Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-12-04
WOMAN SUFFRAGE

| from person opposed to female suffrage.
who signs his name ''Antediluvian" gets
off the following. . Although not an ad-
vocate of female suffrage, we publish the
article as Literary curiosity " ls9
II it was supposed that there are no
| 'Antediluvians' on the earth, you have
satisfactorily demonstrated that there are
now, not only by your ancient ideas but
| by, acknowledging yourself one, in last
weeks Dispatch. But no one will infer
that you are one Of the family saved in
/ the Ark; you. are entirely to obtuse to
have believed in deluge, even 'when1it
was upon you. You are doubtless the
graceless skeptic who said to Noah, as he
hoated by. "drive on with your old Ark.
[ guess there won't be much of showeri"i
Where have you slept during all these
| past ages; you poor resurrectionized fos-
sill When the floods came you coolly
laid down to Rip Van Wrinkle nap.
The gunpowder. steam and might
ming of the present age has awakened you,
and while the pillows Of reform and civil
lization are surging over and around, you
stand fast stuck in the mud of an tiquity,
rolling up your pants as you remark, cts
lit e sloppy this mornin g. You are a
good specimen for a geoiogist. "The
voice of Kansas is the voiceof Wisconsin,
&c" How do you know it is? Did
some doing toad whisper it fromthe
crevice Of the rock which was your mutu-
al pillow? It to be hoped that men are
ahead Of sheep, all jumping fence be-.
cause one does. Because ibleeding Kan
sas' out in the backwoods, is behind the
times, think you the more enlightened
states will refuse to join the march of civ
| ilization; and if they do now, the day will
come when they will know the sht and
do it. ..'"'' i'3A 1.@t .'tts ..tsA aIT. l.H !
"If women were men you would bein
favor of their voting" No you wouldn't
you mud embalmed mummy IF women
we're meu you'would mt exist, and there
would be no question about their voting
It is mind that makes a vote, and wo-
mans mind is as capable as mans, that
all allow, and to deprive her of the free
use of that mind because she lacks mans
strength of muscle is an absurdity. The
Post Office is as public place as the
polls can be, and woman goes there free.
ly and deposits her letters, with no thought
of mpropriety. Women do not slack en-
ergy and perseverance," but they do not
receive tie aid and encouragement which
men do in business life. if they attempt
anything out of the ordinary line, they
are snecred at, "put down. . and cast out
of society. ~ nov g.eas IS 1 .5,r59
saa Lady clerks do not stand as high in
society as men occupying the same posi-
ton, and women who have dared to be
come physicians are scoffed at and seldom
| patronized. sd How few men would sur
I mount such obstacles !-If women should
receive the same reward for labor as men, .
4 yet they do not. A school district will
4 pay man double the wages for teaching
that they villa woman, even though she
J, be the better qualified. 5aas ag0a 5af4E 6
a7 A prohibitory law would be enforced
the same as other laws are. If necessary
women can become police. I would as
T soon see police roman, club in hand
marching some Goddess rumseller to,ius-
j tee, as to see burl y policeman dragging
some unfortunate once woman, now a
. wreck made by mans injustice aud wick
edness, who bought mouthful of bread
and gave her soul as its price, to be cursed
by man for his own crime, and which
1 Christ forsave her. s.Three -fourths oftbe
s men, aeiW not resist a prohibitory law, but
rather after the victory is gained bless the
, minds which made it, and if smen will
T drink liquor until they are read ! to stop
SO viii they steal as long as time lasts.
! But that Is no argument that stealing is
j. not crime. nor that a thief shall not
{ suffer the penalty Of the law that con-