The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-10-02
THINGS AS THEY ARE.

MIR. EDITOR: would like to pen a
few thoughts in regard to ''things as
they are" without combining myself to
any particular form or grammar. In
the first place we have all kinds of laws
Maine law, marshal law and laws to
meet nearly every nuisance in society.
Our county fairs have offered premiums
to any individual for seven of the most
destructive weeds that could be pro-
duced from any one farm. We also
give premiums for the biggest pump
kin, the tallest corn and the finest cat
tie. In all the wide range of rewads
and punishments / have never known a
fine imposed on the LATEST man nor a
premium for the next LATEST. / mean
now laziness in the masculine gender,
plural number and governed by circum-
stances. l do not know why women
ought not, quite as much as the lords of
creation, to eat their breakfasts and
start for the reading room, saloon, store
or post Office. Women in all ages of
the world, from old Mother Eve down
to the nineteenth century, have been
considered (by men) good and lengthy
takers. Why not, then, invite them
with you to your places of resort. Per-
haps some would say the women have
no business there but am not argue
ing that side of the question now, for
while the men claim to be the first pat
ent, we of the feminine gender claim
the improvement of that patent. Con-
gsess, in years gone by, passed all kinds
of laws, sane and insane, civil and dew
ilish. Among the latter was the fugi-
tive slave law-among the former is
the law of taxing luxuries, such as
whiskey and tobacco. Now the top
most round in the ladder of luxury is
laZiness and that has never been spoken
Of How many fathers are there who
do not sleep just as soundly with two
or three sick children for the mother to
watch over during the lonely hours of
night, as they did before they went to
the furnishing store and ordered crib
number one and who of you have ever
grown nervous because that large room
Off from the parlOr has been fitted up
and filled with noisy urchins bearing a
strong resemblance to yourself Who
of you good husbands ever plead guilty
of stepping to the closet Monday morn
ing and hanging up your Sunday-go-to-
meeting regalia when there was q chair
near to throw it on. No wonder when
Female Suffrage is spoken of men saw
the women have enough to do to mind
their own business. But so far as am
individually concerned / do dot 90
much on Female Suffrage, while at the
same time the objections made bv men
who oppose it do not say much for
their own sex. But to those females
who want the right to vote there ap-
pears to be a bright dawn, as there are
many thousands of voters called, for the
papers stating there are more candi-
dates than voters. But I fear there are
too many of these candidates too much
like General Mcclellan. Rumor asserts
that he is about to take the stump for
Seymour and Blair. He has been about
to take something ever since we first
heard of him. If he will succeed in
taking even so much as a stump we
shall be glad to learn the fact. But 1
will guess he will not be able to decide
whether to begin operations I'm Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey or New York until
after the election. LIB.
NEosHo RAPIDS, Sept. 13, 1868.