of our social gatherings, and the best men
are generally selected to make and enforce our laws. We have
long ago generally come to the conclusion that woman's
influence is as wholesome and as much needed in the
government of the State as in the government of the family.
We do not know of a respectable woman in the territory who
objects to or neglects to use her political power, and we do
not know of a decent man in the territory who wishes it
abolished, or who is not even glad to have woman's help in
our government.

Our laws were never respected or enforced, and crime was
never punished, or life or property protected until we had
woman's help in the jury box and at the polls, and we
unhesitatingly say here at home that we do not believe a man
can be found who wishes to see her deprived of voice and
power, unless it is the one "who fears not God nor regards
man," who wants to pursue a life of vice or crime, and
consequently fears woman's influence and power in the
government. We assert further that the anonymous scribblers
who write slanders on our women and our territory to the
eastern press, are either fools, who know nothing about what
they write, or else belong to that class of whom the poet
says:

"No rogue e'er felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law."

We took some pains to track up and find out the author of
one of the articles against woman suffrage to which our
attention was called, and found him working on the streets
of Cheyenne, with a ball and chain to his leg. We think he
was probably an average specimen of these writers. And,
finally, we challenge residents in Wyoming who disagree with
the foregoing sentiments, and who endorse the vile slanders
to which we refer, to come out over their own signature and
in their own local papers and take issue with us, and our
columns shall be freely opened to them.

There are some obvious inferences to be drawn and some rather
remarkable lessons to be learned, from the foregoing narrative.
In the first place, the responsibilities of self government, with
the necessity of making their own la