The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-01


if indeed, the word here is not solecism
"a family without the presence OF woman,
with no wife,, sister, daughter, above all no
mother, is sad thing. community without her
social action, q church without her ecclesiasti-
cal influence and action, State without her po-
litical influence and action, seems to me almost
as bad. The Tribune, the other day, quoting
from some Swedenborgian pastor, said-'When
men and women come together in good and
orderly way, they supply each to the other what
is wanted-they fill out n more perfect measure
of man." and added, This is truth which
IL will be Impossible to ignore in future deci-
sons of this question The advocate of this
movement seems to ignore It, There are ditte-
rences between men and women they are un-
like; there are innumerable diversities among
men; and these differences, these diversiues are
meant to bind them together not to subdue one
class to another; are meant not to establish an
excellent privilege OF subordination on one
side, and an cnnobling responsibility upon the
other; that the strong shall bear
the burdens of the weak, be they weak
men or women, and the strong women or men;
not as subordinates but as equal heirs and CO.
heirs of eternity. For these diversities are
nothing as compared with the attributes IN which
they agree. (ApplaUse.) when we sec the
dishonOr of a thing, th0n IL is time to renOunce
IT, Ignorance and Indifference filed the past;
inquiry and interest fill the present. For men to
wlthhold unconsCiOusly, neither hurt them nor
debased women; for men TO withhold consciously
Is TO shake the foundations upon which the whole
structure of our Government is built. Thomas
a
thought secure when we have removed their
only firm basis-a conviction in the minds OF the
people that these liberties are the gift
OF God5 Among partakers of the same
rational and moral nature, who can
make good a right over others which
others may not establish over himself?
There arc but two methods of establishing
equality in the political world. Every citizen
must be put in possession of his or her rights, or
rights must be granted to none. Ii is an insult
to that God who is no respecter of persons
whose mercies and whose judgments are ac-
corded without account OF sex, to declare that
men are more careful of the moral purity and
dignity of one-half His creation than He, its
creator Humanity recognizes no sex. Morals
recognize no sex. Virtue and vice. pleasure
and pain, happiness and misery, sickness and
health, life and DEATH recognize no sex. The
same commandments are laid upon all; the same
Christ died for all; the same eternity awaits us
all. To his or her own Master this soul 5tandcth
or falleth alone. God does not need mans help
to save soul for His kingdom.
SHALL WOMEN wALLow IN POLITICS?
1t is pitiable to hear a man talk about a woman
not interfering with politics, and q woman re-
fusing to interfere with politics, on the ground
that her wOmanhoOd IS to be contaminated and
soiled. "Nirtuous women" the ObSeTUer in
forms us 'abhor the proposition to walow in
the mire of politics. The ntjre of politics
What IS politics Webster informs us, lit is
the science of government The mistake such
writers and men as these are constantly making
meannesses are the things these designate. ]
know of no worse sign of the times, ! see
nothing more terribly threatening to the future
of the great American Republic, than this esti-
mate being constantly made of the qualifications
that are needed to govern it.
THE wALLowINGs OF MEN.
Men cheat, and steal and thieve and lie, and
bribe and are bribed, and corrupt and are cor
rupted and run riot in town meetings and as
semblies and legislatures, and usurp power i'm
hon a-Xr. hot
have women to rule things?n And / answer, ''Nol
l would have men stop doing them, and men
and women together do something better" CAP
plause.) To-day. politics means simply an in
decent scramble for office, each man for himself,
and let the devil take the hindmOst the fore
most in too many cases, not needing any such
taking, being always in his keeping. C-aughter
and applause.)
woMAN's SUFFRAGE AND THE TEMPERANCE
QUESTION.
Meanwhile there is the cause OF temperance
to be considered. Wednesdays Tribune mar
rates how on Monday night one Giligan, a sol
dicr at Fortress Monroe, while under the infu-
encc OF liquor, beat bis wife to death. Look ut
this woman. little cottage, or an humble
| home, cleanly and neat; her husbands step firm
at the door; her husbands eye bright with %
smile his voice pleasant with kindly greetings
as he entered ut night his home. A grOg shop
opened on the path he treads to and from his
daily toll. A call to enter An entrance. For
heavens sake, she cries, let me close that door!
Peace, woman is the answer; would you keep
your husband from evil ways leJ il be by yOur
influence at home, not by your interference
abroad. The disease grows; the madness closes
around this poor brain; the life slips down awful
steps towards the depths Of an awful abyss. The
cottage is a hOyel; the children are hungry and
beatcn the wife is outraged and in rags. For
God sake, she cries. let me withhold this; let
me stand between him and the ruin he is work.
ing for us and for himself Stand there, is the
reply-pead with him. entreat him, pray for
him-do all that may become woman, and
stop there. To plead with him is 30 plead with
lunatic. TO entreat him is to entreat mad
man. Pray for him do. Work for him ] viii.
But am weak against this brute strength, for a
drunken man is no longer human being, but
beast. Give me the weapon TO conquer him, the
weapon that viii save him, the weapon that will
push TO this door, and give me opportunity TO
reason with him as a man.
"The weapon firmly set
And better tnan the bayonet-
A weapon which comes down still
As snowakes fall upon the sod
But executes the holders viii,
As lightning does the will of Cod
Give me the ballot; the opportunity Mt least to
try to save my husband from perdtiOn and my
| children and myself he'll upon earth. "Unrea-
sonable desire, untemlnine request, unwomanly
demand-the mission OF woman is NJ home
not dabbling in the filthy pool of politics !" cry
in chorus the rum-sellers who thrust the glass to
her husbands lips; the Legislators who permit
the act; the ministers who baspheme Gods truth
by telling this woman to submit herself to this
brute as unto the Lord; the women who lie
secure on manly hearts, the nation which de-
as she. miserable den called home some
broken window panes, "a treless hearth an empty
cupboard, an uniurnished room, a helpless
woman, a man transformed to a wild beast
night, daTl ess without, the baclness OF dark
ness encOmpassng this mans reason and Soul
rl,.agf flNT for