The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-02

brought him before her. She fined him
ard resigned her Office.
Coray Speaks.
Coray said this was the first time he
had occupied the floor since the con-
vention began. His constituents at
Chicken Creek demanded that he
speak on the question. He said wo-
man suffrage had been living issue
in Utah for the last twenty years, all
over the territory. If anybody doubted
it, he called attention to the demand
for Roberts resignation. He wanted
the reporters to write him down for
woman suffrage, undeTScored with
three exclamation points.
In the broadcast Sense.
Evans, of Utah, said the Creator had
created fish for the sea, great fowls
tor the air and verdure to make the
land beautiful. Then he created man
and woman. At that time the word
man included woman. Through the
ages this has been lost to view for
time. So far as it has been lost wo-
man has been held subject to man.
When Jefferson said, ''All men are ere
ated eQuaI' he meant to include Wo-
=
truth of the creation. In this territory
the women have been weighed IN the
political balance and not found want
ing. The suffrage had been taken from
them because of peculiar conditions,
and not because they were not able
to use the power well. If women can
make homes happy and peaceable they
can make politics so. He was pound
by his party's platform. He intended
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felt proud that there were orators who
could hold UP the state among it's sis
tiers. But when his vote was cast 1t
would count as much as that of the
orator.
A Wrongful Doctrine.
Francis, of Morgan, said he was
against the substitute. All the speak
ers had told the people that
a vote for either party meant
that the suffrage condition would be
placed in the platform. He had
heard startling things said but he had
not been convinced. He thought the
declaration that man was to rule and
woman to obey was the very essence
of despotism and scarcely different
from the doctrine of the divine right
Of kings.
Snow said he was pledged to vote
for suffrage. But outside of that he
was in favor of it on principle. He
was rather surprised to hear that men
wanted to vote against suffrage but
yet felt themselves bound by a party
claim. This was his idea of hell. To
want to do a thing and be surrounded
by barriers would subject a man to
everlasting flames which he could not
quench.
Would Not Trade.
Unlike one of the gentlemen who had
spoken he would not trade Roberts for
all the Republicans in Utah. He is
too valuable to his party. The fact that
he does not see his duty as do the
others is no argument against him.
The question should be looked at
from an economic point of view. In
this age the tendency seems to set
more and more against marriage.
Women are thrown more and more into
competition with men in the various
1abors of life. In coming into this new
condition they are handicapped by
their political disability. Woman is
becoming an industrial factor and
discrimination means degrading. Pr-
Vate employment often follows in the
course Of public policy and when wo-
man is placed on a lower plane in one
she will be in the other.
Vow is the Time.
Now is the time to grant woman her
rights. She is making a purely intel
lectual fight. She has no force with
which to awe conventions into doing
her will. She must rely wholly ON the
which is being shown against the en-
reimbursement of women was shown
against their higher education. But
now they have gained the day there.
They are occupying the highest seats
of learning and are graphing with the
problems of political economy with
the same acuteness and gist
that characterize the learned men.
He claimed tnat in nine out of ten
households women are the best finan-
ciers. If ever a crisis comes in Utah,
women will carry the state through.
If economy is needed anywhere it is
in public affairs and there women are
needed
If men are sincere in Utah the in
corporation of a provision in the con
stitution will not defeat the constitu-
ton.
The keynote of POIiticts.
Maeser said he had almost been led
to believe he was anywhere rather than
in a constitutional convention where
there should be elaboration on the
fundamental laws of a new state. He
had had the privilege of being dis
been active in politics for many years.
Now he had come to get the keynote
for the politics of the new state Fear
has been expressed. Is fear the key
note? Or is it partisanship? Is Ian
guage to be used only to cover
thoughts? He wanted an answer from
the convention. Let not trickery dis
grace the convention. Talleyrand once
said, Gentleman that is worse than a
crime. 1t is a mistake" That is what
the failure to grant suffrage would be.
Cries of Roberts! Roberts,
Minority Are Foreigners.
BOYER, of Sanpete, said he was sur
prised to find the minority report was
signed by three who had been foreign
born and had come here for liberty
like the Puritan fathers. The Puri-
tans. coming for religious liberty, had
not granted this to others. This was
a relic of the same spirit. Men who
get liberty are not willing to grant it
to others. He cared more for the fair
arms of the women of the territory
than the strong arm of capital which
the minority had promised. 0aughter)
He was willing that flowers should
come to the opposition. 1t was well to
bedeck with flowers the biows of those
who are passing into the unknown
land.
He said he was reminded of the story
of a Dutchman who had gone to
Carson many years ago, and lost $1,000
in speculation. He was walking along
home the day after, when a teamster
overlook him.
Have a lift?" said the driver.
Mem was the reply.
How far are you going?" asked
the other.
Bout fifteen miles" was the reply.
You'd better ride said the driver.
'.Nein,' said the Dutchman, 81 go in
cit1. mil five tnl,sa n, dollar and