Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05

IN Va
nj s;S 'ss'a YORK TO '';s':s York e'a a.':s e;'a
reporter, who asked her il sho
would like to vote.
DO 1 want to vote?" she repeated
with a look of amazement. DO L
want to vote? Ha. ha. and two or three
more of the same, please, Does sea-
sick person want to get ashore? Does
a landlord want his rent the hrst
month? Yes, you say. Well, that gives
you only a faint impression of how
badly 1 want to vote"
Did you catch the FEVER mere or in
England?"
II must have caught 1t here. because
have had 1t ever since 1 can remem-
ber. 1 could never understand the
alleged Justice OF a government that
extended the ballot to all sorts OF un-
desirable men while deying 1t to women.
| A foreigner who hasn't been here long
enough to recognize the American flag
| II II was pointed out to him has moro
| rights than the brainy,. self supporting
business woman. Take my own case
| for instance. 1 have lot of money
| invested, l manage my stage ventures
unassistcd and yet the law says 1 am
| not fitted to make a Stingy little cross
| on a piece of paper"
| But would you be satisfied with one
! CROSSE"
! What do you mean?"
| zone OF the chief argumnets against
| giving women the right to vote Is that
each election would take about six
months. When woman got inside the
booth she wouldn't be content to make
a single cross in one of the columns
| and let IL go at that, She would want
to draw pictures of trees and houses
and animals and make q border around
| the edges before she came out. In ad-
| dition to the length OF time think of al
the spoiled ballots"
"Rubbishi When l hear such argu'
ments as that 1 feel like taking the
Declartion of Independence and jab-
bing 1t to death with hat pin. 1t l:
Just that sort of foolish talk that has
kept the ballot from US. You know
many men actually believe that Kind o.
rot. Another argument against it ha'
been that scheming politicians would
have the polling places next to q mil
linery establishment and that by the
time the women got through trying OF
bonnets the polls would be closed.
have no patience with men who trea
our intelligence so lightly"
Don't you suppose half a hundred
new hats. judiciously distributed. woul'
do lot OF damage In some close dis
| trictS?"
wOMEN'S WEAKNESS FOR HATS
II am willing to admit that mos
women have a weakness for headgear
said Miss Elliott earnestly. but l don
think there are a great many of us VIII
would be willing to sacrifice our civil
duties for the sake of a few feathers
And, besides, no woman would dare l.
wear q new hat around election time
II she did she would be under suspicion
So you see that argument is dispose,
Of"
Laugh all you have a mind to. bu
when we get the ballot we can star
many needed reforms"
And when will that be?"
within the next 10 years, I'm Gel
tain. Most of the big ntellects of Ih
world admit the justice of our demand
Men over so are causing the woman
suffrage movement the most troUb
now. By the time man reaches the
age his habits are formed, and he RI
fuses to change them, and one IF III
strongest habits with men past the ha
! century mark Is believing that woma
In municipal and national affair
Younger men. who observe til
changing conditions on all sides
! them, are coming around splendid.
And when the ballot does reach us "
will be in 4 position to dictate ali II
nominations
And a homely man won't stand
Chinaman's chance. A man will hay
to be a combination OF Adonis an