The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-04

enough already.iti EI.aughtsrl. i shall
perhaps be. Thought to have done
enough In the way Of answeriug when
have answered all these; 1t may, per-
haps, instigateI9nY honorable gentle
man who takes the trouble of replying
to me, to produce something more re-
condite.
5.'a wo1EN IN Po11r1os. it3s
Politics, 1t is said, IS not a woman's
business, SWell, I am not aware that
politics is a mans business either, nm
less he is one of the few who are paid
,tor.a aeYoting thairi time to Jths public
service, or Is member OF this or the
other house. The great majority of
male voters have their own business,
which engrosses nearly the whole OF
their time; but never, heard that the
hours occupied ln attending once in a
few years the polling booth, ,or the Time
spent in reading the newspapers or po-
ltttcd treatisesI has hitherto made them
neglect their shops or their counting
houses. Ihavel not heard that those
who have votes are worse merchants,
worse lawyers or worse phi ysicianS,; or
even worse cleFgymen than other peo-
pie. One would think that the British
constitution allowed nc. man to vote
who was not able to give the greater
part OF his time TO politics. II that
were the case we should have very linn
tied eonstitntions. Hear, hear Is 1t
not the essential basis Of constitutional
liberty that men should know whether
theyzare properly governed or not, and
by. whom All those nations which
have this privilege excel most in the
conducting OF all ordinary affairs. II.
Is said that the usual occupations of
NrTnU "A NgfIl Ii ralT
tinue TO be- domestic. ask are these
occupations Incompatible with deep
interest in national affairs, and In all
that concerns humanity, To say that
they are, would be as futile as the ap-
prehension that artisans would desert
their factories and workshops IL they
were taught to read .r----s-'i..ll e.
THE SPECIAL OCCUPATION oP WOMAN.
know that there is an absurd feel
ing-which 1t Is felt to be shameful to
express openIyLthat q woman has no
right TO care about anything except TO
become the most useful and most de-
voted servant of man!u[A taught
am sure no one here will say that the
existence of fully one-half OF the hu-
man race should be for. the benefit of
the other. half Hear, hear.l To say
so would be perfectly silly. Those
who have had the ordinary, experience
of life know that without a certain
amount OF mental cultivation the oc-
cupatiOn 1 have referred to cannot be
carried on. 1t requires brains to use
practical experien but brains without
practical experience would go further
Than practical experience without
brains. [Hear.l, 1t Itissthought that the
special occupations OF woman are more
antagonistip dhan those of men to- a
mr. NJ
hapS 1t YVES thought that those who had
the chief charge of the moral bringing
up of a future generation could moi
have opinion worth caring about, or
as III those whose duty 1t was In the
household to produce the greatest re.
suits with the smallest means could
not be compared with those honorable
gentlemen opposite who manageto pro-
duce such singularly small results
with such large means. "a langh.l
49, AsILENT DOMESTIC RRvoLUrIoN.
/ should.not feel. the confidence 1 do
in this subject il the great change ad-
ivocate was not grounded on a previous
social change. The idea of hard line
Of separation between mans province
of thonght and woman's, belongs to a
state Of society that is receding further
and further into the past. We talk Of
the political revolutions OF the world,
but we do not pay sufficient attention
TO the fact thattthe has taken place
among us silent domestic revolution.
[Hear.l-sWomenz and-men. for the
first timein history, are really compan-
ions. Our traditions of the proper rela-
tions betWeen4 them have descended
from thine when their lives were
apart, when they were separate in their
thoughts becatse they were separate
both in their amQsenents, and in their
serious occupations. The man spent
his hours, Of leisure among man-all
his friendships, all his intimacies were
verse on any serious subject; the wife
was either a plaything or an upper SER
aiftbts among The, educated Glasses
is sSchanged. Men no longer give np
their spare time to violent outdoor ex-
ercises and fbofstefous conviViaIities
with male-associateS the home has ac-
quired the ascendency; the two sexes
really now pass their time together; the
women of thelfamily are the man's.hA-
bitual society-the wife is his chief as
and often his most trusted counsellor.
[Cheers, Now, does a man wish to
have for his nearest COMPANION 2link-
ed SO closely with himself, and whose
wishes and preferences have SO strong a
IelhlmG Gupon hiinAonR hose thoughts
'areHlien from those which occupy his
own mind, one who can give neither
help, nor comfort, nor support, to his
n9hIest Feelings and purposesf Hear,
hear.l -...5lr 90 : --.....-s....'..5 .Sifs; s5
D00Is this close and almost exclusive
IeompanionshipI compatible with sWo-
men being warned of all large sub
Rbont what 1t is the mans dntyl0 care
Tor, land thatlto take part in any lseri-
Gus interests outside the household Is
Csteppiug beyond their province? aIs 1t
good for man to pass his life in close
communion of thoughts. and feelings
With a person studiously kept inferior
to himselt-whose earthly y interests, are
torcibly rest ainsd, vi hin four walls
! who is laught;to cultivate as q grace of
character, Ignorance Tand indifference
about the most inspiring sub bjects, those
among which his hig hest duties are cast?
Hear hear. Doea any. one suppose
that'this can happen without detrfmant
to the man'a own character2 sit.5 a5e,f
an ,sials WoArAN'sINFLUENUE. i1iflna
! The time Is come " hen Womsh, II not
raised q. The level OF, men, men win be
pulled down to thelrss II A AlRughIl The
IsW0Guen Oh q luAui5 IALnIly are either the
stimulus land support to his higher as
may nd Keep t$sa igaora1s @ q politics, 1i but but
you cannot Keep Them from .conrerninR
themselves with the least respectable
part ,ofS politics-its personalities
tHear, hear, II they. do, not 1nder-
stand and cannot enter Ind the niah's
feelings ofspuhlie duty. they do care
about hts private interests, andthat Is
the seales into which their weight Is
huenee always at hand, co-opefatinH
with his selfish pnomptinRsC watching
and taking adVantHgeo of eEerymomsnE
OF moral irfesol1 ti6n, and doubling the
stTenBthlof every Temptations Even, ii
they matntafn 4 modest tneutraltty, their
mere absence of sympathy hangs as q
dead-Weight on his moral energies, and
makes MIN adverse 10 incur sacrifices
" hNtfTi Will fFassl