. Will you
take from her all voice in relation to the public schools
established for the education of those children? Our laws
permit women to acquire and possess property. Will you
forbid them having any voice in relation to the taxation of
that property? This bill says too little or too much. Too
little, if you legislate upon the assumption that woman is
an inferior who should be kept in a subordinate position,
for in that case the other laws affecting her should be
repealed or amended; and too much, if she is, as no one will
deny, the equal of man in heart and mind, for in that case
we cannot afford to dispense with her counsel and assistance
in the government of the territory.

I need only instance section 9 of the school act, which
declares that, "In the employment of teachers no
discrimination shall be made in the question of pay on
account of sex when the persons are equally qualified." What
is more natural than that the men who thought that women
were competent to instruct the future voters and legislators
of our land, should take the one step in advance of the
public sentiment of yesterday and give to her equal wages
for equal work? And when this step had been taken, what more
natural than that they should again move forward--this time
perhaps a little in advance of the public sentiment of
to-day--and give to those whom they consider competent to
instruct voters, the right to vote.

To the statement, so often made, that the law which this
bill is intended to repeal was passed thoughtlessly and
without proper consideration, I oppose the fact to which I
have adverted, that the law perfectly conforms to all the
other laws in relation to women upon our statute-book.
Studied in connection with the other laws it would seem to
have grown naturally from them. It harmonizes entirely with
them, and forms a fitting apex to the grand pyramid which is
being built up as broadly and as surely throughout all the
States of the Union as it has been built up and capped in
Wyoming.

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