The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-07-12

State uncast at every election. In the In,
third case. if g mans wife STEPPED up, ana
with her vote killed her husbsud's. in :
nine cases out of ten il would produce (
such feeling between them as would
lead first to arguing, then TO dispuling, II
then to political wfangling. hen to do
mestic strife and fually 20 separation and
divorce. Men and women Of Kansas, If
You would not multiply the causes of do,
mestic diseord aud family dissens;o ns, If
you you'd not drag angelic women down |
to boost shystering P9'itc up. if you
nave any regard Tor the proper education |
Of your children, throw the whole weight |
OF your influence against the proposition
and Danish political strife from the do
metsic circle, at least.
Those husbands and those wives who
are now cycling about for some other cat
hoiIy," if they should carry the propo-
sitioa, would soon Eli up our legislature
with enough OF their owe class 10 remod
Ell our laws so they could change around
TO suit their depraved natures without
laying themselves liable TO prosecution.
But they say can't a wife differ from her
husoand?l Certaiuly she can. But the 4
nature OF that difference may tell upon
their happiness. This proposition 'uot
ouly INVITES TO a difference, but, to actual
! opposition; or else ic invites to nothing at
all. There are questions of finance en-
terIng into most ali political questions,
and IS long as by law it devolves upon
the husband to support his wife and fam
/ ily, does II look right aud consistent for
/ him TO take his wife to the polls to kill
his vote with hers. If she goes to the
! pol aud votes against him, will it be
! productive OF stronger attachment be
tween them? What an absurd idea!
That vile thus acting would place her
self more In the attitude of an enemy than
a friend 10 her husband, and that husband
could only live with her on humilialing
terms. The proposition pits the wife
against the husband and the husband
against the wife aud throws a third cleo
tonserlng party bttw en- them 70 aggrava {
the difference. This is the kind of leg
isiatloG We are asked TO accept as pan.
acea Tor all our disorders. What right.
mladed man or right minded woman
wants to inaugurate this condition oil
things? The remedy woald be worse
than the disease. Bat il Is said that they
are not all wives. I simply answer.
they ought to be.
Ii it will be beneficial for women to vote
it will certainly be more beneficial for
them to hold ofioe. Ii the proposition
shall be adopted let it be practically car
ried out. Don't reflect upon. the intelii
gence of the women by choosing. men fol
the various Offices. Let a conflict of seq
be brought upon the country. Let a
least one half of the number of the mem
bers Of our legisla azure, year from thi:
fall, be females-wives, mothers, daugh
ters and sisters. Let them leave theil
homes, children, husbands and swee
hearts aud go up to Topeka for fifty Oh
sixty days, aud legislate with a similar
numbsr of men and an equal number o
lobbles. Considering all the intimacy
which legislation requires between mem
bers, l spprehend. at The rate of three
dollars per day, there would be more
sparkling done than legislating, AMI the
various counties, the following spring,
would become bankrupt from the. expense
of divorce cases. and The whole State a
scandal At home and a reproaeh abroad.
Ii ight be, in many instances, that false
and scandalous reports would get abroad,
but no less Notifying to the husband or
wife because of their falsity. Only evil
can result, o. my people, they which
lead thee cause thee to err
But they say if women could vote she
would get higher wages. Higher wages
for what? You can no more regulate
wages by Vojing than you can the pro-
duce mari cts OF Chicago or New York
Every sensible person knows that wages,
ike the markets, are governed by supply
and demand. The demand for labor and
the scarcity of laborers will regulate the
wages. No-law can compel one man to
employ another at price he cant afford
/ TO pay. Moreover, II is an insult to the
energy, industry and intelligence of the
/ women Of Kansas to say that their men
tai and physical worth can only be sus-
tanned by the force of legislative enact
meuts. Next L expect to hear these Don
! QIixols and Sanco Panzis urging female
suffrage as a remedy for chils aud fevers
! But they say Horace Greeley, Henry
| Ward Bsecher, Ben. Wade ard John
Stuart Mil are in favor of the PROPOSE
| ton. II 60 the people should vote
1t down on suspicion. Jefferson
Greeley and Andrew 1Beecher !!
Que of them advised US to let
loose all grips on the South before the
war closed, aud tbs other advised US to
do the same thing after it closed Ben.
Wade joined in a manifesto to the people
of the United States, with Davis, of Ma
ryland, to break down LincoIn's admin
is,ration in the most trying hour OF our
national ex stenee. and falling, took it all
back. Are these men (impracticable,
political theorists, who seem to live on
abstract questions ard thin air)
the proper ones to advise the stern, prac
teal people OF Kansas? Why don't they
press the measure at home before they
go abroad with it-or do they presume
upon the creduity of the people of Kan
. sas? Why don't John Stuart Mill, that
great and good man, as he is sometimes
represented, induce that good woman and
model sovereign. Queen Victoria, TO eVen
recommend lh.t her sister women in Eng
land be enfranehised, and that she select |
as her advisers the ladies' as we'll as the
lords? II is strange if any sensible man,
capable of thinking for himself, shall be
influenced By the advice of men whose
teachings heretofore, if they bad been
followed, would have brought destrucli5u