Show WHY lIT VO WOMEN IE SHOULD VOTE Tom Torn Johnson mayor of Cleveland Clo O Ohio lo I Is an art avowed a advocate of oC woman suffrage gc In a l recent a address dress he said sald- Since w women men must obey the I law s ws equally with ith men an and must I pay a their taxes they should be given cn tho the r right of ot franchise The logic o of It seems irresistible We Ve give the theote vote ote in tJ his lihs i cou country try to lo a good many many who dont nf hu have very very ry much respect for fOI th the laws We Ve have o not yet et developed sufficient sufficient sum sum- courage to refuse o the ballot to lo any one ana or any palS class that comes s cross the the ocean in m mans s n attire no m matter matter mat mat- t ter tel what he has been in the old country not nor what he is likely to lo bo bu In this country And while we get many good citizens from the tho millions a of Immigrants we wc have ha to put puta a R good man many in Jail We Ve have o to support t a good man many manyin in almshouses An And we have havo to spend spen a a. pile of ot money In e educating them and their children ren before either the they or their children have any opportunity to render an equivalent equivalent equi equi- valent to the republic In nation natio blI building in all that waste Is to be expected rut But what reason or fairness is there thoro In according so much to the men of at every clime and denying it t to the women of this nation who whom we cheerfully ullY confess ar armans arman's arc mans man's superiors This is the land of or the tree and the home of or the brave and wo we have ha made the United States t the e ter refuge e of tho the oppre oppressed sed of all nations You Tou may fin find both bolh those thoo phrases in the thc earlier literature of the thc country Maybe there I is less need for fOI It now tItan than there has been In n the fie past And Ad maybe the grade of or Immigrants who have ha foun found refuge refugo here hele Is vastly lower than titan It was in the earlier r day n There w was vs s some somo ground for the Know Nothing cry of seventy years cars ago aso but not much The foreigners who then lien came to lo this country were a mighty ml substantial sort ort and they made excellent citizens In Inc c ever every cen en tuna time of or trial they thoy proved pro themselves cs worth worthy wOIth of the citizenship bestowed upon them They were models which native born Americans could safely follow fulIo Time The They have hn not in any way menaced tIme the Institutions of the tIme re republic re- re public and public and the fear of that was the tIme only thing that provoked provoke the tile Know Nothing crusa crusade e. e I 1 Jut But lut th there re ha has never no been an any fear eal of oC women Im Imperilling urn urn- the Institutions of or tho time nation nallon There Thele has never ne been a day ay when men did l not leal realize that women were the Jaw abiding sex ex Ito Hie sex of least expense In time the maintaining g of government the sex that set the standards of or and antI right living Jiving An And there has never nevor been beena a n good reason h why women should not vote ote They do vote ote hero here In Utah an and they have not nol yet ct forfeited their right to tho tIme ball ballot t. t nor proven pro the of oC giving It to them The fact that some of them do not care to vote otc lies has nothing to do O ith the iho equities or 01 obligations of or tIme the ease case They have been entitled to the franchise and they ha have 0 had hatI it Some time tho the women of every e state in the Union will vote ote at every election Not all alt will exercise time the right thus titus put Into their hands But nut that thal is 13 true true of time thc men right II now And AntI It is Js a a. sorrowful comment that the men most interested In clean politics and amI JO good tI hoc H most frequently absent I from tim iho tho n most Is most activities wl audi u l. l indifferent to lo th tIme the political Chrs If dales dats and amI manage conventions con T y yIt It Is to lo the credit of this stale state v rc given g the tIme ballot at the beginning of or tho time states states state's m. existence And AntI It is to tho time credit of ot the tho women that time i 1 have never fv l. l a abused buse the Iho ll rights h ts con conferred fe l d j J. J J Jr I n |