The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-06-07

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ton. But you can't make a man out of
woman nor woman ont of a man
you can't At oas for the labors and du-
ties of the other. Those who under,s axe
it will fail. The experiment would be
demOralizing to society, aud men and wO.
men should not SOW the seeds of family
dissensiOn and separation-fll the courts
with divorce cases aud break up our whole
social sygtem to try an experiment ez-
trenaely doubtful-and tha. at the instiga-
ton of = few dried up old elm-pealers who
disgrace, the PetticOats they wear, and
with whom decent man can't live. and
who, therefore, think there is something
wrong in society as it is at present cousli-
tutsd, and that it should be revolutionizsd.
that upon its ruins may be established
the reign of free-loVe, when everything
will he held in common. tits true. every.
thing would be common-so common. =
man wouldn't prize anything when he got
it. His children would be taken from his
control, and in fact he wouldn't belong to
himself. and his wife would become the
common property of the whole prostitu-
ted race. I tell you. fathers, mothers.
sisters, brothers. husbands and wives,
this is the tendency of this proposition,
and into this it would finally run, lust
as surely as the revolt Of the angels in
heaven ended in their consignment to the
bottomless pit.
Then these petticoated old Ewes, whom
kiln-dried lighting would glance from,
and whose ia 9 would prevent a dog
from bling them. would rollick in the
general Generalization of society, and
with the -seOuriDgs of the lower strata,
sing
go, happy stated now souls each other draw,
For EoUe is liberty snd nature law"
Lucy Stone, the petticoated chief, com.
menced public life in political way) by
advocating the free love doctrine-so I
am told by one who is acquainted with
her history from the start. Sac don't be-
lIsve in marriage for life. but wishes all to
10 like her and that seed-wart she carries
around with her-called Blackwell
drop off to some other affinity" when
ever it pleases either to do so. She is
practically carrying out the free-Iove doc
trine in her present relations with Black.
well. This is proof sufficient of her free
love procliEiries without producing the
papers," The women of Kansas must
feel their intelligence insulted and their
higher natures outraged when they re-
feet upon the TACT that such stock as
Lucy Stone WAS imported to tell them
what to do. Sally N. Wood. who
''swung around the circle" with the
Johneonites, opposed negro male suffrage
10 the Legislature, and always voted split
ticket, invited her, not by authority Of
of the women of Kansas, but, perhaps,
with the assent of few old gliUters in pet
ticoats, who have partially defeated the
design of their Creator in transform
ing themselves from modest, diguifed
ladies, 10 society. to blantant, pot-hous e
political brawlers, calling editors of pa
pers liars and each utter 'sluts," even at
this early day of their political career,
and charging one another with possess
ing souls less than tadpole's, &c. All
| which convinces me that when a woman
gets loose che can get down in the dirt
about as low as man, and that the eleva-
ton which her influence at the polls will
give to society will be similar to that
which the Sens of Malta impart in elsvat-
ing the ueOphyte.
l do not oppose Female Suffrage because
believe women are inferior TO meu. In
many respects they are our superiors.
They possess q degree of intelligence to
which men cannot attain, and when they
leaYe their proper sphere of action, they
loose it aud drag the whole race down
with them.
1t is urged that ''taxation and repre-
sentation should go together" admit
it. But how far should they go together?
Young men from fifteen to twenty years
old are taxed. The property of minor
children is taxed. They have no voice
in making the laws. Many young men
at twenty are as well qualified to vote as
the majority of men or women either.
II every person owning property which
is taxed, should vote, on the p rinciple
that Taxation and representation should
go together. carry the elective franchise
into the cradle. There is such thing.
perhaps, as running logic into the
ground.
No man will legislate, knowingly. TO
oppreRs bis wife, mother, sister OF daugh
ter. Then, practically, what is gained?
Nothing-unlees those who favor the
proposition wish to divide families on po-
litical questions, and SOW the seeds of
discord about every hearth stone In the
State.
The difference between the two
propositions, Ito strike out the
words white aud male. lies IN the fact
that the negro was recently a slave, and
| there is, unqusstionably. lurking desire
to get him back into some soFt of seryi
t1sda a.seiu- The ballot "a nac.aa.r, -. -.