Show UTAH UlAn SUFFRAGE A f fW W KR LAUDS lAUD KT AT CAPITAL CArn Al Tells Why Eastern Women Need Ballot and Declares W Western estern Sisters Anxious I Ito to Aid in Demonstration 1 M MANY ANY ANY Utah women are anxious anxious aux aux- ious bus to go to Washington to act as pickets for the National Womans Woman's party which is at present present present pres pres- ent engaged in besieging the White House according to Mrs Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth Cutler Jenkins chairman of the party in this state We who already hae have the vote can appreciate the desperate predicament of our sisters in the East said Mrs Jenkins today and we are anxious anxious anxious' to do all we can to help them Id love to go myself but I am the mother of four boys and they need me here I dont don't believe in militancy but ut Im I'm entirely In sympathy with the action ac action action ac- ac tion taken by the women in Washington Washing Washing- ton and I only wish it were possible for Lor me to do picket duty myself The need for tor women voters IsI is greater there than here here public public morals I are in greater need of being legislated for in the big cities of the East than here in the West Vest but but the prejudice I against granting the ballot to women is correspondingly greater there why I think they are Justi just justI Justified fied fled In any extreme measures they I may take The president himself has said they have done nothing About all the women of Utah have been able to do to help the party get the Susan B. B Anthony amendment passed by congress has been to write letters and telegrams by the dozen to President Wilson I have a letter from his secretary in answer to one of mine promising that Mr Wilson will look Into the matter Mrs Mrs Jenkins doesn't think theres there's anything in the opinion that it Is the patriotic duty of the women to let the suffrage question alone until after the I war A A good many of the Eastern women are refusing to do any war work until the question is settled to their satisfaction satisfaction satis satis- faction she said and this Is a just attitude because you know when Susan B. B Anthony agreed to stop askIng asking ask ask- ing Jog for the vote until after alter the Civil war was over they simply ly ignored her when peach peace was declared We Ve are not nol opposed to the war Personally I believe believe believe be be- lieve that it was necessary to adjust the terrible conditions which exist in inthe inthe inthe the world When I took over the state chairmanship chairmanship chairmanship chair chair- manship of the party three months ago I didn't do it for political reasons Im I'm financially Independent and not an office seeker Im I'm not Interested In politics but in In humanity Until woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man can get the vote her hands are tied and anti she cant can't legislate against child labor conditions nor make laws that will make employers In our large larse cities pay working girls more than the a week which is the present average In New York The Tho war Is going to make these conditions worse too right here in Salt SaIl Lake Why the other day my year old son was offered a aday aday a aday day to work In the harvest fieldsA fieldsA fieldsA fields A nine-months' nine course which I took in nursing opened my eyes to a good many things and has been of invaluable ble assistance to me in my work Then too you know I was a delegate from Utah to the convention of the Womans Woman's I party in Chicago a year ago last June When asked ed from what political party party par par party ty the women expected to obtain the most aid Mrs Jenkins said that her position in that respect was a delicate one oneAs As you know we have all signed a pledge to be strictly nonpartisan she answered The fact that I stood by my pledge I consider to have been one very vey great reason why my husband husband hus bus band didn't obtain the last mat Republican nomination for governor |