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Show WHO SHALL VOTK? Yesterday the wise men of the convention con-vention were discuesinjr tbe questkn &b to who shall vote next fall on the a loption of the constitution, as well as under it, lor state officers. This whole question ia up because of a little ambiguity am-biguity in the language of tbe enabling act. Tbe Dispatch is not a lawyer and it is rather glad of It because such questions as this do not bother it, whereas, if it were, it would be in as much of a stew as are tbe blessed law-; vers in the convention. We do not see j t tat there can be a question as to Wjmen voting upon the adoption cf tae constitution. If the women are ever to become voters tbey must do so by the provisions of that constitution alone,' and by tbe act of no other authority au-thority on earth. The document framed by the convention Is not now any more the constitution of Utah th.in it is of Oklahoma or Arizona and until It is adopted it can not authorize woman to tote for its adoption, or for state officers either. It is Incomplete and imperfect as a constitution until the count shall determine if it is In fact a constitution at all or not. It seems to us that this reasoning, though probably not lawyer-like, is too plain to be disputed by any, even the moBt rabid and unreasoning suffragist of them all. The creator may be some times greater than the creature, but we are very sure the creature is never greater than the creator, and if nut, how may he (or she rather) sit in jadgment upon the creator's merits, as the voter must do when be votes aye or nay on the question of adoption? It etrikeB The Dispatch that this whole matter is grotesque in the extreme, and if there were any of the U. S. appropriation ap-propriation remaining, we would inevitably in-evitably conclude that tbe discussion was had simply to burn a little more of that $4.00 daylight. But the dele-sates dele-sates are going on their own money or else on the cloudy chanca of a future legislature going back and taking up the raveled strans of finance and reimbursing them at Bjme distant day In the future. If the delegates are going on the latter theory thpy art not fit to make a constitution con-stitution at all, they would be totally inadequate as business men for any such task. j Then what ia tbe hurry about this palter of inducting woman into full voting citizenship? Is it because the friends of suffrage are afraid of the result re-sult if the plain old unfilled voters of the territory are alone entrusted with the duty of accepting or rejecting the constitution? Surely this cannot be true, ehe, if it were, what are we to do with the oft made declaration that the friends of suffrage in the convention were duc yielding to an immense and all-uncontrolable pressure from the undoubted and unquestioned suffragists suffrag-ists on the outside? Surely they cannot can-not really be afraid to trust that un-controlable un-controlable force with the very first privilege which comes up under the duty imposed by their labors. Or is there a good sized negro in the woodpile wood-pile somewh-re darkly and devilishly concealed from- the public gaze, who will rise up and stay by some superhuman super-human power the wheels of "progress" bow flashing and scintilatmg over Utah? Or do the ladies of Utah really covet a privilege which their husbands, fathers and brothers are unwilling they should enjoy? If none of these thinjs are true, why can't they wait until the matter ia settled by the legal voters as common sense dictates? ri . 1 ... ai mere is to De a liberal sprinkling or female officers provided for next fall we can understand it but as no such purpose has yet been spoken, we are completely at sea aa to this eagerness to have them vote next fall either for the constitution or state rfficers. |