Show toot tootoo I 1 SEN DERN DEMAN S IN WOMAN E the following address was nas delivered in the upper hoube bribe state legislature monday by senator dern when the comans womans s suffrage amendment wa was up for ratification it appeared iu in the tuesday Tribune 1 and for genuine huntor au anything 1 I that life ever pub ineat it a mile ocelius or that the news readers mil I 1 enjoy reading the addre address it is given in full herewith when this proposed amend beut to till the constitution of tile the united states was first submitted to ill the states slates I 1 thought r prompt ratification was a I 1 great reat public lic duty anti and that this belated act of enlightened justice would result in wonderful benefits to ill the nation and to humanity i lint but I 1 have recently been reading sundry speeches by more or less lesi distill distinguished r members of tile the unitt united 11 states senate itei and I 1 have conie come to the conclusion that if there is an ounce of americanism left in it us 1 if we want to preserve the hie fundamental principles principal pl of out our 1 government I is they were laid down by the revolutionary evolutionary fathers ind and uness less we are avillan willing g to surrender very every vestige of out our self respect nid and manhood we should not ra tiby afy taix thi treaty I 1 mean this Avit without hout certain re serrations ser rations ions let lct me ille call all c your attention to afew few of ill alie I 1 proposals that thai are f contained iii this covenant ove nant in this amendment in the first 1 place we lve goll all know iian wai oll c constitution I 1 1 14 ill alie united S stales ta I 1 vs was avas fra franceil frani illel eil ill ahe liht rio ailt to vote was ivas 0 iven only lo 10 0 o ill alie nien itten mid and tile women were dell aenied icil hiis this privilege now no nr eliere is ille lie base trailor who lares cs to stand up ami 1111 say mat ill lie makers of alie ill constitution j did not possess all knowledge I 1 and wisdom ill past present and fut future ure who whir ix will ill dispute heir conscience and infallibility I 1 Q well tile alien if all they alu ne NN it all it is rank presumption ill 11 on 1 our ur parl in it this corruption on 11 conr ur dent generation to 10 mill add anything 1111 thill to to ill the institution constitution I 1 if votes for women were a 1 bood thin thins would tilt fathers not have made provision accordingly of i I 1 lo 10 I 1 v why I 1 certai certainly lill A and 11 d since if they did not so provide it is a lead fead pipe pille cinch that this proposition for fol woman s frase is all dead wron and it will bo be unpatriotic and nn ani am lor for us to undertake any innovations now mr il president aident IN with tit dic alie men gill all ill lie voting fl free front from 0 hillside litter interference ference or domination on oil the part of llie other esex sex this r rand grand and glo glorious gloriod riou country V of ours oars ila has rown froni from thirteen weak and str r glim colonies to to taw oreatt eat esl 4 I 1 freest and richest nation in ill lie no world orld stretching k froni ille coasts of maine to the sunny slopes of tit alie sierras shall lo 10 v u e now abandon the lie true a d only american policy which we give aci achieved dived all this grea re atness tiie s not on oil your life what do we care about tit alie wrongs and hurden burdens s or of the die women folk so ion loep 4 gis as the liten are i it t all right tit alie motto of safety first is go or oil enough for fir it us let such harebrained hare hart brained dreamers amors anil and idealists idea lists as caliri gopher tile the pil grill Fa fathers tiers thomas jefferson and abraham lincoln try their rash experiments in tile lie e established order of things lings ti if they want to bi be foolish and reckless As for us we will not take a 3 chance 1 I 1 th therefore propose that in I 1 ratifying this thi h amendment we 1 acl I on bit reservation declaring i that ha we stand and pat on our past paa pol k and in d practice anil that it mut he be understood udder stood that wit when en to the const itil tion shall have beeh adopt edthe said sald constitution in ifo no wi shave lave been changed place I 1 invite attention atte ution to tile fact washington n fon in liis his farewell address cautioned it ns afi ainest entangling tans lins r alliance heretofore tile meu have lone done the voting I 1 antl and have run tit alie or government sovern ment it is now proposed prop oMed to take the women into tild and give 1 I ive tilt bliem in an equal voice in our politics it if eliat is not lot in au en ell ta tan noling lins alliance of tit alie worst kind what is it are we to the advice of tile father of liis his country art are we 1 I iiii in it to abandon our tinie time hon ored policy v of masculine isolation and permit ourselves to lie be drawn into every petty squab ble among the collien have a set of interests all their own olvil in the third place and this is of the gravest importance I 1 want it to point out that if we nen men jj e the women tile the vote vole we shall he be surrendering our sovereign ty perhaps Perl idlis naeshall we lose only 1 a I part of it but we sie give women the vote in ill addition to the last hist word which site she already possesses possesse pos I 1 till am afraid slie she will iiii J soon leave all the s 1 alp is what is sovereignty it is t the right of doing doin as ag you von ulea ale eq I 1 I 1 f q 4 choo ITT in af your own cours anybody who ila lias I 1 lit lif braim of of a 1 I inos lil it 11 can 11 see ice i ce that if this tin s amendment oil t i is s adopted in fil tile present form forill we shall lie be setting ill up a 1 super brov ov ment the rhe women voin vii beill 1 in in the majority will run every very sure as a and te men illen will lie he ilia in a helpless minority what will avail us its out our ward avard s and party part box boxes bouses es if till won women lell who are it ml KO confoundedly numerous can fore allier at ill alie back nate or on oll the lie front porch or ut at their r ri 5 4 0 1 1 clock olk ol k I 1 leas vas or it at uny any of if heir lieu lien parties partie and it hatch out their theil diabolical I 1 plots alot olot for it he a amelioration ine iora cioll of 11 human itman affairs an airs anil and then having havin probably five votes to our oil one proceed to put lint them over for it ses goes n without saying ta that every proposal they inai may put forth is bound boull I 1 I 1 it fo le be choe chock k full of downright 1 I wick edile and deviltry anti anil with no im 0 thel other pur purpose pov in the republic rep 11 W ito which lias heretofore been the taft gailing guid ins li idt lit of liberty loving levins men inen throughout tle he W world ol 01 I 1 d after I 1 shall have had tinie time if 0 o look up ill suitable references reference I 1 shall prove in by quotations front from ill the doctrine covenants Coe Coxe nants and ili I 1 1 gook book of 1 mormon that the lie prop votes for women i is contrary ari to tilt will of god I 1 suppose thoro there u will ill lie sc sv offers who say you can prove anything anything 1 by 1 a 1 judicious belef selection flon of f 21 2 sen 1 etal eril lanusse lanu ase e and isolated sentences bences sa but I 1 despise their Veras crass ignorance iK norance 1 I |