Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-11-22 | Page 7 | Severn on the Suffragette.

SEVERE ON THE SUFFRAGETTE O Over cr in England tho the women who want to vote are finding a n rocky rocky road to travel Ono One of ot them has just been heen to three months mouths In prison for forber her ber share sham In a demonstration intended to Lo prove to the men how bow earnest the tho women were in their do- do oman o- o man mauds s for the llIe ballot Ono One measure of or tho the earnestness earnestness earnest earnest- ness consisted In lu breaking tho the win windows of the house of the ilic prime minister Other Othor women received re reo received lighter sentences somo some with alternative of or lines An And they proved the martyr material that Is In fn them by declining to pay their fines preferring that thal England should Imprison them for a n cause w which they believe bellevo to bo be just If those women who want to vote volo will maim mako up their minds they are arc in iu the wrong environment environment environ environ- ment and will como come to Utah they will havo have the Iho salvo saino chance at the ballot that men meu have hae And there are arc bigger things to be won out hero here than the effete and aDd exhausted regions legions of or England can offer them Thero Is Is a sort of demand ou out t hero here for the vigor those women evince Maybe they feel they havo have a duty Uly to perform perform- Let u us point them to the needless sacrifice of or merit In many a cause cause It Isa isa Is la laa a good thing maybe maybo to put a lever under the Institutions institutions of England and with Justice for or a fulcrum move tho the world o oI 01 modern an and established thou thought Lt But what hat Is the good of It for tho the fellow follow at athe he he trouble end of the lever What does he get set out of It How blow much better It ft would have been for Cato to have havo gotten out of Rome or Aspasia out of Greece and to have employed those same splendid talents In a community where the talents would have havo been appreciated and where they would have boon been returned some sixty some seventy and somo some an hundred fold The women who havo been Imprisoned for want want- In lug to vote In Jn England can cau do moro for the cause causo of humanity by coming cominS' to the strong and rising West and hero here giving the tho riches of their Influence than they can possibly in the exhausted soil of a n diminishing dimin imin- kingdom Three months for throwing a stone through tho the window ow of a prime minister who thinks ho he Is better better bet bet- ter than the mother that bore him and purer than tho wife who calls him husband and more ore useful than tho the women who wash his shirts Is too he heavy a a punishment Women who persist In struggling In England for COl the suffrage are aro wasting their time Ume