The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-21

/ source of evil communicating alike the
sons and daughters of this noble replIb-
lie. The lives of these women are
Snort; the ranks kave to be replen-
isEsd about every five years with girls
4 between the ages Of IA and IS years,
working girls furnishing the majority.
] There is NO class in society so helpless,
SO surrounded by temptation, as young
working gir.s; a network CT snares and
pitfalls are laid for their young feet.
Working in factories, hotels, restau-
rants, brings them in contact with all
SORTS Of people, some watching for in
nocent victims.
Each and every one of us can do our
! part in the conservation, but to the
| children must we look for extended
success. Until our children come
! through pure and healthy channels
! and receive careful moral training at
| home and in the school room, and have
moral examples in public life to fol-
/ low, we cannot hope to reach the goal
| for which we are striving. These con-
! dftlonS are impossible while we have
one STANDARD Of morals for women and
one for men, Man must rise to wo-
mems STANDARD ere he can become the
great and noble being his master in
tended he should. At the very root of
social impurity lies this inequality
| forever destroying the source from
whence must come purity and advance
ment.
A NEW PARTY.
The next speaker was Miss Josephine
Kellogg, who delivered an able address
| on the subject. Does the new woman
need new party?"
Miss Kellogg said substantially what
follows:
twenty-five minutes is all too brief
time for answering such a question,
Does the new woman need new
party?" For it is. almost essential to
trace historically how parties are
formed, how they grow how they full
fill their special mission, and after that
devote their attention to Office holding
A movement may be long in it's in
cipiency before distinct issues are pre-
sented about which parties may crys-
talize. However long in taking form
and strength, net without travail are
they born into active life.
Preceding the revolution the agita-
tons of colonial life divided the people
into Wings and Tories. each devoted1y
loyal in his own eyes but no better than
traitor in the eyes OF the other.
In the throes of the revolution, Amer
lean independence was born and repre-
scented by a great national party. At
first there was not so clearly marked a
united in the election Of Washington,
though he belonged to the aristoeratic
party of the minority calling them
selves Federalists, and had but one sue
cessor, John Adams. The mass of the
people were in the following of those
who were called -Federalists-a
mispcmeT- called themselves Re-
publicans. and had Jefferson for their
great leader.
NICKNAMED DEMOCRATS
With Andrew Jackson they adopted
their nickname Democrats, and the
Federalists, with some change of base
and intermingling of elements, reap
peared as National Republicans. Those
We're stormy times. Though personally
an autocrat Jackson represented the
popular cause. the rights of the COM
mon people The most radical Demo-
cratic sentiments were expressed in
the platform Of the Equal Rights Dem
ocra&s of New York. That, with Mar
tin Van Buren's inaugural. would do
very we'll for a labor Platform today;
but the administration was so unsatis-
factory that the Wings came into pow
err without a formulated platform. all
the disaffected uniting to elect William
H. Harrison. Then the Abolition or
Liberty party appeared, without an
electoral vote, but serving to indicate
that slavery had become the great di
turbing question as Jefferson had p
dicted.
In 1860 the Republican party, W Eh
took shape four years before kas
borne into power amid the con- Jsive
throes of civil war. The years t Il fol-
lowed can never be adeaua ~ de
scribed and never forgotten. lis was
the canOn6 oreot Dartv of hmm
When the Democratic part Vas born
the world had not progress $50 far as
to apply the declaration Eindapend
ence to black and white Ike, though
one of the grievances ne eolonists
was that England had reed African
slavery upon them. 8 cry from ma
tural and economic ca, .es had become
sectional evil, and the Democrats.
though not responsible fer it. rad come !
into 'entangling alliances with " and |
a new party of freedom must nee-as I
arise.
WITH REPUBLI-
CANS
But ten years later. in 1871 the dis
satisfaction the ration felt with the use
the Republicans had made of the power
a grateful, victorious nation entrusted /
10 lnSlll, WdS tSHOWH by IIDc HOIllidllOI |
of six presidential candidates by seven |
conventions, without including |
woman suffragiSts.
sin 1876 still greater strain was put |
upLn our institutions by an election so |
close, SC, doubtful, or at least so dis |
puted that an electoral, commission was (
devised to declare it, witch they did /
upon a strict partisan vote That was /
not the least nor the last shock to the |
confidence of the people in the supe-
rior integrity, wisdom and impartiaiity 1
of the United States supreme court. {
What political decentralization has /
filled the country ever since! Power
has vibrated to and fro between DEM
ocrats and Republicans, but relief has |
come from neither. Many minor move
ments have begun and made some
Roadway but now the time is ripe and
the nation is in such ang'lished strug-
giles as would seem to presage a new
aational organization. l speak. with
neither i'll will nor prejudice against
any party of the present or the past
Each has its noble names. Recall the
galaxy of ashington,
Hamilton, Jay-the long succession of
roble Democrats, the heroes of the war
or the Union with the immortal Lin
,oln fairly overlapping them all, and
zach smaller party has had it's patri-
,tfc aim and its influential name.
But no party has been consistent with
Itself throughout. They act and react
lpon each other. One dissolves. A new
.rystalization follows. New rays of
light beam North. A new banner of re-
orm is lifted up.
But when its followers have been
ed a little way from Sodom and
1omorrah. the party begins to look
Jack to the plumber and the spoil and
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