White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-04-18
The Nonsense oft.

1T ,could nerer do for ronaen to vote.
II soould lead to such divisions in tami-
lies" But political divisions do not +,
after eli. make men quarrel half so much
as religions divisions; and If you allow
wives to do their own thinking in relig-
ion. why not in politics? Besides,
nothing makes man SO coaxing and
persuasive as when he tries to induce his
neisb Dor 20 vote "our ticket" Husbands
who ere toors all the rest Of the yrar,
would bacome patterns of politeness for
month before election day.-if the
wives only had vote!
"1he polls are not decent places for
wonaen at present" Then she is certain.
ly needed there to make them decent.
Literature was not decent. nor the din
ner table. till shn was admitted to flem
on equat terms. But already, through
out most parts of the county. the ballot
box is as qniet place to go es the Post
office; and where it is not so. the pres
ence of one woman would be worth q
dozen policemen.
Politics are necessarily eorrupting I"
Then why not advise good men. as we'll
as good women. to stop voting?
II should not ,cish to hear my rife
speak in town mseting" l should think
MOI, unless she spoke more to the poilt
than the average of men. Perh'ps sire
wauld: no telling till she tries. And yon
are willing to pay a high price occssion-
ally to hear somebody's wife sing in pub
lic-nnd il it is proper for woman to
sing nonsense before an sudiaDce, why
not to speak sense?
Woman is sufficiently represented al
ready. through her influence on sen :"
How is it then that the whole legisl ,tion
Of Christendom, in regard TO her. was "a
disgr ace to any heather nation" till The
Woman's Rights Convention began to
call attention to it. ten years ago?
"Women are entirely distinct from men.
altogether unlike, quite a different order
of beings" Are they. indeed? Then. #
they are so distinct. how can men repre-.
sent them. make laws for them. admin
lister their rights, judge them in the
courts. spend their tax money? II they
are the same with men. they have the
same rights; if they are distinct, they
have right to distinct representation.
di.tinct laws. courts. property. and all
the rest. Arrange it as you please. it
comes to the same thing,
"a ,coman ,oho takes proper care of
her household. has no time to know any
thing about politics." Why not say. "a
man who properly supports his house
hold, has no time to know anything
about politics?" Show me the husband
who does not assure his wife that his
Days work is harder then hers. How
absurd. then. to suppose that he has time
to read the newspaper every day. and
step round to the ballot box once year.
and she has not!
"Women. after all, are silly ereatures"
No doubt they are, often enough. As
the old lady says in late English novel.
"God Almighty made some Of them fool
ish. to IN stch the men," And the men
have doue their best to turn the beads Of
others, who were no fools BY nature.
Bot it is the theory Of democracy that
every man has right to express his own
folly at the ballot boz. if be will-snd
in time. perhaps. learn more sense BY go
doing. And Why not every woman too?
S The amount of il oil is. that wo-
man must be enfrsnchised; it is Q mere
question of time. All attempts to evade
this. end in Inconsistency and nonsense.
Either she must be slave or IN equal;
there is no middle ground. Admit. in
the slightest degree. ber right to educa-
tion or property, and she must have the
right to suffrage in order to protect the
and use the education. And
there arc no objections to this. except
such as would equally hold against ths
whole theory ofdemocratic government.