They, although not in politics, were largely instrumental in bringing about the settlement of the slavery issue. They formed the purpose of the nation, strengthened it to steadfastness through blood and tears and a burden of tribute on their children until it triumphed in the manumission of the slave. The healthy public opinion of the entire nation is not what the men think upon a subject, but what the women feel upon it. There are in evidence in our politics and in behalf of Bryanism only the females who have all the symptoms of the termagent and shrew. To them it is unnecessary to present the simplest aspect of the issue at present dividing the people of this section of this perturbed planet.
All women ought to be straight and beautiful.
Most are one or the other and generally both. We would hold sweet converse, therefore, today, only with the women who are neither so idle as to be in moral danger nor so renegade to the sanctity of their sex's duty in the home as to ape the worst reasonings of men, and cheapen themselves by coming from out of the glamor with which the devotion of men has invested them. Without women there would be no economy. It is for them that men lay up treasure. Woman has everything to do with everything, with political economy especially, and with the conscientious aspect of economy more especially.