ut the ages. Orthodoxy
recognizes no "inspiration" for woman to-day. She is not "called"
save to serve man. Under its teaching her thought has been
padlocked in the name of Divinity, and her lips sealed in
sacrilegious pretense of authority from heaven; and nothing so
clearly bespeaks the degenerating influence of the ages of this
masculine teaching as the absolute faith manifested by the women
of Utah in this _ipse dixit_ of man's religious doctrine. Their
emancipation must necessarily be slow.

The paternal government allowed polygamy to be planted, take
root, and grow in a wilderness where the attraction of nobler
minds and freer thoughts was not known. The victims came from the
political despotisms of the old world to be shackled in a land of
freedom with a still darker despotism, and under the aegis of the
American flag they have borne children as a religious duty they
owed to God and man; and surely it can not be expected, even with
that grand emancipator, from king and priestcraft rule, the
ballot, that at once they will vote themselves outcast and their
children illegitimate.

It took the white men of this nation one hundred years to put
away that relic of barbarism, slavery; the removal of the twin
relic will come through liberty for woman, higher education for
children, and the incoming tide of Gentile immigration. The
fitting act of justice is not disfranchisement of woman, as
Senator Morgan proposes, and the reenactment of that old Adamic
cry: "The woman whom thou gavest," but the disfranchisement of
man, who is the only polygamist, and the stepping down and out of
the sex as a legislator under whose fostering care this evil has
grown. Retire to your sylvan groves and academic shades,
gentlemen, as Mrs. Stanton suggests, and let the Deborahs, the
Huldahs, and the Vashtis come to the front, and let us see what
we can do toward the remedy of your wretched legislation. But
suffrage for women in Utah has accomplished great good. I spent
one week there in close observation. Outside of their religious
convictions, the women are emphatic in condemnation of wrong.
Their votes banished the liquor saloon. I saw no drunkenness
anywhere; the poison of tobacco smoke is not allowed to vitiate
the air of heaven, either on the streets or in