The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-21

! whole female population voted, quietly,
without any fuss, and expeditiously
They did not vote on party lines.
! They have never had III New Zealand
such model Parliament as this one.
1t is composed of the very best men as
regards character ever included in any
| one Parliament. l will not say they
are the very best men as regards legls-
| latiVe ability but they are all honest,
conscientious and loyal. Mistakes OF
legislation may be removed by sub
sequent Parliament, you know, While
| dishonesty never can. me women
voted for conscience without any
thumb rule or party measure. Ihey
victions clearly. Then they chose the
men whose convictions they agreed
with.
About the woman Mayor? oh, yes
Mrs. Yates. You know the New Zea-
land women have had municipal SUI
frage for years. There is property
qualification there, and woman tax
! payer could vote as well as a man. But
| Mrs. Yates was the first Mayoress. The
town is Onehunga. a place of 1000 peo-
pie. She was not elected on party
vote, the question being strictly one OF
female suffrage All the women, and
the men who favored it, voted for her
She had a rousing majority and
! chance to show what one woman could
do. Her husband had been Mayor OF
| Onehunga before her, and was reputed
| to be one of the best the town ever
had. When she retired from offlce the
/ verdict was that there were two good
mayors in the Yates family. She pre-
sided over a Board of Aldermen COM
! posed entirely of men, and kept down
the noisy element of the town very
/ successfully. She was an admirable
housekeeper, entertained considerably
during her official term and kept up
! model hcme.
Women vote to protect their homes"
| MI Gloss went on, mot to destroy
them. The homes of the women down
our way who are going about speaking
for womanS suffrage are as COM
| fortab BILE as any others. The women
are just as womanly and wifely. Most
of them are married. Some of them
are very beautiful women, and they
all dress well. 1 know several of them
personally, and there are no more
charming homes in Australia than
! theirs. Our homes are rather more
homelike than yours. They have more
! individuality, and the practice OF NV
! ing in furnished apartments is almost
unknown.
The courtesy shown to Australian
and New Zealand women has not di-
minished one particle since the women
voted 1t hasn't unseXed them one bit.
/ They read more political economy than
/ fiction now, the librarians tell me.
/ That is about ALL
How about woman's suffrage in
Australia ?"
20. we shall have it there before two
years. 1t will probably be adopted in
South Australia first and in New South
/ Wales second. The women have better
+ leaders in those provinces, and the
! provinces themselves are further ad-
vanced socially. Woman's suffrage is,
/ you know, only a test of an advanced
Cd mt
/ people are willing to harbor new
ideas. There is not the slightest doubt
in the world that women will have full
| suffrage in these two provinces within
/ two years. The people have been
| keeping close watch on New Zea-
! themselves well. The better class of
men in Australia are in favor of it.
The liquor traffic is dead against it.
| New South Wales is a paradise for wo-
men. They are industrially free. All
! the colleges and schools are co-educa-
! tional. Women work at everything.
! We have a number of eminent women
physicians, but no women lawyers as
yet. The law colleges are open, but
no women have seemed to care about
| it. We have excellent laws governing
| the property of married women. Aus
tralian women have all the rights ex-
cept suffrage, and they will have that
! soon.
In New Zealand" he said, they
have woman suffrage. and quite the
happiest and best regulated homes l
/ have ever seen. 1t is d beautiful coun-
try and a beautiful home life. Married
women manage their own property, en-
gage in industrial occupations. if they
have a taste in that direction, and
manage their homes admirably. The
country was never better governed
than it is now. They have better
! Streets better sewerage, better house
keeping in the city and town govern
ments than ever they had before.
/ Things are more honestly and economi-
cally managed than ever before. In
stead of protecting vice, they have
/ been voting to suppress it ever since
/ they had the municipal suffrage. A
certain class of the population has left
/ the islands almost entirely TO the in
estimalble advantage of the place. In
stead of woman suffrage destroying
! the homes and home life it is protect
/ ing it. 1t is making the New Zealand
/ towns more like homes. 1t has re-
moved some of the temptations and is
making the cities safe places for men,
children and women to live in.
when L was last in New Zealand"
! said the man from the antipodes, L
! stayed with my sister. She is married
and has half dozen children. l was
! chatting her d little about her first par
( liamentary vote one day when the
whole family were gathered about the
table. 1 had been jokingly telling her
! that she didn't know enough about
party politics to cast an intelligent
vote, and said, Whoever did you vote
| for. anyway?'
| 'She rose in her place at the table,
and her glance rested on each of the
| six blonde and brown heads before she
answered, very simply. voted for
| these