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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-29

nese compromise proposition on We'd
nesday the diplomatic move passed to
Russia, and it was Mr.. Whites turn
naturally to present the counter prop
Osition of his government. If he sue
ceeded as is minated, in Withholding
his card and forcing the Japanese to
play again he undoubtedly gained a
point in the game. But no adequate
account of the proceedings at to-
days meeting is forthcoming. The
plnipotentiaries by agreement eXclud-
ed the secretaries. There We're no min
utes There is no record. This in it,
self is extremely significant. When
men who are fighting a desperate bat
tie lock themselves in a room alone.
it is the best evidence that they are
terribly in earnest 1t is a
hopeful sign. All that is formally an
nounced is that the minutes of the last
session were approved and upon Baron
Komura's motion the conference aG-
iourned until Monday at three o'clock.
But whether or not the counter
proposition of Russia was submitted
at this afternoon session, it seems
to be 'up to Japan" formally to re-
nounce her demand for the "fraise de
guerre" and try to obtain a partial re-
compense in another way-for in
stance, by a bona fde sale of the
northern half of Sakhalin. Emperor
Nicholas response to Mr.. Meyer and
his Instructions to Mr. White are re-
marked as his last word so far as
indemnity is concerned. A comprom-
Use by which Japan can assure a com
paratively moderate sum of money is
still open.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-29
Behind Closed Doors

In the regular course of procedure
after the presentation of the Japa-
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The Gulf Still Wide.

But the gulf to be spanned is still
wide between the two adversaries.
Russia is now willing to divide SAX
hahn. Japan, on Wednesday claimed
the entire island by right of occupa-
ton, offering only to sell back the
northern half at the price of the "cost
of the war And it should be borne
in mind that the elimination of ar
ticles 10 and IL Surrender of Rus
sia's interned warships and limitation
OF Russia's sea power) was conditional
upon her acceptance of this PROPOSE
ton. Baron Komura and Mr.. Taxa
hira want time to consult their gov
eminent before agreeing to yield
further. The most competent Jap
anese authority said tonight:
THE question of peace or war
still hangs in the balance"
For the first time there appears to
be some dissension in the Japanese
camp as to the ACCESSIBILITY of making
another conciliatory step. Many of
the attaches are strongly of the opin-
ion that they should not recede
another inch. The most prominent
of these said tonight to the Associated
Press:
1--WE only offered one-half of SAX
hahn upon condition that We would
receive for it the price we fixed. The
island is ours by right of conquest
If Russia imagines we will give up
half of it for nothing, she is much
mistaken. Our answer should be
Come and take it,"
The main hope of peace rests as
before, on the fact that both sides are
at heart sincerely anxious to end the
war; that all the principles involved
in the quarrel have been settled in
favor of the victor and that with each
days prolongatiOn of the negotiations
the pressure on both sides will In
crease not to allow a mere question
of money to stand between them.
The medium of communication be-
tween Baron Kaneko who is acting fo1
Japan in the pourparlers with the
President and the Japanese plenipo-
tentiaries, has been discovered. 1t is
Mr.. Uchida, the Japanese consul gen
eral at New York. After Baron
Kanekos visit to oyster Bay yester-
day a long account of the Interview
was transmitted by telegraph in cipher
to Baron Komura by Mr.. Uchida.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

cal strife and hotly contested elections
would take from women their women
illness. Yet so contradictory are these
women-just as great fanatics in their
way as their sisters who clamor Tor
full suffrage-that in the great reform
movement which swept over the city
some three years ago, when Tammany
was down and the reform administra-
ton, with Seth Low at its head, was
brought into power. the ntisuffragists
took prominent part.
They organized headquarters and set
TO work with as much system as any
mans primary, and they won the fight,
though many will assert that they ad-
vocated the wrong set of men and the
reform administration was worse than
Tammany's rule. The antis urge that
a woman should remain at her fireside.
in the privacy of her home, and yet
these same women leave their homes
and travel up to Albany with splen-
didly arranged plan of action and spend
days debating and defeating some pet
bill of their suffrage sisters. one con-
servative suffrage leader remarked;
"rhese anti-suffragists are not intel
ligent women as a rule, but they have
brainy lot Of husbands. with plenty
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
NS .lKRdASET " .REINHIL

en- masse. For every moral, educated
woman who would avail herself of the
privilege of voting nine immoral wom-
en- would go to the polls at the bidding
of some disreputable politician. 1t
would be multiplying an evil which is
bad enough in it's existing conditions.
"Woman's place is in the home, not
at the primaries or in the arena OF
politics. Every man who respects his
womankind shrinks from seeing them
exposed to the roughness of political
strife. Would it do women any good
to come in contact with the atmosphere
of the polling booths on election day!
Would it not rather be degradation
to them?
"What woman Of refinement Wisnes
to be subjected to the insult of prlpe
And, yet, how many women OF tne
ignorant lower class could and would
be bought up!
"When one realizes that giving the
ballot to women means admitting the
great mass of aliens of the female sex
women of no intelligence, no educa-
ton, and in many cases no morals-ls II
not. as L said before, but making the
great problem which now confronts us
more difficult to solve?
"And when you are told that intel
ligent, educated women md no faul'
with polygamy as it is practiced III
Utah. and one of their leaders refuses
To act with us in our crusade against
Smoot, giving no other reason than the
trivial one, L am not in sympathy Wltn
your work. what can you expect from
the great mass of illiterate, immoral
women who will be entitled to Suffrage
inst as much as we are? A southern
friend of mine said to me one day:
"I am a suffragist at heart, but
would prefer to forego suffrage II
must go to the polling booth with my
negro cook
"I think that Susan b. Anthony's re-
marks in the Brigham Roberts case anc
Mrs. May Wright -Sewell's stand in the
Smoot case have dealt a greater blow tc
woman suffrage and will retard the
movement much more than the scan
dalous woodruff and Crafiin campaign
of thirty years ago. Women are
broader now. Women act more inde-
pendently today. Women read more in
discriminatory; they think for them
selves, they refuse to obey blindfolded
they Investigate, they study social and
economic questions, they are more
mems equals Intellectually than they
were then. While they stood to one
side in speechless terror at what was
then brazen effrontery of the first cru
saders in the suffrage field. today they
are going to think, to argue. to study
the question in all it's bearings, ano
they are going to say
"If women cannot stand for the
purity of womanhood, the sanctity OF
the home. the preservation of the
family, when the ballot is given them
then, indeed, are they unfit for that
great gift.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN UTAH
BY Duncan J. Mcmillan

The Smoot investigation which has
for a year has educed mass of evil
dence, chiefly the testimony of Mormon
prophets, respecting the nature of
Mormonism, the disloyal purpose of
the hierarchy and it's power to execute
those purposes, which has astonished
the American people. But the whole
truth has not been revealed. There
are mysteries in Mormonism yet un-
solved We wonder at it's steady-going
persistence and confident presumption
in the face of national sentiment and
in disregard of the laws of God and
man. Upon what resources do they
bank with such unlimited confidence?
What means have they at their COM
mand which prove so uniformly effec-
tive?
These questions are usually answered
by referring to the absolute power Of
the fifteen prophets, seers and revela-
tors" who constitute the divinely sane
toned and inspired hierarchy to which
the people are required to render alb
solute and unquestioning obedience.
But this does not fully explain the
problem. Since Utah was admitted to
the union of states it has maintained
at least the form and semblance of a
republican government. Political re-
suits are reached by the suffrages of
the people. The elections seem to be
quiet and orderly. The great national
political parties are there, as in other
states. But the results defy all ordi-
nary means of forecasting. From an
overwhelming majority for one party
at a given election solid mass of
voters will swing, in an incredibly short
time and without any apparent cause,
70 the other party.
The Mormons Purpose
The Mormon leaders early saw that
the hope of their system lay i'm cont
plete isolation from outside elements
and influences and in absolute "one-
ness" The most strenuous measures
were employed to repel "Gentiles'
whenever they approached, and to ex-
pei the disaffected from their own
ranks. Brigham Young clearly foresaw
the peculiar perils of these later years.
To guard against the process of dis
integration and the consequent deca-
dence and decay of the Mormon COM
munity. he proclaimed the polygamy
revelation in 1852, and wisely dated 1t
back to 1913 This was probably the
most strategic act Of his wonderful
administration. IN assigning its or
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
MOlNQN RME WITH TINE WINS


of money, who make the balls for the
women to throw"
But, to the credit of the antis, they
are solid for the expulsion of Smoot,
the annihilation of polygamy and the
preservation of the sacredness of the
homogeneous marriage. They are work.
ing hand In hand with the women of
the Interdenominational society," dis
tributing literature, holding meetings,
obtaining signatures and using all the
influence they can bring to bear upon
the senator's who are members of the
Smoot investigating committee. They
can work in this field, where men hold
ing political office cannot, for, being
women and having no vote, they have
nothing TO be afraid Of; they have
nothing to lose and everything to
gain.
Evils of Suffrage
One of the best known anti-suffra-
glsts, a woman prominent socially and
with great wealth at her command, Is
very emphatic in denouncing the stand
which the suffragists have taken I'm
the present Mormon agitation. She
says:
ave have always contended that the
ballot would be injurious to women
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

Of woman will date from the work
done in that cycle, and the twentieth
century will see the fruition of our
hopes the achievement of all that we
have struggled for. The women of
the present and of the coming genera
tion will reap the harvest the seeds of
which were sown by the pioneers of
the latter half of the nineteenth CEN
tury.
Woman has been in the past and will
always be in the future the guardian
OF the home, the conservator of virtue,
and her emancipation will mark a
bright era in the evolution of the
world.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
MORMON IN UTAH NO WORSE
THAN CORRUPT MAN IN THE
EAST
BY Margaret w. RavenhiII


This cry of the anti-suffragist that
'for one good woman who would go to
the polls there would be nine bad wo-
men, is dreadfully hackneyed. Take
my word for it, the bad women would
not bother their heads about the polls,
and the women of the working class,
the ignorant and uneducated, who
worry the antis so much would make
excellent voters. In this grade of So
ciety it is the woman who holds the
purse strings, who finances the pittance
earned by her husband, who really
knows little Cbecause he has so little
time for learning) beyond his pick or
hoe. 1t is the woman who saves and
plans. who educates the children and
keeps the home together and who if
she had the ballot, would study every
phase of the political situation which
could benefit the husband and the chill
dren. She would take more interest in
vital questions than her wealthy sis
ter, because those questions would come
home to her more closely
| AS to this rumor that Miss Anthony
/ IdVOrS pOlySdlilyi ~ 10 my OPifANh eAAe'S
it has been misinterpreted. The Nor
mon does not forcibly degrade his
women; they are willing sacrifices Cor
we might say martyrs) to the laws of
their church 1t is a known and adj
mitted fact that there are fewer fallen
women in Utah than in any other State
in the Union. Miss Anthony is re-
ported as having said
brigham Roberts is no worse than
every other man in congress" And is
that not the truth?
| do not believe in woman suffrage.
/ believe in equal suffrage. Let the
man and woman stand or fall together
/ do not want to look up to any man.
/ want to stand equal to him and look
into his eyes. What is sin in him is sin
in me- What rights he has ! should
have also If the ballot is not an in-
herent right, it should be an equal
gift to man and woman.
The woman suffragists do not stand
for the degradation Of women; but we
fail to see how Smoot can be unseated
because of his religious views. The
Mormon in Utah is no worse than the
corrupt man in the east. Therefore II
you start in to rid the senate of
polygamist there will be many vacant
seats in that august body.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

but it is a fact that the Gentle popula-
ton of Utah was the strongest advo-
cate for the ballot to be given to women
in Utah and Wyoming. They argued
that the ballot would make the Nor
mon women more independent and in
the end enable them to throw off the
yoke of polygamy. When the legisla-
ture of Utah passed the woman suf-
frage bill it placed one of the strongest
weapons in the hands of INSCRIPTIONS
Mormon men.
This is really what happens. A
Mormon may go abroad and bring back
with him six, seven or dozen Qf he
chooses) wives, young girls from 16 t0
| 20 years of age. Six months after these
women reach Utah, as they are the
wives of a citizen of the United States
! they can vote. On election day the
man goes to the polls and casts his
own and as many more votes as he
has wives. When a Norman husband
is politically bought it does not mean
one vote, but six, seven or eight, as
the number of his wives is large or
small.
Today. by reason of the presence
in this city of a woman famous in the
early seventies of the last century for
the erratic measures which she and her
sister employed for the enfranchise-
ment of women-in reality they were
pioneers in the woman's rights move
ment which disturbed the serenity of
our mothers-a controversy is in pro-
gress as to whether these women
helped or retarded the woman's move
ment by their propaganda.
1t is asserted by some that they
materially aided the cause; by others
that they put the movement back
twenty years The more conservative
are willing to admit that their methods
then may have seemed startling, but
were they to do the same things today
they would not be looked upon as any
thing worse than "faddists." Another
party is convinced that their actions
and campaign were altogether scandal
lous and the harm they did to the
cause of woman can never be over
come.
May it not justly be said that utter
ances as those of Susan b. Anthony
and the president of the International
Council of Women are doing as much
If not more harm today by the coun-
tenance which they give to the polyga-
nous practices of Utah because that
state has given women the ballot?
The woman who has the welfare OF
her sex at heart, who really feels 1t is
her right not gift, that the privileges OF
the ballot should be hers, stands dunn
founded at the statement which the
enemies of women suffrage make-that
women can condone, can countenance,
can approve the degradation of their
sex in the plural wives of Utah.
II seems an unanswerable admission
to the statements of the antis:
",rhat for every moral, educated, re-
fined woman who would avail herself
OF the ballot there are nine immoral,
unedueated women who would do Sc
at the bidding of the corrupt ward
politicians.
The anti-suffragists maintain that the
ballot would degrade women, that
lmIngling with men in times of politi-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

Does this not really mean,"S urge
the antis, THAT you are hedging and
endeavoring to gloss over the state
ment made by one of your leaders, that
Mormonism was not the hydraheaded
monster which the fanatics try to make
us believe. but merely the real nature
of man asserting itself and upheld by
a cloak of religion?"
mo, we deny" again comes the cry
from the suffragist camp, that because
we do not cry out against polygamy
we are in favor of it; nor do we up
hold it. Polygamy is a law of mans
making. Give woman a voice i'll the
framing of the laws and you will find
polygamy abolished, the woman made
mans equal politically, the home sa-
cred and the family united!"
And so the war wages along and
the antis proclaim that if woman
cannot stand for all that is pure in
the home and the family then indeed
will the ballot be a powerful weapon
for harm. if placed in her unframed
hands. During the excitement which
eventually unseated Brigham Roberts
Susan B. Anthony was quoted as say
ing:
"I admire Roberts; he is doing openly
what every other congressman is doing
secretly"
During the present agitation, when
women all over the United States are
banded together to protest, to insist
that Smoot shall be unseated, a leader
in the International Council of Women,
when approached by representatives of
the society which is organized for the
purpose of uprooting polygamy and
forcing the dismissal of Apostle Smoot
from the senate declined to collaborate
with them on the ground that she is
not in sympathy with the movement.
Both Sides Discussed
Here are two women standing at the
head of the woman suffrage movement
who by their actions commit every
suffragist to the support of polygamy
as pricticed by the Mormon church.
May not the antis have some right OH
their side? Does it not seem that the
woman suffrage party is not worthy
whether from lack of training or NOR
als-of being intrusted with the ballot ?
AS one man said
1.-THE ballot is not an inherent right;
it is a gift" And as the woman re-
piled:
ut is an inherent right. Custom and
tacit consent have given to every male
child born in the United States the
inherent right to vote. Is 1t just that
the woman child, who comes into the
world from the hands of the Creator
equal In all things should be obliged
10 beg for what is conceded without
question to her brother?"
But as men hold the right to confer
or withhold this gift and women must
need look to them for 1t, not because
Il is Just, because of existing condi-
tions, why should they lower their
ideals. step from their pedestals and
besmirch their purity by pandering to
the lustful laws Of a community that
is acknowledged even by men to be
blot upon the escutcheon of our coun-
try? And why? the query arises.
Because in Utah women have the bal
lot
The statement may not be believed.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
2orA CENTURY woMAN's ERA
BY Lille psvereux Blake

/ have been in Utah. and while there
made study of its social and econom-
ic questions. l am constantly in COM
munication with friends living in Salt
Lake City, and. from my own obser-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

vations and from information received
from officials in city and government
office / know that the Mormon people
at large do not favor polygamy The
older men who had plural wives prior
to the manifesto Of 1890 cannot with
honor cast these women aside, and
the younger men do not practice po-
lygamy as a rule, for they are ashamed
of 1t.
It Is preposterous to suppose that the
women working for suffrage have ever
approved of the singular financial
measures or social conditions that have
been advocated from time to time by
fanatics. 1t is not just to hold the
leaders in the womans movement re-
sponsible for the peculiar views that
have been entertained by some people
who have also favored woman suf-
frage.
The cause Of "the advancement of
woman" is steadily gaining ground.
Every year brings its triumphs. In
the coeducational colleges It is the
girls who have carried off all the hon.
ors. In the older universities women
are not admitted in competition with
boys, but safely excluded in annexes.
They are afraid of them.
Victor Hugo said that "the nine
teenth century was woman's CEN
tury," and it is probable that the rise
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

The Transvaal Messenger laments
state Of things that is not peculiar 70
South Africa. 1t says that Midas rules
in that colony and that those who run
their heads against that fact may ex-
pect them to be broken.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05


Wv at the revelations of Mormon /!
iniquity and the dread secrets
Of the inner temple of Mormonism are (
laid bare a rumor has arisen a whisper
at first, but gradually growing i'm vol :
ume--''The advocates of suffrage in 4
the great woman movement are i'm fa-
vor of Smoot" Ana this man is in 4
favor of the degradation of women; in 4
favor of the desolation of the horne: in 4
favor of the disruption of the family!
And the antis rise up in great strength
and cry out:
"Are we not right? Have we not al
ways said the ballot would deteriorate
women?"
And the suffragists reply to this
challenge:
mo. you are not right. We do not !
uphold Mormonism in it's polygamous
practices. We simply make the state .
ment that Mormons under cover of
religion are doing what all men are do !
ing in secret. Polygamy, by whatever
name you may choose to call 1t, rears .
its noisome head on every soil, in every
country. Mormonism is the cloak with !
which it's founders cover the sin prac-
ticed in secret, but of which they, by !
reason of the inspired revelations upon !
which they base their claims to Godlike !
descent stand before the civilized world !
avowed disciples"
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-09-05
ABUS0S De UN GUARD|A

Maria Calder6n viene & estas Of
clnas para quejarse de abusos cometi-
dos por ell guardia insular Jose Oller
Primer abuse; tomar en- una fon
da que tiene Ia Calder6n en- Ia calle de
la Luna hasta la cantidad de diez dol
lars, y no pagar luego d.cha pequefi a
cantidad.
Segundo abuse; preseatarse esta
mafsna en- actitud amenazante, has.
ia el punto de agredir & la acree dora,
que Sc defendio arroiandole una azu.
carera.
Publicamos las Manifestations de
Maria Calder6n porque no es esta la
primera vez que Sc nos relatan haza.
has por el estilo de la policfa insular
Pare;e que ciertos gusrdias Sc de
dican al sport de arruinar q las ,peque.
fiss fondas, preyaliendose de que 4
e!los no pueie cobrArseles. son in
munes.
LNamamos la atenci6n de los jefes
Hamill y Lutz sobre esos hechos, que
no dan un alto prestigio al cuerpo que
mandan y que deben eyltarss.
Dicese que sera denunciada Maria
Calder5n, & fin de que Ia lnjustic!a se
consume por complete.