period 1
1865 - 1898
This is a picture of a very famous women's rights advocate named Susan B. Anthony, the picture was taken in 1870 and it is very important to remember this woman and all she has done for the women's rights movement. She is an extremely important part of our history for her relentless effort in gaining the right to vote for women. She is one of the many women who made countless attempts to gain gender equality.
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The Salt Lake herald., April 12, 1889
This is an article written about women's suffrage, it was written because this topic was a huge issue during that time, women were deprived of the rights they deserved and they fought hard to achieve them. It is extremely significant because the battle for women's suffrage is such a huge part of women's history. The article contains several reformers speaking about how the right to vote is a god given right that everyone should have, regardless of race or gender. It demonstrates the countless amount of hard work women had to do to be seen as equally as men and have the same rights and privileges. They know it is something they deserved so they never gave up fighting for it, and because of all those brave and intelligent women, women all across america have the right to vote today.
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TEXT: There was a very good attendance at the assembly hall yesterday on the occasion of the meeting of the Utah Womens Suffrage association. There were the usual opening preliminaries. Mrs Lydia D Alder pre
Sided The action of the executive committee concerning some amendments to the by laws was ratified and concurred in. Mrs Zina D H Young: We have enjoyed the right of franchise and have not abused it and yet it has been taken from us. Was there any justice in this? Have not the mothers of the United States always been found side by side with the men in their battles for independence justice and right? Who implanted within the breast of her children the desire for a great and free government? The mother We look for the great government of the United States to again confer upon us the Godgiven right of suffrage because by and with it we will be enabled to do vast good to the world. For this we expect to struggle we expect to reach out our hands to the women of America and say we are one with you in this grand struggle. Mrs Ida Gibbs: I have always been an advocate of womans suffrage which I consider a Godgiven right. Taxation and representation should always go together The rights of women are entertainly paramount with those of men. Card a young lady not long ago say she would attend our meetings if they were not so dry and uninteresting. She is a poor woman who will villify her own sex She referred to the great and glorious labors of the leading suffragists of America. At one time in the worlds history women were merely slaves but gradually they are gaining their way and each year sees an increased number espouse the cause of suffrage which ere long shall triumph They talk about the patience of men Why one days experience of the average man with the duties of a wife with a growing family would drive him IXTO A LUNATIC ASYLUM The more we do for ourselves the more will the opposite sex respect us I have heard it said that woman was too good and pure to enter politics that she would rapidly be besmeared I do not think so. Politics can not degrade woman but woman can elevate and purify politics. There is everything to gain and nothing to lose in the cause in which we are engaged I do not believe that it is necessary for a woman to neglect her household because she believes in woman suffrage.The question of woman suffrage does not hinge upon the query as to whether the majority of women want it or not The question simply is whether the right to vote is useful or beneficial If it is i so to man certainly should be to women Bishop 0. F. Whitney: I have consented to appear here today with considerable reluctance It was not because I was unwilling to add my mite to a worthy cause but because I felt my inefficiency to speak in such a cause It is one to which I have given but little thought and attention If I am thankful for one thing it is that I was born with a heart to a great extent free from bigotry and I never could see why one portion of the human race should be denied the right of suffrage I never could see those differences which some claim should debar woman from those rights the rights which she justly claims Woman is the other half of man He is not complete without her and they should go hand in hand in every effort every rightful cause I have never recognized any differences between them. And because I recognized the claim was a just one I did not feel called upon to champion her cause. WOMAN IS TilE GATEWAY by which we enter this world the same as is Christ our redeemer to the world beyond We cannot afford to ignore her who is the symbol of the earth and the church of God and as we believe in the triumph of the Church of God we must believe in the triumph of womin She always has and does now the ty p f the work and power of God The womans movement Has come to stay I do not believe in the advancement of man and the degregation of woman We cannot separate man and woman She is not to be idolized as a deity It would seem at times as thOlgh men in this age were endeavoring to make amends for the shortcomings of their ancestors If man is a king woman is a queen To idolize her as borne do however is but the other extreme of the treatment received her in days past Why is it that we cannot feel that such rights as we desire should be extended to others The Puritans rebelled against despotism and fought for their own rights Britain and yet they came here and ESTABLISHED A RELIGIOUS DESPOTISM I marvel today that the women of this nation cannot see that their sisters here in Utah have the same rights Their poets sing of the liberation of the negro even And yet these great champions of liberty seem to be unable to se ebeyond the boundaries of their own state fail to notice the outrages that have been perpetrated in Utah Women whose names are written high on the scroll of fame who have sung for the rights of the black man have came here and yet gone away and slandered the women and the men of Utah Mrs Emily S Richards Many people suppose that the idea of I woman suffrage was inaugurated by a few strongminded women who were anxious to vote This is wrong Behind it all is the elevation of woman the obtaining of the political and other rights which to her belong We believe that its influence will be all we believe that it is due to women that she secure to herself all her social rights and privileges Mrs Richards quoted quite extensively from works on woman suffrage showing the objects that animated the first movers in the matter The women of today can hardly realize the changes that have been made within a few years Women are capable of filling all such light callings as printers reporters editors photographers masicians etc During the last campaign women reporters DID BRIGHTER AND BETTER WORK the men and this without any resort to strong drink to keep them going The advancement that has been made in the condition of women during the past few years has been the result of the faithful and arduous labors of a few noble members of our sex who were not afraid to face ob stacles that would hare probably deterred many from attempting to do what they have accomplished Then again woman has a big work in the temperance cause i and in this she can do greater and better work with the ballot than without it She then reviewed the good that had been ascomplished by the National Womans Suffrage association While the general work has been going on Utah has not been neglected Several of the members of the National Womans Suffrage association have appeared before the Congressional committees and protested eloquently against I the deprivation of the women of Utah of the right of suffrage I Dr Mattie Hughes F Dr Hughes followed with a wellwritten paper During the last thirty years much has been accomplished Woman has at last obtained from man her much deserved liberty Once to be born a female was to j become a slave now in the most intelligent and advanced circles woman has become the peer of man There is much however yet to be done before women can enjoy franchise and having it taken from us with out cause is one reason why the women are so eager to again obtain it Sex should not debarany one from a piiblic office Each man or woman should have the right to be the equal of each other if they can Women should have more rights before the law than man but all we aSK is an equa standing with the other sex She inveighed strongly against the habit of women in spending so much time in frivolity fashions and trashy novels Speed the day when woman shall have all her rights and knowing dare maintain Mrs Stanford This lady was introduced as the president of the suffrage association of Ogden Hers were with her sisters in this great movement Because we say we should have a right to a vote does not imply that we seek political honors but we do say that we should have the right to select so far as we can men to fill public offices We are anxious to see those offices filled by men but by men who are intelligent virtuous and Godfearing Charles W Penrose I have been very much pleased at the proceedings so far As Mrs Stanford has said the right to vote and the right to hold office are separate and distinct Yet I believe that woman is eligible to hold many offices and she should be allowed to fill them if the voters should select her Su frage is a privilege conferred by law it is not a right connected with citizenship and the lawmaking power has the right to put upon it such qualifications as it may desire I find that the ladies arc too apt to confuse citizenship and suffrage SUFFRAGE IS NOT A RIGHT but a privilege I will concede that a woman citizen has just as much inherent right to vote as the male has but the right to vote is not born with anyone be it man or woman If voting was an inherent right one would have a right to vote the moment he opened his eyes upon this world He did not think it was a good policy for strongminded woman to get up on the stand and berate mankind and then go to them and ask for privileges That was not the right way to go about it If the women of the United States will become alive to their rights and seek to obtain them they will probably achieve them It is a wrong idea also this move on the part of the ladies to obtain an amendment to the Con stitution Suffrage is something that does not belong to the constitution I believe the majority of the men in Utah are in favor of woman suffrage There was no justice in the taking away of the suffrage from the women of Utah The day will come when every woman will obtain all her political rights Man is not without the woman nor the woman without the man Hon George Q Cannon take great interest in every question that affects men and women I have al ways believed that if there should be any qualifications for suffrage sex should not enter Women should have the right to vote equal with men I have seen very many ignorant men exercise the right of suffrage when they knew as little about the questions involved as an animal and at the same time intelligent women were deprived of that right I think this is a great injustice j The question of intemperance to whom does it appeal most strongly who is most deeply interested The woman naturally It has a deeper interest for woman tlan anyone else Womans voice in this and other affairs would doubt less have a most excellent effect I do not think that because a woman was allowed to vote she would necessarily be called into service IN THE ARMY OR XAVT There are those who argue this way but I t think this is begging the question i believe that there are offices that woman could fill and many that she would not want to fill For instance I do not imagine that a woman would make a good constable to ar rest men or a sheriff to hang men I believe the right of suffrage would broaden the minds of the women of this country I have never seen any effects in connection with woman suffrage to deplore I pray God to bless you in this movement Do not allow division or jealousy to arise in your midst but show to all that you are laboring I for the advancement of a great cause Mrs T G Webber At the close of the present meeting an opportunity will be offered to all ladies who have nqt yet joined the Womans Suffrage Association of Utah to enroll their names with the secretary We are anxious to have ill ladies who are infavor of womans suf frage join as we expect in a not distant fu ture to hare restored the franchise which was so unjustly taken from us a few years since The question has repeatedly been asked I why a large enrollment is desirable and what advantages are to be gained thereby As briefly as I will endeavor to answer Our home association is an auxiliary of the National Womans Suffrage Association of the United States with headquarters at Washington who wield a mighty influence in the laud and we hope will yet wield a mightier ono Pull believing that IN UNION Is STRENGTH Ve have associated ourselves with the national association so that we may more effectively prosecute the aim and end we have in view namely the enfranchisement of women and placing her upon a higher piano politically than she occupies today To become an auxilliary of the national as sociation we are required to pay a fee of 2o cents each For the first fifty enrolled members we are entitled to three delegates and for each additional twentyfive members an additional delegate Our enrollment should be as large as possible because we not only want to show to our eastern sisters that we arc in real earnest and have the cause of womans political advancement at heart but it gives us greater influence in the councils of the national as sociation at the last meeting of which we had two delegates to represent us and I am pleased to say that our cause was mostably and satisfactorily presented Our en rollment here and the amount of initiation fees which our delegates paid for us enti tled them to cast nine votes and although this may seem a small number still it was of sufficient importance to be solicited and it helped to decide in our favor A QUESTION OF VERY GREAT IMPORTANCE For the benefit of the associations now being formed throughout the territorywho may perchance adopt our present bylaws I will say that after having worked under them for three months we find that thor need amending This was under consideration at our last executive session and we hope soon to complete and publish an amended and more perfect set In placing our initiation fee at 25 cents we were laboring under a misundeastand ing as to the amount per member to be paid to the national association Now we learn thatinstead of it being 25 per cent of our fee it is 25 cents per member and as the matter now stands our treasury is empty of funds But to increase the fee now would be as injustice to incoming members so it has been decided to allow the present charge for membership to remain to the end of the year when the fee will be increased Associations wishing to become auxilliary to us can do so upon application and payment of 10 cents for each member enrolled by them For the government of our meetings and executive sessions we have adopted Roberts Rules of Order and recommend them to all new organizations LADIES SHOULD TAKE AN INTEREST in this matter and aid us to place woman side by side politically with her husband and brother Our fathers contended that taxation without representation was a wrong and if it were so a hundred years ago it is no less so today There are many women in this territory who pay taxes and yet have no voice in the selection of public offlc r hrough whose hands this money i i disbursed I am satisfied that when women hold the franchise universally we shall not only have a better administration of public affairs but greater economy in all public expenditures sf and I therefore urge upon ladies to como forward at once and enroll their names in the greatcause for which we I are struggling The meeting then adjourned subject to the call of the secretary Two great enemies Hoods Sarsaparilla I and impure blood The latter is utterly defeated by the peculiar medicine 1 BEST quality of coal oil in bulk at 25 cents ner gallon at G F Culmer Bros YARY A LIVERMORE The Queen of the Lecture Bureau to Shortly Visit Salt Lake Mrs Mary A Livermore who has been truthfully called Queen of the lecture bureau has been a most effective worker in the temperance cause for many years It was while listening to her on ono oc casion giTing a most thrilling and interest ing temperance lecture that I drew my first enthusiasm in this cause and never since have I lost my interest Mrs Livermore says A higher grander nobler womanhood means the regeneration of the race So thank God for every wave of uplifting that takes women to higher levels and I am especially thankful for the crusade which has forced women into the front ranks of the temperance conflict There certainly can be nothing unwomanly in earnestly combating an evil which strikes a reep blow at the most sacred hope of a womans life for it is the wife of the drunkard who suffers most He in his half conscious state is incapable to even realizing the amount of misery he has wrought His better nature is asleep and before conscience can come to his aid back he flies to the poison cup to find forgotful ness of the evil he has wrought Yes it is a womans work and one too ere long she will be forced to labor for Can a mothers heart receive a keener pang than to see her loved ones one by one drop into thoir silent graves Yes There is a heartache even greater than this It is to see her noble boys breathing the breath of life while the seeds of death are daily con suming their bodies Gladly would I have laid them away in their purity I heard one good mother say than that they should have lived to come to this Look at the history of crimes which each I year is increasing even in our own quiet I town and trace their origin Were they not conceived nine times out of ten in alcohol and were they not consummated under the influence of this maddening draught Human nature in the young is tender and to take the life of a human being requires inhuman courage Alcohol supplies this and makes a very brute of the human He is then made competent for his deadly work for the animal has silenced human con science and the beast of prey rules the hour that darkened hour which shrouds his whole life in gloom to terminate at last in an ignoble death leaving as heritage to all who bear his name disgrace Is it not time then for womans work A tidal wave is sweeping over this planet and by almost irresistible force woman is thrown to the front Her heart is in her work and her hands are reaching out to join the hands of her sister woman Soon we hope it will be seen that by womans work aided by good men this terrible curse to humanity is under control And is Utah with its hundreds of deathdealing saloons to be left in peace upon this question I Are there no disturbing elements Yes the germs are taking root The Good Templars are doing a work other organizations will follow and the temperance cause in Utah is not dead And by our new organization of woman suffrage is shown that the Mormon women of Utah are waking up to the public questions of the day They are in no vase behind their sister women in the world at large The experience they have gained in womans unions will be of great value for we women need discipline It takes hard raps sometimes to bring us into order but if we are more interested in the cause we serve than in ourselves we will profit by our experience and go on our way rejoicing History repeats itself and new dispensa tions call for new laws and the workers too are new But if they are Gods chosen they will endure to the end bear persecution even and try to carry out Gods will to them There is a time and tide in the affairs of nations so is there in the affairs of individuals and when a man or a woman knows beyond a doubt that God has called them they bring their power with them and let the winds blow high or low like the rock of ages they stand true to their moorings The Mormon women like the Spartan mothers of old have shown heroism in some of their recent experiences which will yet call forth tile admiration of the worlds women It is moral courage that commands respect and where a woman will go to prison for conscience sake her moral courage is demonstrated beyond a doubt Let the women of the planet join bands and encompass it Let their hearts be drawn together upon these great questions of the day and as it is now the dawning of womans era truth must prevail. |