Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-01-07
Female Suffrage.

Poor, abused (femaie) human nature
holds National Convention at Washing
ton on the 9Th of January. in furtherance
of the cause of female suffrage. Ii is cx-
pected that all the bright luminaries of the
Order will be present Ia bewail their Ia
mentable misiortunes, and rake over
the members of the male persuasion for
their unwarranted liitieness and meanness.
We wish the cause of female suffrage god
speed, but with this proyisO, viz: that il "a
woman is in al, respects equal To "a man
(and we hope we have too much gallantry
Tor the sex to attempt the contrary thea
is she no better than man. The mos,
the formost advocates of female suffrage
claim is that women is the OF man. Theu
is female suffrage becomes An accomplish
ed fact, farewell To the horrible days when
on lady entering crowded car or om>
nibus, every specimen of grim manhood
therein enconsed, no matter how .comiors
tabIy, must Immediately proceed to turn a
double summersault in order ts place bis
seat at her disposal. OF course, under the
new order of things, being al last raised 10
the plane of male equality. she must strive
to innure herself To the trials and hard
ships which necessarily accompany IL!
There must be no more tipping OF hats or
wholesale bowings and scrapipgs on meet
ing Miss Jones; but iDstead-"Good
morning, Jones.-by the way, You acted
like Id rascal in that little transac>
ton ON CEsnge yesterday" OF course
they must be prepared to fight, too, in the
case of war--tLey must he made police>
men and Sheritfs, and made fireman and
engineers on our locomotives. For are
we not the equals of you men, snar,s Mrs.
Stanton.
We only wish that female suffrage could
first be tried experimentaily, with the
provision that if disiastefui To the ladies
themselves thoy could annnl it after a fair
trial. Let 'he law be made 10 read
Every female 81 years of age shall vote,
under penalty OF being fined 500" In
this way we should be pretiy apt 10 get
out the full female vote And we wouldn t
be afraid to wager what little property we
have get in the world, against an oldiash>
toned bung-town copper cert, that in less
than three years after its introductory.
two-thirds of the female. voters in the
country would be cursing the day they
were ever got into such u scrape. and orlv
too glad TO voluntarily replace themselves
in what seems to us the TRUE sphere of
womanhood. Ii is only few of what are
termed ''strong minded women: who
parade in bloomer costume, digest graham
bread. and wear tLeir hair cropped short
up. so as to Look as much like man as
possible, who are continually freghting the
the air with their cursings and rawlings
against what they are pleased TO term
''caste:" and to-dsy, if we could have our
individual choice between ''strongmindcd
,al i'm tr,a nd
take the latter at u venture and think we
had the best end of the bargain then.
But says onc-perhaps lady-are you
opposed to female suffrage? No. II n
majority OF the American woman think
It's such beautiful thing TO vote, why IN
Heasen's ndmelet them have the privilege.
But what we want. aud what we shall in
sist upon is, that If a woman is in all re-
spects The equal of man. then is she no
better and must be prepared to see the
courtesies and customs which at present
govern the conduct Of gentlemen towards
ladies. swept away, or at least in a great
measure. A woman could not exercise
the right Of suffrage and at The same time
move in her present sphere. There wod
be caucuses to attend, campaigns 10 pros
eeute stump speeches to be made, and an
occasional knock>down to engage in. She
would inhale an altogether different at
mosphere than had been her wapt to.
Men would ofcourse regard her different
ly. and be pretty apt TO act accordingly.
a female stump speaker attacking Paddy
O'AIiles favoriie candidate, womb proba>
bly, regarded with something like this; ''ye
be's id liar, yes be-" while insults
and jeers would come to be almost as.
freely bestowed as they now are or our
male sneakers
I II Is a ridiculous notion TO suppose that
ladies could rush from the parlor in silks
and founccs on election day. deposit their
ballot, and then HE them home again to
picture>painting or the perusing Of the
latest novel. Oh. no. The equals or men
they must stay all day, and coax and
wrangle, and it may be use knock-down
argument for their candidate.
In favor offetnales suffrage? Yes, we
are. with this foundation plank. viz:
| If q ,OoD,dn as the equal Of q man
in all respects, then IS she no better.
With this understanding in the premises
VIZ are perfectly willing every woman in
America, from the Presidents wife down
to the poorest fisher>woman. should march
4 to the polls and exercise The right Of stuff
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