| Show WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN urah UTAH THE tire beaver square dealer of the dinst has baa an editorial on the woman suffrage question the writer considers that the colorado people acted wisely la in their rejection of the proposition to confer upon women the right to vote at elections his hig argument is that the tendency of woman suffrage would he be gato to breed discord and division in the families composing the commonwealth 11 but he closes with the statement that in utah the women invariably vote with their husbands or the church we dont believe that two dozen independent ballots were ever cast in utah by women 11 this seems to us rather contradictory dic tory the objection offered to woman suffrage is that women will oppose their husbands politically if it endowed with the elective franchise and yet the women of a territory where it is practiced practised never vote independently it the objection be valid which seems to be disproved by the writers own statement no young mail man who still remains under parental influence should bo permitted to vote for fear he might si side dewith with a party opposed to his lathers views and thus create discord in the family we are surprised to see eee a pronounced liberal who contends for for the perfect equality of the sexes opposed to giving one half of a man the same bame political privileges as the other half I 1 and we deny the truth of the implication that the women of utah do not vete veto independently it is possible that the writer means that the ladies of this territory do not generally vote in opposition to their husbands we grant this and feel proud to think that it is so it shows a unanimity of sentiment that is desirable in any community but we know that the ladies who go to the polls here vote with as as much fredom freedom as the men and the men as freely as others in any part of the world whatever may be said by their enemies to the contrary there is nothing to prevent them from casting their ballots in opposition if they choose to do so it was supposed that if th the e women of utah were endowed with the power of the franchise plural marriage would become a i doomed institution the popular fallacy of the bondage of women in utah gave rhe rise to this idea but facts have proven ot otherwise berwise tile the mormon murmon vote is strengthened by woman suffrage and although many e teemed esteemed ladies may way feel plural marriage to be a hard trial yet they believe it to be light right when practised practiced according teachings of the church with quite aa as strong a faith as that of the men it is true that ina in a very large majority of instances Mor mormon women yote vote with their hue hut husbands bands bande and this is an evidence that they are in true union with them and those who were formerly such strong advocates of the franchise for the women of utah being disappointed in the results are now as bitterly opposed to it as they were once ardently in its favor and the women the plural wives for whose benefit this scheme was originally advocated are now pursued with the pains and penalties of the law for daring to vote as the wives of citizens and threatened with imprisonment in a states hoube houke of correction for two and a half years if they refuse to pay a fine of five dollars and costs amounting to over 80 on which the gallant galant prosecuting officer claims 50 we dispute the square zea Dea dealers lers lerr argument and also its implied reflection of the freedom of the ladies of this territory |
