| Show VOTE the question thoroughly discussed saturday TANNERS LAST SPEECH the address iu full as written shortly before the ladys death dr maeser the afternoon session of the N W S A of utah county met at 2 p m last saturday with new president Mr sElecta bullock in the chair after the usual opening exercise mrs lizzie gillespie rendered in a pleasing manner the star spangled banner mrs B young referred to the rebellion in heaven thought the females there had n right to vote men often conflicted a right to vote with holding office but all she was an equal right of franchise with men negroes are allowed to vote are we not as intellectual as they and have we not as much right to vote further than this we have asked noth ing excepting to follow the men taking 1 the lead women have been downtrodden having the right of franchise for years but much good will eventually accrue from it and the speaker hoped that the day would speedily come when women would receive the tr anchise mrs caroline B pratt then read the following address written by the prebi det MJ tanner prior to her demise grant alien view gives a very pungent article on the women question he says if ay or race deserves a continued existence then above all other things it is necessary that the species or race should on reproducing itself can any person poa essing the slightest claim to reasoning dispute that fact it is a fact above all facts most notably established he goes on to review the conditions under which the human jaee must keep up its numbers or become extinct be counts the children each woman must have in order to keep the population at normal we are willing to go farther and re cognito gods first law when he faced adam and eve on this planet e did not say to them now that I 1 have placed you here I 1 wish you to keep up the race and not let the species run out bat be said go forth multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it thia grand earth was before them to replenish that is to nil up and subdue here there is work for oan as well as women if women must replenish man must subdue and their work was given them side by side it could hot be separated in the natural order of things nature baa prepared women for the burden of and man to aubyne the earth and make it fruitful for the support of her and her of spirit if things have got somewhat turned whose fault ia it not women alone certainly he talks of women being he should be a little more lucid on that point and tell us what it takes to a woman in countries where she takes her place in the harvat field or is joked yoked with the oxen to pull the plow she ia no doubt you will find here those performing the functions of wife and mother as well and she is detill not considered out of place in helping to subdue the earth but did she nse up and demand her emancipation asking for a voice in the government where she might make laws that would forbid her being joked yoked with the beasts of burden would that feminine de her would it weaken the attention of thinking woman from the true problem of their sex to fix it on side issue ol 01 comparative unimportance can a woman not perceive the true aim of hersea and persue also the intellectual capacity their aex is capable of attaining she says that in raising a few children every woman must use up ten orti velve of the best years of her life no I 1 would say that for twenty to twenty five of the best years of a comans womans life she is capable under proper conditions of bearing children during that twenty or awen ty five years when her womanhood is most complete and attractive is she capable of no intellectual advancement must she exercise no other function but the material one and is reproduction th only attribute of the maternal mate rhal function I 1 would assert that it is not that maternity demands the highest state of physical and intellectual cultivation the above article was merely commenced when the writer was taken ill had she lived to finish the article she would no doubt have met all the arguments brought forth by the gentleman referred to the song the maid of the mill was beautifully sang by miss dottie smoot dr karl G maeser felt honored in addressing so large an assemblage of ladies and was not very familiar with the subject of comans womans suffrage since bearing of this movement bad considered it from a philosophical standpoint and thought it a phenomenon requiring a great deal of attention by every thinking person the solution of which could not be given by its opponents woman possesses noble traits of character by which she is expected to lead oui overcome refine elevate and redeem man who without such influence can never attain to what he is destined to all the great men of different ages can trace their successes back to their mother the highest attainments tain ments could not be gained at the sacrifice of the least of these noble duties these are the voices upon whose influence and character society rests ia safety it was the true desany of woman to be an adviser man without thia would be easily led astray such conditions can not be taken sway in safety from any nation whenever there is a cause at stake in a nation and woman takes a part in it and her influence will be felt either for good or evil E B wells said we did not expect to get and emancipation but these associations would perhaps help to some women try to use and exercise an influence for and against the women of utah the women of the world recognize thia uon because it is a branch of their own and thought more good would result in this than any other way comans womans generally for good and thought the should have the franchise albera were bad women as well aa bad men but thought that the latter would outnumber the former it was proper for women to hold office if qualified and elected as there were just 03 intelligent women as men mr A 0 smoot had had the privilege of voting but like the ladies had been dis franchised gave an account of utah receiving her franchise and thought we would yet live to see that time again mrs susa Y gates the president of the association was sensible of the ho n or conferred upon her looked upon it as a mission and needed the assistance of the women and husbands thought the greatest paint to be had in view was the education of woman 1 that she might become a better mother difo and adviser thought it was best to meet in a similar capacity every three months near the time of quarterly conference the topic to be discussed next time by abo various delegates was should woman exercise the elect of franchise singing doxology benediction mrs M A gaddie |
