The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-30

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''Mr. Chairman said Roberts, 81
/ had the floor"
1.-THE gentleman has spoken once
said L-lnd, land 1 claim the right to
speak"
But other gentlemen have yielded
me time, was the reply.
las chairman of the expense COM
names said Lund. However, he with
drew this.
Plenty of Time.
Roberts said he had about two hours
and thirty minutes. He had hardly the
desire to use all that, but he wanted
to be secure from Interruptions. He
said he had given the floor to WINS
earlier as matter of courtesy. Little
did he think that lurking under that
request and the smile with which it
was made. was a determination to
prevent his speaking altogether He
could not be blamed for prolonging
the debate. When he had arisen the
day before he had been confronted
with determination to vote one way.
He had considered it his duty. however
useless might be the argument on the
merits, to sound a note Of warning.
Imagine his establishment when he
was afterwards upbraided for having
endeavored to settle a great question
OlI Tic SIOuuO Ol 68p6OlSnCy d1OI1es I1C
did not think the gentleman desired
to be unfair. But a gentleman who
wished to settle a matter by clear, cold
logic should first get his premises right
or he might get mixed on his conclu-
sions.
Thurman's Grafton.
The day before he had referred to
himself as standing in the midst of
ruins. The gentleman had concluded
that he meant the delegates as ruins.
He had imagined himself a ruin. But
more. he had gone on and compared
the speaker with the grand Coliseum
at Rome. Could it be possible that he
had departed from his keen. cold logic
TO take a flight of oratory and work in
that time-worn expression?
He was glad to hear that the gen
tleman had drawn the woman suf-
frage plank in the Democratic plat
form. He also understood the gentle
man had drawn another plank, asking
for a non-partisan constitutional con-
Vention. In one plank he bound the
Democratic party to woman Suffrage
as a party issue and in another he re-
leased it from the obligation.
He Was Not Bound.
He said an explanation of his nonin-
alton and election was due. He had
never asked nor limited at being a
member of the convention. One of his
present colleagues suggested that he
be nominated. He neither demurred
nor consented. Then he left the terri
tory. When he returned he was in
formed Of his nomination by the coun-
ty conver don. He objected to being
bound by a plank in the territorial
platform. Not one word about suffrage
was contained in the county platform.
He had come absolutely unbound
and had not a faint of dishonor in his
course against suffrage.
He would address himself to those
who were about to vote for woman
suffrage and did nos believe in it. If
sober second thought was best, is not
that man best who goes back to his
with a departure from his
views. made because he believed it
was necessary for the great cause for
which they were working?
Acting without DictatiOn.
He laid down the rule that the suf-
frage should be granted only to those
who can act independently and with
out dictation. 1t was proposed to give
the suffrage to every woman over q
years of age. The great majority OF
these are married women. He held
that such women were not in posi- |
ton to act independently. He wished
to glance at a family. By all the
laws of nature. spoken to through the |
words of God. man is the head OF
woman. He might be called cold and
for this view. But he did
tyranny and oppression. He liked the /
reply of bluff Martin Luther when he |
said that woman was not taken from |
the head of man for fear she might |
rule over him; but from under his arm |
that he might protect her. Such is the |
natural rule.
a Dilemma.
The opposition should deny that the |
franchise should be given only to those |
who can act Independently: or let |
them deny the position OF women in
The family. That the great majority
IF the women proposed to be enfran-
,hised belong to the married class can
lot be denied.
In the Declaration Of Independence
here is an historical phrase which
-epresents the hope of all nations
Governments derive their just power
through the consent of the governed"
Gentlemen have thus jumped to the
conclusion that all should give their
,onsnt directly. Yet in all the coun-
ry the consent is given by a minority
# the people governed. Minors, wo
men and others, according to various
ltate laws, are not enfranchised. To
consent to give women the suffrage
lnder this phrase would make it a
light. 1t is not. 1t is a privilege Civ
n by the governed. In this very arti-
lie it is said the suffrage is a right,
nd yet in section 10 those who cannot
cad the constitution are disfranchis-
d. Suppose this were applied to the
ill of rights, and we should say a
nan had the right to life. or liberty,
\.
titution. That would be as logical as
his article. But rights cannot be
'ound in this way. The suffrage is a
privilege.
TaxtiOn Without Representation,
He went on to the principle
pom which gentlemen had laid stress
Taxation without representation is I
MUST" Therefore it is said that TO !
eep women from enjoymeno of the J
ranchise is unjust. The great ma
1rity of women who own property
wn it in connection with their nus /
ands. The number Of those who own
heir own property separately is in
nitely small when compared with the
reat number it is proposed to en- :
ranchise. Each man who is the head +
family represents that group |
hen he votes. The hooo or the bach
iOl fONNo OAiAy III 44AAlSSL lLlC IIldT- =
ed man votes for his family group. :
Re has a counselor always by his side, +
nd he must hear her. Laughter In I
Tales this is recognized so far as to i
low unmarried women to vote. But
larTied women are recognized as be- J.
lg already represented This same =
rinciple is extended to a great ex- :
mt throughout Europe. All that Il
taxation without representation" is '
give the franchise to those who are q
OF represented because they are not :
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