Show Many 1 Pat Patriots rots Died T Te That We Ve e Might 1 Vote 1 The light of was has not alWa al Was wa Wa s te absolu s it is today toda in thIs nation n English speaking peoples In Inthe inthe inthe the d drys di s of feu had not hot thIs privilege e Only after King John of Ln England in III i hid had granted to the of England the Magna Magni Ch Charta did thi right commerce to toh c h hie he hn e n mi any effect By de degrees ees as time I went on the rl n right ht was as extended to more classes cl U until tit ll today it has become become be- be become lof come so much a 1 ij part of our system of representative government that we e eI take it foi fot n gran d I But this right TIght to o n a voice in the af- af fans at-fans faus of government go a was not secured P passively Sll vel velIan Many Ian bloody tUes battles were fought and many brave men died that the people might fight become sovereign sovereign sovereign eign It svgs wis a right struggle be bet t teen een the nables and ind the common people After hundreds hundreds of years of struggling and lad Fon on battle battlefields fields andin and in m lc bodies the race at last secured what seemed to be fun full u I rights in m this re respect was this true m America the land of the free froc W e 0 secured the only by winning the the ar tsar ar of Independence one hundred and fifty years r e ago igo go And yet iet et the tight light is not is as many believe granted to us by the Con Constitution of the United States There Thereas b as nothing in that that document which says that you OJ of 0 I shill shall have the rl right ht to vote lIt It ib is true tint that the fifteenth Amen Amendment ment says that The The right of citizens jot of the United States to vote shall no be denied or ed by the Unit United d States 01 of by any State te on account of rice race color or pre conditions of servitude but this pro proon pro is I on on was as placed there only the Civil War ar ar and was as for the protect on n of the negroes freed in III that con conflict ld Still the states have th power to de determine term me ho shall vot vote within then their respective tive territories subject to the e abo-e abo e provision As r ou will recall Its it s w as stated in last decks ecks s article tint that the Constitution ort 04 Utah grants thIs prix pm lIege I If we beat beal in 10 mind then that the right of suffrage ge geas was as obtained for forus forus forus us only after unwed of years of struggle in InV inT T V Ich thousands of our ur ancestors give gave up p their lives lies we can cannot cannot cannot not but come 0 o 0 the conclusion that it is our duty as aa well as our great gleat privilege to r n tain am am that right bye by e c I I it at ery ati ery opportunity If we e fail fall to vot wre w ire are in effect slack slackers slackers ers as mucho much 50 o 0 IS s the man who re refused refused refused fused to don t e uniform o his coup coun country country try in I time ot otar o war ar In this matter we can well e the motto The Legion In Peace as in m WarWe WarI WarWe War I i We Serve I s not This is the fourth I I of ofa a 1 series of articles being prepared prepared ed by the Lions Club and ind The Am Legion pf of f Bountiful the fifth will appear nest next week weck |