The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-27


special retribution are among the noblest,
the most useful, and the most intelligent
the place has known. Club life scarcely
knows them today, whether because or
II is sufficient that the loss of their warm
interest which always lay in an active,
intelligent, generous and practical CO.
operation, survives to the clubs.
In the course of it's temporarily tri-
umphal march the vindictiveness of the
aforesaid faction was not content with
election Illegally, a most criminal prac-
tice as you know, but its attorney must
send in a proxy with an excuse of
absence, and then later from the rear of
the room deposit her personal ballot.
Madam President and Ladies, in the
face. OF such deeds, how is woman to
purify politics. elevate society, and in
fuse a nobler ethics into education? Are
these the impulses and methods which
will make woman a force in the home,
in the state and in society? Is it thus
the SlumS, the hauntS of vice and the
Social cess9ools are to be purified? Are
these the ideals of education, association,
club life and social regeneration
Better smite the good and destroy the
ideals!
Better the woman mind abide forever
in utter darkness than that the sensi-
bility of culture be forced to hang the
head and wear the blush of shame in the
light of this glorious dawn of the
twentieth century!
1t Were better for the human race to
IeSlOTG the OIu IeSIIu6 III WHICH virtue,
grounded in an almost hopeless ignor--
ance, was wonans only worth and
weapon than that these things should be.
1t were better for mankind that woman
remain forever in the primal garden of
+ ignorance and seclusion, strong in moral
stamina, perpetuating and preserving to
the human race fmpregnable principles,
than that all the learning, all the &C
comolishments, all the resources of this
world be hers and she become its most
gracious product, the flower of the CEN
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Now Madam President, the soil is ready,
l will drop the seed.
If association is to be of any lasting
not our worst. There is a place for
| jealousy vindictiveness, personal punish
ment and the devils attorney. ] 1t is not
among club women or in club life. 1t is
| below, | am told
There is, moreover, among women, a
prejudice Of nothing more) in favor of
| justice and right-doing which will not
turn a deaf ear to general and timely
| appeal
As far as my protest against fractional
methods goes l am absolutely without
| fear and should another woman be fixed
| shall rise to the thing, so quickly and
graphic it so boldly, so pointedly, that
! the faction will never recover its frag-
ments.
| In closing permit me in sum total to
! give my great ideal for the woman
clubs Of the present. 1t is an association
reSllng in our common Womanhood. an
| association to which woman contributes
her love. her sympathy, her high mora
sense her intellect indeed her whole
! better nature: an association to which
! capability and from which she elimina ties
base motive, unworthy tilAught and hurt
full impulse: an associagen for mutua,
benefit N the extension 6f high purpose
| noble effort and better living; an associa-
ton which, in the many branches of its
ultimate perfection, will extend the oper
sesame to all womankind regardless o.
color. creed, class. or culture.
The grandest governments and socia
institutions the world has known have
no less broad and universal foundation.
altruistic spirit, this spirit of advance
thought and universally, and we will I'M
consciously drink of that fountain o.
strength and inspiration which for al
! time and for all people pours forth it!
blessing of peace on EARTH good will to-
4 ward men