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Show I SOI GRAPES KICK I HTSEIIEIS10I KNOCK AT REED SMOOT. Editor Standard: Miss Elsie Agnes Lancaster, suffragette missionary from New York, to Utah, is a most . excellent woman, there is no doubt about that, but why carry coals Into n mining camn that has nothing bu;. black diamonds in sight? Utah has settled the suffrage question beyond dispute and for all time, to the satisfaction satis-faction of everbod, so why with the bom finger of discontent dlsiurl) its mouldy skeleton in the forgotten grave of the past? The constitution of our country has wisely made each state the Judge of who shall have the lawful rlgbt to vote at elections, and therefore It is no concern of the general government, govern-ment, provided the state conditions the right of suffrage in harmony v 1th specific provisions of the United States, and these provisions tho state of Utah, and the other states, has settled to the satisfaction of all concerned If I were a member of congress and lived south of Mason's and Dixon' line, I would oppose female suffrage there with all the power God has given me. and m constituents of the white race would rine up and bless my name. The men of the Xew South, like those of the Old. dearly love their morning bitters, but they have been astly willing to sacrifice that great luxury by voting for prohibition, in violation of their .acred traditions thnt claim them tp be tbe onlj Slrnon pur? Bourbon race I This they have done to protect their homes from the violent hands of the dissolute colored despoller so mad-by mad-by the unbridled use of ardent spirits nnd narcotics. It is not surprising that the colored leople so late emerged from the darkness dark-ness of slavery have, with few exceptions, excep-tions, no sane notions of self-control, and when saturated with the murderous murder-ous stuff that would make a jackrab-bit jackrab-bit fight a bull dog they will plunge without notice into the most violent excesses and children are wantonlv murdered, their mothers and sisters outraged, farm houses pillaged and set on fire, and lynchlngs by the Injured In-jured lctims become the order of the dav. For year& the papers have been filled with these brain-storm exhibitions exhibi-tions till in other countries American civilization has become a byword of reprctich Not a month ago the minister min-ister of Turkey to the United States, when risked for protection to our mio sionarteB in his country, hurled back into our teeth the story of the nameless name-less crimes committed here in America, Ameri-ca, and for this he was compelled to leave Washington notwithstanding the truth of what he said. If female suffrage obtains In the southern states, several of them havo a preponderating colored population, the colored women will have the same tight to vote as will the white women and about the first thing they will do will be to wipe out prohibition and restrain the hand that lies heavy on the sale of morphine and cocaine, and a reign of terror will again prevail over that section of country as It once did forty years ago under the regime of Kellog and others scut from the northern Btatee to reconstruct and re-derm re-derm the states lateh in rebellion O, yes. the Republican party was responsible because It was in power and yet that party was not really to blame! An awful war had raped, for four long blood years, and at its culmination the Immortal Lincoln had been foully murdered, the secretary of state, the great Seward, was made to weiter in his own blood, and chaos md hell Itself were loosed by the 'emper these outrages had Inspired ind It is llttlo wonder thnt crime held high carnhal till the administration ould look beyond the clouds of con-uslon con-uslon and calmly view the scene, and qet action. It Is just and right that women In he northern states, and In the western, west-ern, should have the same pri liege? hat are vouchsafed to their brothers, tut the southern home is an exception ind should not be put in jeopardy by repeating a lesson that has cost so much to learn. There may come a day. God speed It, when the colored people, further removed from the days of the cruel whip and the overseers' courses will better appreciate a freeman's free-man's birthright and his responsibility responsibil-ity to society and then be worthy a freeman's elective franchise, but let the present voters down there decide when that safe time shall be, and In the meanwhile let the southern mother mo-ther pray to be saved from some of her would-be friends "up north " Personally, I now am and all my life have been a Republican and be cause of it I have no apology to make to any one, but I will never help my party to degrade itself by doini; something to another state that I would not have done to my own. Moreon-er, to Invoke the lawless methods meth-ods of the English suffragettes by adopting their threats of reprisal and intimidation in our own state when quiet means and ways have been sufficient suf-ficient to win for either sex the most just and liberal franchise is not In harmony with Republican Ideals, am! the women voters of Utah no matter mat-ter to which political party they belong, be-long, will not look with favor upon such an unjust and senseless innovation. innova-tion. The paramount issue with the state this fall is to re-elect Senator Smoot to his old seat in the United States senate that for twelve years he has honored as no man has honored any other seat. Senator Smoot has risen trom an obscure village lad to the crowning height of a real statesman to whom all eyes east and west are turned for the protection of our in dustrles and to strengthen the languishing lan-guishing hand of labor. He has put the dull state of Utah on the political polit-ical map and as never before we of the Inland Sea are proud of that map and of the peerless architect that has written It there. The Republican party has a glorious glori-ous record running through half i century of storm and sunshine and today to-day It face& the enemy with a smile of satisfaction on the splendid picture pic-ture of Its past and looks Into the future fu-ture with confidence. The Republican Republi-can partv has stood for the weak and oppressed In its own country and in all countries and will not now, nor at any time, accept a victory by in direction or by subterfuge The Re publican party fights fair and in the open, and If It goes down in the battle, bat-tle, as other great causen have gone dovn. only to rise again, it will fall with its face to the foe The Re publican partv will not cov-r its face with a mask to deceive the people, peo-ple, nor will it strike an adversary from the shadow of a woman's skirts (Signed). A. S. CONDON. oo |