The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-25
Daily Eagle
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.
THE NEW WOMAN,

IdfS NEW "oAAANs
They have female suffrage out in
Utah and also the new woman. In
this progressive home Of polygamy poll
tics is to be purified, the home sanctified
and the saloon bodily fired by the ballot
In the hands of its women. Sixty-five
per cent of the votes of the state are
cast by women. One of these new ,Wo-
men ran against her husband last fall
for the state senate and beat him 1900
votes. Her name is Cannon. She Is
the fourth wife of her husband. This
new woman puts forward some bright
but rather queer ideas. Her observa-
tons and conclusions may be correct.
Mrs. Cannon says that she is not for
any particular reform but that women
should vote to the end of the purifica-
ton of the state She adds that women
are better than men. Slaves are always
better than their masters" Now that
they are set free, are no longer slaves,
is the world TO lose the goodness that
has been produced by the lonS-contin-
ued slavery of women? The indications
are that it will be necessary to take the
ballot from the man and so reduce him
to slavery that he may be made better.
That suggestion will, no doubt, drop IN
TO its place as reforms move on and the
world grows better.
Further not only in the line Of puri-
flying politics, but family and social life
as well, she says: Il believe in polyga-
my. Ny father and mother were Nor
mons, and / am a Mormon. OF course
the law of the United States says No.
and we must obey Gas her husband does,
with four wives, but that does not
alter ones belief in the right Of the
thing. A plural wife is not half as
much a slave as a single wife. If her
husband has four wives, she has three
weeks Of freedom every single month.
She and her children order their lives,
and do not have to wait and be ready
for husband. When the fourth week
comes around she is glad TO see him,
and does not mind getting three meals
a day for him and making the children
stop breathing TO give him chance to
read. A plural wife has more time to
herself. more independence than sin
gle wife"
Unquestionably better morals and
purer politics are the great questions of
the hour, but it hardly seems possible
that 1t is coming through female suf-
rage and by woman who turns down
her husband, advocates divided fami-
lies, plurality of wives and the enslave-
ment of man to the end that he may be
made as good as woman. Female suf
frage will put more fire, intrigue, heart
burnings and he'll into politics than 1t
ever viii of purity. Men fight like cats
and dogs over politics during a cam
paign and within a month after election
are as good friends socially as ever. On
the other hand, when a woman catches
antoher woman plotting against her she
never forgives or forgets. She may act
the make believe, but it is not wOmans
nature to wipe out. The scar that is
made in her more tender heart remains.
Woman in politics is simply woman in
folly. Nevada with female suffrage
would sustain the prize fight law. Utah
with woman suffrage will not Danish
the saloon. Colorado and Wyoming
have, both, female suffrage and not
only the saloon but the rOttenest poll
tics Of anywhere. It's libel, it is a
falsehood TO say that women are better
than men because she is mans slave,
even if a woman does say it. Slavery
never makes for the better but degrades
and brutalzeS.