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Show SUFFRAGE WINS. Tlio sonato lias adopted tho Susan B. Anthony constitutional amendment resolution and universal suffrage will bo an accomplished fact as soon as three-fourths of the slates vote for ratification, rati-fication, which may not occur in time for the participation of women living in: nonsuffrago states to vote at the presidential election next year. It was to' prevent such participation that tho senato leaders made such a determined fifclit against the resolution last winter while many of tho state legislatures were in session. Whether tho plan will i work depends entirely upon tho willing-; willing-; ness of the governors of the stales in which the legislatures do not meet next winter to call special sessions. It is possible the executives may be influenced in-fluenced to a great extent by the women, who, since they are certain of securing their rights in the near future, fu-ture, will be in position to wreck the political future of the office-holders who stand in the way of justice. Utah came into the union of states with suffrage in the constitution and the participation of women in politics has had a most beneficial effect. Like i results will follow when the women in ! all of the states take part in conven-j conven-j tions and exercise the right to vote. 1 j It has been many years since Lucretia Molt, Oulia Ward Howe, Elizabeth i Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Susan E. Anthony began the crusade for suffrage suf-frage and were derided, scorned and condemned. Their arguments were unanswerable un-answerable and their opponents were ; compelled to resort to ridicule, a 1 weapon always effective with the un-! un-! thinking rabble. Fifty years ago we I used to hear much about "short-haired i women" and "longhaired men" in con-j con-j nection with the suffrage movement. ! Theso epithets were discarded some time: ago even bv the cheap pothouse j politicians and an attempt was made i to. substitute argument for abuse. The victory of the women has been assured from that day. Fifty years hence the i senators and representatives who voted i against the Susan B. Anthony amendment amend-ment w-ill be almost unanimously re-i re-i garded as men of narrow vision who should not have been chosen to repre-i repre-i sent the people when grave questions were to be considered. I But the victory in congress has .been won and the mothers, sisters, wives and daughters of the men who placed j their lives upon the altar of their coun-I coun-I try when the whole world was threat-I threat-I ened with dire disaster will play their j part in shaping the future destiny of tho United States. Julia Ward Howe did not live to see "the glory of the : coming of tho Lord." in respect to the cause for which she labored for so ' many years, but she witnessed the 1 passing of slavery in the United States and saw many other reforms accom-' accom-' plished. The other great pioneer suffrage suf-frage advocates saw much to encourage thorn before going to their eternal rest I and doubtless they passed on with full I knowledge that they had not lived in vain. Congratulations are in order as to tho suffrage leaders of today. Dr. ' Anna- Howard Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Chap-man Catt and all the others who have been steadfast in the faith and have not sacrificed their womanhood in tho battle for tho right. Xow that the struggle is practically over the next tiling in order will be to watch the politicians lay claim to the. votes of the women as pay for work , performed. |