The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-09-06
From the Western Home Journal.
THE EJECT ON THE STATE.

Us now ask whether il would be better TO
community a0d the State as a whole,
women Were allowed to vote.
Our first remark Is that we cannot sep,
arate the individual woman, or the family
from The community, and then argue tb,
question by itself. For they are compo
nent and insepsrable parts of the commu,
nifty, and if enc member suffers, the whole
body suffers. But making the separation
for moment for the sake of The argu
ment, our answer is that female suff
rage will have very little effect on the
State. The great proportion of women
are happily 10 families. AS wives, moth
ers, daughters, sisters. they do now vote
through the representative head of the
household. If they could vote in person,
the number of votes would be vastly 10
creased but the aggregate result would
mol be materially effected. Just as far as
1t were, it would be at the expense of the
peace and happiness of the family. All
we should have then would be the mum
Der of votes now thrown doubled, but
thinking men, we believe, will generally
agree that there would be hardly a per-
w P'eOAC a. iahSS III al iCoullSs
AT least We predicate this so long as
the customs aud laws of our society re
main as they are. How long this would
be so Is quite another question. When
these rowing and declamatory sufferers
have got all their ''righls," when they
have proved that there is no divinely and
therefore wisely ordained difference be
tween the sexes,-s difference which from
their earliest development gives them diff
'erent tastes, and winch as they grow older.
inciles them to and qualities them for
different stations, pursuits, positions and
lsbors IN hfe,-Wben all ,lbese old togy
notions are Obliterated, and the battle OF
lie Is one of Orcs, and the race is one of
fieetness, and woman are educated for
something else besides the family aud the
home, aud men turn their attention 70
nursing babies; when this millennium of
insanity is inaugurated, We are not proph
Ell enough to predict what the effect OF
the vote of woman, or of anybody else,
will be on the desiinies of the common
wealth. --s if.a
There is line of argument in favor of
wOman's suffrage which we desire to state
fairly, because this is question of argu-
meHt, and cannot be settled by abuse OF
whistled away by ridicule. The corrup-
ton of party politics is one of the alarm
ing features of the times - thoughtful
men. This corruption appears TO be
we'll nigh universal. Il drool5 and sla-
Vers in tie city and the country. Men
who would scorn TO do a mean thing In
their individual capacity, will stOop 10
anything aud shrink from nothing, in a
political capacity. Their individual word
will be believed while their political word
is at discount. They would be trusted
TO an unlimited extent with private funds,
but they will steal pubic funds with a
perfect lOoseness. They will make angel
ic promises before election, and be guilty
of satanic performances afterwards. The
head i sick and the heart faint at the
fearful extent of political corruption
Now il is said, let women vote, and there
will be reform Women are naturally
puger than men, their moral instincts are
more incorrupubIe. and if they had the
ballot in their hands, the Augean stables
of political rOtGenHess would be purified
and 81, ansed But we still insist that the
natural tendency of the new order of
things would be to degrade women rather
than elevate politics. ExistiAg corrupt
devices, multiplied hundred fold. would
be extended into female society. And
they would generally vote according TO
the general demand and force of influence.
And while we have again and agaia as
serted the moral superiority of women;
L l.. - Il, eha
TO vote, and is smart enough to be poi
itician, still, when she falls, she falls to a
deeper depth, and becomes a more sban
doned beng, than man. .'Hell has no
fury like woman scorned." Woman
moIal superiority is due 20 the position
for which God created her, and into
hich the Christian civilization of this
country has placed her. Removed from
that, made like a man, she will be worse
than man And pohtics, depending
alone on this expedient, will sink deeper
and deeper into the fostering corruption
which is now the most threatening evil Of
this nation.
Il is argued. fer instance, that the very
presence of woman at abe polls would
calm the boisterousness. and quell the
IuI buience, and slIsy the excitement, and
prevent the broils which so often attend
them. That depends upon circumstances
Those who witnessed the abhoTeDt scenes
connected with the New York Riot. as
We did, will remember that woman was
present there. Discrowned, dishonored,
demouiac. her presence and passion we're
the ioulest and 6llhiest part OF that dia
bolical reign Of terror. 1t will De said
that they we're coarse and abandoned wo-
men; but shall We not have such at the
polls? Are not these the ones who At
first will be most likely to be there? Aud
are our wives and mothers to be dragged
there TO counterfeit their influence? Wo
man, in her sphere aud place, ezeFts
purifying and elevaIiog influence upon
man. Out of that, one female sinner can
do more harm than seven men who can
render a reason. So We say that the bald
and common assertion that the mere pres
ence of woman at the polls Is to work q
moral millennium is to be taken with
some degree of publication. aud TO be
carefully studied by thoughtful men be
fore it Influences their votes.
Again 1t is asserted that Intemperauce.
Licentiousness, Gambling. Prize fighting.
aud the whole train of such bideous
crimes would always End 10 woman an
Incorporating antagonist This we ad
| nit. She ia their Antagonist nov. And