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Show The old and threadbare query as to whether women when allowed to vote will carry a musket if war should break out, is presented by the Provo Dis-FATcn. Dis-FATcn. The quickest way to dispose of it is to ask in return whether carrying carry-ing a musket is a qualification for maie suffrage. If not, there is no point in it in this connection. If a woman ought not to yote unless she can fight, every man unable or unwilling to light should be disfranchised. See? Herald. Her-ald. Old and threadbare is it? Since how long? When the ancient but able editor edi-tor of the Herald has voted against war and is in line with other unfortunate patriots with musket on ehoulder, seeking the enemy.and is made the butt of those non-musket bearing citizens who wear peticoats, but who voted for the war, it will be too late to reverse at tion, but the situation will not give up any of its vexatious features for that same ancient editor's relief. This thing will hit tho poor women harder than the editor of the Herald thinks. The dear women would never acknowledge acknowl-edge to be over-age. No, not if she died in the trench for it. Me Roberts' great speech in opposition op-position to the equal suffrage provision of the constitution will long be read as one of the strongest and most eloquent pleas ever made In anj body of representatives repre-sentatives of the people of Utah. It was-gallantly and manfully done, because be-cause Mr. Roberta knew before he arose to speak that the matter had been settled, and against his views. It requires a high order of courage and devotion to enter a fight where you know there is no chance for victory. Nor do we think that Mr. Roberts1 warning is without good grounds. We are applying a pretty strong test to the government of the United States in presenting a proposition for female suffrage to it for ratification upon our first entrance into the federal relation. It may do all -right, - and we -sincerely hope it will, but with Mr. Roberts, we sadly fear it will procure the rejection of the constitution which will be the defeat of statehood. The Standard writes Etrongly and feelingly on the subject of blacklisting. Any individual railway should have toe clear and undoubted right to refuse re-fuse employment to men who went on strike, if it sees fit, but it has no right whatever to join with other roads so as to render it impossible for ex-strikers to get employment anywhere else. A railway bo acting is as much in the wrong as are the strikers who com bine to keep others from working in their own places. We trust that the days of the strike-remedy are over and when tney are then blacklisting will also disappear. In every case where disagreements occur between employers employ-ers and employes there will be found faults on both eides. It is a little like divorce, faults in both principals. The best plan is arbitration, and besides, we do not believe in the revenge policy. Blacklisting is revenge. It is unmanly and unworthy of any combination of railroads or other great corporations. Mrs. Zika D. Young's appeal to the ladieB to hold up on prohibition on the theory that if that is included in the constitution the dangers besetting the pathway of that document will be in creased, is most wise. But woman's suffrage is only a part of the policy contemplated. It is insisted upon because be-cause prohibition and similar "reforms" "re-forms" may be wrought with woman's help. Prohibition and all similar policies pol-icies are included in the proposition to enfranchise the women. If this is done we very sadly fear that the government gov-ernment will reject the constitution, thus will statehood be defeated. There seems to be a big expedition preparing in Florida to take a hand in the Cuban revolution. Spain had better bet-ter sell out to the United States. She will never have rest as long as she retains re-tains the island. It will coBt her less to sell out than to defend the island. Indeed it is the best thing she can do, looked at from any possible point of' view. The Provo Dispatch, in response to our remark that the papers of the east do not understand Utah and her affairs asks whether we are sure that the papers pa-pers of the west understand them. We must confess that after reading Thk Dispatch sometimes we have "reasonable "reason-able doubts." Herald. The doubts may be perfectly reasonable, reason-able, but the wit of the above is unreasonable. un-reasonable. Grand Junction fruit growers have entered into a contract to send all the fruit for Denver this season to one com mission house. A money deposit is put up by the house to insure the fruit association against loss. Now what arrangements of that kind will our Utah county association be able to make? All the Chinese in this countiy now deplore the fact that they did not register regis-ter laBt year. China isn't now a desirable de-sirable country to be sent back to. j The returning absentees are sent to 1 the army very promptly in every caBe. J . Coleman Drayton wants to "pay the costs in his wife's suit for divorce, but wants them to be light and reasonable. reason-able. Doubtless. The Tribune writes very generously of Mr. Roberts' speech on Thursday. Indeed it was a fine piece of oratory, made in vain. |