Show Mrs rs Sutherland Asserts Strongly That Women omen Purify Politics Correspondence St Louis Washington Publicists may rail about the permanent value of various women movements in different parts of the world remarked Mrs Mars Sutherland of Utah Just before her departure for Blue Hill Hili near Bar Harbor Me Mc but brought face to face with some of the there results re of ot the agitation it is 18 difficult to comprehend any backward tendency I Ican Ican Ican can frankly acknowledge that I have I never been deeply impressed with the I expediency ex lency of women taking an active part in politics Yet brought to a real realization realization of the consensus of opinion of ot giving the suffrage to women the truth stands out that in Utah at least they have proved themselves eminently fit fitted fitted fitted ted for the privilege and they have jus titled tilted their claims I have not the least hesitancy in pronouncing equal suffrage an unadulterated unadulterated unadulterated blessing for the state and civic success s and moral incentive in the full sense of the word I can readily com corn comprehend comprehend that in crowded communities of great commercial centers such as the Atlantic seaboard cities are that some women as some men in politics could become a menace and could add another incident to civic corruption There areno are areno areno no great cities clUes as the east knows them no crowded or floating population In any part of the th state The women are rooted to the soil as It were and thoy they take a high view of their obligations to their home Womans Influence Uplifting I have been edified to note that womans influence In political life in my environment Is uplifting I have heard seasoned politicians discuss certain certain tain candidates whom they desired to nominate for office and Invariably in weighing them in the balance they have looked sharp for the view which women voters might take I have heard pome candidate proposed pro and all his good qualities brought out he was brilliant he was trained In his hie work he was a good fellow and a high type ty of patriot but if there was anything against his private character If It he were intemperate Intemperate treated his family Ill Ul was guilty of ot arty any of those tho e offenses which the world leniently permits In the Rood good goodfellow fellow he would be dismissed from consideration with the words Hes all allright allright allright right but the women will not stand for him This uplifting on the part of the women appeals to me as of permanent value and It cannot but work for the good of all communities comm I am not advocating ad advocating advocating universal suffrage for in my mind there are many limitations placed on womans natural vocation when f she he steps into public life But I do say where women do vote they use their privilege wisely We e have an almost perfect civic sanitation from the results of feminine agitation We have fine school laws and excellent school build buildings buildIngs buildings ings and all those regulations which bear on the smaller area of politics the home environment have all been judiciously Ju Judiciously judiciously and liberally framed Votes Same as She Shops The Australian ballot system pre prevails prevails prevails vails and all that criticism about going to the polls unsexing women is of course the nonsense A woman can vote and does vote with no more contact with any objectionable sur aur surroundings surroundings than she has when she goes shopping The women of Utah all vote Some satirists allege that they use the ballot so tirelessly because the privilege is new the zeal of the neophyte and such well known similes Whatever the reason they make use of their vote and what is more they thrash the ques questions questions over and they know why they vote In a certain way and for a certain candidate The women usually go to the polls in the early part of the day I go Just Justas as soon as the polls are open It is never a question of more than ten or r fifteen minutes an incident In the th morning routine of marketing or shop shopping shopping shopping ping You meet some neighbors bound on the same errand of casting the ballot bal ballot I Ilot lot but few I might say no women loiter about the ballot box We all know exactly how to mark the ballot and we wedo wedo wedo do It expeditiously Many women are earnestly working for various reforms national and civic and local but I find women w men vote as I do because It Is a duty enforced en enforced E n forced by granting the ballot To re refrain refrain refrain frain from voting Is to fo neglect some Imme something something thing for which one must be account accountable accountable accountable able Nothing so Pernicious I can Imagine nothing so pernicious than for tor those who reside in a certain section being so Indifferent to the com communal communal communal interests as 8 not to care care who is elected to fill the various public o ices This is practically what the failure to vote means There is no public issue connected with my home my state slate or ormy ormy ormy my country to which I am indifferent Therefore I cast my vote and record my wishes on these matters I rejoice that my view Is the universal view f Utah women Those who wish ish to study the woman question at close range should visit Utah We have had women serving in inthe Inthe inthe the legislative chambers and they have performed their duties quietly and ably and were highly esteemed among their colleagues Mrs Mattie Cannon served in the senate and Mrs Alice Horne Home in inthe Inthe inthe the lower house bouse Both women were exceedingly ex exceedingly exceedingly able advocates and their speeches peeches were among the best efforts of the session ses lon We have had a woman sheriff Miss Clare Ferguson and the fhe also filled the place with credit to her herself herself self elt and to the satisfaction of her com community community community Women In public offices are quite an ordinary occurrence in Utah and so far tar as one can Judge super superficially superficial superficially these th e public duties have not In Interfered interfered interfered with the more sacred ones in inthe Inthe inthe the homes mined to make my final effort to get a atrial atrial atrial trial by jury jur said Thaw Many things have been done in this case that should not have been done anc and much has been left undone But I have been In la the hands of my counsel through throughout out Dr Meyers said Thaw was taking the matter calmly and seemed in no danger of a breakdown Mrs Mary Iary Copley Thaw tonight made the following statement Let no one imagine for a moment on OB reading this opinion of Judge Mills that it means a victory for the district attorney fey ney of New York Every prop was w s taken from under that arrogant vindictive per persecutor persecutor persecutor of a sane acquitted man manSo manSo So baffled was he that when he rose roseto roseto roseto to make his closing speech for argument it was not noti he bad had more the appearance of ot a schoolboy compelled to say his piece than the sometimes courageous ma mature mature mature ture sophist who dominates the courts of his own judicial district except when wealthy malefactors are under trial This totally unexpected and cruel de decision of Ot the trial judge must remain a mystery s Meanwhile my m son SOD my daughter and andI I have no alternative but to take up again the burden I had every reason to believe was behind us forever We exiled from our two homes and all the regular flow of life will remain close to the gate am amo and andO O o h help lp the s son n and brother to endure an xit xi tn c n II It perpetual would be bet ben i n tl t a an death itself 1 trusting in ine n nT rj T a e ce In hi his own 1 god time tune to vindicate the right I r MARY COPLEY THAW Indeed Utah yields to no state her reputation for the cultivation of the housewifery accomplishments The country is so beautiful and fertile ferUle and the he farms so exquisitely cultivated that It it seems a land of promise There is practically no poverty In Utah and to tomake tomake tomake make the conditions Ideal but few very ery opulent citizens Prosperity and gen gin general general eral material comfort are great pro promoters promoters motors of domestic dome tlc accomplishments We have ornate homes In the cities al ai always always ways standing In their own grounds ground and In the gardens fruit flowers and an vegetables are cultivated I 1 regret to say that In Salt Lake City houses hou es in rows are making an ap appearance appearance appearance and that some large apartment apart apartment apartment ment houses are In the course of erection erection erection tion But nearly every one finds gratification gratification gratification in having a pretty homo home and nd managing it to the best beet of ones ability We do not have the servant question in such an acute form as in some com communities communities communities The emigration of the he young women from the north of o Europe Is very large I see no diminution since the laws prohibiting polygamy have been enforced Whether the ultimate prospect of Cof getting a home appeals to these girls cr whether the Mormon faith is 1 still the magnet I cannot Judge but certain it itis itIs itis is that the state of Utah owes much finch of its increasing population po and d its ma material material prosperity to the constantly ar arriving arriving arriving riving groups of women from northern rn Europe Haven for Immigrant nt Girls These The e girls generally make excellent housemaids The English and Scotch i girl in particular are quick to learn and make capable servants servant All marry eventually and though they desert the religion of their fathers for they are Episcopalians Presbyterians and Meth Methodists Methodists they usually have fairly happy lives and certainly seem In better ma material material material condition at least than In their homes I have had large Jarge experience with girls who emigrate under Mormon auspices and I have never yet seen an Irish girl nor any Catholic girl eon t vetted by the Mormon apostles This fact has Interested me very much now that so much discussion is in progress in books and magazines about the creeds c which touch the masses maMes on the vital points and hold their people against the most moISt Invidious temptation We have had our quota of eastern ser servants servants servants also the Japanese Chinese and Filipino and the of Salt Lake City can generally give an il illuminating illuminating illuminating account of all races of ot hand handmaidens handmaidens maidens in recounting her own trials Mrs Sutherland is a charming con conversationalists conversationalists conversationalists and In appearance is one of the most moat impressive figures In official society She has that cosmopolitan training which counts for so much in inthe Inthe inthe the successful hostess She is a native of the state in which she is now so con conspicuous conspicuous conspicuous a social figure and she is de devoted devoted devoted voted to all Its interests Her parents are of the loftiest southern lineage and she was given every opportunity for study and travel prior to her marriage Descendant of Virginia Lees LeesHer LeesHer LeesHer Her father John Percival Lee came of the Virginia Lees Lee and was a close kinsman of Robert E Lee His Hie father left the Old Dominion and settled In the ranch country of the Cumberland in Tennessee Tenne see He married Mile Mlle Fosque a member of a distinguished hed Florida family In his early married life he went to Utah and became one of the leading citizens of ot the new territory Mrs Sutherland married young and though she has a married daughter Mrs C W Lawrence of Salt Lake City she retains the charm of her youth both bothin bothIn bothin in appearance and manner Her sec second second second ond daughter Miss Edith Sutherland was one of the most admired debutantes debutante of the past season se son She was presented pre at a tea given in the Sutherland home In the Highlands and attended by all the prominent buds of the year including that most moat famous of the seasons can candidates candidates candidates for social honors Miss Ethel Roosevelt Roo evelt Miss Sutherland was included ed in the numerous pleasant functions planned by the president and Mrs Roosevelt for their second daughter and her first season on in Vanity Fair was one famous in social chronicles Devours Choice Literature Mrs Sutherland Is one of the most intelligent women in official life She spends all her leisure In reading and her choice of literature is typical I learned to love good reading when I was a small child she said My par parents parents parents were fond of reading aloud and they selected only choice books When my children were young I followed fan owed the theme same game me method and I have Instilled into them a love of good books which noth nothing nothIng nothing ing can eradicate Those who are trained to appreciate the highest thoughts and aspirations of others can never spend a lonely moment I am not much of ot a novel reader but butof butof butof of course I went through that cycle and have survived it It One must read novels to follow the current thoughts of the day but I get more entertain entertainment entertainment entertainment ment from essays J I am absorbed inthe in inthe Inthe the progress of modern modem science in the various movements and the significant tendencies in every direction direction direction tion spiritual as well as purely scientific scientific scientific I am not a believer In the cult of mental healing or any of its allied branches but I find pleasure and edi edification edification edification In keeping up with the dif different different different ferent Being the wife of ofa ofa ofa a politician I have to keep abreast of what goes on in the world of affairs and the domain of political economy In Indeed Indeed Inv deed life Ufe is so 90 crowded these days that it would seem as though people eople should have their days lengthened out Into the years of the ancient patriarchs to get even a superficial coating of the many things that are to be learned In Salt Lake City the clubs are doing excellent world work wor toward Illuminating illuminating Illuminating public questions This sort of a club seems for some purpose for the women who have later to vote on these issues get together and discuss them and hear each others views on every phase This exchange of Ideas is get getting getting getting ting toward the realization of the per perfect perfect perfect civic life It goes a long way to toward tord toward ward rd destroying dogmatic views about certain public questions and it makes one more inclined to realize that all the wisdom of all aU ages is not centered in one spot nor even In one ono political par party party party ty Senator and Mrs Irs Sutherland are great travelers and though they are devoted to their home bome in Salt Lake City they spend some portion of every second year in foreign travel and in visiting different parts of their own country MARGARET B DOWNING DO |