The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-07-12
TEE pERN1O1oUg PROPOSITION.
Another Letter from Eskridge.

June dLDs e'AbSd ESkT1lge. Inc 4
female men have written lengthily to show
that there was nothing in il but vulgar
ity and abuse, while the few male women
hereabouts, like quivering Jumps OF islley,
.trembled st the slight touch, and vita
feelings of doubt. Indignation and alarm,
seem nglv fell back, exclaimiDg, '.CalI q
mani" And from the designing poliii-
clan to the love sick swain, the female
men have endeavored to sustain their
masculine sisters 10 breaches. by the use
of more abusive language, personal
thrusts, and unwarranted expressions than
was contained in the article over which
they employed their added brains in
whole columns of stuff, weaker than
stump water, to show to the people that
''there was nothing in it, Why occupy
column after column in newspapers, aud
go upon the highways and by ways TO
tell the people There was nothing in it."
If there was nothing in it," the people
would see ii. What audacious pr stump
lion upon the ignorance of the people!
But they presume upon the ignorance Of
the people (yain hopel to gull them into
| the support Of this free-iove proposition
under the delusive plea OF Impartial Saf-
rage. " about which I shall speak else
where in this article. They have presented
a proposition to the people, and instead
of producing arguments to show Whv it
should be adopted. they ask US to show
them why it should not b.; and because
we tell them Of the degrading influence II
will have upon society, the evil it will
bring upon our wives, mothers sisters aud
daughters, the scandal and reproach it
will bring upon the State, the domestic
discord il will produce if carried out, the
moral degradation and ruin which will in
evitably follow so fagrant violation OF
divine law-because, 10 short, we take
them at their word, and show them why
it SHOULD not be adopted, they become
abusive, and betray the weakness of the
proposition and their own shaDowness in
the stale cry, "show us why it should not
be adoptedl' b"
But the people will see that abuse of me
is no argument in favor of the pernicious
proposition now before them. The sound
ness of my communication must be con-
coded when we thirk of the fact that th,
female me n could only attack the sigma
! iure over which it was written. My es-
teemed friend Rogers said voted on botf
sides of the same question in the legisla
7 iure, and we infer, therefore, that he is II
> favor of the women having the same right
> Prouty, of the Burlington Patriot. say:
used one argument against the PROPOSE
T lion, and therefors5the proposition sboult
be adopted. .PHSherry, of the Manhat-
ten Independent, who phvscs his sickly
minded followers weekly. through the edi
torial columns of his bungiog apology for
a newspaper, says l was drunk at Topeka
and therefore We infer that he is in ia
vor of The women enjoying the same priv
ilege. He neglected, however, to clea
up that little affair between himself anc
the girl that worked in his office. My
young friend Price, like a poodle pup
coils at the feet of his ideal beauty anC
Gays l am no gentleman. the womEn rule
> the country, and the school girls rule the
boys aud make them gather Fl ,wers anC
carry their books; and therefore we 10
fer that be is little more progressive thar
the other great leaders In this reform
and Is IN favor of earning the schoo
! girls out To the ballot box He scrapes
together lot of djectives-makes
stab at me-and-''murders the king:
english" Throw out of their communi
cations the personal illusions to me, anC
the above is aboutthe substance OF all they
have produced in favor oftLe proposition
What arguments! WHAT champions
What Leaders! In this connection,
1 will merely say that female votes will
never make Rogers Judge of the 5h Ju
dicial District, nor Prouty United States
Senator, nor settle the little account be.
tween Pi!lsberry aud the girl that worked
IN bis office, nor cure my young friend
Price of bis passionate fits OF puppy
love-
In my former article did not call any
body ''liar." nor ''sut." nor charge
anybody with possessing ''soul less
than a tadpole's." This language was
used by ''strong minded women" 10 their
published communications, to show, l
suppose, the elevating influence which
their presence at the balo. box would
give to society. 1 hope the female men.
above named, in reading this language,
did not inadvertently attribute it 10 me.
Ii females can use such language aud the
friends of the proposition take it as a mani
festation of exalted ability, they ought not
to censare me so strongly for simply quot
ing it. 1t is harsher and more vulgar
language than any useI, aud therefore
L would call upon these Don Quixots,
who are going about the country redress
ing the wrongs of women, to string to-
gether their "Peppered adjectives' in de
nunciation of the rough aud vulgar Ian
guage of their refined conductors. and get
! up out of the DIRT themselves, before they
attempt aggia to empty tLe;r lit lie vials
of wrath upon the heads of those who op
pose them 10 their mischieVous schemes
Will that political hermaphrodite of the
Manhattan Independent, who, in the
championship of this free love PROPOSE
ton, hears about the same relation To
Lucy Stone that the kiuk in a pigs tail
does to the pig, be honest enough 10 con
demu in his friends what be so bitterly
denounces in his opponents.
Shortly after the publication of nv
! former article IN the News, received a
number of Letters from different parts of
the State. through The mail, speaking IN
The highest terms of the humble effort l
made 10 turn the ia setting tide which. ia
my opinion, would ultimately engulE soci
ETY., dFoGn out The affections aud reduce
the marriage relation to a mere partner
ship to be dissolved without even the
forms of law. at the pleasure Of either par