they are in the pool. Naughter)
The heaviest weight complaint is
that women are getting into mems
sphere. The question arises, Wig IS
it man never gets out of his sphere?
The only conclusion to come to is that
men have no sphere to get out of.
Men as Cooks and DressmaLers.
In earlier days cooking and washing
was almost entirely in the hands OF /
women. Now men monopolize the /
tween the woman and man in the /
never cook but professor of cul- /
mary art. daughter.
The dressmaking profession is al /
most exclusively in the hands of men.
There is delightful novelty in hav-
ing a dress made by a man. Recently I
she said, she had had a gown maize /
for her by a masculine artist. She
had pockets put in the gown TO the
number of three. Now who would go
to woman dressmaker and get no
pockets when she can go to a man
and get three pockets? Oaughter) In
the future she would get enough
pockets to make up for the time when
she had no pockets at all. Naughter)
In view of all this monopoly by the
sterner sex where are women to find
their sphere. Their race are not
to blame. 1t is a relic of
the slavery in which they were
held for many decades. And when
women declaim against immunities
and franchise, this is but an echo of
the slavery in which women have also
been kept for centuries past.
Women Want Suffrage.
Many women have claimed that to
give women the suffrage would be
thrusting upon them something they I
10 not want Miss Anthony said she /
mad brought in petitions signed by
of women, and still they
we're met by the same chestnut Mr. |
Dana, of the New York Sun, said that
f a petition were signed Dy 100, 900 Ia
lies he would be converted and the Sun
would be theirs. Miss Anthony and
Ter colleagues got names of New York