The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-06-14
SHOULD WOMEN VoTB2
important Affirmative Authority.

We publish (by request) the 70 flowing
extracts from the writings aud speeches
of the greatest minds of the present age
They are worth reading and comparing
with the arguments offered on the mega
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believe that the great vices in our
large cities will never be conquered until
the ballot is put in the hands of women.
And it is not because want them 10
have any part in the struggle of politics
that would give us two votes instead. OF
one; but there are questions which rise
above politics. If the question of the
danger of their sons being drawn away
into those saloons, was brought up, il
the mothers bad the power, they would
close them; il sisters had the power, and
they cav their brothers going away to
those taverns and haunts of infamy, they
would close those places. You may get
men to trjie with purity. with virtue and
with righteousness; but thank God that
the hearts of the women of our land-the
mothers, wives and daughters-are too
pure to make compromise either with
intemperance or licentiousness-B Bishop
Simpson, Of N. E. Church.
desire to say that I am now and ever
have been. the advocate of equal and i'm :
partial suffrage to all citizens of the Uni
ted States who have arrived at the age OF
81 years, who are of a sound mind, and
who have not disqualified themselves by
he Of ~
any distinction on account of race, color
or sex. Every argument that has ever
been or ever can be adduced to prove that
males should have the right to vote ap
pies, with equal, if not greater force, to
prove that females should possess the
same right Hon. B. r. Wade, q. S.
Senator, Ohio.
When we seriously attempt to show
chat woman who pays taxes, ought not
to have voice in the manner in which
the taxes are expended, that a woman
whose property aud liberty and person
are controlled by he laws, should have
10 voice In framing those laws, it lie not
easy. If women a,e ST to rule in mon
arches, 1t is difficult to say why they are
not qualified TO vote in a republic Hon
II. B. AnthOny, ES~ Governor of Rhode
Island.
We need the participation of women in
the ballot bcx. It is idle to fear that she
will meet with disrespect or insult at the
polls. Let her walk up firmly and mod
estly to deposit her vote. and all men will
make way for her; and if any one ventures
to modest her, the crowd will swallow
him up as the whale swallowed Jonah!-
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
II anything caps the sum of the argu
ment for the political rights of woman.
it is the fact of those domestic duties
which some foolishly array against these
rights. What has a man at stake in soci-
ETY.? His own personal interests. A
man invests himself in socity; woman
invests infinitely more, for she throws in
her children. The man can run away to
California, with his interests, and from
his duties; the woman is anchored to her
home. 1t is important to him, you say,
whether the community provides. by its
legislation, schools or dram shops. Then
how vast, how unspeakable, the import
ance to herl Deprive every man 10 the
nation of the ballot, if you will, but de-
mand, oh demand it's protection for the
l0iite and nsOtheri-T. WentUorth HiQgin
son. Rhode Island.
In America, woman has no political
rights. is not citizen in full; she has NO
voice in making or administering the
laws, none in eleeting the rulers or admin
jstrstors. She can hold no office, cannot
be on committee of a primary school,
oVerseer of the poor, or guardian to pub
lilo lamp post. But any man with con-
science enough TO keep out of Jail, mind
enough 10 escape The poor house, and
body enough to drop bis ballot into the
box, be is voter. He may have no
character, no money; that is no matter,
be is q voter. But the noblest woman
has 30 voice in the State. Men make
laws dispOsing of her property, ber per-
sons. her children,-stin she must bear
it.-ReU. Theodore Parker.
Why should not women vote? The
essence of all Republicanism, is, that they
who feel the pressure Of the law shall bavs
voice in it's enactment. / maintain thai
whenever any human being has attained
the age of maturity, that human indiTid-
uaf has a right.-not privilege, not a
favor, but Tiqkt,-to g voice ia making
the laws.-Rev j. Pierpont, Boston.
No. argument can be adduced to show {
mans right to vote, that does not apply
equally we'll TO .womsn's right to vote,
Men do not vote because they are men
bat because they are human. rePonsible
beings. So, all women and all the rea
sons which hold in one case. clinch also
IN The other. Give the NO
men the ballot. and The colored man vii
10 no other way so quickly get his jus
rights.-Frederie Douglas.
take It, America never gave any bet
ter principle to the world than the safety
Of letting every human being have The
power OF protection in its Own hapds.s
claim II for woman. The moment she has
the ballot, / shall think the cause is won
Education, employment. equality genius
the hne arts, places in college and every
where else, follow in The train. They ar,
written, they are endorsed upon the baeI
OF the ballot. They will come By Dece5-
sIty. the moment you Eve her that
WsndeH P6i3hps.