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Show B The "Dispatch" and SuffraEe. B -A' "l0 question ot women voting is B "ow beliij discussed In nearly cveiy B quarter and tlio bestowing of suffrage on B tlieiu by the recent constitutional con- B l entlon U bolus looked into, the position B sonin o( the papers took In regard to tl o H matter at the time of tlio great clif-riiB- H. alon in bclnc hurled forward and bacl.- B word by our Indies Scleral of them H have aaktid ui to fhe what una said by B t''0 I'rovo Pirpatch on this subject To H please tlifin and to let otir renders know H how thnt paper looked at tlio woman H suffrage question no copy tho follonlin; B editorial of that paper of March 1 1 : H- TUB BACI1KDNK8H Of rLEIHIl'fl. B The Salt f.ako Herald ii lory pro- B uouncrd In its adocacy of n proiieion 1 in the new constitution unfranchising B' women Last fall both tho republican m nnd tho democrat?, in tho bitter atrucglo B for votea and thinking to win inliuomn B br the measure, ndopttd planki plodg- H ing their steral parties to advocate tho H "sacred cauto" of fcinnlo miirrajn. That B paper now calls lustily for the deino- B crats to redeem tho plodgu then lundo H and nlao Intimates that the republicans H liad better go and do llkoniee. In the M first placo the democratic conientloii had no riutit to make auch n pledge. It H was, and is, altogether ngalnst thou hole J history nnd genius of tlio demotrncy. B Several states of this union iiavo mond B for female suffrage nnd two nt least H have accomplished it, but it Is a notable B ( fact that all Oils sort of 'Vro.-rcW has B bern hb yet, confined to icpuhlican states, Tho simple fact is that the i liolc B thing is anti-democratic ad foreign to B all blatory, precedent nnd policy of dc-H dc-H mocracy. Not n single lino of Jcflerson B cvun euggeats such n piinciple. Nor B can eueU a lino bo found lu any work by B any enooi tho democratic faMioro, clllur H anciont or modern. Then a democratic H minority in our constitutional rouven-H rouven-H tion may nefl Ignore, it it ihooats, a B hasty and foolish pledge made by a con-B con-B luntionand etill dono great violence to B either principle or uaaga. If a foallsh H fellow in his cups pledges hlmeolf to BB swallow an ounce of morphine liiuit he B make good the plcdgo whan lie Is sobor? m There are some pledges inaro honored lu B the breecli than in the observance, and H that pledgo last fall is one of this ihar-B ihar-B Rcter. As tliis la tlio only argument tho B Ilvruld presents we naturally conclude H thatit is having a bitof darkly concealed B fun at somebody's expense Wo do not BB wnnt to see the (inntblse forced upon B our fair sitter whether or no, in any B such way, for no feol that if submitted H to a vote oi the women tliemselves the M proposition would be voted donn by a B tremendous majority. The ardor of the M thick nnd thin adyocatos of the measure B is only simulated. It is not real gallan-H gallan-H try nnd devotion to the sex which in-B in-B duces )oung and cnthutinntlc men to B rush into the breech agahiBt all history, B all precedeut and all naturo to foriv BB) modest and ahrinklug notuanhood into B th full biaro and blaze of partisan poli B tics. The ladies read tills as the callow BB and devil-may-care ebullition of imma-BB imma-BB ture statesmanship, seeking tint notorl-BB notorl-BB ety which is denied to its adiocatcs iu BB tho legitimate channels of polith al ain-H ain-H bltion The theory is that if tlila great BB boon id conferred by the effort! of this BB tender and criap sort of ttateinanthip, BB tlio newly enfranchised can do uetlilng BB lossthait vote for their benefactors to BB the end of Uie chapter. BB Take the women who liaie ns yet BB taken hold of tills matter, and who can BB say how much ambition to hold cilice BB has been implanted in their own tender BB bosoms and this sort of ausumed obliga- BB tion to refrain themselves and vote fur BB the champions instead would be found BB to have n i ery bitter tasto nnd tlio worn- BH en would indignantly refus tocarry out BB tSal assumed or implied pledge, if she BB never did another purely political act iu BB her life. "Tlie eutliusiasui evoked last BB fall" by the adoption of tho plank will B be found to be very limp nnd uiueawor- BB thy tliis fall. The francliiso enjoyed by BB the dear ladies iu Utah 'soicral years BB since, when tho government of the ttr- BB rllory was a theocracy was a ysry difT- BB erenl proposition to political enfran- B chlstraentsuch na is proposed now, or BB ,u:!l " Colorado is "blessod" with. The B" ly excuse for the sulirago offeicd la B the necessity for reform, Br Woman's BUlTrago may be good moral- ' BB i'y. but it Is an indifferent article of de- i B jaocrsoy, all the same. BBk1 bbbbbW ? |