Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-19 | Page 4 | Woman Suffrage

I 1 I M I t I M M I WOMAN SUFFRAGE I t I n I 11 t t tt It t is a singular and not altogether a flattering commentary upon American institutions that in respect t of the political rights of women in this country except in iii a few States State they are less liberal liberal lib lib lib- eral than those of other lands tho governments of which not Hot so long ago it was the American c cus custom cuis- cuis s. s tom torn contemptuously to define as effete te monarchies monar monar- chies chie This po point nt was was excellently brought out yesterday yesterday yes yes- by delegates to the Womans Woman's Suffrage Convention Con Con- at Washington n who appeared before the Woman Suffrage Committee of the Senate and the Judiciary Committee Committed of the House to present th the merits of the great cause for which they are work work- ing 1 From the addresses of fraternal delegates from foreign countries the law makers of the Nation I heard and some of them no doubt for the first time I that in autocratic Russia whatever political rights men have ha are hared haled equally b by women omen that in where women pay taxes on an income of one hundred dollars a year they have hare the ri right ht of suffrage ge that in Sweden women have the ballot I and nd that in Australia female suffrage has been pronounced pronounced pro pro- pounced fn an eminent success on on all hands bands Mrs Hannah S. S Lapish of Salt Lake City made an impression im rut- impression with her statement in regard to the tile working work vork- ing ng of woman suffrage in Utah and was followed by other eloquent women from the civilized States of Colorado r Wyoming omin and Ida Idaho o The truth of the matter is that this great reform reform re ye- form has become too much of an issue and too much of a moral and practical success in the country cOIlS coun try to be laughed down the he wind as was the unmanly un un- un manly method of treating it some years back Here Herein in Utah the best elements o of society are satisfied with the results of the experiment and the same we think may be said of the other commonwealths that have ha tried it If much more centralized and despotic nations than ours find woman suffrage desirable it would be hard to discover disco any very ery convincing con reason why the United States as a whole should hesitate to enfranchise the half of its intelligence intelligence in in- and patriotism and the time better half of its its' virtue and devotion to all that is good pure and andI honorable I