North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-12

Ana am not jealous, on no, not At all,
| But welcome from Erin each strong minded daugh
To climb up the ladders and walk on tho wall,
And share all the joys Of the brick and the mortar
! woman's Rights.
We clip from the Des Moines Registe,
the following sensible article. Let ga
Mother" use her pen frequently. There
is no man on earth who regards women
more highly than we do, but because Of
that regard we do not wish them to be un.
sexed, bloomerized, pantalooned, veloci-
| peded, or in any way converted-perrerted
we mean--into the coarse customs which
men, necessarily, have to practice in order
/ to hold their own in the battle Of life. A
woman is bird in a household cage-ad-
mirablc for her confident reliance on the
protection of her husband, her father, and
her brothers. She is the idol of all, and
everything will be given her while she re-
mains a dependant on the strength, honor,
and protection of NAN but when she as
snmes the character of the rougher sex
she leaves the home and habits which God
appointed for her and becomes social
montrosity. "Whom God joins together
let no man put asunder." A difference Of
! political opinion exemrliied at the polls
or in the 4cstrumiwould soon "put asun.
dern thousandsiof families now enjoying
all the blessings of domestic peace. as
Editors Io,ca State Register: -The mid.
die of April is here, and l hear no more
| about the proposed State Woman Suffrag e
Convention. Why don't they come, that
vie may know the true cause why women
want to vote? Is not this tile reason they
do not come, because they are not assured
of the two hundred dollars an evening
| If these women who are going about lee
turing, do so from purely philanthropic
motives; if a desire to ameliora:e the con-
dition Of their sex was their true motive,
| they would come and try to convince the
| women of Iowa that tits their right to
| have the ballot, even though they received
no pay for coming. Self, and wish to
be notorious for something, seems, to be
their object, for the truly benevolent of all
ages have given their fortunes, instead Of
making them, in the cause Of benevolencc.
The names of Florence Nightingale and a
host of our own dear American sisters,
who left their homes, and exposed them
selves to the diseases incident to camp life,
to watch over the beds of cur dying SOL
diers, will be remembered with gratitude,
while those of Anna Dickinson and her CO.
adjutors will be sunk in oblivion. l
have. yet to hear a reasonable reason
why women want to vote. Your cores
pendent, L. NJ. B., in har, communication,
Of Feb. 24th, says: ~ wish to vote be-
cause wish to vote" h Another CORES
pendent says tits to ''protect their proper
ty." Jennie, of Adair county, says |:
"They want the right Of suffrage to pro-
tect them from unjust and oppressive
laws IN
What are those unjust and oppressive
laws Of which she speaks? Surely Iowa
has no laws which hinder woman from
doing anything which she is capable Of
doing. She can lecture at home and in
public; she can he minister, doctor, law.
yer, postmaster, or farmer. She can hold
property Of all kinds in her own name. A
prominent gentleman of Des Moines once
said to me that woman could own the
whole State of Iowa and no man could
take it for her husbands debts Now if
we have right to do nything we please,
and can own all we have and can earn,
what more do we want? Three things
only are denied us. viz. To take all the
degrees in Masonic Lodge to ask lovers
to marry us, and to vote I AL Of which
are quite unnecessary '4 .4sz 4
"Hath not the potter power over the
same clay to make one vessel unto honor
and another unto dishonor ~ Now if the
Allwise Father saw proper to make some
of US women, and others men, and to as
sign to each Of us different vocations and
duties, why do we dare gainsay His doings
and complain because we are not all men,
because we want to be men, If we
must have all Of men rights then let US
adopt mems attire. and let the weaker of
the two husband and wife) take care Of
the household and rear up the children,
while the stronger goes forth to the Office
or the pillow, as thu case may be, to provide
for their mutual wants. . .s 49,, !
IF l say that / am Just as good as my
neighbors. and continually try to act and
dress like Them tits conclusive proof that
do not think as Isay. IT'S just SO with
those women who are trying to have alt of
mems privileges and rights-the very act
declares to the world that they deem men
their superiors. ea II .5elEdsasg i
i am willing to say that respect, yes,
honor, 2. strong minded manly man, and
think him much superior to strong
minded manly woman. There never was
time in the history Of our nation when
the refining influence of women was more
needed than at the present time tie young
men and boys of no generation ever need
ed mothers and sisters love and watch
fulness mere than now. As a lovely CIR,
in Des Moines said to me not long since
that women had better be trying to teach
men to be religious than to be wanting to
vote" e
L. NJ, B. says that the fair daughters of
Iowa are "toointloie7it to ask for an addi-.
tional care or responsibility, and their low.
ers deem that delicacy and womanliness
which is in fact sheer selishness and lazi-
ness" deny that the daughters of Iowa
are indolent or lazy, that they partake too
much of, the spirit, of Iowa 90 ahead ,itico-
ness for that the very atmosphere of To-
wa is proof against lazness.
When they want the ballot they are we'll
able to ask for it themselves, and they will
not ask for women from other States to
lecture, or hold conventions for them. The
women of Iowa do not want the ballot. /
said in previous article that l did not
believe that one mother in ten wanted to
vote. now say that not one lcoman in a
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