| Show UTAH AND tre TEE SUFFRAGE RAGi 7 QUESTION tile THE Wat national ional citizen and ballot box for february contains a well written letter to the tho th rational national woman suffrage association from mrs E emmeh ameline ne B wells of this city vlee vice president of f thera the scocia tion for utah alcoa also aiso a pointed and pleasant note from mrs airs zina Y willa williams mry of provo commenting on the question of the connection between the political situation in U utah tah and w woman 0 ma n suffrage all ail over the he union that paper has tho following which we ye think worthy of reproduction as showing the sentiments in relation to this subject of df the leading minds of an or organization aniza which is daily dally growing in n numbers xa M and influence in the nat nation loii the fact of a complete organization of womans comans societies throughout utah and extending into neighboring borin 0 territories and states and the fact tact that the women of these societies study the constitution and the principles of government should be especially noted in the following letter when utah is admitted asia as a stat state she will wi U possess a large number beroll ot women educated in political principles zet jet utah come in as a state hatate and woman suffrage will take anew a new status in congress and before the tile country it is our oun duty duly to work against tj the ie proposed disfranchise ment jentof of the women of utah by y an unlooked for combi combination nation nailon of circumstances cum eum stances the political ri nights rights hag of or the women of th the 0 united states are indissolubly connected with the political rightson right the ivoreen women of utah to disfranchise them is to stab us us we ave can verily ie member remember them as in if bonds with them for when their right of suffrage is attacked our tights of self seif government are doubly ignored r mored what imperils imperil im pernis perils them doubly imperils im perils us their religion esno Is no part or parcel of our women we jve are not battling for religious tights but for political rights and if ifo q rany any cause womans womans comans political rights in any part t of the country are endangered endanger ea lie the recognition of our own freedom is thereby also imperil imperilled led and hindered freedom is one and the same bame the tho world over irrespective of religious beliefs |
