New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-07
NEW. YORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY DECEMBER =, 1866

Of the Old World From the efforts made dung me nt @s
sion Of Congress 10 introduce the word ms V ,sL 90
eral Constlu evident our kepresehN'ts tun 'o
know TOO much aud unoss they put up some Nv m o
shall be inside tho Lng' ~ ~ ~ Sasc moro
n NOW before th nation has rcpented dung the summer
and now takes mis- the COmnfttee Or cNh ~ -
ope ,ne & be rsT nuoiyil service he us last session
But what would become Of the nome anu I ~ 60 tho
should to e e Iecinres or 10 churoi When they go
10 balls parties spend months IN Wasningh VI
takes more time TO vote than 20 p So, wsh 10 vote
But say you majority OF the women aoos VIZ In for
There is bin before the brlllhn . S1ne ond
Household Suffrage presented ~ JOIN sSe best ednrated
accompanied by petition nom lVVVv yLnI Ds 1850 Of
women Of England demanding for hemsels the eieicse ~
this right Thousands Of petitions for the bot nave 9een %
to- our State ard National Legislatures nom women " hs We
nube during the last twenty years When o. demand Is a
by the most gh,ened women IN every cOuby o hs
or fact lie the opinion that does not ant 10 vote But
What II ma ofity are too 1rant to make the
demand In establishing free schools an WV 70 nnu on
whether majority OF the urebns Of thetoe wished TO be
educated No Relieving that the stabto our institutions
laws in favor Of free schools then ,ught up all the
ragged boys and girls we found the streets and
shut them up The scaomouse had
been left for them to decide they wOad doubt nave so yea
down the alphabet and multiplication table But where is he
advantage Of giving the ballot 20 women would put uouDe
the vote" Well II you object to double vote et man RESI-
ON his laurcs and will do the voting the next century
We could not get the rens tangled than
they 1 how We could simiiy TINS whole ma
cbiney Of Government and relieve the white male c1eh
from tie peT king part Of his egion viz the special
provisions and statutes for women al DacH men ln.so
sooner bury them In the citizen the beer Tor a ooncerheu
II women and negroes live undehe same broad code
the white mule has made for himself hcm perish Az all
events You win do your duty in the jming Constitutional
Con,cnton wen try In the present age OF CIVILIZATION
fear the vote Of and woman wdd hardly be unit
Think you the forty thousand drunkar wives IN this state
would vote against prohibiiory law or for mar
riage and divorce laws that axe n impossloo"
10 unhoy that bind them brutal de
graded husbands But would you have sca refined women
20 20 the polls with We now these men our
fathers husbands brothers SONS all en- We meet them
everywhere In the streets steamboats, a. IN the parOr e
church theate and for aught knoe mass are ms pure
noble and yruous ourselves ehaye nothing TO fear
in meeting sober at the polls ARbr the rest remember
that every coarse brutal drunkarl hs wife mother sister
daughter and In the solitude of home there ~ but
Omnipotence pity has atdS such scenes
BE- equallcd at the P1-nowhcre this adc
the bOttomess pit The customs Of er age have already
placed by the side OF In alkis amusements vices
and crimes Let then, in the demand that she IL
with him In his highest moments, IN ais honorable employ
mcnts Until delicate and refh women do -
20 the polls and vote, these moral sewers 81
civilization viii be explored ne thick and muddy
Of these stygan pools Of vice crime viii never be
stirred from their very depths The iDral ones who have
fallen IN slippery places will be hi up Oh leave them
de for they die not alone filth rags and vice
the ignorant the degraded hccn the OiIscournR 81
humanity all linked by indissodr toe you and me
and we must liz them mp or they drag uslwu;