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HEAD I READ ! ! BEAD ! ! !
Liberty and Juutico aak a Fair
Hearing.
"Will tho-o who thought so arnestly,
worked n constantly and sacrificed so
much for negro freedom, givo the subject
of the freedom of mother, sister, Wife and
dnugliter consideration ?
Will nil others do tho same who believe
thnt th-ir mothers, their Maters, thoir
wiv,, their duughter, are ks much enti
tled to freedom m was tho negro?
Kead this pupor read it all through I
If you agree with it sentiments nil right,
if you do not, all the more enure why you
should rend our reasons, and you will if
u take i-oumel of your own heart and
manhood I lave your family read it; don't
refuM) them this boon and then Miy "They
don't want to vote." .Justice to ywrolf
I'tid family will induce 3011 to read and
fairly consider of the truth herein con
tained. Ke.nd and think with intent to do
right. Kight never Miflem n wrong to
any Itememher that in November you,
men, will be culled upon to vote upon this
question, that our state motto, "EQUAL
ITY IlKFOItKTIIK LAW," shall apply
to tin: mother, wife, daughter and sifter,
is well sis to the father, husband, son aad
brother. "We know that many of you
who think differently from us, conscienti
ously believe that it U best for woman,
111J for the race, that she should, hold her
pnaent inferior arid circumscribed posi
tion. But you may conclude differently if
j-ou will only UK AD ! HEAD! I READ 1 1
The Constitutional Amcndmont.
A joint resolution was adopted by the
.egUInture of Nebraska in February. 1881,
ind approved by the governor, proposing
an amendment to the constitution of the
state, bo a to drop the word "male" out of
tho sutlrnge qualification, thereby confer
ring upon tho women of Nebraska the
right to vote at all election. That part of
the constitution, if amended, would read:
Section 1. Kvory person of tihLgo of
twenty-one year or upwards, belonging
t either of tho following classes, who
shall have resided in this state six months,
and in the county, precinct or ward for
the term provided by law, shall bo an.
elector.
Firft. Citizens of the United States.
.Second. Persons of foreign birth, who
(hull have declared their intention to be
come citizen conformably to the laws of
tho United Slates on the subject of natu
ralization, at least thirty days prior to an
election."
Said proposed amendment will be sub
mitted to tho qualified votors of this state,
for rutidcation or rejection, at tho gen oral
election to be held on tho 7th day of No
vember, 18S2.
OUB CLAIMS.
First. "What is suffrage f Webster
says: "The formal expression of an opin
011 ; a voice given in deciding a contro
verted question, or in the choice of a man
lor an olEce or truU"
We claim that suffrage is a right, and as
inherent in woman as in man ; to deny
which is to repudiate the principles of tho
declaration of independence, tiTo national
(institution and our bill of rights. "Gov
cinmeuU derive their just powers from tho
tonsent of the governed" women aro
governed. "Taxation without representa
tion is tyranny'' women are taxed and aro
not represented. "Political power inheres
hi tho people" women are people.
We claim that women are as capable of
forming opinions, have as decidO opinions,
r.nd aro as capable of expressing opinions
as are men. Therefore, the power to vote
the medium by which an opinion is
expressed, a controverted question decided,
positions of trust filled should bo conceded
women and as freely exercised by them ai
by men.
SEASONS WHY WOMEN
SHOULD VOTE.
Woman suffrage is essential to the trM
republic, the basts of which is the natural
equality of human beings. Until wonwi
are put ou au equal looting with men this
is not a republic .
"The object of the repablie," an Sena
tor Hoar, "is the aggregate worth of the
people. It is personal, aot material.
You value vour 'neighbor not for al
monev, not for hi physical strength, aat
for his genius, lut for" the qualities '
courage, generosity," 'lore, 'honor,' truth
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and you value your state jmt so far a it is
an aggregate of jTon joesi.g these
qualitie. and just so far as it i the means
in promote and increase them. It is
womnn on whom we depend to Mutate
and ftr the moral qualities of children,
and who pot-s the faculty of fostering
and educating children to largely that it i
admitted that it is rarely that a child who
lose its mother In early life, grows up
jmse.ing them. Will anylfody deny that
the is equally capable with tho husband
and father in determining what measures
and what policy in the state will result in
the increase and promotion of these
qualiticn in the ag'gregate of families and
individuals that go to make up the repub
lic?" Tho capacity to judgo of character ii
peculiar to woman. Senator Hoar says:
"How often doe it hamx. that tne nus
band receives his woru of wacning from
the wife, or a brother from a sistr, in re
gard to the character of a person in whom
he is likelv to place undue confidence.
And, says Rufus Chonte, one of the closest
observer! of our time: "Men talk and
think of measures; of creeds in jfolitics;
of availability; of strength to carry tho
vole of this "or that state. Through all
this woman's eve seeks the moral, pruden
tial, social mid mental character of the
man himself and she finds it."
"The eternal and ineradicable distinc
tion of uir," lays H. I). Hlackwell, "ii
one principal reason why women, in a rep
reentalivt government, should be directly
represented', sinco they constitute- one en
tire half of the Udy Hlitie. If lawyers
alone can not- safely be trmted to make
laws for mechanic, "if merchants alone can
not legiidnte justly for farmers, if white
men alone can hot do justice to the ne
groes, if every well defined rlai In society
Is entitled to its own authoritative ex
pressionsurely women, y who are tho
wives and sisters and mothers of men,
should give expression to the domestic
interest from the feminine point of view.
If mere differences of education, habit,
ruco and interest make cla legislation
dangerous, how much more partinl and
imperfect must bo the legislation of one
half tho community, where tho other hair,
in addition to such differences, differs or
ganically also."
War is tho groat scourge that afHicts
humanity. It was to prevent private war
that government was first instituted. So
long a suffrage "was exercised only by
fighting uvwi, war was the rule and eaco
the exception. And long as men ulono
vote, the belligerent oloment will continue
to prejKuulerato. Fourteen out of every
fifteen dollars of tho duties and taxes col
lected by the general government are
spent indefrayitig ast and present war
expenses. "When men and women voto
all citizens will bo represented, and tho
true balance of human nature will be re
stored. Woman sutfrugo means perma
nent peace between individuals and nations.
Intemperance and licentiousness aro,
next to war, the chief curse of civilized
society. But, HMiop Simpson has well
wdd tliat tho vicas of our great cities can
never l controlled until women vote.
Temperance statistics assert that one-half
of ail meu occasionally use intoxicating
liquor as a leverage, but that only one
woman in forty usos liquor. Tho worst
evils of iutemperance fall upon the wives
andrchildren of inebriate. The drunk
ard's wife will not vote with tho drunkard.
Woman suffrage may not mean prohibi
tion, but it certainly does mean a higher
respect lor temperance and sobriety.
Women arc vitally interested in tho per
manenco and sanctity of marriage. Unless
utterly abandoned they recoil from sen
suaiity. The womon of St. Louis, after a
long and arduous struggle have procured
the repeal of tho iufamous city ordinaucu
enacted by men alone, which licensed
houses of prostitution. Whca women
voto these dens of infamy will everywhere
be broken up. Woman suffrage means
social .purity.
lloing inferior to men In muscular
strength, womon find it more difficult to
earn money. They are, therefore, neces
sarily more economical in their expendi
ture. The low wages of women are the
result of unjust legislation, but voting
will not wholly do away with this dispar
ity of earnings, or with woman's conse
quent habit of economy. Therefore wo
man suffrage means financial retrench
muntand a more economical scale of state
and national expenditures.
Women aro more Influenced by moral
and religious consideration than are men.
In the state prison of Nebraska there are
'JG5 male convicts; no female con
victs. Even the comparatively few crimes
committed by women are usually such as
affect themselves most directly; those com
mitted. by men are usually crimes of vio
lence, which most directly affect the lives
and property of others. More than two
thirds of all the church members of
America are women. This higher aver
age standard of religion and morals is pre
cisely what is needed in politics.
We are told that politics are filthy and
degrading. What are politics? Webster
defines as the "science of government;
that part of ethics which has to do with
the regulation and government of a nation
or 6tate, the preservation of its safety
peace and prosperity; the defense of its
existence and righu against foreign con
trol or conquest; tho augmentation of its
strength and resource, and the protection
of its citizens 4n their rights, with the
preservation and improvement of their
moral?-' Surely nothing filthy or degrad
ing about all this. On the contrary, vhat
should be more cleanly and elevating?
"If the making and administering of Inw
has becone to corrupt," says George Wil
liam Curtis, "s to justify" oallinsTpolitics
filthy, may wo not Tinscrr "remember, as we
bejrjaoyttjsrork of nuriacatjor-tkat.po...
tie have "been wholly maaaced "by men ?
How can we purify taeai ? If we "sat in a
chamber with cleae! wia4ew aatll the air
became thick and td, akould waaat be
fcn, L we broagat. ia jeeanriaew if we
sprinkled chloride of liBMaad .auraed
aafatida, while we disctiaed taa'rreai
purifier?' If we woald 4teBe ' the- foul
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iSlBlSSli Sdmrr t bv aar ux'anrtaS fpB a ws-rinata ? iaasf tn
chamber we should throw th windows
wide opn, and the sw-et summer air
would swoop all impurity away and fill our
lunfjs with frcihcr life. If we would
purge politics let us turn upon them the
I grfnl stream of the purest liuman influ-
enoe w know."
Women's prence at the pollt and polit
ical meetings will greatly tund t preserve
ordnr and decorum and to insure a "free
ballot aid a fair count." Neither bayonets
nor deputy sheriffs will be neJed where
wives and motbtr are.
The licentiousness of our citi U largely
due to the starvation pay of women de
pMidwnt upon their own work for bread;
or by the death or misfortune of father,
brother or hubond, are thrown suddenly
ujon the world without the training need
ful to earn bread. The ballot means better
witges for women; will induce women, in
days of troserity, to fit themselves for
souw business or profession, thus lessening
the social evil.
Aristocratic castes, which have been de
stroyed by universal suffrage among men,
still exist among women. The woman
who goes out of some few resjiected em
ployments is deemed to have destroyed her
social standing. Young" women are made
to fel if they enter domestic service they
degrade themselves and lose their chance
to wed well. Housekeepers suffer for want
of god household help. When women
voto honest Industry among women will
be respected as it it among men.
Divorces are largely due to unloving
wedlock into whicli thousands of women
4iter yearly from force of circum
stances. The enfranchisement of women
will bring altoiit a projer social stato, and
divorces will be seldom known.
Assaults and other crimes against women
would be far less frequent and attack on
their reputation more rare if women jos
sessed political power. Disfranchisement
breeds contempt aud contempt breeds
abuse.
Wife beating and other cruelties toward
women are frequent among men of the
brutal sort, which go unpunished. Wero
women voters a large political influence
would be exertnl for their protection.
Laws designed for women's protection
are oft administered to their suffering and
loss. (For examples see Mrs. ,1. W.
Stywe's work on the working of probate
courts regarding the property of widows).
Had women a voice in choosing the officers
of Uie law mahuiministering of such laws
would be scarce.
.Many laws on our statute books are un
just and ono-sided towards women. Theso
would be corrected if women were voters.
The laws of Nebraska give into tho hands
of tW father tho entire guardianship of tho
children. You, mothers, have no legal
right to your own babies; you havo no
legal control, no authority over them, only
such delegated jower as tho father may
choose to allow. During tho lifo of the
father the law gives their guardianship to
him alone aud give him the right to will
away your little ones, into the hands of
strangers, even tho unborn babe ho shall
never behold. Do you doubt it? Think
vou such an outrage to all sense of right
1 cannot, surely cannot be o? Read for
'yourselves what the law has to say:
"Kerry father may, by hit last will in writ-
' inp, apjKilnt a tpiardtan for any of Am
children, chethrrborn at the time of maktng
the will or afimenrdt, to continue during
the minority of the child, ur for any less
time, etc." Statutes of 1SS1, Chapter 52,
See. J.) Inhuman 1 What a stigma
upon our statuto books. How long,
think you, would it remain there had
women a voico in law making?
"Curtey," the old common law rule
which gives tho husbaud a lifo estate in
all his wife's real projierty, and "dower,"
a-hich gives tho wife only tho use of one
Atriof the husband's real "property, would
be amonded so as to give both the same
interests in the property of tho other.
The nost unjust distinction in favor of
men is made in our divorce laws. There
should be no difference.
Laws for womea's protection require
women's experience and their share in
drafting ana execution to insure success.
Women, as the weaker sex, need all tho
means of self-defense and protection they
can have. Possession of the ballot is such
a means.
Good will of rulers is a Terv weak
guarantee of justice. Possession of power
is lar saier.
Women's opportunities will be o widened
by enfranchisements that they will have
inducements to study far greater than
now, and hence will become better edu
cated and more skilled and intelligent.
Republican institutions depend for
safety on tho political intelligence of the
people. To insure the steady growth of
this intelligence the mothers of the state
should be well informed and able to in
struct their children on public affairs.
This enlightenment their possession of tho
ballot will secure.
Meddling, gossip, slander, scolding, etc.,
will be much less among certain classes of
women, when those women are free to
share in and discuss great public topics in
stead of the small matters whereto their
thoughts and talk are mostly confined.
Gossip, when turned to canvassing the
merits of public measures and men, will
bo very useful and enlightening, instead
of the plague it now too often is.
Our county poor houses and like institu
tions are in many cases badly kept, waste
ful and immoral. Had our housekeepers
votes, they would oversee and correct the
public housekeeping.
These and many other reasons there are
why women should vote.
WHETHER WOMEN WISH TO
VOTE, AND WHETHER THEY GEN
ERALLY WILL VOTE, ARE OF NO
CONSEQUENCE. The fact that theycxs
toie if they cAxvc, ictlt bring these pr&nd
result.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE A POLITI
CAL REFORM.
Extract from n Addrts &v Ho. H. B.
' lilacklt
All admit that some chanze in our po
litical system It needed. The crowmc
corruption of public lifts is admitted aid
deplored by both parties Low as Is the
avernge standard of private morals, the
standard of ;ioliiica! ethics Is confessedly
far lower. Every year matters eru to
grow worse. Our laws and our law-makers
do not fairly represent the public sen
timent of the community
Now what shall we do about it? How
shall we cope with these stern facts? How
shall wu redeem the future of the great
republic?
Only by enlisting all the virtue, all the
intelllgfn'ce, all the patriotism of the na
tion in a struggle with the vice, and
ignorance and selfishness of the nation.
In short, only by enlisting the interest of
the whole American people in political
! questions to a greater extent than ever b
ore. We must somehow arouse the com
munity to habitual thought and action on
jtolitical tonics. Fortunately it is the
permanent Interest of most peoplo to have
good laws, economical administration, and
honest public servants. When otllco hold
ers steal, their constituents have Ut fool
tho bills. To secure a just verdict wo
must first secure an impartial jury. Such
a jury, onlv an extended suffrage can sup
ply. " And tho greatest of all political
problems is how beat U enlist public inter
est in the intelligent criticism of public
affairs.
"The price of liberty Is eternal vigi
lance." While absorbed In a struggle
with southern slavery wu havo become
ourselves insensibly enslaved. To-day
our government is republican only In
form. In every ward, in overy town, we
are governed by cliques of trading piliti
cians through the machinery of parties.
The nominations are made by les than
five per cent, of tho voters, assembled In
the primary meetings.
Now who are the men that compose
these primaries? Go and see. The
"managers" are there; men who have
axes to irnnd. Their followers are there;
men who are "slaves of the ring." The
floating population aro there; men who
lounge ou sidewalks and haunt saloons
and "dron in " a a pastime. When tho
meeting is called to order, a ticket, usually
distributed on printed slips, is nominated
by acclamation. In Urn minutes the cau
cus is adjourned, inis ticket was care
fully prepared, in advance of tho caucus,
by a little, self-constituted clique of politi
cians, in a private parlor or saloon, from
which the public are jealously excluded.
Half a dozen men, known only to thoir
immediate followers, have settled the
nominations for 6,000 voters.
It may be said that if our present politi
cal evils are so largely the result of male
ignorance manipulated by cunning, the
addition of an equal number of still more
ignorant femalo voters will only make bad
matters worse. But in the first place our
female population is much moro largely
native American, and to that extent is
more generally educated. To prove this
we need only "refer to the statistics of im
migration, which show a very great ana
constant preonderance of male immi
grants. This prcjMjuderance reaches its
maximum in the case of the-Chineso who
are, almost without exception, males. In
the second placo the grossly ignorant and
vicious class are everywhere in the minor
ity. If, by woman suffrage, we would doublo
the votes of this class, we should also
double tho votes of the intelligent majori
ty and thoreby largely diminish the rel
ative political Mwer of' ignorance, and
largely increase tho relative political
powor of intelligence. Thus if 2,000 out
of 6,000 voters are ignorant, there is only
an intelligent majority of 1,000; but ii
4,000 out of 10,000 voters are ignorant,
there is an intelligent majority of 2,000.
and the danger is reduced one-half. And
in the third place our chief danger has
been shown to lie not in ignorance but in
indifference, and this indifference will be
vastly lessened when political ideas and
interests are brought into the domestic
circle and made a subject of family con
sideration. To call our present system "a govern
ment of the people" is absurd. Tne only
remedy is to attract the attention of the
peoplo to the primary meetings in sufficient
numbers to check" and overawe the
"rings." To reform politics wo must first
reform the caucuses. To-day. the men of
intellect and character do not, as a rule,
attend them. Such men are too bnsy and
too much absorbed in social engagements.
They go with their wives and sisters to
church meetings, concerts, lectures and
social parties. They associate with ladiV,
at home and abroad. These women ex
pect their society and would feel disap
pointed at their absence. The presence of
such men in .political meetings can be se
cured in only one way, viz: by enlisting
the social sympathy and co-operation of
women in sucn meetings, u hen the wo
men go the men will go. Men of refine
ment will take little interest in the prac
tical work of politics so long as women
are excluded. Because, society is civilized,
while politics arc still semi-barbarous.
Women are ia society; women are the
life of our churches and schools, of oar
charities and reforms ; they should be the
life of our politics also. " What God has
joined let no man put asunder." But un
til men and women go together to the
primary meetings these meetings will con
tinue email in numbers, sordid in tone,
poor in character and corrupt in nanage--aient.
Real political reform must bein
by a reform in our caucus system. And
in order to reform the caucus we must
open its doors to men and women. In
impartial suffrage irrespective of sex lie
the only salvation of Americas politics.
Mjlxt good, true women seam somehow
to have imbibed the idea that it is unwom
anly to walk up to an inoffensive littlt
square ballot box and there deposit a sim
ple expression 01 opinion, yes or no, on
questions that snay perhaps alTect her family '
of boys and girl through all eternity.. " t
Upon
Men complain -f thr ,gn rn-", frivolity
and apathy in ti.ecr,qu-stlonsof ibrdsy
inwn; wonvn, and use th very fact as
I an objection against gtrixsg then, suffrage.
True, but their position fat. made them .
Whst incrntitf I i anv wumn t Ir.temt
herself in jiolitical subjects. In k c'no
mv, or in the great question of tins day,
when the prfoundt thought, the rnt
Logical reaoningfor the raot able meth.!s,
If emanating from a woman's brain, aro
considered no better than the ravings of a
snanlao, or any more to be comiderwl than
the criminal's mutlrd oath, for at the
ballot box, the only place where thought
and reasoning can be crysulired for the
nation's itod, she is uncounted unnotio-d
and politically clatd with idiou, lunatics,
paiiM'rs and criminals.
Equal suffrage will lift her out of this
Ignorance and frivolity, and instead of It
bing denied on that ground, that Is the
greaU-it argument why it should be givnn.
Disfranchisement hi the caiim of this
ignorance and devotion to dre and fashion,
and suffrage will be the cure. A century
ago men drerued an foolishly, a injuriously
as women do now. We are all familiar with
the court dress of a hundred years ago. The
absurd flowing powdered, faUo wigs, tho
wido lace ruffle at the throat and wriiU,
tho gay colored, eipnuve waisl-coaU,
vests and knee breeches, the silk stockings,
and silver buckles at knees and shoes.
The meu of thoe days devoted untold
wealth, time and thought to their toilets,
Ju-t as women do now. Hut as the duttro,
retponsibilitit and nt;hu of ritUenship
grew upon them, as intellectual develop
ment became more popular, they found ai
women will find that they had not timn for
both, and so they abandoned the false hair,
the lave rutlle. tho gay silk, un and vel
vet coats, vests ami pants, the llk stock
ings, and the silver buckle., and adopted
the scniiblo cottumu which Is worn to-day.
Women will do the same. Even now the
time is coming when a woman to mingU in
gin! society must bo intellectual She
inut be able to dicu wisely theiiurlIons
of the day, and as this demand broadens
and lengthens, a colleges and universities
graduate moro and more women, and
especially as the duties and privileges of
citizenship arc thrown upon their shoul
ders, will they find that either the Intel
lectual life which they are grasping so
eagerly, the affairs of our repubhe which
they love so rapturously, or fashion mutt
be given up. Dimis anyone doubt whicli
will be surrendered ? They will do as their
brothers have done, adopt a costume, easy,
convenient and healthful, and give their
brain and time to the terfecting and puri
fying of the individual, the home, the state
and humanity. Tho ballot will develop in
women intense study and interest in all
questions which concern our beloved land,
and can anyone doubt that this study and
thought will be barren of result? As with
the negro so with them. The very right to
vote is awakening them out of their sleep
of ignorance and servitude, and developing
all the qualities of citizenship. Tho same
results, only in a shorter time and immeas
urably more beneficial to the republic, will
follow woaian suffrage. For already they
arc educated thinkers, and the ballot is the
only incentive they need for the concentra
tion of thought upon the great needs of our
republic. I plead with you my brother,
for the sake of the influences upon women
themselves, lifting them out of frivolity up
into the grandeur of intellectual equals.
Grant us suffrage in 18S2. MadaKi
CHARLTOlt Edbolu, in LintxAn Journal.
WOMAIffl CAUSE IS HAH'8.
No statement could better define this
movement than Tennyson's beautiful
stanzas:
The woman's cause ts man's; they sink or rise
Togethar. dwarfed or cod-like, bond or free.
If she be small slight-natured. miserable.
How shall man jrrowT
The woman ts not undeveloped man.
But diverse.
Yet In the lonr rears, liter nnst they crow :
The maa Ur taone of woman, ie of man ;
He fain In sweetness and In moral hehtht
rne taenia, oreaum.
And so thea twain, upon the skirt of tiase.
Ml side by side, lull-uncased in all Utcir powers,
JSelf-reverent each, and rrTerenclnt; each;
UUUnct in ludlTidunUUea.
Hut like each other, a are thone that love.
Then comes the tatellcr Eden bark to man ,
Then retn the world's irrast bridals, chaste and
calm ;
Then tprinsa the crownras; race of human kind.
Wnxaa " breathes the man with soul to
dead " as to deny this proposition :
" Freedom freedom intellectual, freedom
moral, freedom civil, freedom political
is as truly the natural ponsion of woman
as it is of man, and it is as necessary to
her highest and Lest development as it is to
his."
WnxT a -cculiar thing is humanltvl
Someof the-se peop!c(espce!a!!y ourTeutonie
friends) who rail out loudest against woman
suffrage, because participation in equal
political rights is, in their opinion, "out of
woman's sphere," have no hesitancy in
taking them out of their home "sphere' Vt
work in the harvest field.
OPINIONS OF EMINENT If EN.
Abraham Liscolx: "I go for all
sharing the privileges of the government
who assist In bearing its burdens, by no
means excluding worsen." In WVI:
"After this great struggle for the union'
?n ... -
women win vote.
Ja.hi A. GAEvrtLD "Laugli -. we
mar, put it aside as a jest if we will, keep
it out of congress and political campaigns,
still the woman question is rising in our
political horizon larger than the siza of a
man's hand ; and tome solution, ere lonr.
that qutatico must fiad."
tX- IC PRXSIDZ5T WlLWC "AI! I
have done for negro suffrage I will do fori
woauut saffrage."
Saucojt P. Caisr In . vn J
cause will triampa. It is a question of '
-. iw,w UW.W
William . SawaaDr .fuj:ice U oa
the side of weeaaa -icare.
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The Influonce of Suffrage
Wotncu Thomaelrea.
m.MwmmmKrwBwmrr
HiMior StMr v ! tstv tlt ii
Tier is Hir Urge HiJe w U Rrtvr l -quered
UtlUI te t!uH ia put itU th
hand of mowmjv
Kir JAMt'i.tUi)rGLiKis- ! da
not think our :-o-.Uo wilt ! waat Uv
ought to b till wvacn aro IetiUurs aad
voter "'
(ilOdt Wtttisw Cibti Wasssa
hare quite at MiKSt iatert-tt la C"4
ernmeat as men, and I have never heard
or read of aay taUtfartorv rrasn (or ex
cluding lliom from t- bal.etbox , 1 hasa
no more duU vt their aiueli..ratiaj influ
ence upon politics than I hcteef the tnfiu
enre they exert everywhere ele
llcKHEttT ,rx.M xa "lKweTer mush
the giving of o!ilicat power l women
may disagree with our notluni of propriety
wo conclude, that, being rrquirtd by that
first prerequisite to greater nappiae, th
law uf equal freed. -m, lUch a conception l
unquestionably right and good
Plato "In the administration of a slat,
neither a woman, a a woman, nor a man,
a a man, has any eclal function, but tho
gifts are rqualfy difiud in both sain.
Thr same opportunity for elf-developnnt
which makes a man a ! guardian will
make a woman a good guardian, for their
original nature it the aama."
HiMiorG1t.11CKrH.srtx "In view ef
the terrible corruption of our pollilu.
People ask, 'can wo maintain universal
suffrage" I say no, not without women
The only lir garden In our community l
the town meeting am! thecancus, Why it
thl " Hecatlte thiwn are the only place
at wbich women are not present.
Iiuu: ''It ms to 11m that every wit
man who opJMJx-J woman tufftae, uppvacs
br own growth, opjet the bt interest
Of the state, and op'KMea the -rrfectlan of
the home "
Rev Jo-r.ri Coos: "Woman's role
will be to the vice dej-endlng on itilem
eranr what the lightning is to the oak."
Kkt I)EVnT Talwaok "(iIto ws
man tho liallot and sho will toon Ull4
the .Mormon aud teuij-cranco questions."
1'HcatDK.HT KLMrr, or If taitot'ai Uai
vxKairr "If my totimonv in favor of
the movement hat any weight, I with to
give It all the heartiness of steadily In
creasing cortvirtion. In my opinion. Ills
the great question of the day, as etaanci
aUon wat tweuty-five yi-ars ago, and is
bo
uud to obtain a like solution. The in.
tenets of the temperance, reform, of social
fiurity and of education are all deeply
n vol red in it. Woman has a vital and
(ersonal conenrn in the preservation of
good order and peace, and In the suppre.
lion of all forms of vice. Her assistant
is imperatively nevled to turn the scale
In favor of the right."
PaeaiPKiST Rabcok, or Wioo5st
UsuvatuJiTT: "A full fellowship in civil
duties and privileges once conceded to
woman, in fewer months than the ttrusrglo
has already consumed of years, It will be
in astonishment to all that society was
ver otherwise ordered."
U. 8. Skwatok HoAa, or Mamachl
srrra: "A man could not argue against
woman suffrage five minutes without re
pudiating the principles upon which the
government is founded."
U. S. "Sk.xator Latham, or Nw
York : "1 hope that woman will yet b
accorded her rights."
Ret. T. W. n.oitxsox "Woman
neoda the ballot for self respect ami self
protection."
Joil.v G WiiTTlEa "The great t.tal
and political reform is tlowlr, but steadily
and surely moving on to its consummation,
when woman, without losing any of th
true grace of her sex, shall u, dr1o;
and enioy all the faculties which God ha
given her."
ScncTLKR CoLrar' "Sine I left
public life I have examined both tides id
the woman suffrage question coolly and
impartially, and have made up my mind
that it mut come and ought to come, per
haps br degree, but surelr. It caanot
fail to promote all reformatory and hu
manitarian movements."
WaxuKLL PiiiLLtra: "Everyone who
wishes and works for a purer civilization
is on your side. Everyone who longs for
the permanxnee of republican Institutions
it on your side. Kvery lover of fair play
and equality Is with "you. The narrow,
the timid, those faithless to the principles
which underlie our civilization, the Igno
rant and evil minded are youropponents.'
Rali-ii Walpo Emer-ox, ix IfyT.2:
"On the questions that are Important,
whether the government thai! b In one
person, or whether representative, or
whether democratic; whether the unlim
ited sale of cheap liqoort shall be allowed,
women would give, I suppose, u Intelli.
rent a vol as the Irish vnWt of Boston,
New York and Philadelphia. As for the
untexing and costaraination, that only
accuses our politics, shows bow barbaroti
we are that our politics are so crooked,
made up of things that are not to t
tpokea, to Ul a&derstood only by a wink
and nudge ; this man is to be coaxed aad
that roan to be bought, and that other to
be duped."
Got. Lo50,or Mas-achcsettj: "B
caase suffrage is a right and not a grace, it
should br extended to woassra who btwr
their share ef the public ctsl, aad who
have the same interest that I have ia Use
selection of its oSdals, and the making
of its laws which affect their lives, tier
property and their happiness."
Got. CoKjraxL. or New Yoar ? "Wo
man Toting at the school elections fa Kw
York, has lncrmsd the proideacy of the
schools, aad added to their satellite,"
Got. St. Johx, or Kaa: uT hop
women will soon have ta right to Tots
far those who are to gsvera fStsa."
Got. Poetee. or Ixmata- f --
pose to do mil I can for the ea!tsrEat of
woman's rigkis wail? I ma covcratjr of
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