Show THE resolutions tle the Terri territory tori comans womans suffrage association as ae previously announced antho in the NEWS met on monday last laet io in the city acty and county building buil dini anti anil adopted resolutions or a memorial to the convention in behalf of bomian wom tena s cause which was presented anted the ibe ahme day A synopsis ot of the document was given at the time herewith it Is ia in full to the abe honorable president and mem here bers of the constitutional convention of utah we your petitioners petition onera ers and memorial lats re presen aluff the be great majority of the be women ot of utah mid and more I 1 barly as the tb official representatives 0 the great women of utah numbering in ia aggregate membership over viz the utah suffrage association auxiliary to the national american woman s suffrage association the national womans comans relief belief society aud and the young national mutual improvement ImproTe ment association abee thou sands of women standing in a general way or io in virtue of direct official relationship as aa our we your memoria memorial lists igl speak in ID their names and in behalf of the women of utah herewith present the uduse it to la a matter of congratulation that in these globing years ot of the nineteenth century the cause ot of woman eau with out tue toe stigma of be laid before a body of chosen men ordained to the wore wora of creating a now new nover within the galaxy of states as ae an equal member ot of the he indissoluble union the men of utah in ID their respective political parties pa rilei have with equal unanimity said bald that w men shall ball be accorded equal rights and privileges of citizenship that sex eez distinction shall no longer be a ban rod and a bar to equal opportunity with men to exercise exer otoe toe the god viven kiven powers and capabilities with which women are endowed for purposes of equal sell government and equal enjoy enjoyment meng of 01 the inalienable rights of itie liberty and the pursuit pundit of lise we take it that the men of utah tab have spoken no sincerely and conscientiously as ae true men to that equally large number of who are now who are now deprived of authority to speak a word or cast a vote in the framing of an organic law which determined erminee det tiet their personal per ronal and pro property porgy rights their civil and political status in the social we are glad to feel assured that our brothers are dealing honestly ho neaty and righteously with us ue and that they will ordain truth and in the name of god ana humanity anil and we are happy too in the belief that those overtures overture made by the men of utah are in line with the onward march ot of civilization that the bow of promise is in rising b eigher and brighter in to e heavens ODB of human hope that with the ibe sit ek tattoo and emancipation of women too the of bod are ripening with the process of the une suns and we any aay to you shag bat we contemplate no rival sovereignty no sphere peculiar and part apart 6 1 no conflicting regime or antagonistic 0 legislation no LIO hostile policy or divided counsel no the woman movement means only true human progress reu higher and truer harmony more genuine and enlightened fellowship ellow bip more real oo co operatis oo 00 more vital and perpetual union the key and clue to all true irue progress is ia the larger harmony that the infinite spirit is ia breathing bre aming into the rising grandeur of human development As aa constitution makers makere as aa framert of the chart that shall guide us iu in what we hope to be a long and prosperous future you will cherish in your deliberations a sacred regard for the principles of liberty for those undying axioms that have been laid at the of our temple of freedom we have thousands of women in utah who are property holder and ers era in their own right probably no other state furnishes as large as tell roll I 1 of taxpaying tax pay ing women taxation without representation Is tyranny tola this was the keynote the bugle can of the revolutionary fathers in their mrle for liberty says say james oila la in 1794 1764 in one of the that male made I 1 0 ou r independence ludepen deuce the very act of exercised over those who are not vented anted appears to me to be depriving them of one of their otheir most moil essential rights for what oue civil right lg worth a rush ruah arter after a man mans a properly y ig subject to be taken from him at pleas ure without ble bin consent it if a oman ig not his bia own assessor in im berain or by deputy his bin liberty is gone IJ hov HOD auarles sumner in his speech ou on march 7 1866 endorses endo raea these declara of james otis and he gava stronger words for universal buff rg I 1 hooulu 11 1 his argument meat is ia diat it if men are taxed without being represent oo they ase aie deprived of em ea sentiel rights righta alloma are as aa clear as aa suu aun light at a d it would be in violation of the fundamental principles of our in stRut titu tiona ions forthe for the men of utah to frame fraine law lave a whereby women property bolder abail be taxed without their consent given through such representation ag is IB accorded to men as aa a condition pro ore to their being taxed again all our constitutions el either theril ia terms ur or in substance commence their preambles with that comprehensive formula we the people our government la Is of the people for the people and by the people whatever the status of women may br they hey are at least a part of the people am aa duct the government provides pr ovidea a place for them and by no form or principle of reasoning oan can they be deprived of egoh rights righta and privileges as aa inure to men under government without at the same time destroying the natural rights righta which men hold bold tor for themselves theme elvea to be ID violate inviolate furthermore by the declaration of independence the existence of govern mom upon too the consent ot of the governed N this thia L t ia 19 to be given through the forms forma and provisions whereby governments govern menta are made and alu d ministered this thia consent 90 boea to the framing of the constitution to the enactment of laws under that constitution tU and to the administration of those laws lawe and there can be no consent without hence the 0 hie of half the people and a large proportion of taxpayers and creature of wealth to ia tyra tyranny inny pure and simple even though it be ba under the shadow sud and in the name of liberty and free government but we seek not to weary you with the recital of axioms what we desire to la that we may uphold your hands handa in revealing them to the world and making them effective in human government jefferson laid a deep foundation for human freedom in p equal rights at the roots of the tree of liberty but it was waa given to lincoln to make those principles most effective and to cause them to shine as aa the noonday sun in the firmament armament of american history he said 1 I believe the day it IB not far distant when women will wield the ballot to purify and ennoble politics I 1 RO go for all charing in the government who assist in bearing its iti burden n by no means meane excluding the females fema leg to you gentlemen of the utah constitutional convention it Is given to make other deep and fundamental principles of our government goTe effective in the administrations of law we do not doubt your ability and willingness codono to do so but we come to greet you in behalf of the women of utah to strengthen your hand and to assure you that we are keenly alive to the importance and far reaching consequences of your labor in our behalf and above all we would impress you with the fact that the women of utah are by no means indifferent spectators of the drama that la is now belag enacted we believe that every age has its rising and its setting belting sun aun we believe that the woman movement has come because the sun aun of our civilization has thrown our social horizon the dawnine of a now new and more glorious ors era in the history of 01 man we believe that through the agod agee an AD eternal purpose runal runs add that in the full enfranchisement of 01 women there will come a larger and truer sovereignty a national nati oual conscientiousness D till in fuller harmony with the tom temporal welfare anu happiness of man we believe that both men and women will be bene fitted morally socially and economically we believe that now DOW the tims time clook clock of american destiny has struck the hour to inaugurate augur sto a larger and truer civil life and that the future writers of utah history will immortalize the names dawes of who in this constitutional convention defying the injustice and pr prejudice judice or 0 the past strike off the bonds that ave heretofore enthralled woman and open the doors doon that will usher her into free and full emancipation we ewe therefore ask you to provide in the constitution that the rights of citizens of the st batte its of utah ta vote and ana hold bold office shall ahall not be denied or abridged on account of sex BOX and that mals male and female citi citizens zOns of the state shall hall equally enjoy all political sau ABU religious rights and privileges the memorial was signed by the fol lowing ladies emmelime Emme liue liAo B wells welle of the bomani suffrage of utah diab emily 8 vice presta president ent zina D H young g Dres president ident of the national I 1 nana belief society jane 8 PJ lionarda Bio narda vice provident president ellen B Ferg ferguson UBon halt lake bounty nty fraim elects bullock utah county L licy icy A dark clark and jennie jeanie nelson weber county celia JE bean sevier alivis la ia cox sanpete San pete M A grover juab and many others |