Show an or mar oar 3 an 4 1 I 1 4 c SPECIAL LE LEGISLATION legislations GIS fa 1 c DENOUNCED BY LEA gla ERS IRS EAGLE el AGLE LE nock ROCK idaho october 1 ft editor bai Edi fior deseret news nabs r for years the f have complained of attempts to harrass and coerce them by means of special leg legislation por abis purpose bills h haap abeen pe en presented i Congress at alah a but hut V yi lou cious minority ha hav has v 0 labored abbi 60 zealously lor lot yearb years sparing neither money nor misrepresentations assisted by ky editors and mis called divines in the united states but we may better thin things 0 in the future when mien such men as judges sutherland and mcbride pronounce against special specia legislation wah rtha 0 cei cel leis itly jhb shown b by casl xe them ia thea ca sevle sevra ald ala may begin uhn to JT ju in public panne s sentiment in th their air arguien arguments ts before tile su preme court in the above case both gentlemen vigorously oppose the hie election act of 1171 1870 which enables women wd tovo lovo teon that thai said act ya that it relates bene torone forone alft cla cia sonly females and therefore is and aud s should ouid be void on this found foundation atio atlo huu buu wi gentlemen bage heli the arguments against agalos ule uie the eledur ele dUd cipf yand And fb eras klig ilig the names of women from the t berelis registration list they argue that jaws laws laws mastbe must be reasonable impartial a abd nd uniforms at keut beul regard r to color class clasa or je ye ligion v i who ica ican fi dispute so self evident a proposition t ion lon in this land of liberty and equal riall nights rights g s judge mcbride further ays saya s t that bat if there be ack act uniformity in legislative acts that the tile di distinction stine tion must always go must be counted void wuie walle walie laws general and aud uniform in their essence should stand for these principles the people of utah have always contended these thebe they are willing to concede to to all and this is all they ask at the hands of the general government that these gentlemen are sincere is shown by the fact that to sustain the principle of uniform non special legislation they i are ire willing williaj tp to deprive one half of the citizens of utah of their natural right loh lob t d 6 afe e it must j ill their opinion e A grave gravo necessity c i essl essi ty that demai demal demands ids so feo great a but if an act giving w the elective franchise be e s special le legislation isia isla because it refers reters to them only so must be that of 1859 which refers to and gives that right to men only if women constitute one class clas men melt certainly do another on this reasoning both acts are special le legislation isolation both should be repealed peal e d and a new one enacted enache I 1 giving to all american citizens of the age of 21 an and d u upwards th the e right t to the elective fa franchise makin making no distinction between citizens on account of color religion or sex A alawat jaw at once uniform and impartial X |