Show I 4 I I 4 II I III I I 4 I I Mf I l I 4 M 4 4 M I MH III 4 IM I 1 I i It WHY NOT I t t 4 4 4 4 4 I I I I 4 4 4 M M M t M MM We Ve live in an age of new things Utah is in inthe inthe inthe the van of American progress Here under the shadow of f our splendid mountains s and amid surroundings sur sur- I the like of which the outside world cannot cannot can cm I not show we live a life lush with fresh thought and I hi high b a a free and fearless life scornful of effete ideas and precedents and devoted to th the bri bright ht concepts of the present and t the e future largely large large- ly Ij ignoring the tile old ideals and ami the smashed idols of a conservative past I Among on other things we have freed woman from front the s senseless and cruel thrall thralldom om of other days daj's and aIll now flow in ITt Utah she is the political r. r fellow and equal of her hr father her brother her husband I and her son Sari God be thanked that she is so for the s 's salvation of society r ties lies ies in the influence of good gool women upon the affairs of city state and nation With us women omen have the franchise of citizen citizens l' l which t fo o long had been withheld from them and ands s still ill is withheld in ill a m majority of c commonwealths dominated and domineered over o by selfish narrow men ll Since in Utah tah wo women women vote and have hare th the right to hold oft office ce eq equally na Hy with male citizens it seems to us s that it is s about time for them to exercise that right and to the extent of its last analysis The proposition may be radical but lut so was the idea of woman suffrage radical a few years ago At I any rate atc and arni no matter how revolutionary the sug- sug g tion stion may seem what hat good reason can be e assigned why hy some intelligent capable popular and grac gracious ous I Utah woman should not should not be le elected to the United the Stat succeed s natt j succeed Senator Rawlins Rawlins' We- We eJ ns' ns believe e in the l right of wom women n to v vote t 1 and i hold office ollice Practically there are aie as many women V as as' as men who control the political destinies of the State tate through their ballots Why should not they be recognized and given a a. representative in the United States Senate W We have han on one man who in part represents the State ate te in that body Why not give him a lady colV colleague col col- col- col V league That would be an innovation but who I J e There is is no Con Constitutional inhibition in the I V way was There here is Doth nothing ng but a wormy old sent sentiment I that the sooner we jump on the better Half the p people ople-of ople of Utah in r respect of oL sex are without m rn in the Senate Let us remedy this Uee fice a antI and ask the tile next legislature to give 11 us a lady V Senator We Ye have no objection to the candidacy of Apostle Smoot nor DOl would we have to that of Gov- Gov V nol Wells Yells if it were wert were announced except that neither of them is a woman V Let us have the courage of our convictions conviction and send end a woman to the Senate There are ladies ladie here herein in jn Salt Lake Cit City who would make ideal Senators Why rhy hy not take the new departure and have the credit of if being first to break the ice V V |