The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-04
WIFEELIN WEST va TUESDAY MORNING.JUNE4 1851 @s

ItheiF rule OF conduct ought to bewh6t
-soeiety expects from them And the
denial Of The vote is q proclamation In
telligible to every one, that society does
not expect them 10 concern themselves
with public questions. Why, the
whole of girls thoughts and feelings
ara toned down by II from her earliest
school days. She does not take the In
terest even in natural history that
boy does, because It is to be no business
of hers when she grows up. II there
are wonderland fortunately there are
now-who do care about those subjects
and study them, 1t Is because the force
within Is powerful enough to bear up
against the worst kind of discourage
smenti that which acts not by inter-
posing obstacles which may be strug-
lIgled against; but by deadening the
spirit which faces and conquers Obsta-
cles. -''- = i..'ii
DO WOMEN WANT THE BALLoT2
We are told that women do not wish
for the suffrage. II this be so 1t only
proves that nearly all women are still
under this dradening influence-that
the opiate still beuumbs their minds
and consciences. But there are many
who do desire the suffrage, and have
claimed 1t by petitions TO this house.
How do we know how many more
thousands there are who have not ask
ed for what they do not hope to get, for
fear OF being i'll thought Of by men or
by other women, or from the feeling SO
sedulously cultivated by the whole of
their dueation-aversion to make
themselves conspicuous. Men must
have a great faculty Of selE-delusion If
they suppose that leading questions
put to the ladies of their families OF of
their lracquaintauce will elicit their real
sentments-will be answered with en-
tire sincerity by one woman in ten
as most women are of making a virtue
Of necessity. 20 q -Isi4tfss I'm
It costs little to disclaim caring for
what Is not offered, but frankness In
expressing fully what may be disa-
greeable or conflicting to their recent
convictions is not one of those virtues
which woman education tends to Culti-
vate, At all events those who do not
care for the suffrage will not use IL.
do, they Will vote as their male TelR-
lives advise them, by which, as the adj
vantage would be about equally shared
among all CLASSES, no harm would be
done. Those, who, whether few or
many, do value tho privilege, would
exercise 1t, and so experience that stim-
ulus to their faculties which the suf-
frage seldom fails to exert over every
class admitted to share 1t. Meanwhile
an unworthy stigma would be taken of
the whole sex. They would be no
longer classed with children, idiots,
and lunatics laughter or incapable
OF taking care of themselves or others.
If only one woman In twenty thousand
used the vote 1t would be gain to all
women to be declared capable Of
using It. - - i7sa .'.arH.,sl
plis POLITICAL POWER. u 1H sii
It is said that women do not want
direct political power, because they
have SO much indirect political power
through the influence they have over
their male relatives and connections.
"A laugh.l I should like TO try this
argument in other cases. Rich people
have II great deal Of indirect Influence.
ICheers.l Is this reason for denying
them vote? Hear.l Did any one
ever propose reform bill to disfran-
chise every one who lived in E5O0 a
year house and paid el0O year In d.
rect taxes q Unless this rule OF dis.
tributing the franchises is to be reserved
for the exclusive benefit of women the
Legitimate consequence of il will be
that persons above certain amount Of
fortune should be allowed to bride but
not to vote. ---..--.
Itis true that women have already
great power. 1t Is part OF my case that
they have great power, but they have
1t under the worst conditions, because
It Is indirect, and therefore irrespohsi-
ble. 1want to make this 4 responsible
power. Iwant to make the. influence
OF women work by manly interchange
of opinion Ia laugh, and not by ca
ljQlery- Hear, hear. want ITO
awaken in her a political point of hon.
or, The man alone whom she infiuen-
ces Is alone responsible. Her power Is
like that of the backstairs Influence OF
a favorite. "a laugh.l Idemand that
all who exercise power should have the
burden laid on them of knowing some-
thing of the things which they have
power over. With an admitted right
TO vote would come a sense of thecor-
responding duty. A woman is not gem
orally inferior to a man in tenderness
Of conscience, and she will understand
that political honesty Is not foolish
personal crotchet but a aserious duty.
= PROTECTION BY SUFFRAGE.
1t may be said that woman, as wo--
man, suffers no practical Inconvenience
by not being represented, that their in.
terests are safer in the hands of their
fathers and husbands. EItais exactly
resented classes. Are not, It Is asked,
the e.operatiyes represented by their em-.
ployers, both having a common In
terest?- To insinuate the contrary is
the horrible crime OF setting class
against class. We are not living in
Arcadia, but as lately remarked, N face
R0mul, and in that region workmen
need other protection than that OF their
masters, and women than that Of their
men. 1should like to see return or
the number ofwomen annually beaten
70 death, Kicked TO death; and trodden
tcEdeath by their male protectors.
[Cheers.l ] should like this return to,
have a column of the sentences passed
In the cases In which the criminal did.
not get on altogether, and q third COL
umn of the comparative view OfEthe
amount Of property the unlawful tax
ing of which had in the same session
been by the same Judge law thought
worthy of the same degree of fpunish-.
ment. We should thus obtain an arith.
/ meticRl estimate of the value set by the
male legislature and male Tribunals on
the murder of a woman by hRbitual
torture-often prolonged for years
which, IL there is any shRhns In us.
should make us hang zouria heads.
4 lCheers. iaF - .HlsFEaT1tE ~ n %
aess-na EDUCATION OF WOMEN. s., ilns
| As to education, It Is generally said
tlIatl the education Of mothers Is the
most part of the education Of the coun-
tryi because they educate the men, Is
so much importance really attached to
itfi Do. fathers care as much, or spend
as much, for the education Of their
daughters as they. do for their sons \
| Where are the universities and public
schools for girls Am Informed by
ithe highest authority on the DIGESTION
/ that IN ths majority Of deeds OF endoIy-
nent of schools the provision was gem
orally and not specially for boys. In
Christ's Hospitaly which was designed
for both, eleven hundred boys are
maintained and schooled, and only
tWenty-si1 girls. There was really only
one eocenpatiOniOp Openito women, that of
igoYernessess 1ukat, ,yfi bIlit.r-A5