Show NOT PRESS IT the announcement made in the constitutional convention by mr thurman that if women were denied the right to vote at tho the coming election suit would be commenced to compel the utah commission to arrange for their registration tra tion la Is about to be carried out we are perfectly certain that it will tall fall before the courts we are just as certain that if it should bucci c e ed d and the women should vote at the coming election I 1 it would come very cry nearly defeating statehood because in the first I 1 place it la Is contrary to common tense sense I 1 and in the second we all know kno w that mr I 1 cleveland would be glad clad to find an excuse tor for refusing to issue tho the proclamation announcing statehood we think the pressing of the matter by the friends ot of suffrage Is as oollah foolish a business as we ever heard of admitting tor for arguments gu ments sake make that that was the intention ot of the men who dratted drafted the enabling act it Is no proof that congress tor for one moment thought such a a thing possible or would have permitted it hild had the matter been explained 0 of all the men who voted for the enabling act not ten of 0 them live in states late where women are given suffrage suH rage and the idea that they went out ot of their way to do something for utah that they would riot not recommend tor for their own states Is ridiculous then the proposition Is didieu ridiculous luus on its face I 1 t by the construction of 0 tile tho enabling act the couill rule that women may vote this fall then they certainly will have to rule that all boys who will be twenty one years old before the first of january ought to have the right to register and vote are arc in this territory thousands ot of women who were nvere born in foreign countries it if this proposition la Is cormet those women ought to have the right to become naturalized and to vote this fall fail will the proposition to give women the right ot of suffrage also give them the right to become naturalized this year the whole business would be simply a huge bug joke if there was not so much depending on its result the men who are sincerely earnest and anxious to have statehood secured beyond mistake look lock with grave apprehension upon what the effect would be it 1 women were permitted to vote and a great many hundreds ot of men who have mado made nip ip their minds to vote tor for tile the constitution will mill vote against it it if the courts interpose and say that under the disguises ot of the enabling act the right to give women suffrage aul Trago before statehood Is permitted our advice to these earnest Is to let that matter rest until statehood Is secured and then it will adjust itself |