The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-14
WHY THE EXTENSIo

ticlo under the heading, "Why Women
Vote in the West" F." We copy the same
| Ii full as follows:
| The strenuousness Of the suffragists
when the movement was In It's inception
won for the pioneers the title OF tne
they discovered that there was moro force
| In dignity. and for a quarter or CEN
tury the campaigns have been conducted
on lines which have developed the ieast
| example set by the English sutfragettes
due somewhat 10 the visits OF Cnensn
advocates TO this country. has started our
| propagandists on new tack
Lately they have adopted a slogan;
From New Orleans comes the report that
the. Crescent City has been p!anSyarded
vote for Governor In Colorado, wyoming
and Utah. Why not for President Ia all
tho states?' In our street cars we G see
! ming. Colorado. Utah and Idaho: why
not in New York;" The president OF the
| publicity committee in New Orleans s9ys;
| ladylike any longer" This is 10 be re-
grettad. The ladies' will not make ans
progress by being unladyllke-
And the reference to the voting or
women In those western couuuouwealths
VIII be regarded In some quarters as un-
fortunate II will simply serve to call at
tention to the fact that the franchise for
women out there is due TO the influence
| OF the Mormon hierarchy. Through Re-
, publican influence polygaIny is spreading
In the West, II has dominated Utah Tor
ming and Idaho. where II maintains the
,, balance Of power. RepubucHnism is trad
ing with 1t, and Colorado has become al
fectGd. a Mormon with two or four or
six wives controls that many votes. and
man who can control six votes besides
his own is a power 10 be reckoned with
OF woman suffrage under such circunl-
stances? That Is why poygamY is
progressing In spite Of the United States
statutes 70 the contrary. Tor the RePub-
lcan party thinks more highly OF eight
United States Senatorships than 1t does
Of the morality OF the American nation,
The Gveliness OF the campaign in the
East and South for woman suffrage
is fairly illustrated by the description
tract, Ard the Herald's comment in
the third paragraph is worthy of deep
! consideration. There is no question in
the world but that the suffrage was
conferred upon women by the Mormon
ecclesiastical control In Utah for the
vote of the polygamists. The large
| Mormon colonies in Wyoming and the
almost exclusively settled counties of
southeast Idaho by Mormons, controlled
by polygamists, indicate the controlling
motive for woman suffrage so far as
extension OF the suffrage in those two
States. To what extent the influence
of tho Mormon settlements IN Colorado
worked TO this same end, we could not
say; but undoubtedly in so far as it
influenced at all, it influenced in that
motive having its Inspiration here in
| Salt Lake City. That the extension
Of tho suffrage TO the women, especially
in the three States of Utah. Idaho. and
Wyoming, is of enormous advantage TO
the polygamous masters Of the Mormon
church there can be not the least doubt.
Neither can there he any doubt of the
sense that these polygamous masters
have of the advantage that they Tins
derive; nor, further, of the fact that
they sensed 1t from the first and pro-
vided the suffrage in order to derive
the advantage which they now reap.
The control Of the politics of Wyo-
ming and Idaho from Salt Lake City
is an undoubted fact That control is
in the hands OF the polygamous masters
of the church. No official of the DOM
| uant party in those States dare say his
soul is his own until he gets permis-
sion TO do so from the hierarchy of the
Mormon church hero in Salt Lake City.
In the debate on the Smoot case, when
Senator Newlauds of Nevada referred
to the control of the politics of Idaho
by the Mormon hierarchy, Senator
Warren of Wyoming arose in his place
and made heated denial In this
Senator Warren denied things that he
knew TO BIO true. He himself is obliged
Go come here or send his emissary TO
provide for his own election from
Wyoming Senator Warren or Senator
Clark of Wyoming would no more dare
to disobey the Mormon mandate than
would Senator Sutherland of Utah.
Senator Hepburn, of Idaho, is said to
be in a political pickle because the
Mormon authorities are somewhat dis
pleased with some of the thinps he
usiS 0ouc, 80 IudO MS IubuGc is u0CPr-
tain. That future is uncertain simply
because Senator Hepburn is not alto
gether persona grata TO the chief
of the Mormon church III Salt Lake
City; his offense being in accepting too
seriously the hierarchic professions of
obedience to the law. Senator Teller
of Colorado owes his latest election TO
the Mormon influence, and was obliged
to support Smoot in return for that
influence.
And so it goes all through this West
| ern country. The political negotiations
for Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona,
| and now in a large degree for Oregon,
where the Mormons have large settle
ments in the Grand Rondc Valley,
Baker City, and elsewhere, center here
in Salt Lake City. Nevada escapes
because its population is so largely a