The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-19

The territorial association of woman
suffragists met yesterday afternoon at
the city and county building and per-
fected the plan for their campaign in
the constitutional convention. The as
ISOLATION consists of the leading wo-
man suffragists from all over the ter
ritory and their action has behind ii
the thousands of women who have
banded themselves together in county
and smaller organizations. As a result
of the meeting a committee presented
resolutions, which were drawn up to
be presented to the convention. The
chairman of the committee was Mrs
Emily S. Richards. and the members
were Sarah NJ. Kimbali, Cora G.. Casle-
ton, Isabella E. Bennett, Priscilla P
Jennings, Mary E. Gilmer. Zina D. H.
Young, Mary A. Parsons. Emma Nc
Wicker, Amelia F. Young, Romania B.
Pratt, Ruth NJ. Fox, Phoebe Y. Beatie,
Martha Hughes Cannon, Corinne NJ.
Allen.
The resolutions, which were after
wards presented to the convention, are
as follows;
The Resolutions.
To the Honorable President and Mem
bers Of the Constitutional Convention
OF Utah:
lists, representing the great majority
of the women of Utah, and more par
ticularly as the official representatives
OF the great women organizations of
Utah, numbering in aggregate mem
bership over 50, 600, viz:
The Utah Suffrage association auxil-
larry to the National American Wom-
ans Suffrage association, the National
Woman's Relief society, and the Young
Ladies National Mutual Improvement
association, these thousands of women
standing in a general way, or in vir-
tue of direct official relationship, as our
constituents, we, your memorialists,
speak in their names, and in behalf of
the women of Utah herewith present
the WOman'S cause.
1t is a matter OF congratulation that
in these closing years of the nine
teenth century, the cause of woman
can, without the stigma of partisan
ship, be laid before a body of chosen
men ordained to the work of creating
a new sovereignty within the galaxy
of states as an equal member of the
indissoluble Union. The men of Utah,
in their respective political parties
have, with equal unanimity, said that
women shall be accorded equal rights
and privileges of citizenship, that sex
distinction shall no longer be a ban
and = bar to equal opportunity with
men to exercise the God-given powers
and capabilities with which women are
endowed TO" purposes of equal self
government and equal enjoyment of
the inalienable rights of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness We take
it that the men of Utah have spoken
honestly, sincerely and conscientiouSly
as true men to that equally large num-
Der Of citizens who are now disfran-
chised, who are now deprived Of au-
thority to speak a word or cast a vote
in the framing of an organic law which
determines their personal and prop
erty rights, their civil and political
Status in the social organism.
1--WE are glad to feel assured that
our brothers are dealing honestly and
righteously with us, and that they will
ordain truth and justice in the name
of God and humanity. And we are
happy, too, in the belief that these
overtures made by the men of Utah
are in line with the onward march Of
civilization, that the bow of promise is
rising higher and brighter In the heav-
ems of human hope, that with the ele-
walton and emancipation of women
1.-The plans of God are ripening with
the process of the SUNS" And we say
to you that we contemplate no rival
sovereignty, no sphere peculiar and
apart, no conflicting regime or antag-
onistic legislation, no hostile policy or
divided counselS. No, the woman move
ment means only true human progress
1t means higher and truer harmony
more genuine and enlightened fellow
ship, more real cooperation, more vi
tai and perpetual union. The key and
the clue to all true progress is the
larger harmony that the Infinite Spirit
is breathing into the rising grandeur
Of human development.
AS constitution makers, as trainers
of the chart that shall guide US in
what we hope to be a long and pros
porous future, you will cherish in your
deliberations a sacred regard for the
principles of liberty, for those undying
axioms that have been laid at the
foundations of our Temple of Freedom.
We have thousands of women in Utah
who are propertyholders and taxpay-
ers in their own right. Probably no
other state furnishes as large a roll
of taxpaying women. Taxation with
out representation is tyranny" This
was the keynote, the bugle call of the
revolutionary fathers in their struggle
for liberty. Says James Otis, in 1864
in one of the pamphlets that made our
independence, 1.-The very act of taxing,
exercised over those who are not rep
resented, appears to me to be depriv-
ing them of one Of their most essential
rights. For what one civil right is