Show DISCUSS THE constitution the people or of utah ore are first reaching tire the point of generous comment and outspoken of 0 the constitution now lit in process of making since it iran been definitely determined to give suffrage to women opposition 10 statehood with such stich a constitution la Is dov developing eloping mid avid people are aie not slow in expressing their feelings on the subject there are n not 0 t so many ladies indies who really desire as the petitions in favor ot of embodying that clause lit fit tire the constitution would indicate the obtaining of these signatures was an easy matter whenever the petition was ivas prevented by persons re reon of influence and authority and now that the work has been done not it a few tallies regret having been used towards bringing at about out the results obtained I 1 one gentl gentleman emall when M hell naked asked by a tribune reporter n how lie he felt over oter the constitution evidently hall had the woman sur suffrage fraKe clause i uppermost upper mort in ills thoughts and answered when we become a state milli that constitution I 1 will permit every woman suffrage woman to do just as I 1 have been doing for years in our street cars hanking hanging on to tire entraps on my way horns home or down town to show tile te elings prevalent statehood arid and the constitution what hat well known cnown citizens pay nay will now be of interest to readers of 0 the tribune I 1 I 1 mr J A Cusil inu merchant of bing iran ham sair leia tive to the senU sentiment ment dominant irl anthal that important mining cam camp p our 10 lo not like the idea of oi taxing mines arid and then their ive w tire arc it unit anit almost on ille the subject of woman oil suffrage effrage when the I 1 i lithot against woman suffrage being placed ilac in the bioly at tile constitution was mas circulated almost every mail m in and woman in our camp elenid it we mill all vule vote almost uni universally venially aganet ratifying the constitution unfortunately the theat mem m bers of the convention do not bot appear to realize the lite difference between a 1 constitution and a cde ade of 0 laws and the document the they are making Is far ar from being what we want Bina liAm will vote it and you know hov it it has been in the lite past as aa bingham goes oes so goes the county i j jimca james d of I ihl sald said statehood w ill be knocked out our people will never vote tor for the constitution here in bolit I 1 have five been surprised nt at the number of people opposed to equal suffrage many old staunch citizens say pay they will ote te against the constitution because they do riot not want woman weman suffrage then our people favor bounties to encourage new enterprises enterpriser ilki lilt our fugar factory which must hive have a bounty to establish it on a paying paring basis individually I 1 urn am opposed to statehood under exciting condit conditions inns and most certainly it woman suffrage su Is to be forced upon us judge jacob 0 johnann o ot of san pete county who has big looked into the question of c statehood and the on said paid to a tribune reporter porter ix both parties in tie lite campaign campal became pledged to woman suffrage awl and could not do 10 oth ottlee aban to adopt it it would have been better to have lave pro pre belted that artisto separately and I 1 was in favor of leaving the question to the women alln but they havo have no right under the enabling riot net to vote on it most people in our county are opposed to woman suffrage but we M will ill probably have to try it and it if not satisfactory get the constitution amended after the constitution Is too much nuch after the nature of ct legislation or a code of 0 laws lawn there seems beem to be a general apprehension that with the adoption of a statehood forra onn of government there ill be an increase of burdens oil tile the people i think this a i mistake provided public affairs are handed properly and we have witte wine I the territorial revenue Is lose lean thun than while our assessed valuation now in it friis ss than there la is an it annual deficit of 0 an average of 0 31 making the cost coal ot of running the territory per anfinn with proper administration the mat of state KOV gov cannot exceed and I 1 think it will be less leas because many 0 I 1 the present will be cutrow cut down ll 11 practically we will have no grand juries juri esi and we will save cave I 1 the e and per diem on tile iho a N of J f wit alt hell sea h hanif angin tn X aroun d t tw am cibu courts T ts and ana we wit will I 1 nee it neither clerks district attorney attorneys ya or deputy but the county clerks county sheriffs anil and county attorneys Alto meya mill perform theau duties making m toltie a largo lares in the expenses while we will mill alave immense ly in mileage and por them dlen tor for mit tt reposes and petit jurlee juries along wath many other ravings raving 11 then we will tax secured by mortgages heretofore w while hile the acres ft lands landl comin 9 front from the government can be b leas ledged ed at 5 cents per annum per acre te giving a revenue of to say ay nothing about the tax of mines and mining property I 1 think the state slate will ill have a revenue of 0 CO a alle there ahert will be no poe KS excuse tor for tho the state expenses to exceed over one halt half this the penitentiary will entail some additional adulf lonal expletive expanse but by a pro proper persys ays tern it can be minis TK 08 melt iid it will take two or r three years year to get eel things settled Bett lil and in rood good working order arid mith n etli ule ul e biting there will after this time ile 1 no excuse for not reducing the rate of 0 taxation instead ot of increasing it I 1 1 I think the judicial a article bicle a reasonably lair fair one and t that ll 11 I 1 it will be but little more expensive lain than our probate courts alone have botn in the vast past the educational article I 1 aioo too cum ber belsome some and contains much th that a t should have bon been left to fori legislation station the districting ot of the territory for le legislative arit sitti v purposes la Is reasonably fair S salt a I 1 aaka L it C county u ty Is a little loser lober but the fact that tire lio governor and nearly all this the state jaust necessarily reside in salt lake city liy tile the county ought not to complain 12 to revenue of the slate it if I 1 the he state stat L lands landa aro are fold at per acre and the money bo be loaned at 6 per cent it will bring brine in a revenue equal to lt cents centa per acre per annum besides subjecting all there lands to ta taxation A lion to the betterment of the state I 1 think these lands should be managed by an appropriate board the same as an tho university lands ito bo sold at lea ica su nible prices while all that cannot be fold bold at IS 5 or more per acre should be 1 e leased tor for terms term ranging ran cinc from live anve to twenty live years at option of oc les ice sees this will enible cattlemen and to acquire ranges for both summer and winter and I 1 nd will mill tend lend t to make these industries more profitable e arid and of tar far better character judge J 1 I jonnes of provo prove says regarding the constitution 1 I was in california icorn is tor for some rome time lima during tile alie convention ven tion and did not keep elope of its doings doing but I 1 think the best in tele eis of the country would have been to have left woman suffrage suffrage alone we e had better learn to walk first in diate abate hood which at brat best will mill be with us its an all experiment at least the question of woman suffrage ought toi to be b separately and I 1 dont belleve believe any rood oo 00 will come 0 from it instead of elevating politics poll tica through woman suffrage it will degrade hr and I 1 thank it a rel lection on husbands ard and ar d sons hors to 0 say e V that woman suffrage urai c Is necessary men fell in voting do what they think best beat tor for the good of all and feel it their special duty to do the lite best for the country by their votes in many cases w woman ornan suffrage will ili only double the iho vo vote te while in others the he contention in families will ilc destroy stroy the loe ioe and ana comforts of home and result in ill to coming generations generation since the child gets gels its character before with and politics engender and excite aril mosi ties to tile the detriment of the child 1 I do riot not approve of the legislative apportionment wherein county lines line instead of population are made a basis in districting I 1 do not think county lines should have any bearing in this res respect hect I 1 du do not object to taxing mines and mort mortgages gares 11 al H S mines druggist of says 1 I am going to vote against the constitution do atit ution an and I 1 would rather forfeit 1500 than get statehood for or utah at this time this 19 I 1 because I 1 do not lot r believe the mormon are aln sincere in their professions outlined by the it ie manifesto of the church I 1 voted here it ile ahe when wo we only cast seven blira r ballota ha llota just as openly as I 1 vote these time at the same saint time the mormons cormons built little temple in kirkland 0 the methodists built a church there lormans mormons lor mons were driven di alvrn out of ohio annd illinois while labile that church still stands stand near the temple in kirkland and lias has always been a peaceful place of worship it cannot be possible that the american people have been arong all these years in tapir appos opposition toche to the church having polygamy poly Ramy sit as one of its chief tenets I 1 dont think we lie die ye act ready tready for statehood and I 1 N will ill vote vole against it A tribune reporter questioned many citizens of lehl I clil and american fork as to their views ot of tho the constitution und found them thelo almost to a man opposed to it one pi eminent prominent democrat bald lie ho old dill not like the iho lea idea 1 of wornon suffrage arid and that he would vote against the ratification ratin callon of 0 tho the constitution the same sentiment was found to prevail in fit provo among men of both political part parties les and one federal official said he hall opposed statehood in the counsels of his party and that hat he tho thought tight he would vote agai against virt the constitution thit that th it he favors waiting three or fou tour years until the old animosities have died out and until we are iett betar r prepared for the change from a territory to a state several persons in ill these there three towns expressed the opinion that not much oer one voter in twenty at present favors ratifying the constitution and most of those opposed to it are ready to siy say they will vote vole it the same sentiments prevail by a large majority at springville Spring villa ville and payson at Spring springville ville milan packard was very outspoken against the constitution which lie says gays he will voce against and lie base sIlls chief cliplef objections on woman suffrage But th the judicial article unfair apportionment and the hitch rat rates of tax limit und and then he thinks the document is in too much like a code of laws having so much in it that should have been left to the leg lo le liture one good democrat one of the lh best and most copt prominent citizens of spring ville said 1 I will oppose it on account of woman suffrage and I 1 will mill take oil off my coat and fight it until the he lent last ballot la Is in ili the box I 1 arn am against tile the inci eased per cent of tax lax limit I 1 do not like the apportionment I 1 dont think sagebrush ruall and cattle of these there sparse ly Y settled counties should hould affect tun the men melt ot of thickly populated counties and then the constitution is 13 so encumbered encumber el that the legislature LeFi slature will mill bo be hampered in tact fact it will mill have but little to do 10 lo and be unable to do that because of being handicapped |