| Show iiran irian TO PLEASE IT might reasonably have been thou thought glit from the earnestness with which many persons urged the granting of the right of off suffrage luit rae ra e to the women of utah as the panacea for all the evils which are supposed to afflict the In inhabitants habitan af pf this benighted region that when that measure became law the action of the legislative assembly and the approval 0 of f the governor a cry of joy would have ascended from every corner of the land and shave have been aung sung in honor of the event but strange to say there i have been no such euch evidences of joy exhibited albi hibi hibi hibl habited ted true the action of the legislative assembly granting unto women the right to vote in this territory has bag teen been been noticed by the press but that is s all the measure has not excited the attention which from the clamor there has nas hian been made over it in the past it might have been thought it would have received we do not even hear of miss anna diek dickinson going into cesta cles cies over the new privileges which have been bestowed upon her sex in 14 this territory T the e official who was her chief companion compan on while she remained in this eity city ari all and d froni wham doubtless she derived the views of affairs here hero which bhe ahe gives in her lectures does not appear to be any better pleased with the admission of the women of this territory to the ballot box thau than the object of his platonic affection the gentle anna rewrites he writes to the chicago tribune over tho the rom nom de plume of douglas evidently in a bad humor about the enfranchising of the women omen poor cria creature ture he is hard to pl please ea c with him and the rest of his hs ca class 9 the mormons cormons Mor mons are ara damned if they willi will and damned if they wont 11 it is not however bo wever of the views of this si douglas we would speak his misrepresentations and falsehoods plainly chov that he is no gentleman and that he Is therefore unworthy of notice but we would call attention to the fact that this great movement has achieved success and yet there is no exultation over the event among the advocates of the measure we think the secret of this silence is to be found in the fact that the women of utah have given expression to their views in so unmistakable a manner lately in the mass macs meetings which have been heid held throughout the territory deceived by the falsehoods of correspondent correspondents i aad and lecturers lecture ra concerning the condition of women in this territory many people have imagined that could the sex be endowed with the power to express its preferences at the polls its members would speedily put an enato end to that system which they supposed was degrading woman and destroying her individuality vi but what an egregious mistake simultaneously with the intelligence that the avenues to the ballot boxes are open to women in utah comes the startling announcement uuno unno that they with rare unanimity have declared patriarchal marriage to be an excellent institution for woman an institution which affords her tho tha highest happiness happi happl nees nesb and the greatest security and society the most complete prote protection action against the worst evils evila of civilization no wonder those who have derived their ideas about utah from the false reports of newspaper correspondents and lecturers are dumbfounded and hesitate about approving the bill granting the women the right of suffrage their surprise is not lessened when they are assured aa as they have been by several eastern papers that the speeches delivered by the women in defence of the institution which it was expected they would quickly tear down whenever when ever even they obtained the power wore were aa as able anti and eloquent as any delivered bythe by the most famous advocates of womans comans rights and were superior to their usual efforts because much calmer and more moderate in tone I 1 the late actton action of the sex in this territory is BO so opposite to that which was wag ex expected e eted of them that correspondents m and others who endeavor to illuminate the understandings of the people east in relation to utah amm aff mairs affairs are casting abndt for explanations which they hope will wiil prove satisfactory to those who read their ef effa fusions Doug douglas insi insl lasI tries to explain it by saying that what the women of this country have left eft of t value upon earth thewl 1 tj 1 j 4 1 i JV A i have by virtue of polygamy and therefore they petition for it to be left alone the simpleton either wishes his readers to ignore tebe fact that the women of all classes and conditions were unanimous in their decision in favor of the objectionable institution or to conclude that all the women of this territory are in polygamy this illustrates the desperate shifts which men who would mako make the worse appear the better cause have recourse to in bolstering up their views |
