ges of the United
States and of the Congress of the United States has been
unavailing to break it down. Who have upheld it? Those who in the
family circle represent one husband to fifteen women. A continual
accumulation of the power of the church and of polygamy is going
on, and when the Gentiles, as they are called, enter that
territory with the view of breaking it up they are confronted by
the women, who are allowed to vote, and from whom we should
naturally expect a better and a higher morality in reference to
subjects of the kind. But this only shows the power of man over
woman. It only shows how through her tender affections, her
delicate sensibilities, and her confiding spirit she can be made
the very slave and bond-servant of man, and can scarcely ever be
made an independent participant in the stronger exercise of the
powers which God seems to have intrusted to him. Never was there
a picture more disgusting or more condemnatory of the extension
of the franchise to women as contradistinguished from men than is
presented in the territory of Utah to-day.

Where is the necessity of raising the number of voters in the
United States from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000? That would be the
direct effect of conferring suffrage upon the women, for they are
at least one-half, if not a little more than one-half, of the
entire population of the country above the age of twenty-one. We
have now masses of voters so enormous in numbers as that it seems
to be almost beyond the power of the law to execute the purposes
of the elective franchise with justice, with propriety, and
without crime. How much would these difficulties and these
intrinsic troubles be increased if we should raise the number of
voters from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 in the United States? That
would be the direct and immediate effect of conferring the
franchise upon the women. What would be the next effect of such
an extension of the suffrage? It was described by my friend from
Missouri [Mr. Vest] and by other senators who have spoken upon
this subject. The effect would be to drive the ladies of the
land, as they are termed, the well-bred and well-educated women,
the women of nice sensibilities, within their home circle, there
to remain, while the ruder of that sex would thrust themselves