Show tiie elective franchise in utah no person shall be deemed defined a resident within the nica of this thin act unless he is a tax payer bath va the above modest proposition con section 6 of a law of utah prescribing certain qualifications atod arto enabled ena blea person arson to be eligible to hold office vote or serve as juror 2 7 approved jan 1859 see sec 3 of the act provides that no person ti shall vote at any election unless lie he is a free fre mule citizen of th UNited ettes over ever twan tyone ty o ab nb airs ims been a constant resl det in the territory during ill the e six anon hs 1 gi said aid election election 11 1 it will be seen therefore that the purpose or of theace he act is complete in in dicig from the elective fran franchise c hise all who ate are not tax payers now we do not propose it at this time to argue the 11 r a property qualification is ia not a very whole bout BOI 1 l ad aad conw arati ve proposition tion in 4 h k avre antal system but it is sufficient for us to know that the whole theory of american institutions is based on universal stif suffrage frage scanting De Des cantina on oil this question jefferson we think it was thus put it the proposition being to insert rho con constitution a property of oile dollars A owns a jackass worl h hIO 1 0 X A is entitled to vote before the next election elect fon the jackass dies A is mot entitled to vote query Is the franchise vested vested in A or in the jackass jack let us examine a little into the history 0 of f this suffrage question in utah the organic act prescribes that at ill the first election beyl r white male inhabitant abare the age of 21 ye years ars who iwho shall have been a resident pf af tile the rid mid Tini ory wt t the ate of the pe age of this act shall be entitled to tote lp leaving the qualifications at subsequent t sections to be prescribed by the legislature with the provision arp vision that the right of stif suffrage frage I 1 and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the united daivs in january the territorial legislature isba ture enacted that 11 1 l r ill all free white male citizens of the united states resident abenti of the territory over the age of eighteen are voters and eligible to hold any office within this territory Terri toty 11 tit this i m waa extending the elective fran ellibe eb we very but at the of 1589 9 its shown the right of was waa restricted and tampered with tle tax paying proviso this wm wai ast fit akym wwi IV times magr e at rebellion is iii utah had but just ajust been emited army with its huny ds of retain eni had conle come in in and with perhaps a natural desire to 1 shut t them thein out from froin al all I 1 voice in the management of utah butak s siu I 1 internal concersa conGer sf sw we presume e tle the liiv law q quoted i was enat enacted en asted ted the times time have changed and val itah sot changing with them the close cor system io so long in vogue is struggling iff its death throws A very considerable loyal american and intel eisent population has gathered about the lake of ef salt they are but the van guard of the ate great x army ri y of pro progress are 8 whose atad t tf ii w alie already ady heard and when thae me loyl loya iree free white male citi sens MOM of the united rates above 2 21 years se gf esste they to find themselves invested with their american kirth irth right rig hac frone hwe ith ont go defio n ser orin american im pook ions the spirit of tile aice and of american 16 toward uni emancipation from au all tile the re leotric otric t wm of monarchial 0 or r arite cratic sy taw sw which am mildewed mil dewed wd rotten to nr con al that sonigma MA wi bot iotch desales ou the Stat statute tite book Anie american rican citizen ont outride or of t the he mormon n church have iro chance yf t exercising c slie th right ight or of r voting 1 tho the fx collector asks not for his ti tiling and it is to be doubted whether he would accept it knowing the object to I 1 be to obtain the right to cast L vo 4 i but whether be t this bis bo s so 0 jl or not ot the iho section should be repealed ill that t avery every Atile rican citizen a bonafide resident of the territory may have the opportunity port unity of doing what in every other territory of the nation ho he has tiro oro unquestioned right 0 to do viz 71 have nave a voice in the conduct of public affairs perhaps it is saying too io much to slig suggest gest that we expert file th legislature which meets meeta today to day s will repeal the obnoxious cht clu r irae e b but tit we pre present e it I 1 to air con gift ration as a matter worthy not only of thought but of early action if however ever r the they y arn nr e not b bund down by bv 1 a determination naf aon to hold bold on to power regard 1 loss s of every other blodys ri rights n lits and in contravention of the plainest principles of american liberty acey they will remove this source of colli complaint plaint this ples elit stumbling block in the way of true progress prot and permanent advancement t lot let them thein assume a virtue if they have it not nor norl waye caTO the task to other handi it ift is moreover the iho right of every citizen to have his civil and criminal controversies sits submitted to a jury of ochia his peers but the law prescribes in effect that no one shall sit on a jury save cave the mormon i tax payer i of the territory th the c entire act acl should be rc modeled an and made more in in consonance with right and jus justice tice as well wel I 1 as with the spirit of the age in which we live |