Arizona republican., 1899-03-01

Poor Woman's Rights. She needs a
 defender in the council who has the ability to defend her. After waiting at the altar for more than two weeks, she
 was yesterday ordered to go to her
 room and take off her wedding gown.
 And this happened through the error of her best friend-Mr. Udall. The bill came before the council yes terday in the committee of the whole, with MT. Wright in the chair, and the lobby packed with ladies. According to programme, MT. Finley was recog- nized and he moved that when the committee arise it recommend to the council that the bill be recommitted to the committee on education for amendment or substitution
 On this question MT. Murphy took the floor and declared the motion out of order. He had not intended to speak, but the intention of the motion was evidently to prevent a vote on the measure. The motion was extraor- dinary in it's nature. It was sub terfuge. Why did the enemy hide be- hind the skirts Che must have meant breeches) of such a miserable decep- ton as this motion? If they want to kill the bill why do they not fight fair ly? Why not stand up like men and act like men? He was sorry the wo- men of Arizona did not have an abler champion, but he proposed to say a few words in their defense. It is a fundamental principle that the govern ment derives its powers from the con- sent of the governed. Woman is in cluded with man in the constitution of the country and the declaration of in- dependence.
 In many of the governments of the old world women are chattles things Among the Persians and Ot- tomans, woman is not supposed to have soul, and the treatment accord ed the bill under consideration indi-@ cated that gentlemen in the council held a similar opinion. It made the blood of the speaker boil to think that 5000, 900 Negroes, ignorant, brutalized slaves, had been erected into gods to carry out political principles"-to ex-
  ligent women of the country were de- nied that privilege. Immigrants from foreign lands come to this country and in five years have the privilege of vot- ing, when not one in fifty of them can speak English, but our wives and daughters are denied this right.
 The speaker had seen the gentlemen who oppose this bill at a recent ban quet and ball. He had seen them holding the waists of lovely women in the dance; he had heard them at the banquet toasting "the queen of my soul" and Gods best gift to man." ment, and the gentlemen had sung Come to me-" and then they come in to the council chamber and say that women are unfit for suffrage.
 He demanded to hear the objection to this bill. He characterized such tactics as employed by MT. Finley as "offsprings of ignorance" and "miser- able amendments" and he appealed to the gentlemen, referring to the crowd of ladies in the lobby, that when these women leave here they go with
 
 limbs' and the evil minded opposition inclined their heads one toward an- other and whispered "garters!"
 MT. Bunch, representing the opposi- tion, replied to MT. Murphy He de- clared the gentleman had fought for this bill at every step, while the oppo- sition had not been aggressive. The question was one of vital importance. It is a proposition to change the sys- tenn of government. It is a step in the direction of socialism. He denied that the right of woman to vote is recog- nized in the fundamental law. Wo- mans rights is a question that has found strength only in the west. It has no abiding place in New York, in Massachusetts, in Illinois. It has made Kansas the laughing stock of the lnion, and the popuIistic idea upset he brainest man Kansas ever knew.
 Whoever heard of Martha Washing on presiding at political convention, or skipping the face of her political op- oonent at a school election? The speaker had too much regard for wo- nan to give her the right to vote. When she is granted political rights, nan can jostle her and contend with Ter on the streets. Woman's field, he is in the home and the ,hurch. 'tWho builds the churches?'' le inquired; "the earnestness of wo- nan, and the churches will fall in the evolution you are trying to force upon Is." He declared it not a political ques-