Show ig IF NOT got ILLOGICAL tho woman suffragist sare nothing if not illogical their bitterest scorn in tho the past has leen teen dealt out to thom women who voluntarily W ant ent out cut into polygamy and aided the saints in the pet pot institution ution of utah now we find nind them protesting prot esting eating in congress against a clause in an anti polygamy bill which franchises disfranchises dis the women who now vote in utah As these women havo hato always voted exactly as the church and their husbands have dictated the idea Is ia absurd that their disfranchisement is any blow to suffrage for tho the fair sex tho the fact that mormon women so grossly carlea caricatured turca the right furnished nish one of the best beai arguments of tho the opponents of female suffrage we e clip the above from the ban ean francisco chronicle the opinions of that paper on the question in holved are not of much consequence it Is true but the paragraph echoes tho the notions of quite a number of 0 persons persona and papers and therefore we notice it ane gist of it is that the advocates of women suffrage are II fl logical because they object to the disfranchisement of the women of utah what reason is ia offered for this conclusion it is alleged that the women ot utah vote as the church and their husbands dictate and it Is ia argued therefore that they should be deprived of the right to vote and that woman suffrage is wrong this is logic with a vengeance it is alleged and very good evidence of its correctness la Is furnished that in many partis of the united states stales workmen vote as their corporate or individual employers dictate in fear of discharge from service and that members of parties vote exactly as dictated by the bosses according to the chronicle logic they should be dop deprived rived of the fran franchise chise chite and male suffrage is wrong and any body of men objecting to such a sweeping measure and this bage gage conclusion are if illig leal ical what is bause baube for the geese eso ought to be ba sauce for the ganders idaa ILIA a poor rule that wont work work both ways utah has a secret bailot billot that Is IP the ballots aro ara required to be ba enclosed in ia unmarked envelope envelopes 3 of uniform color and sized size furnished by the local authorities and aud elections are aro so BO conducted that no human being but the person who has deposited the tha ballot can tell how or for whom he ha or she has voted if a woman wants to vote in accord with her husband she can do so if not there is ia nothing to prevent her anar any ticket she has a minato mind to prepare and there Is no way to identify it Sap sup supposing posing it were true that uhe the church or the husbands hur hua banda bauda dictated how the women should vote and tue tle women did not choose to follow the dictation how are tho the hus husbands bands or the church to ascertain the fact and what could they do about it anyhow the anti antl I 1 mormon fill 9 assume that the church dictates the voting it Is ia nothing 1 b buo but d assumption not a particle of proof f has been or can be adduced in support of it but suppose it 11 is true that the mormon church decides who shall ba nomi nn anaed and voted for at local ele eie elections who compoc composer ew athe the mormon why these men audgo and wo men who aro ara so dreadfully dirtat ed 1 I then they dictate themselves do thoy they nut every woman member of tho the church hiss has an equal vote in church matters with the man member but it il may be urged that it is the leaders of the church who are meant when dc dictation tation is ia alleged well why do not these sticklers klers for logic ogle say what they mean and lay isy down their propositions correctly suppose bome somo leading men in tiie the church then the tho candidates and tell the men and women whom to vote for if thosa people of cf their own volition choose to accept ampt these candidates an and d vote for them thera at the polls should they thoy not bo be allowed to do so without interference from their opponents ponente we think so and we maintain that there isa la just as much freadom in ia voluntary union and willing as aa in factious opposition and wilful rejection csome soma people however cannot canca ive elve of liberty without strife nor 0 of freedom in acquiescence with them independence is only to bo exhibited in pugnacity and liberty to be expressed but bat in tumult or di vision if they cannot comprehend union from choice and aad concession from princ principle Jpe who Is to bo be blamed for their lack of understanding the truth la Is that our women voters as well as our men voters perceive the necessity ot of avoiding the dI division which our opp opponents ments vainly heek seek to introduce among usg us and reel feel the rabb eabe absolute need of a united policy in the face of the hostility of the world they vote together because they choose to do soy sos so and the toof proof p of this lies in the fact stated above that there is no means meane of discovering how they vote if they wish to be in n to their husbands or anybody eife elfe but let us turn it ov over er and look at it in another way if the 91 mormon 1 women would vote against the church of which they are members and against their husbands to whom they are united by to them the most sacred of ties then according to the chronicle logic they ought not to be deprived ot the tile franchise and woman suffrage is ia right in principle further if some of the mormon women vote according to the views of their husbands end and the church and others vote against them then the former should be franchised disfranchised dis and the latter not and woman suffrage Is partly right night and partly wrong there is nothing like being logical and the chronicle ought to be placed on an eminence as aa an acknowledged kno pledged authority by bythe the elde bide of locke and bacon malebranche Male mala brancha and and other masters of the art or science common sense and simple reason would say bay that the disfranchisement of women in any part of this great country where equal rights are sup posed to be recognized la Is and must be viewed as aa a blow against woman suffrage and the absurdity Is with those who pretend that it Is not especially under the flimsy pretext that the women thus threatened with the deprivation of rights righta long exercised do not vote as their opponents wish but cast east their ballots in favor of their dearest friends verily it la Is the antl anti who are fi nothing if not illogical |