| Show WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS A fleeting of the Territorial Association As-sociation Yesterday THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AND AFTERWARDS PRESENTED TO THE CONVENTION A Strong Plea For Equal Suffrage AVomcn Are n Part oC the PCOllle What the EnfranchIsement of the Sex Will Do List of Those Who Signed the Memorial The territorial association of woman suffragists met yesterday afternoon at the city and county building and perfected per-fected the plan for their campaign in the constitutional convention The association as-sociation consists of the leading woman wo-man suffragists from all over the territory ter-ritory and their action has behind It the thousands of women who have banded themselves together In county and smaller organizations As a result of the meeting committee presented resolutions which were drawn up to I be presented to the convention The chairman of the committee was Mrs I Emily S Richards and the members were Sarah M Kimball Cora G Casle ton Isabella E Bennett Priscilla P Jennings Mary E Gilmer ZIna D H Young Mary A Parsons Emma J Mc Vicker Amelia F Young Romania B Pratt Ruth M Fox Phoebe Y Beatie Martha Hughes Cannon CorInne M Allen The resolutions which were afterwards after-wards presented to the convention areas are-as follows folowshe The Resolutions To the Honorable President and Members Mem-bers of the Constitutional Convention of Utah We your petitioners and memorial ists representing the great majority of the women of Utah and more particularly par-ticularly as the official representatives of the great women organizations of Utah numbering in aggregate membership mem-bership over 35000 viz The Utah Suffrage association auxil I iary to the National American Worn ans Suffrage association the National Womans Relief society and the Young Ladies National Mutual Improvement association these thousands of women standing In a general way or in virtue vir-tue of direct official relationship as our constituents we your memorialists speak in their names and in behalf of the women of Utah herewith present the womans cause I Is a matter of congratulation that in these closing years of the nineteenth nine-teenth century the cause of woman can without the stigma of partisanship partisan-ship be laid before a body of chosen men ordained to the work of creating a new sovereignty within the galaxy of states as an equal member of the indissoluble Union The men of Utah In their respective political parties have with equal unanimity said tat women shall be accorded equal rights I and privileges of citizenship that sex distinction shall no longer be a ban and a bar to equal opportunity with I men to exercise the Godgiven powers and capabilities with which women are endowed fo purposes of equal self I government and equal enjoyment of I the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness We take it that the men of Utah have spoken i honestly sincerely and conscientiously as true men to that equally large number num-ber of citizens who are now disfran chised who are now deprived of authority au-thority to speak a word or cast a vote In the framing of an organic law which determines their personal and property prop-erty rights their civil and political status in the social organism We are glad to feel assured that J I our brothers are dealing honestly and I righteously with u and that they will ordain truth and Justice in the name of God and humanity And we are i happy too In the belief that these overtures made by the men of Utah are in line with the onward march of civilization that the bow of promise is rising higher and brighter In the heavens heav-ens of human hope that with the elevation ele-vation and emancipation of women the plans of God are ripening with the process of the suns And we say to you that we contemplate no rival sovereignty no sphere peculiar and apart no conflicting regime or antagonistic antag-onistic legislation no hostile policy or divided counsels No the woman movement move-ment means only true human progress I means higher and truer harmony more genuine and enlightened fellowship fellow-ship more real cooperation more vital vi-tal and perpetual union The key and the clue to all true progress Is the larger harmony that the Infinite Spirit is breathing into the rising grandeur of human development As constitution makers a framers of the chart that shall guide us in what we hope to be a long and prosperous pros-perous future you will cherish in your deliberations a sacred regard for the principles of liberty for those undying axioms that have been laid at the foundations of our Temple of Freedom We have thousands of women in Utah who are propertyholders and taxpayers taxpay-ers in their own right Probably no i other state furnishes as large a roll j of taxpaying women Taxation without with-out representation is tyranny This was the keynote the bugle call of the revolutionary fathers in their struggle for liberty Says James Otis In 1761 in one of the pamphlets that made our independence The very act of taxing exercised over those who are not represented rep-resented appears to me to be depriv log them of one of their most essential rights For what one civil right is worth a rush after a mans property is subject to be taken from him at pleasure without his consent If a man is not his own assessor in person or by deputy his liberty is gone Hon Charles Sumner In his speech on March 7 1866 endorses these declarations declara-tions of James Otis and he says Stronger words for universal suffrage could not be employed His argument is that if men are taxed without being represented they are deprived of essential essen-tial rights These axioms are as clear as sunlight sun-light and It would be in violation of the fundamental principles of our Institutions In-stitutions for the men of Utah to frame laws whereby women property holders shall be taxed without their consent given through such representation aa is accorded to men as a condition precedent pre-cedent to their being taxed Again all our constitutions either In terms or In substance commence their preambles with that comprehensive formula We the people Our government gov-ernment of the people for the people and by the people Whatever the status of women may be they are at least a part of the people As such the government provides a place for them and by no form or principle of reasoning can they be deprived of such rights and privileges as enure to men under government without at the same time destroying the natural rights which men hold for themselves to be inviolate Furthermore by the declaration of Independence the existence of government govern-ment hinges upon the consent of the governed his consent Is to be given through the forms and provisions whereby governments are made and administered This consent goes to the framing of the constitution to the enactment en-actment of laws under that constitution constitu-tion and to the administration of those laws and there can be no consent without representation Hence the disfranchisement of half the people and a large proportion of taxpayers and creators of wealth is tyranny pure and simple even though it be under the shadow and In the name of liberty and free government But we seek not to weary you with the recital of axioms What we desire is that we may uphold your hands in revealing them to the world and making them effective in human government Jefferson Jef-ferson laid a deep foundation fop human freedom In planting equal rights at the roots oC the tree oi liberty but it was given to Lincoln to make those principles most effective and to cause them to shine as tha noonday sun in the firmament oe American history He said I believe the day Is not I far distant when women will wield the ballot to purify and ennoble politics I 50 for all sharing in the government who assist in bearing its burdens by no means excluding the females To you gentlemen of the Utah constitutional con-stitutional convention it Is given to make other deep and fundamental principles of our government effective In the administrations of Jaw We do not doubt your ability and willingness to do so But we come to greet you In behalf of the women of Utah to strengthen your hand and to assure you that we are keenly alivo to tha importance and far reaching consequences conse-quences of your labor in our behalf MAnd above all we would Impress you with the fact that the women oi Utah are by no means indifferent spectators of the drama thafc is now being enacted We believe that everjt age has its rising and its settingsun We believe that the woman movement has come because the sun of our civilization has thrown across our social horizon the dawning of a new and more glorious era in the history of man We believe that through the ages an eternal purpose runs and that in the full enfranchisement of women there will come a larger and truer sovereignty a national conscientiousness con-scientiousness in fuller harmony with the temporal welfare and happiness of man We believe that both men and women will be benefltted morally socially so-cially and economically We believe that now the time clock of American destiny has struck the noun Lo inaugurate in-augurate a larger and truer civil life and that the future writers of Utah history will immortalize the names of those men who in this constitutional convention defying the injustice and prejudice of the past strike off the bonds that have heretofore enthralled woman and open the doors that will usher her Into free and full emancipation emancipa-tion I We therefore ask you to provide in the constitution that the rights of citizens of the state of Utah to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex and that male and female citizens of the state shall equally enjoy all civil political and religious rights and privileges The memorial was signed by the following fol-lowing ladles Emmillne B Wells president of the Womans Suffrage Association of Utah Emily S Richards vicepresident Zlna D H Young president of the National Womans Relief society Jane S Richards Rich-ards vicepresident Ellen B Ferguson Salt Lake County Suffrage association Electa Bullock Utah County aa ocla tlon Lucy A Clark and Jennie Nelson Weber County association Celia E Bean Sevler Silvia La Cox Sanpete M A Graver Juab E H Cannon Salt Lake E T Stevenson Salt Lake Louisa L Wright Joanna Melton Cora G Carlton M Isabella Home Ada Williams Kate S Hilliard S E Anderson An-derson Sarah A Howard Elizabeth J Macfarlane Mary E Irvine Jemima R Midgby Lydia D Alder Maria M B Horrocks E H Peke Rebecca H Doe lan Margaret A Caine Ella W Hyde Jane A Hatch Rose E Hatch Emily Stevenson Priscilla J Biter Mattie A Brieger Aurelia S Rogers Monica Se crist Harriet A Badger Mary A Freeze Mary Elizabeth H Shipp Mary J Holding Josephine Howard Annie Parley Ellen C Clawson Mrs Katie L Paxman Mary L Moser Susan Grant Sarah H Roberts Harriett Beers Eliza Jenkins Hannah Jenkinson Christina Attley |
