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Show EQUAL SUFFRAGE. It would seem to be more correct to Bay unequal Buffrage when alluding to the subject now agitating the Utah constitutional con-stitutional convention, and in a measure, meas-ure, all Utah as well. It realy seems strange indeed that the world has existed ex-isted for ages upon ages and it has remained re-mained for Cbldeeter, Thurman, Richards Rich-ards and other patriots in the Utah convention, to discover that its one great mistake has been not to have discovered dis-covered ages and ages ago, that the one thing wanting was, and is, woman suffrage. suf-frage. We would not be very greatly surprised were the intemperate advocates ad-vocates of the new fad to bring in a bill of censure ere that body adjourns, against the Almighty plan of inaugurating inaugur-ating governments among men, for the unaccountable over-sight of not having divided honors evenly between women and men at the Btart. It would haye certainly saved a good deal of worry to this generation had it been done in the mornirjg of the world. It must be mortifying to these men that they themeelves have been living on and on in blissful ignorance of the fact that had women been the equal of man in a political sense, ptrhapB,,or rather certainly, the wars of the Israelites against the Philistines, the wars of Alexander, .Napoleon, and even our own "late unpleasantness'' would have been averted. Perhaps even Ceasar had been an angel of peace and Brutus had not been compelled to make both a traitor and a murderer of himself, him-self, and George III might have said to the colonies, 'go in peace," had women been enfranchised a couple of hundreds of years sooner, They might as well claim it all, as part. There is juet hb much consistency in the one as in the other. Had woman been a voting citizen or an office-holding citizen, perhaps silver would not have been demonetized and there had been no panic and no hunger hun-ger and distress resulting from that short-sighted bit of statesmanship. It is left to us in Utah and the woman suffrage brains in the convention to discover that all the evils of the preceding pre-ceding ages and governments is traceable trace-able alone to the tact that woman has been cruelly kept out of her lights. Even St. Paul has been proven a tyrant ty-rant and a humbug. Paul commanded that the woman keep silence in the congregations; con-gregations; if it had ever dawned upon the poor fellow that soon th e would be howling in senates and legislatures, in the caucuses and conveutions of political polit-ical parties, he would have discredited even his own senses. Physical, mental men-tal and moral differences so long recognized recog-nized and acquiesced in are to be wiped out by one single act of the Utah constitutional con-stitutional convention. This may be j the thing to do, only we cannot see it in that light. , ' The Fe:ld avers that "prohibition and "woman suffrage are distinct and separate things. They ought not to be linked together, let alone confounded. There is no relation between them and the attempt to establish It is done to weaken both. It is simply an 'invention 'inven-tion of the enemy.' " They are, are they? Then Mrs. Young's card advising that prohibition be held in abeyance until suffrage is secured means nothing? Prohibition is the one justification pleaded for this coveted "advance." If the blessed non-dram'drinking ladieB get the franchise, fran-chise, it is not because they want political po-litical recognition or offices, but that they want to put "dram drinking and all other kindred vices under thir feet. Stamp 'em out. Ahl then the millen-ium millen-ium will be here at once. It will come, suffrage, but that all good, dreamed of, prayed for, hoped for and predicted will come in its train we very much do abt, but when these j ardent fellows in the convention And two or three women added to the male aspirants for the Benatorship and the like, which they themselves covet so ardently they will sing another song quite. You can't give them the right to vote without giving them perfect equality so far as the offices are, concerned. con-cerned. This would hit the average delegate just over "where he lives," but a mere theorist ae is The Dispatch would see their distress in this way with a good deal of philosophy. |