Show I WOMAN IN POLITICS Fair Sex Taking Intense Interest in the Struggle THE SILVER QUESTION BHYAX GLOT1S HAVEI BEEX ORGANIZED ORGAN-IZED I EACH PRECIXCT Splendid Work Done By Mrs Ferguson Fergu-son In This Direction Are Not Olitce Seekers Tlic Efforts of airs Emily Bichsurtls Who Arc Worleiiig For the Silver Chain Iiloii Free Coinage Catechium Continued Since Utah women have been granted the privilege of voting there ha i sprung up a wave of enthusiasm thai tha-i bids fair to carry ail before it in the coming campaign And they are going i 1 to exercise their rights judiciously The old saying that women votE as n I their fathers and husbands dictate J I will be shown to be an erroneous idea Suffrage ha not had the striking effect I In Utah that it has in other states as i the women at one time in Utah enjoyed 1 the privilege of voting for seventeen years but it will be used differently I and in a much more enlightened manner man-ner I will be a question of principle more than parties Formerly they generally gen-erally voted the Peoples party ticket I and the religious element entered largely large-ly into the matter now i is no longer I a question of religion but of politics I of which they are making a deep study I A month or + wo ago the majority of I the women i must be confessed understood very little except the principles I prin-ciples of their respective panties but they have formed clubs for the purpose pur-pose of studying the great silver question ques-tion that will be the issue in the cornIng corn-Ing campaign Dr Ellen Ferguson who for years has stood with a few other women at the head of the political politi-cal women in Utah if she has not really been their leader is taking a most active interest in the coming campaign To her belongs the credit of I I organizing the Ladies Bryan Silver clubs With the assistance of Mrs J i i Fewson Smith the first meeting washed was-hed In the Twentyfirst ward and from i that they organized a club in each precinct j pre-cinct The club is open to women of all politcal faiths the only stipulation I being that they work for Bryan and the success of the silver party The club met with Immediate success 1 There is a meeting ever week In each j I precinct and the attendance of each club averages from thirty to fifty members I mem-bers Mrs Ferguson is an indefatigable indefatiga-ble worker Within the last three I weeks she has made fifteen free silver speeches before the different clubs of this city The Ladies Bryan Free Silver I ver clubs have already enrolled on their books the namesLtif nearly a thousand women whlltPthe McKinley Republican club has less than one hundred hun-dred and forty and it is believed that this number will not support the ticket at the coming election unless they do so under the mistaken Idea that McKinley Mc-Kinley stands for free silver which doctrine has been expounded at some of the McKinley meetings The women of Utah will not come to the front as office seekers although there are many women qualified to hold office and no doubt would enter the political po-litical field if requested There are positions that women could advantageously advantage-ously fill and taxpayers 1 fl as long as they are payers why snould they not have some of the responsibilities and some of the work that is enjoyed by the men and also some of the money that these offices of-fices pay Our women will never hunt for office a some men do who are known to be ready to accept any position now in the hope of bettering themselves in the future Their sense ofdelicacy would I not permit i There seems to be a feeling prevalent among the women that they will stand by each other and undoubtedly should a woman be upon the ticket she will get the votes of all other wompn This interest in politics is prevalent throughout the state There may not be the same amount of work done in other counties that there will be in this but the women are alive to the situation They realize it is a ques tion of bread and butter to them Dr Ellen Ferguson thinks that every thing points to a Democratic success in local politics although she hopes for the election of Bryan she thinks the outlook very serious The business men in the east are bringing every influence to bear upon our business men to make them i possible vote for the gold standard which causes affairs to assume as-sume a threatening aspect On the other side we have the working classes who have been suffering under the terrible ter-rible pressure of low wages until they have reached the uttermost point of endurance and it is either for silver or revolution This state of things is breeding anarchy and socialism Instead In-stead of charging the Chicago platform and Bryan with anarchy and repudiation repudia-tion it is the gold platform itself that would lead to that Mrs Emily Richards has always been one of our most serious workers She was one of the few women who worked long and earnestly for suffrage suff-rage in Utah I is regretted by all that she will be unable to work with the other women in Utah during the fall but although she is as interested as ever in politics and is watching with interest the political field in Utah she has other work to perform which will no doubt ultimately result in more lasting good to the sex than as though she remained at home Her one aim for years has been to see women all over this country obtain the rights of equal suffrage and while in Washington Wash-ington last winter pledged herself to work for that end in whatever field she was called She is working with Mrs Laura 1 Johns and last spring was sent to Idaho where she has been most actively engaged and will continue con-tinue her labors there during the corning corn-ing campaign I was with regret that I she gave up her home work Judge j Powers tendered her a position on the executive state committee and had I she not been pledged to Idaho she would have accepted i Sirs Richards does not think there is a possibility of failure for Bryan and the silver cause She thinks Bryan is himself an inspiration Mrs C E Allen is workinghard for Bryan and thinks the outlook Bran ad very encouraging During the last campaign cam-paign i was impossible to get the women wo-men interested but they now sense the danger ahead and are displaying much enthusiasm Women who formerly opposed op-posed equal rights and anything pertaining per-taining to public work have recently come forward not only a public speakers but as organizers of womens clubs I is not only the older women who show the Interest but also the very young which looks encouraging for the future Mrs Allen said No cause has ever stirred me as this baS 1 l j1t j > r I I shall do everything possible to help i the cause that is of such vital interest I i to all Both Republicans and Democrats Demo-crats should support Bryan because I he represents the honest belief of the mass of the voters of the country McKinley Mc-Kinley represents the belief of the monopolists mo-nopolists and moneygetters We should support Bryan because he was the honest hon-est choice of the convention that nominated nom-inated him McKinley was forced upon the Republican party by the plot of an unscrupulous politician Bryan honestly believes in his platform plat-form McKinley stands upon a platform plat-form he does not believe in simply to obtain the presidency The women of Utah appreciate the fact that politicians are giving them an opportunity to work side by side with them during the coming campaign cam-paign and that they are beginning to realize the benefit this equality will be to all Womens names have already been enrolled on different committees On the state committee we see the name of Mrs Margaret Caine Dr Mattie Mat-tie Hughes and Mrs Electa Bullock of Provo are on the committee on I union On the state executive committee com-mittee are the names of Mrs La Barthe Mrs Margaret Caine and Dr Mattie Hughes so i can readily be seen tour women will not only take an active interest in the coming election but that their power is already cians al-ready being felt by our local politi < < < FREE COINAGE CATECHISM CHAPTER I Q To whose advantage is it that some nations have been induced to adopt the gold standard A To the advantage of all creditor nations especially England 200000000 people now use gold alone a redemptive redemp-tive money who in 1873 used both gold and silver hence the constant rise in siver the power of gold which rise shows itself in the fall of prices of commodities commo-dities Q What are the consequences of a decrease in the volume of money A The price of commodities of all kinds falls Cut down the quantity of money in circulation onehalf other conditions remaining unchanged andi the prices of wheat cotton wool and half other things as a whole will fall one Q What are the results of an increase in-crease in the volume of money A The price of commodities will rise Double the quantity of money in circulation other conditions remaining unchanged and prices of the peoples products will double Q What do bimetalllsts believe would be the results of the free coinage coin-age of silver in the United States A They believe that with the American mints open to free coinage that the price of silver bullion would rise to its coin value viz 129 per ounce that a restoration of silver to its position as a standard money metal would increase the volume of money In circulation and that inconsequence In-consequence the price of all products would rise in proportion A rising market would stimulate production revive trade provide increased employment em-ployment for the idle better wages for the laborer and once more set the wheels of progress in motion toward and a season of returning industry prosperity Q What has been the ratio of fall in prices since the panic of 1S93 A From 15 to 20 per cent on all commodities and since 1873 nearly 50 percent Q What effect does this fall of prices have on us as a nation A I tends to discourage production and commerce paralyzes trade and diminishes labor and wages and works to the constant impoverishment of the debtor classes Q How has this fall in prices affected af-fected our national and long time debts A All debts are paid in the products pro-ducts of the labor of the debtor and as most of our debts are held in foreign for-eign countries they are paid in such products as we have for export as wheat and cotton it will now taKe more than twice a much of these commodities to pay the same amount of debts as in 1873 Thus on account of the fall in their prices it will now take more wheat or cotton to pay off our national debt noW reduced to 889000000 than it would to have paid the whole debt in 1S73 when i amounted amount-ed to 2105000000 We have been paying pay-ing off the debt for thirty years and yet it will take more of our products to pay the balance now than it would have taken to pay the whole at first ELLEN B FERGUSON To be Continued < < < WOMEN VOTERS ATTEND THE PRIMARIES On next Tuesday evening the loth primaries will be held in all the precincts pre-cincts of the city and county for the purpose of electing delegates to the county convention called for Sept 19 Each precinct in the new division of the city is entitled to five delegates The primaries are the most important part of the political campaign and yet unfortunately they are too often neglected neg-lected by the intelligent and responsible responsi-ble members of the body politic and left to be controlled and manipulated by ward heelers and professional politicians ticians to further private ends Women Wo-men voters Attend the primaries in your respective precincts on Tuesday next and see that the best representative representa-tive men and women of the community are sent a delegates to the county convention Remember that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and that in the primaries are laid the foundations foun-dations of an honorable and successful success-ful campaign one that will enlist the earnest efforts of the best citizens and result in the greatest good to the community E B F O O < < < A UTAH WOMAN HONORED HONORD A little bird brings the news from a sister state that Wyoming will honor her women citizens by nominating one of them to a seat in the state senate The lady who will wear the senatorial toga is one who born in Utah and for many years a resident here was always al-ways identified with every movement I having for its object the advancement and elevation of woman She will we are sure do credit both to her native and adopted states in the responsible position to which the suffrages of the citizens of Wyoming will elect herO her-O O O < < < The Ladies Bryan Silver club of the Second precinct will meet at the resIdence resI-dence of Mrs L 8 Green 434 West Fifth South Thursday at 230 p m Mrs Margaret Caine and Mrs Froiseth will address the meeting At the last meeting Mrs Mattie Hughes Cannon and Mrs Froiseth were appointed members of the executive committee Mrs R K Thomas pres O O O < < < The Ladies Bryan Silver club of the Fifth precinct will meet at Mrs Wat sons 213 South Fifth East at 230 Monday Mon-day afternoon Dr Mattie Cannon will speak Mabel C Newman secretary |