Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-29

SflIlrAQG II Is lnttit-liiE
In America TO compare the different
And England attitudes or English and
American women to-
wards the general question. L DO not
know that American women have
added anything to the stock reasons
in favor OF women's suffrage. Like
vegetarianism, the subject Is one on
which all that can be said. for and
against. has been said. But Amerl-
can women have certainly added q
new point to the old arguments. Thcy
have made resistance TO thcm argu-
montatively more difficult for the fncn
OF America than It Is for the men oil
any other country. America, they
proclaim, declares herself to be the
only land OF equal rights, yet sho
gives TO one-half OF her population
privilege which she witnholds from
the other half. She boasts that the
very keystone Of her system Is indi-
viduai representation, yet when II
comes to political rights she divides
her people not into individuals bus
into sexes. And the sex which she
excludes, to complete the Irony of tho
paradox, is. on the whole. the better
educated OF the two, has been grant
ed the most extensive civil and legal
rights, and Is freely admitted to the
professions and to almost all avenues
OF business American women control
the education and culture of their
| country almost to the point OF eftem-
imitation. The divorce laws from
Maine to California impress foreign
er as being specially framed to meet
their convenience. Some six millions
| of them work for living. the ma
jority of them in ways that admit not
| only of economic but of social indie
| pendence. In the so-called profess
| sions, as teachers, writer's, lawyers,
| physicians, ministers, architects, and
| SO on, more than half the total num-
| Der of employed are women. Phil
| anthropic work MAS largely passed
| into their hands. without them nine
| tenths of the American churches
| would have to close; their clubs and
| organizations and mutual improve
| ment societies cover every inch OF
| the continent; and socially they arc
| supreme with q supremacy such as the
women Of a rope can only envy SSod from umt
| trouble about her rights" because
| she has few, IL any, wrongs" she
| has lost, in short, so far as politics
| are concerned, the collective sense OF
sex in the enjoyment of her personal
| privileges. Moreover, American pol
tiles are a good deal OF a mystery even
to American mon. To American wo-
| men they are utterly incomprehens-
ible. / could as easily imagine a wo-
| man to be an authority on tactics
and strategy as on the operations that
Americans exalt by the name OF pol
| tiles Those operations are for the
most part carried on by men VINO are
| not conspicuous for their refinement,
and in an atmosphere wh1eh Is any
| thing but the atmosphere OF the
drawing-room. Politics and society
| in America, except to q very limited
| degree in Washington do not go hand
i'm hand.-Sydney Brooks, in Harpers
Weekly.
Laws Dead There is difference be-
| If Officials tween enforcing laws for
| Are Asleep. the violation Of which
| there Is a private injury
| coupled with public wrong. and en-
| forcing laws for the protection or the
| public II man is robbed, for IN
| stance. he will usually see to II that
| the robber is prosecuted. If man is
| murdered tho relatives or friends of the
| murdered man will generally put the
] machinery of the law in motion against
| the murderer In each of these In
| stances there is Il private injury as
| we'll as a public wrong. In bribery,
| violation of the gambling laws, the
| iram-shop laws. or railroad rebate
| laws. there may be no individual In
4 Jury. hut there Is always public In
| furry. Laws of this kind are the most
| difficult of enforcement and unless the
official who represents the public takes
| IL upon himself to see tnat tney are
carried out, they often go unenforoed
| They do not enforce themselves. With
| out officials to execute them, they are
| as useless as guns In war without men
| behind them.--Gov, Folk of Missouri on
Respect for Law" in the Youths
| Companion.
An Iceiess An illustration In the
Ice Box Is NJ h Popular nj .
The Latest. chanics shows to what
| perfection and simplicity
small electrical cold storage system
has been brought. The outfit consists
of an electric motor belt to pump.
which keeps q cooling solution NOV
ing through n set of pipes which are
placed In the refrigerator. These
pipes are similar to the steam or hot
water radiators in the living rooms,
only they cool instead OF heat the
apartment. The machine Is entirely
| automatic, and constantly maintains
whatever degree of cold is selected.
The moment the thermometer rises
above that point the machine starts
up of itself and works until the apart
ment Is sufficiently cooled; then II
stops of itself. Tho whole affair is
so simple as to require practically no
attention, except an occasional oilins
which is no more difficult than TO oil
n sewing machine. At trihing eN-
pense one can also fix up a basement