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Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

CHAPTER XVIII
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All Mormon women vote who are privileged to register.

Every girl born here, as soon as she is twenty-one years old, registers, and considers it as much a duty as to say her prayers.

Our women vote with the same freedom that characterizes any class of people in the most conscientious acts of their lives." These various questions were happily solved in 1895, when Utah became a State.

Its Constitution gives women the right to vote on all questions, and makes them eligible to any office.
The journey over the Rocky Mountains was more interesting and wonderful than I had imagined.

A heavy shower the morning we reached the alkali plains made the trip through that region, where travelers suffer so much, quite endurable.


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