Show OUR SOLONS U D J a few of Ws ideas in o them antor the leg ila ture is steadily wearing away the forty days allotted for the enactment of necessary legislation without having transacted much business bt least not having as yet great deal tho house however has made out to chih itself by the hercio baat of defeating in a summary manner ahe bill of mr rc nrose which sought open the way for women to hold office for a body of men who assume to bo the peculiar friend of woman I have eel lorn witnessed so great anxiety to keep her in her proper sphere as they call it standing the pretensions of the anti women men I feel quite eure that they have not yet sufficiently emerged from the darkness of bar to understand that women are equal to men or if they have learned the fact they wilfully close their eyes and will not sea it I do not propose to argue with them although I disagree I know there are many women as capable to discharge the duties of office as men and I presume many might be found in utah as well qualified to make laws as are these solons who so promptly sat down up on their rights aa citizens aquil privileges I think they sav women have how equal they can vote for men if they choose can pay their like little men are amenable to the law ag are men but here the equality ends such is the penalty they have to pay for the accident of sex the nero i ft citizen and ao is a woman they can each vote at elections but the negro is so far superior to woman that he could hold office if elected but not so with woman and yet they say equalization I think there is no food reason why if a woman is allowed to vote ebe should not aho be eligible to office nor why if disqualified in one case she should not be in the other can any of the enemies of comans womans to hold office tell me why the bolong of utah withhold from women liiv alises which they could not refuse to a should be be elected to office great frienda to women are these law gircys who refuse to pass a law conferring upon women privileges accorded 10 the words are easily uttered but do not always convey the true intent of be speaker but actions betray the real inwardness of the actor ho who proves too much in an argument is bis own worst enemy by his own petard may not such be the case with the class of gentlemen to whom I refer the members of the house who op posed sir Pen roses bill together with the very able corps of writers of the ben tasker stripe have no doubt proved satisfactorily to them homana inferiority to man and her want of qualification to citizenship not arguments bo brought to bear upon the minds of congressmen convincing them that it would be right to annul the act of the utah legislature conferring upon women the right to vote and should this lair be annulled bow would the fact our solons much presume and yet such may be thee result forit aswell known that a strong effort is being made in that direction and these gentlemen may have rendered aid and comfort to the movement if the members who seem so friendly to women desire to furnish evidence of sincerity let them now by an act of the legislature restore to married women the right of dower of which they have been deprived by a farmr legislature right which is denied them by any state or terri before closing this letter utah I wish to accord to the council all due praise for proposition to exempt from taxation artan prospective bonds to be issued by salt lake city the equal and exact justice to men and women are entitled requires that the burthen of taza tion be equally borne by all kinds of property and that equality would not be chown in axing U e houe hou e and land of the poor and exempting exempt inc the bond of the money lender K D J SALT fob |