| Show who rye ryo legai lecal I egal ezal voter many mady persons appear to be eyer eser cosed cased over the right of wa women men to vote in this territory and I 1 understand much stress atress was laid on the coffit point lemr mr in his Is late contest for his seat in tile the U S house of representatives and asI twill doubtless be again te relied on in a contest to unseat him from the next congress it may be as well weli to examine the laws governing govern Ipg jho jahp he clalla apa review rey uey the argument based the thereon reon it is urged that by sec of tile tiie atlie territory oryl 1 or of utah voting is restricted to every free white mald gadd inhabitant above the age ago of twenty 6 one 0 years 11 the law declares they shall be entitled to vote at the first election but the qualification tion of voting at all suase shail be sueh such as shall bp prescribed by the legislative assembly 1 I 1 it is contended that the tile power of the legislative assembly to act is restricted to maie maio inhabitants inhabitant ir if this be so then the legislation is not compete nt to qualify the words free whit also found in in hald haid ath th section a alethe alj 41 the word qualifications the tile legislature was authorized to p prescribe Fe scribe could only operate on malc maee inhabitants I 1 shall shail discuss 11 iia right of women to vote tiie tile law jave of utah conferring an on them that rl right 9 ht or privilege the fit first proposition is that said fifth section odthe of the tho organic Or gaille act Is repealed by article XIV of amendments to tho tho abo constitution of the united stats states which declares all persons born or naturalized in the united states aro ara citizens of the united state status and the tile act ac t of congress of lilay islay nal nol 1870 declares thatah thata 1 citizens of the thel ihei unit united d states ec c hall hali hail and allowed ta t p voto vote volo at all sach elections 66 i if 1 11 acoman is a person erson she is a citizen for nii nil persons are declared citizens by the constitution and all citizens are declared by the act of con congress ress on entitled ti tied to vo vote te another objection urged against women voting is that many of them are alleri alien not having been naturalized if this is true that they are aliens alfens and have not been naturalized according 0 to law t they hey have no right to vole yole ste but it must not be forgotten that an allen alien woman married or who shall bo be married to a citizen of the united states shall bo be deemed and taken to be a citizen act of congress feb 10 1835 1855 it therefore follows follow 9 from the constitution and laws law of congress quoted above that thai a as a woman is a person and all persons are elti eitl zens of the elle united state states and all citizens are entitled to vote it does not need the aid of the E statute of utah to confer suffrage on women it h is of course competent for the legislature to declare the qualifications of voters as they shall be above the ago ngo of twenty one years sc c then air citizens both men and women who are twenty one years of age are entitled to vote and there is no legal restriction by the organic act or otherwise X N D FX |
