Show unprejudiced opinion the Desere fc news with a profound consciousness of the risk incurred in differing on a legal proposition from the salt lake herald and in all awe and humility as becomes one who ventures to run counter to the opinions of that judicial colossus abill makes bold to eay that both good law and good tense ars exhibited in the decision of the territorial supreme court on the question of women voting the church organ then proceeds to make some unbiased remarks on the question As to the case in point it says it has never seemed for a moment admissible that congress in passing the enabling act contemplated that the voting at reneth of the coin mon wealth on the adoption of the constitution should be nearly doubled at one stroke the effect of which would be to swamp all legitimate op position tiie bame doubt applies as t athe constitutional convention it belf many of its members having since declared that in voting for equal suffrage they had no idea of authorizing the women to vote upon the charter which proposed to confer the right of the ballot lastly there is the overwhelming argument that no matter what rights or privileges the constitution may confer they can only become available and may only be exercised when the constitution itself becomes effective which cannot be until it is ratified by the legal voters ot the proposed state and approved by presidential proclamation and this is an especially powerful argument in tha brount alte because the abpie fici aries of the equal 0 di clalee distinctly are and unequivocally dis franchised by an existing law of congress |