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roll of tax paying woman. "Taxation without representation od
tyranny". This was the key note, the bugle call of the revolu-
tionary fathers in their struggle for liberty. Says James Otis
in 1764, in one the pamphlets that made our independence,
"The very act of taxing, exercised over those who are not repre-
sented, appears to me to be depriving them of one of their most
essential rights. For what one civil right is worth a rush after
a man's property is subject to be taken from him at pleasure, with
out his consent. If a man is not his own assessor, in person or
by deputy, his liberty is gone.". Hon. Charles Sumner, in his
speech on March 7th, 1866, endorses these declarations of James
Otis, and he says, "Stronger words for universal suffrage could
not be employed". His argument is that of men are taxed with-
out being represented, they are deprived of essential rights.
These axioms are as clear as sunlight, and it would be in viola-
tion of the fundamental principles of our institutions for the
men of Utah to frame laws whereby women property holders shall be
taxed without their consent given through such repersentation as
is accorded to men as a condition precedent to their being taxed.

Again, all our constitutions, either in terms or in sub-
stance, commence their preambles with that comprehensive formula,
"We, the people". Our government is "of the people, for the peo-
ple and by the people." Whatever the status of women may be,
they are at least a part of the people. As such the government
provides a place for them, and by no form or principles of reason-
ing can they be deprived of such rights and privileges as enure to
men under government, without at the same time destroying the nat-
ural rights which menheld for themselves to be inviolate.