Show EQtAL StFRAGE MOVEMENT The woman suffrage question which is agitating New York just now is a living subject In this territory and there Is an active movement among the ladies in its favor There are obstacles ob-stacles in the way of its progress in New York which we mention that our friends in this territory may avoid them Not that we think the present an opportune time for pressing the claims of woman to the elective franchise in Utah but simply that they may escape the rocks which are likely to wreck the movement elsewhere i I One mistake is that itis a duty of women suffragists to berate the men set themselves up as so much superior to male voters and base their claims on the parity which will of necessity i they think be brought into politics by I their presence Another is the introduction of the discussion of the alleged woes and wrongs of womanhood including the shocking exhortation to their sex that too long they have borne the burden of humanity for man I Another is the turning of suffrage meetings into partisan harangues It I is not right to charge one party more I than another with opposition to equal i suffrage or to claim that either party is committed to its support I One more is mingling with the suffrage the question of the fitness of women to hoid office and sit on juries The so I called rights to these powers may be intimately connected with the suffrage I tout they are not necessarily included i in it The simple question of womans I claim to a voice in the affairs of the country of which she is a citizen and I j j in the selection of men to make laws i which she is required to obey ought to be kept distinct from other considerations consider-ations if the ladies want to win that point Finally they should cease to demand as a right that which men hold merely mere-ly as a privilege That there is no inherent right to the elective franchise in either sex that it does not belong Ito I-to citizenship as a part of it or a power pow-er growing out of it but is a privilege conferred by law which may require different qualifications for its exercise in different states of the Union has long since passed out of the domain of argument and has been settled by decisions de-cisions of the court of last resort If the women of the United States will keep these points in mind and can convert the majority of their own sex to the equal suffrage doctrine it will not be long before they will gain the victory over these men who yet oppose op-pose their wishes |