The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-03
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING


S The sermon of Cardinal Gibbons OIL
: Woman Suffrage" or, as some hav
4 had the temeIfty to call it. the Man
Woman has aroused all kinds of con
, trovensy and served to call attention t.
the concrete exercise of woman suf-
: frage' where the same is allowed.
The New York Times, siding strongly
with the Cardinal, pointed out that. in
its opinion. woman suffrage is u 'men-
: ace to morals and good government. -"
and based its opinion on the experience
attending the Acknowledgement OF
women in Wyoming.
Mr.. James Mcneil in letter to the
Times, strongly. excerpts to that papers
views, and adduces in favor of the OPP
pceite opinion the following:
On the Goth of February. 1893, the
! mouse OF representatives OF Wyoming
! UNANIMOUSLY adopted the following res
/ olution:
Resolved. by the house of represent
atlVeS of Wyoming, That the possession
! and exercise of suffrage by the women
or wyoming for the past quarter of a
century has wrought no harm and has
done great good in many ways: that
II has largely aided in balfshing crime
pauperism and vice from the state. and
that without any violent and oppres-
slVe legislation; that it has secured
peaceful and orderly elections good
government, and a remarkable degree
OF civilization and public order: and
we point with pride to the facts that,
AFTER nearly twenty-five years of wom-
an Suffrage, not one county in WyO-
ming has a poor house: that our jails
are are anncst empty, and crime, except 1
mat committed by strangers in the i
state, Is almost unknown; and, as a
r I'LL oi experience, we urge every |
civilized community on earth to en- !
Iranchiee its women without delay"
In reply to Hamilton Wilcox. seek
ing thelr Opinions in TegaSd to the above
resolution, the governor of the state
ana the secretary of the Democratic
state committee make the following an
SWers:
Go Governor fl, Osborne says; Replying to j.
your inquiry, it is quite true that
agree with the resolution passed bv the
mouse OF representatives of the legis-
iatufe of Wyoming, advising the Iegis-
latures of New York and other states
10 enfranchise their women. Our exper-
fence in this state for nearly twenty
I'VE years Is highly salts factory in every
way. NOT one of the objections made
N the east has proved true. and great
GOOD has been done in MANY directior,s
~ Cle possession of the suffrage by our {
EoIneh. L cordially hope that New t
OH ana other states viii soon follow
'ur example. Yours respectfully.
JOHN e. OSBORNE.
governor of Wyoming" t
secretary thompson says: Replying G
. your inquiry, | have to say that the
esuit OF nearly quarter of a centurv's
Experience in this state is correctly ex
FeS5ed by the resolution passed unan-
mousIy by the Democratic house of
representatives. of our legislature lately V
Ihich strongly advises the Iegislatures a
L New York and other states TO on -
their women. Our experience :,
7 TINS state Is favorable, and 7 cor y
Tally nope my fellow Democrats in e;
lew York and elsewhere will do as orr fl
ouse or representatives has advised n,
ours respectfully. "
JOHN CHARLES THOMPSON -
>ecretafy Democratic State Committee V;
of Wyoming" zee ".
Now, these testimonials are we'll be-
Tough in their way. For the copsumn-
on of the, gullible they NAV do we'll st
Tough, but for the benefit of Mr. No er
ell and others Of his way of think or
g. The Intermountain Catholic will M
ate that they are entitled 10 no valYn be
latsoeYer. There is not a politician I'M
a state where women are enfran- q,
ised Who would be foolish enough TO :,
phcly express views in opposition n 90
Woman Suffrage" -
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