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Show lowed to vote at the polls, it would have a tendency to refine those places just as woman's influence elevates aud refines every sphere of life with which she comes in contact. con-tact. And it is safe to say there would ' not be so much corruption among them as exists today among the voting population, for they are more conscientious then men. If the places of trust throughout the country were filled by women, there would not be so many Americans Amer-icans on the other side of the Canadian Cana-dian line with their pockets full of stolen caih. "l!ut," says one, "suppose a woman wo-man should be elected to an office for which she was not qualified physically or intellectually, would not that be a folly for which we would all be responsible." Certainly, to the same extent that we are responsible for the many follies fol-lies around us at pre-nt. Look on Lvery side of you and see men holding positions in all the affairs of life, political, ecclesiastical, financial, and social positions, who are no more fit for them than their wife and daughters. But aside from what women are permitted to do, is the great question of what God intended them to do. I have heard men say, "Cod intended intend-ed man to be first because he created creat-ed him first." Did Hod intend the animals to have dominion over man because he created them first?" No. Woman was God's last and most glorious work, created to be the crowning glory of man's life, his companion, his helpmate, to be his equal, to stand by his side; therefore was she taken from his side. Not to be trampled upon, else she hail been taken from his feet. Nor did Cod endow her with less intellect than man. If they are so, it is because be-cause of the barbarons notions and traditions of this and preceding ages, fiom which I regret to say we are not yet free, that women had no need of education. Why should not the daughter be given an equal chance in life with the son? Why should she not be given the same wages for doing the same work? Why not prepare the girl to battle bat-tle with the world, and open to her all theaenues of livlihood, that she may maintain herself and children should she become a widow. It seems strange that the statesman should think that his mother, sister, or wife should not have sense enough to vote intelligently, but that all the brains of the family are carried car-ried about under his own hat; and that the most accomplished and refined of the gentler sex cannot be trusted with the franchise, while the most degraded of the opposite sex "Boss" that will put up the most whiskey. She is just as amenablt to the law as he, she may have property worth millions of dollars, and is obliged to pay the taxes thereon, but can have no voice as to who shall handle those taxes. But he, although he may not pay more than a nominal tax, designates by his vote who shall make the laws, and who enforce them; and the women wo-men are made to pay the burden of the expenses. In savage tribes, the woman are the drudges, doing U the manual labor, th-j men doing the hunting and fishing. I hold that the degree of civilza-tion civilza-tion a nation has attained is determined deter-mined by the estimation in which it holds a woman. When we make woman our equal in all the functions of life, we will have reached that point in civilization civiliza-tion where we can consistently ask to give more thought to the ' cultivation culti-vation of the mind and less to the adorning of the body. Napoleon, when asked when the training of a child should begin, answered "A hundred years before it is born." Is it not time then to accord woman the place so long and wrongfully wrong-fully denied her, that future generators gener-ators may be brought up to that standard of civilization that shall mark a new epoch in the; history of the world? Whenever woman is given the franchise we will get a purer class of voters. When she is made the equal of man politically she will have something to stir her ambition to become his equal intellectually, intel-lectually, and when we get a purer and more intelligent class of voters we will have a cleaner and more efficient class of officials. W. D. Candland. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Written for the Rkoistbk. This is one of the important questions that government will have ; V meet and adjust in the near future. The wave seems to have struck San Pete at last, and the battle bat-tle cry of the female population of the County is Woman's Rights. There are some, doubtless, who if asked what rights they want other than those they have, would answer, "We don't know what they are exactly, ex-actly, but we want them, just the same." So there are men who do not know whether they favor Democracy or Republicanism because they cannot distinguish the differance. But the great majority of the women cf this County are as in'ei-lk;ent in'ei-lk;ent and worthy of the franchise 'as the men; and if women were al- |