The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-31

All things must become new. Gentle
men say: Go back to caucus and re-
consider your resolve I say to them.
Come UP higher. and I will show you
things that must be hereafter
Carrying Out the Comparison.
The gentleman from Davis county
had compared woman in politics to the
clear Missouri mingling with the tur-
bid Mississippi, and showed that after
stream was never clear again. He
neglected to add that the blending riv-
ers were on their way to the ocean.
where all that was muddy and I'M
clean would sink to the bottom where
it belongs. while all that was pure
and clear would swell the limpid tide
of the "self-purifying. unpolluted sea"
1.-The image of eternity, the throne OF
the invisible" (Applause) Who pre-
tends that man alone. or woman alone,
is conducting this great march of pro-
greSS? There is an oVerruling Provi-
dence. divine plan and purpose into
which, as into the ocean, all the riv-
ers Of human thought and action run,
and rest assured that the great result
will be pure.
God Given Right.
Woman's right to a, voice in the Sc
lection Of those who rule her. whether
in the family, the state or the church,
is God-giVen and inherent right. II
existed before constitutions. and will
exist after them. That governments
derive their just powers from the con-
sent OF the governed. was true before
the immortal Jefferson blazoned it
with pen of flame.
The speaker then referred to the TACT
that in the church to which
he and many of the members
belonged women voted as well as
men. The gentleman from Davis
county himself, who held a high
ecclesiastical office in that church
was elected thereto by the uplirIed
hands of the ladies whom he now said
ought not TO be permitted TO vote. The
speaker had heard him thunder elo-
quently from the pulpit in defense of
the doctrine Of each soufs free action
and separate and independent re-
sponsibihty. 1t was against the very
genius Of his religion to argue that
women were not in situation to act
independently. He knows that no
pure woman need be dropped down
with her besotted spouse because he
chose to make his bed in hell. If it be
right for women to vote in the church
why not right for them to vote in the
state? There should be no union of
church and state, but the latter need
not fear to follow the formers liberal
example.
Speaking For Americans.
I am speaking to Americans, to low
ers of freedom. who believe in the di
vine mission and destiny Of their
country America, standing like
goddess in the midst of the earth,
holding aIoft the torch that shall
kindle and illumine the nations. How
can she go forth to evangelize and lib
crate the world if the gives are upon
her own wrists, il hall OF her own
children are in chains?
Us. true freedom but to break
Fetters for our own dear sake,
And with leathern hearts forget
That we owe mankind debt?
No, true freedom is to- share
All the chains our brothers wear,
And with heart and hand to be
Earnest to make others free"
This was written for the colored
man, but why not apply it to the
white woman and the colored woman?
Mr.. Whitney closed as follows:
am and have ever been an advocate OF
woman suffrage, for believe it to be
a step in the march of human liberty.
Its course cannot be stayed. AS we'll
try to check the mountain torrent, or
the MIGHTY waters of the Mississippi,
laundering onward to the sea. Those
who attempt it will be thrust aside and
the great procession will sweep on
without them. 1t is the invincible
march of freedom, the pageant Of eter-
nal progress, and no power can with
stand it. If this convention fails to act
favorably, some future convention will
so act, and gazing upon our record with
reproach, will crown her broWs with
the glory we have denied"
Mr.. Whitney was vociferously ap-
plauded as he took his seat, and after
adjournment was overwhelmed with
congratulations and compliments from
both Democrats and Republicans, Cen
ties and Mormons, including many
ladies.
Whitney held the convention until
12:45. He was cool and contained dur
ing all his argument and made an i'm
preston less openly enthusiastic than
that made by Roberts, but his grafton
was not lacking in the rhetorical graces
which had characterized the Grafton of
his great rival. The two efforts were
superb, each in its different way, and
one can scarcely choose.
After Whitney finished a recess was
taken until 2:30.